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The problem with this is even deeper than what some of veterans of the industry are thinking currently. You see it all the time on beginning detailing type social media groups.<\/p>\n
3 Obvious Problems And 1 Implied Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n For one it is often just a bunch of pictures.\u00a0 It implies that you are just doing the photographed areas, or specific (interior or exterior) parts of the cars.\u00a0 We are assuming for an interior, you may or the customer is or is not expecting you to wash the car?\u00a0 Perhaps or perhaps not polish?\u00a0 Who knows!\u00a0 Just like many of us put our hands up in frustration when consumers get upset for us not having a ready price for the question, ‘how much for a detail,’ you are doing the same thing.\u00a0 Which leads to the following.<\/p>\n I do not know anything about your business in terms of legitimacy, but I can take an educated guess.\u00a0 So can the consumers that you aspire to have!\u00a0 Just starting out, is a plausible conclusion.\u00a0 But are you licensed or insured?\u00a0 Based on some of the groups that I see these posts in, I often guess no.\u00a0 But I am not sure if you are a fully legitimate business.\u00a0 But many of us who are responding our legitimate.\u00a0 Though numerous are not as well.<\/p>\n I do not know anything else about your business.\u00a0 This is the part that frustrates me more than the former (license and insured), because most people do not realize this is a bigger telltale sign of your success versus failure.\u00a0 What is your end game?\u00a0 How much would you like to REALLY make?\u00a0 What products are you using?\u00a0 How long have you been doing this?\u00a0 Where are you?\u00a0 Your range?\u00a0 Is being profitable for this specific service important to you?\u00a0 As uncomfortable as this may be, what are you and your customers’ expectations for this service?\u00a0 I could go on.\u00a0 Not even all of this, but no understanding that I know nothing (not even package etc), just pictures.\u00a0 You also do not know anything about the people\/businesses answering you!<\/p>\n The last part, the implication of the question is my real concern.\u00a0 I do not think there is anything wrong with asking the question.\u00a0 I look at competitor, regional and U.S., pricing quite often.\u00a0 That is not the point.\u00a0 I suspect there is a passive permission seeking element to this line of questioning.\u00a0 You show us a couple of pictures of trashed interiors, that were grueling to detail and took a while to complete.\u00a0 You looked at how much you charged, and your intuition screamed this was not worth your time.\u00a0 But you wanted other detailers’ validation for what you are thinking.\u00a0 Which I get that!\u00a0 But you do not need us to do what is right for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The problem with this is even deeper than what some of veterans of the industry are thinking currently. 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