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This past month has been absolutely stressfull, to say the least. i got fried(toyota dealership), my detailing buisness is really getting to the breaking point. i have had 5 cars in 4 weeks, and only made $210 this month.. and to top it off my unemployment benifits have been denied.I really think its time for me to give up on detailing, everybody in my family arent seeing a future in it, and now I guess i see where there coming from..

well im finished ranting now.. -Kory
 
I don't do detailing full time so i can't say much from experience but I would tend to think that things would pick back up. Maybe you can find something else to do until the economy picks back up. Try to book some cars but find another source of income. I have another full time job so really I just do details when I need some extra cash which still all goes to bills but...
This is a global problem that will soon head back up.
 
Well let's all hope Obama can get the economy back on track. Kory, I feel for you, but it's time to pick yourself up and get another job. You can still do detailing on the side for extra cash in the mean time. Good luck to you.
 
Rsurfer said:
Well let's all hope Obama can get the economy back on track. Kory, I feel for you, but it's time to pick yourself up and get another job. You can still do detailing on the side for extra cash in the mean time. Good luck to you.
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:whs: Good luck to you!
 
The key to surviving when you are displaced is to just get whatever job you can get and then go from there. $9/hr is better than $0/hr. However, if you want the detailing business to pay the bills then you are going to have to charge more than forty or fifty bucks a car. Five cars in four weeks should have earned you six or seven hundred bucks and not $210. If detailing is what you want to do for a living then you'll have to explore some options on creating a business. Until then you can always just keep detailing on the side or even contracting out to other dealerships to do their detailing. Don't get too down though. Depression is worse than unemployment. Keep your head up and you'll make it through. :)
 
Hey Kory, Sorry to hear about your situation; go ahead and rant. Sometimes things suck and life throws everything at you including the kitchen sink. My guess, there are people willing to listen & people who really do care... if you let them.
 
OCDetails said:
The key to surviving when you are displaced is to just get whatever job you can get and then go from there. $9/hr is better than $0/hr. However, if you want the detailing business to pay the bills then you are going to have to charge more than forty or fifty bucks a car. Five cars in four weeks should have earned you six or seven hundred bucks and not $210. If detailing is what you want to do for a living then you'll have to explore some options on creating a business. Until then you can always just keep detailing on the side or even contracting out to other dealerships to do their detailing. Don't get too down though. Depression is worse than unemployment. Keep your head up and you'll make it through. :)
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I believe he said $210 this month so far and not for 1 month.
 
unfortunately detailing is considered an extra, and with little cash flow in motion alot will skip something we all demand during tough times. You might be able to consider it as part time or weekend work, but I would highly suggest looking for addl employment as possible.

I hope nobody is truly expecting Obama or any president to repair things quickly. Most suggest this reset (real estate, stock market, living beyond our means, credit crunch) took approximately 10 years in the making and likely will take about as long to repair. I know thats disappointing but we all need to be realistic and set appropriate goals in order to move past this. (and we will move past it) . My hope is within 12-18 months to see settling and some light improvements.
 
Things are getting hard everywhere, I wish you the best in whatever choice you make
 
well my detailing isnt an actual buisness yet, the week i got fired i was suposed to get insurance and do the tax paperwork. but the thing that pisses me off tho is that my old customers were my ex co workers, and they had me 3 months of customers, and when i go to call them they had already gone somewhere else, so i should have had a few thousand so far... but since i got fired i have done family.. and i cant charge family full price, because they do my advertising. all my family members know that if they get me 10 customers they get theres done for free. hopefully i can get some people for next week.. to cold this week, its in the 30's and i dont have a good enough heater. o well tho, i have to go up to a detail shop today and apply. i really hate going to these shops because all of them produce medeocre results,and i kno im beter than that.

-kory
 
Sorry to hear that :( and to add to what killrwheels said we wont know when the economy is at the bottom until we are past the bottom. But things will come around! Think about it, in the last 70 years the stock market gone from 60 points to whatever it is at now and it has done that despite world wars and a few crisis throughout the years. Things will come around just hang in there!

As Warren Buffet once said "be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful"
 
OCDetails said:
The key to surviving when you are displaced is to just get whatever job you can get and then go from there. $9/hr is better than $0/hr. However, if you want the detailing business to pay the bills then you are going to have to charge more than forty or fifty bucks a car. Five cars in four weeks should have earned you six or seven hundred bucks and not $210. If detailing is what you want to do for a living then you'll have to explore some options on creating a business. Until then you can always just keep detailing on the side or even contracting out to other dealerships to do their detailing. Don't get too down though. Depression is worse than unemployment. Keep your head up and you'll make it through. :)
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Kory-As a basis, I charge customers by the hour. $30.00/hr is my charge. During the winter months I run specials just to try and keep repeat business of existing customers. It's "very" important that you "sell" the customer your best work and if that isn't what they want then you negotiate to what they want. Point: I try and sell $300 + jobs and when they squak, I then begin to ask them what they want the car to look like and negotiate my time i.e. cost, to meet their needs and price. That way you don't walk away empty handed. You really have to be a salesman at times.

There have been and are times that during the winter months I take a part-time job and schedule any customers accordingly. I hope this helps some.
 
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