Detailing

Professional auto detailing can be a mobile or fixed business, as well as an add-on profit center for carwash operators. Details may include preservation services to maintain a vehicle’s appearance to its original condition or reconditioning services that restore a vehicle’s interior and exterior to show-room or factory condition. Routine preservation detailing services include washing, waxing and conditioning. Detail restoration services may encompass a vehicle’s exterior surfaces, interior, engine, trunk and wheels. Besides common practices like stain and odor removal, buffing and waxing, ancillary detail services may include offerings like window tinting and headlight lens restoration.

  • 10 Tips for Detailing Success
    10 Tips for Detailing Success 1. In order to have a successful detail shop, you must be able to wash cars well. No customer will trust you to detail his vehicle if you can't do this. 2. Don't go overboard cleaning wash customers' cars. Instead of removing tree sap and road ...More
    July 2, 2007
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • Immigration Reform and Your Detail Business
    Immigration Reform and Your Detail Business By Keith Duplessie If you are like many detail business-owners, you have most likely employed immigrant workers. As such, you need to know what’s happening in immigration reform. Immigration was one of the hottest issues of the ...More
    May 1, 2007
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • What You Need to Know about Detail Advertising
    What You Need to Know about Detail Advertising By Keith Duplessie You’ve just completed a direct mailing to 5,000 residences in your target market neighborhood and you are staffed and ready— but all you got the first two weeks were five calls. How disappointing! One of the ...More
    April 2, 2007 Keith Duplessie
    Posted in Articles, Marketing, Operations
  • Incorporating Interior Restoration into Your Business
    Incorporating Interior Restoration into Your Business Adding a Potential Profit Center By Mark J. Bollman When putting together the annual marketing plan and strategy, many businesses in the automotive aftermarket industry weigh the pros and cons of adding or expanding ...More
    April 2, 2007 Mark J. Bollman
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • Former NBA All Star Opens Carwash
    BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Former New York Knick and NBA All Star Charles Oakley and his business partner, Anthony Pezzo, have opened another gas station and carwash in Brooklyn, N.Y. Oakley's Car Wash & Detail Center on Atlantic Avenue will be a multiprofit center with Shell ...More
    March 9, 2007
    Posted in News, Operations
  • TOC March 07
    March, 2007 Green Is Good Environmental issues reign supreme at New Jersey CarwashBy Tracy Charuhas Car Care World Expo 2007 Company snapshot: Car Wash Superstore Mike Matthews' Column Express Carwashing—Equipment Maintenance Editor's Letter Tools of the Trade Perspectives ...More
    March 1, 2007
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • Seven Ways to Increase Detailing Profits
    Seven Ways to Increase Detailing Profits Learn how to use your time more efficiently By Prentice St. Clair Automotive detailing attracts many entrepreneurs because it is relatively simple and inexpensive to begin such a business. However, there is a high level of turnover ...More
    March 1, 2007 Prentice St. Clair
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • State of the Detailing Industry
    State of the Detailing Industry Q & A with Bud Abraham Since this month’s issue of MCC is focused on detailing, we decided to talk with Bud Abraham, president of Detail Plus Appearance Systems in Portland, Ore., about the state of the detailing industry. Here’s what he ...More
    March 1, 2007
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • What You Should Know About Interior Detailing
    What You Should Know About Interior Detailing Follow these steps to success By Keith Duplessie While a great deal of emphasis is placed on paint finishing in detailing, little information is disseminated about what is needed to properly clean vehicle interiors. This article ...More
    March 1, 2007 Keith Duplessie
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • Improving Your Advertising
    Improving Your Advertising Target your best customers and stay within budget By Keith Duplessie Many detail business owners are faced with the same dilemma: a small amount of money available to attract more business and a mountain of information from radio stations, TV ...More
    February 1, 2007 Keith Duplessie
    Posted in Articles, Marketing, Operations
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