Winter what to do?

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Detailing NY

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Well just thought i would share this idea that i have been doing for the last 3 years.

When there is snow on the ground and it is way to cold to be detailing. Or when you have no customers due to bad weather. This will keep you busy and the profit coming in.

Own a snow removal service. You already have all your contacts, call all your detail customers and tell them you have a snow removal service now as well.

If they come to you for detailing, they will call you for snow removal. It is a win/win situation. you stay busy and keep all your customers, and the customers get snow removed and a great detail in the summer time.

Pricing is up to you, be fare to the customers and they will love you even more. Buying a snow blower or a quad with a blow on the front of it will cost some money, but a real bad winter can be a real good winter($$). Plus what else is more fun the riding around in a quad all day in the snow.:D



I also let all my fleet contracts know i do the snow removal and clean out the parking lots for them.



Hope this helps

NYD
 
Intel486 said:
We don't any snow down here :( Wait... we don't get winter down here :p



So, got any tips to make money when it rains everyday for a week?
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Yeah, what I need to do also...learn how to do paintless dent repair and windshield repair. Windshield repair is much cheaper to learn-full kits run around $300 or so, but the cheapest hands-on PDR training I have found is $4000, and even after training, it still can take months before you get good enough at it to start charging.



If this winter is as wet as the last two, I am going to look for a part time night job. I have also let some of my high end customers know if they need any grunt work done on rainy days, they should call me. I am not going to let pride in owning my own business prevent me from doing menial tasks for less money when the weather is bad. $10 an hour is still more than $0 an hour. Heck, I could wait tables and make $15 an hour like I did when I was a waiter at Denny's when I was getting my detailing business off the ground.
 
Scottwax said:
Yeah, what I need to do also...learn how to do paintless dent repair and windshield repair. Windshield repair is much cheaper to learn-full kits run around $300 or so, but the cheapest hands-on PDR training I have found is $4000, and even after training, it still can take months before you get good enough at it to start charging.



If this winter is as wet as the last two, I am going to look for a part time night job. I have also let some of my high end customers know if they need any grunt work done on rainy days, they should call me. I am not going to let pride in owning my own business prevent me from doing menial tasks for less money when the weather is bad. $10 an hour is still more than $0 an hour. Heck, I could wait tables and make $15 an hour like I did when I was a waiter at Denny's when I was getting my detailing business off the ground.
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I'm gonna get the stuff for windshield repair after I get a carpet extractor, generator, and trailer... yhea, should be in a few years. LOL :)
 
Intel486 said:
I'm gonna get the stuff for windshield repair after I get a carpet extractor, generator, and trailer... yhea, should be in a few years. LOL :)
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Yeah, but the windshield repair stuff will start making you money right away. Supposedly only take maybe an hour to learn to do. I plan on sending off for the system one of these days (and soon!). I have one customer with 4 chips in the heated windshield of his Range Rover. Fixing those chips would make me about $120 and save him the extremely high cost of replacing his windshield.
 
Scottwax said:
Yeah, but the windshield repair stuff will start making you money right away. Supposedly only take maybe an hour to learn to do. I plan on sending off for the system one of these days (and soon!). I have one customer with 4 chips in the heated windshield of his Range Rover. Fixing those chips would make me about $120 and save him the extremely high cost of replacing his windshield.
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I want to be a full equiped mobile detailer though before I move onto something else. One thing at a time and I've been wanting a carpet extractor for some time. As soon as I get the carepet extractor I plan on doing a lot of advertising on getting your interior completely detailed w/ carpet extraction.
 
Intel486 said:
I want to be a full equiped mobile detailer though before I move onto something else. One thing at a time and I've been wanting a carpet extractor for some time. As soon as I get the carepet extractor I plan on doing a lot of advertising on getting your interior completely detailed w/ carpet extraction.
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I see your point, but windshield chip repair is something you can upsell on the spot.



"I notice you have a chip in your windshield, since I am already here..."



Bang! An extra $30-40.
 
Hey Scott, would you be willing to drive out to Garland to replace my windshield when you learn how:xyxthumbs
 
Ktulu said:
Hey Scott, would you be willing to drive out to Garland to replace my windshield when you learn how:xyxthumbs
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Well, I won't be replacing them just repairing the chips. To answer your question, if I also detailed your car along with repairing a chip or two, then it would be worth driving all the way to Garland.
 
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