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powerpunk5000

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Hello, I am in a hard situation. I have been trying to start up a new detailing company and we have put up 5 or more lawn signs and handed out 300 flyers on mail boxes and cars and another 100 or more to local business and to put in there stores, like hair dressers nail salons ext. We have gotten 2 calls on one of our lawn signs and thats it. But both the leads did not workout. We tried to sign up for groupon and never heard back we also have a website and are trying to advertise with bing ads
 
I started my work by telling everyone I knew and using Facebook. After that a few auto shops have my card and a few body shops. I have to turn down work alot because I am just doing it part time and working a full time job. The best advice I have ever gotten from a very successful business man was to always make sure you give customers at least 6 business cards. They are cheap so don't short people on them when they could be advertising for you. Also stop out to local car shows and put cards on your car to take or on a car you detailed.
 
Here is my question for you: "Would you trust someone with the care of the second most expensive purchase of your life based on a flyer or a yard sign??"; "Will you trust my opinion just based on my avatar or my posting history?"

The answer to that will be invariably no! Without going into a loooong discourse you either sell yourself or someone else sells you. My advise is go shake some hands, share your passion, educate them, offer to do some discounted work with a promise that they tell a friend!!

If you work to meet and greet, and they work to spread the word, then you are in business, my friend! You cannot depend on yard sign, flyers, expensive pamphlets, banners etc... You either sell yourself, your work/reputation sells you, or someone else sells you, plain and simple!

I cannot tell you the number of nice brochure and pamphlets I get in the mail or hand delivered to my office daily/weekly that end up in the trash. From what is worth (and it may be the same for the majority) my eyes are on the road, not on some yard signs (same applies to political races).

The people that get my business are the ones that come and shake my hand, and the ones that I can see the fire burning in their belly (from the passion and knowledge they share). If they have a well recited half attempt at dogging other competitors instead of showing what they got and can do.... well, they get escorted out of my office. :hungry:
 
How I started was by doing super cheap details for friends and family to showcase my skills. $50 for a full detail etc. Then I took photos for my facebook page (very important, shows people what you can do/have done), and got them to leave a review. This gives people a sense of confidence in you, as they can see what you have done and how people reacted to it.
Fake it til you make it, make out as if your friends are "real" clients, build up facebook likes, post in local groups/craigslist/yelp etc.
Almost all of my clients are from facebook, and 99.9% of them start with "I saw what you did with x car and y car, and i want you to do the same with my z car"

Online exposure is a must these days

EDIT: Best thing with this method is it's free and you can make a little bit of cash doing friends and familys cars
 
Dr_Pain said:
Here is my question for you: "Would you trust someone with the care of the second most expensive purchase of your life based on a flyer or a yard sign??"; "Will you trust my opinion just based on my avatar or my posting history?"

The answer to that will be invariably no! Without going into a loooong discourse you either sell yourself or someone else sells you. My advise is go shake some hands, share your passion, educate them, offer to do some discounted work with a promise that they tell a friend!!

If you work to meet and greet, and they work to spread the word, then you are in business, my friend! You cannot depend on yard sign, flyers, expensive pamphlets, banners etc... You either sell yourself, your work/reputation sells you, or someone else sells you, plain and simple!

I cannot tell you the number of nice brochure and pamphlets I get in the mail or hand delivered to my office daily/weekly that end up in the trash. From what is worth (and it may be the same for the majority) my eyes are on the road, not on some yard signs (same applies to political races).

The people that get my business are the ones that come and shake my hand, and the ones that I can see the fire burning in their belly (from the passion and knowledge they share). If they have a well recited half attempt at dogging other competitors instead of showing what they got and can do.... well, they get escorted out of my office. :hungry:
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:iagree: Stay a way from groupon and stuff like this all you will get is none repeat customers. Do great work and customers will come. The only thing I've ever done is website,Facebook,Car shows,word of mouth and great reviews.
 
Hello guise,
I am also using social media to attract customers. But to retain them & use them as my marketing media I started to get their email id's & post them some before after images of their car. I got a brilliant response for this. By doing this now exactly they know what the difference I had made to their car. plus they are forwarding those images to their friends, groups etc. so I am getting advertise for free,even I am getting calls from another city's too. Whatsapp is helping me lot to get advertise. I am uploading some images which help me a lot.
 
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