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<\/p>\nI am curious, how much do you invest in yourself?\u00a0 From spending money on real business training, to taking time to be around shop owners who are making $200,000 to over a million dollars in income.\u00a0 We can start here.<\/p>\n
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You usually pay for what you get is one of the best-known axioms in the world, and most overlooked due to cognitive dissonance.\u00a0 In this case I am not just referring to customers or enthusiasts of detailing services.\u00a0 This article is more focused on the business owners, many of whom scream this rhetoric while committing the same acts that hurt them in the long run.\u00a0 I often witness the common contradiction of professionals’ offerings.\u00a0 There is the business owner who boasts about a high-priced service to the price conscious customer but does not do his or her part to make premium investments, often for their own sake.\u00a0 Educated consumers with discretionary income notice this.<\/p>\n
This is not an issue of me bashing someone for purchasing less expensive gear for the sake of only getting the tools they can afford.\u00a0 I believe the reasoning for making certain purchases is often shortsighted and also reveals certain red flags in a detailer’s professional acumen.<\/p>\n
Quality of life, tool maintenance plans, and customer support are real issues when you run a business.\u00a0 Detailing as a hobby versus detailing professionally, is not the same as the repeated intensive demands of 12 hours of polishing in a 3 day span take a toll.\u00a0 The quality of the experience, capacity to work at a high level, and your (long and short term) health will be affected.\u00a0 Many of us are not trying to look cool on Instagram.\u00a0 We would like to avoid nerve damage.<\/p>\n
Problems with cheap microfiber towels, aside from quality control, are they simply do not last long.\u00a0 Microscopic marring of paint is more prevalent with the cheapest options, particularly over time.\u00a0 In addition, die transfer is a real problem most people do not realize.\u00a0 Dye transfer can happen with any use of solvents or even storing the towels on the paint for extended periods of time.\u00a0 Some of this can be be alleviated by washing, but again durability goes down with each use\/wash exponentially with cheap towels.<\/p>\n
It is not just about performance.\u00a0 Durability (lack thereof) can cost more money in the long run and potentially affect your results in real time.\u00a0 This is also often overlooked when someone upgrades his or her polisher collection and finds out the good enough pads cannot handle the wear and tear of the newer, more advanced machines.<\/p>\n
It is not only about you being able to perform a service.\u00a0 The lighting options affect how you present content on social media.\u00a0 I learned that lesson the hard way.\u00a0 A variety of available quality lighting, that you can control the intensity and color temperature of are more important than what most new detailing business owners realize.<\/p>\n
It bothered me that someone put out a video on the PH Scale and his collection of a reputable (P&S) <\/a>brand’s interior products, and this person received ridicule on his social media channel.\u00a0 I have used and reviewed this interior system<\/a>, by this way.\u00a0 Although I have my preferences, I believe it is a solid set of products you could not go wrong with as a professional.\u00a0 Credit to this company for having those options available, which are not really expensive. I have received many calls over the years from customers who told me horror stories about damaged interiors with their all purpose cleaner.\u00a0 There are also the numerous posts on social media that start with a story about damaging someone’s interior, after using the CHEAPEST AVAILABLE all purpose cleaner.\u00a0 The problem is often a combination of being too afraid to charge enough to afford safer options, trying to justify to their cheap $100 interior detail by shaming others for not using an extractor with APC for everything.<\/p>\n As experienced professionals choosing a coating and a brand, we look beyond stated durability claims.\u00a0 Quality control becomes very important, as many business owners learned this lesson the hard way.\u00a0 Imagine providing 3 or 5 year warrantied coatings, and receiving payments of $800, $1,600 or $2,500 for a correction and long term protection service, to repeatedly get a bad batch of coatings.\u00a0 It happens, and no company is perfect.\u00a0 But in providing quality customer experiences, the longer you are in business the more you value aligning with a company that is not blindly trying to just sell as many bottles as possible matters.\u00a0 That also means wanting to know how a company comes to the conclusion of a coating lasting a certain number of years.\u00a0 Often the answers (or lack there of) to these questions lead to paying $100 to $150 more for a product we can trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Business Owners Paying For Quality – The Elusive Obvious<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":47979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1412],"tags":[2984,2872,2812],"class_list":{"0":"post-42576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-running-a-detailing-business","8":"tag-detailing-products","9":"tag-finding-a-detailer","10":"tag-running-a-business"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MTE-2025.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kPO7-b4I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42576"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47977,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576\/revisions\/47977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ceramic Coating Companies<\/h2>\n