Advantages of Dealership Sub-Contracting detailing

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I'm_ILL

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With so many large dealerships having their own on-site detailing it's hard to get your foot in the door. But one thing I have noticed in the last few months is a couple of them are constantly posting help wanted detailer ads every few weeks. My question is as an approach, what would be the best arguable advantage to take on a sub-contract detailer then hiring, training, and maintaining a staff?
 
I'm_ILL said:
With so many large dealerships having their own on-site detailing it's hard to get your foot in the door. But one thing I have noticed in the last few months is a couple of them are constantly posting help wanted detailer ads every few weeks. My question is as an approach, what would be the best arguable advantage to take on a sub-contract detailer then hiring, training, and maintaining a staff?
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The dealership doesn't have to pay insurance, taxes, or workmans comp on any employee. An employee cost more then just there hourly wage.
 
Give them quality and speed! Walk their lot, look over the cars thate being detailed and show them how much better of a job you can do then their in-house help. Try to differentiate from their current theme. Stay wih it and keep on them. They might not give you all their business, but they might send you the overflow when they have a hiccup in the system.
 
Some dealers just don't get it and never will no matter what you do. I had a dealer have me in and do a full proposal to take over all their retail + used car detailing and it got killed once it got past the Used Car Manager. Some dealers will do anything to keep it in house regardless of cost, hassles and the quality of the work.
 
Barry Theal said:
The dealership doesn't have to pay insurance, taxes, or workmans comp on any employee. An employee cost more then just there hourly wage.
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Barry-Can you give me a guestimate of an employees true hourly cost to an employer at say $10/hr?



David-Great advice i appreciate it. I know it's not going to happen overnight but I would love some of that overflow.
 
Curious to discuss this subject more. Dealer work has it's positives and negatives, but I'm a believer in after seeing it myself through my own shop. It's steady work that can pay an employee and is a great training tool rather than throwing a new guy on a retail clients car that has to be perfect. That's what I'm trying to deal with right now is the jump from a one-man-show to an actual business with employee's, procedures, ect. David and Barry have got this down to a science.
 
I'm_ILL said:
Barry-Can you give me a guestimate of an employees true hourly cost to an employer at say $10/hr?



David-Great advice i appreciate it. I know it's not going to happen overnight but I would love some of that overflow.
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Typical employee will cost you 1.35 x hourly rate not including benefits. In Canada we have to add in 4% of gross for vacation pay, worker's comp (approx. 3.25% of gross in my case), match the employee's Canada Pension Plan contribution, pay 1.4x the employee's employment insurance contribution plus there are 9 public holidays that all employees are paid for. Add to that the cost for anything wage related and that figure of 1.35 x wage is usually pretty accurate. So that being the case a $10 hr employee is probably costing you $13.50-$14 an hour minimum.
 
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