Mobile or shop??

Hello fello detailers!!



This is my first post, so hopefully i am doing this right..



My name is Brett and i have been detailing professionally for about 6 years now, been running my business Touch of Class Detailing for about 4. For about 3 years I had a shop at a little high line dealership and everything was going great.. They were selling cars, and I was detailing them, getting them ready for delivery, spiffing them ect..ect.. and well.. they slowed down! a lot! So i had no choice but to go mobile. As you probably know, word travels fast in the car business, good, and bad, and luckily i am good! So in my ventures going mobile i picked up a few more highline dealerships.. I still do the dealership i had my shop ats' cars too. and it was working out good going to each of them, doing the one or two cars that they had, then moving on.(I wash all the cars on thier lot too, 2 times a week) but lately it has been picking up and the dealers are getting more cars, and i just couldnt do all of them moblily, and keep them all happy at the same time so i talked to one of the dealers and they agreed the rent out thier bays at thier dealership to do all the work.. and it has been workin out great untill about 2 weeks ago.. everything got slow again.. now, i havnt been renting the bays for very long, and i know i should probably give it time to pick back up, but let me tell you!, its on my mind all the time to go mobile again.. and thier is a lot of other stuff on my mind too!!



I would really appreciate any input or suggestions that anyone might have for me... i just want to see some opinions!!





Thank you!
 
Well if you've done it before you've got the means necessary to do mobile... Why the hell not?



I do work out of my home or mobile, whatever the customer wants. Just means changing up your advertising a little bit.
 
It's hard to tell what the market is going to do right now, Mobile is a steady income, shops are more convenient, so which is more important convenience or consistence?
 
look at it this way...



if you have rent and overhead and you get 100 cars at 100 each, thats 10K, minus overhead, rent, etc, you may only take home 6K



not if you only did 60 cars, you are working less, and making the same....
 
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