{"id":45744,"date":"2026-03-17T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/?p=45744"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:31:53","slug":"business-owners-what-some-people-see-but-dont-realize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/business-owners-what-some-people-see-but-dont-realize\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Owners &#8211; What Some People See But Don&#8217;t Realize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You should be cautious judging a book by its cover anyway in all areas of life.\u00a0 Some people will see content on my social media channels and assume clients came to me immediately expressing intent to detail their exotic or weekend car.\u00a0 I see quite a few daily driven cars, even by car owners who later reveal their $200,000 car.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/water-beading-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"BMW-water-beading\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/water-beading-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/water-beading-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/water-beading-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/water-beading-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/water-beading-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The owner of this BMW had a bad experience with another detailer before he reached out to me.\u00a0 I planned on initially the BMW and ultimately arrived for the black Porsche 911.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-38090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/porsche-a-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"2003 Porsche 911\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/porsche-a-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/porsche-a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/porsche-a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/porsche-a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/porsche-a-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although this is a little bit of an outlier as it is not cheap this is a picture of a Sprinter van.\u00a0 After detailing with a ceramic coating, I detailed this client&#8217;s GT3 RS.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-45303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MRAS-Mercedes-Sprinter-Van-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"MRAS Mercedes Sprinter Van\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MRAS-Mercedes-Sprinter-Van-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MRAS-Mercedes-Sprinter-Van-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MRAS-Mercedes-Sprinter-Van-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MRAS-Mercedes-Sprinter-Van-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MRAS-Mercedes-Sprinter-Van-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prior to discussing a Z06, I was working on his son&#8217;s car.\u00a0 Seeing is believing.\u00a0 Seeing the dedication, along with continuous communication made a questionable experience become aspirational.\u00a0 Restoring a 10-year-old black car led to curiosity from a father about what I could do with his Corvette.<\/p>\n<p>People Talk. While many business owners are scrambling to find new clients, there are benefits to having connections to existing clients beyond the also important talking points.\u00a0 Many of these clients that you treat well, get promotions and newer more luxurious cars.\u00a0 Prior amazing experiences and continuous customer support can be the best automatic up-sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Owners &#8211; What Some People See But Don&#8217;t Realize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":47908,"comment_status":"closed","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":[27,1412],"tags":[2312],"class_list":{"0":"post-45744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-professional-work","8":"category-running-a-detailing-business","9":"tag-business"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Business-Owners-What-Some-People-See-But-Dont-Realize.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kPO7-bTO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45744","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=45744"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47909,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45744\/revisions\/47909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}