okay so let's talk about how much money youactually need to start your car detailing business. so, this is a real big topic tomyself because i made a huge mistake when i first started my business. i spent way tomuch money on products and tools and chemicals that i absolute did not that i didn't usethat i didn't use, 90% of those were just never used. they just say on a shelf collectingdust, looking nice. so, let's talk about what you need to start a business. when you initiallywant to start a business, again, if this is your first time, you start googley searchingwhat you need, so you just google, you know, mobile detailing, car detailing business and,if you want to open up a shop, you open up a shop, and then you just see this list ofwhat you need, what's necessary, these recommendations
from other detailers who even emailed thisdetailers yourself and see what they recommend. so things will come up to you like, you know,if you're going to be a mobile detailer, you're going to get a generator, insurance, businesscards. you'll need every interior and exterior product and tool under the sun because youwant to really make sure that you're going to be prepared for every single encounterthat you may possibly get with every customer. so you want to make sure that if one customerin particular wants this type of detail or this type of scent, or this type of whateverit maybe, you want to make sure you have that product and tool in stock to fulfill thatcustomers' needs. i've been there, trust me. you're going to get t-shirts, water tank ifyou're going to be mobile detailer, pressure
washer, you may even look into, can't reallysee down here, but a shop. so again, that's just busy work, right. it doesn't correlateexactly to starting a business and getting customers, right. just because this is justkind of noise overall. in the beginning phases. obviously when you kind of grow your businessand you get more customers and you have more steady flow of customers and cash flow, thenyes, a lot of this is necessary. you do want to grow, you do want to get your business,kind of in a nice, hockey stick manner of growth. but in reality, if you're just startingoff, right. if you're, if you're you say, okay i do a lot of detailing for a while,i have a few products, maybe i can start this as a business. but you don't really need allthis mess going a long here. with the products
that you have in hand, right. with what, let'ssay, uh, your first few products were for headlight restoration. then that in itselfis already enough to go ahead and start offering headlight restoration services to your friends,family, and co-workers. so, if you really go down this list and you want to create anexcel spreadsheet and come up with different price points and see what gets the best dealand what account can you setup to save money. then this can easily, for me like, personally,it ran me, i think i said $2200, $2000, somewhere around there, when i started my business,but that was all mostly products. it wasn't, i mean that $2000 could have been used somuch more effectively in growing my business instead of just buying chemicals and tools.so, with those $2000, i would have spent maybe,
let's say, $400 in actual products and chemicalsand the rest would have gone to marketing and sales. so, you guys that are startingyour business, you guys really want to go into this long list of what's everything thati absolutely need to become a business. i want to look official, i want to be presented,i want to present myself like an actual business, so what do i need to feel like a real business.but, my take would be with the few tools and products that you have, even if you don't,even if you're barely getting into detailing entirely new, then i would suggest spendingthe absolutely minimum money you could possibly spend to get going. so let's say and thiscomes to identifying what you want to offer. so, in the beginning phases, you know, yourmind is like, i'm going to be a great detailer,
i'm going to offer all these services so everyonelikes me and that i can really fulfill every customers needs. wrong approach. when you'regoing to be starting your business, you really want to identify, because you know, you'renot going to have all the resources you possibly can, right. so, identify what you really justwant to go after in the first few months, right. so, me personally, i for some reasonalways liked interior. i always preferred that over exterior work, it just so happensto be like that way. so, i, starting now, if i would start over, i would only buy interiorproducts. and, even if i offered my services to someone and they, "oh, but do you offer,do you wash cars, do you do this. do you do headlight restoration? engine detail?" buti'm still in the beginning phases and i'm
only focusing on interior, i will tell thatperson, "no, i do not do exterior. i only do interior work". you want to stay laserfocused on what you're going to offer. that way the products and tools that you buy areexactly correlate to what you're going to be offering. because if you go to one customerand you say, "okay look, yes i do do interior cleaning" and then the next customer is like,"okay, well i kind of don't want interior cleaning but want an engine cleaning and awash" okay let me go buy those products. okay will this other customer goes and they wantheadlight restoration. okay let me go buy all those products for that. and you're justgoing to keep on bouncing to just fulfill each customers needs. which isn't bad by anymeans, you know, ideally that's what you want.
you want to be prepared for anything, buti'm talking about the beginning phases of things when you don't have all the money thatyou can get, you don't have a steady stream of customers coming in. really really pointout what's the one thing you're going to offer and do that very well. so if it's just goingto be exterior detailing, only focus on that. only buy the products that you need for thatand go from there. don't say, "okay i offer exterior. oh wait, i also want to offer interior,so let me buy all the tools that i need for there." that's what you don't want to do.focus on the thing that you're really going to offer great and then buy what you needfor that. so, realistically, and again, depending where you live and all that good stuff, theprice ranges are going to differ, but realistically,
if it was to buy products and tools right.if that's because that's the main thing that you need for to start a business. in the beginningphases, if you could literally spend $200 on products. even i can guarantee you canspend less than that. again, focusing on what you're going to be offering. if you want tooffer every service under the sun which is pdr, headlight restoration, paint correction,interior cleaning, engine cleaning, wheel coating, paint coating, headlight coating,and all that jazz. then yes, you probably sum it up around $10,000, i'm sure. but, ifyou're going to be offering one type of service and you want to be the greatest at that andyou really want to focus on that, then maybe under $200 you can do that. again, dependingwhat you're going to be offering of course.
because if you just want to offer paint correctionservices, then yeah, you're going to need buffers, pads, product, that's going to runyou a higher price. but again, it's really knowing what you want to offer in the beginningphases. you know, as you're trickling along and you're getting customers and you see revenueand customer flow is rising and that's when and that's when you can kind of, you know,venture off and buy a few more products to get you going. but, again, this is all inthe beginning phases of things. you really want to trickle along with what you're goingto be offering and as you pick up more customers and more money, then yeah, by all means, ventureoff and offer more services. uhm, that's my biggest, uh, you know that's my take on it.but again, on just the products themselves,
maybe under $200, $400 bucks. you do not needto go out there and pull out a credit line or barrow money from friends and family toget this going. what i would highly recommend is that if you do want to spend a lot moremoney, then i would not spend it on chemicals or products but on marketing. so, you know,that's the biggest thing and i preach that on every single that i do. that marketingand sales is the biggest driver for growth. that's what's going to get you more customers,that's what's going to get you more customers, that's going to teach you how to upsell, howto make more money, how to get a higher hourly rate- so many things. so if let's say youhad $1000 to spare, right. if you've been saving up and you have $1000. i would literallyliterally spend 20% on chemicals and products,
80% on marketing and sales. and that can bewhether buying a training course to learn how to market and sale your business, whetherit be hiring a consultant for a specific type of marketing channel. but i would mostly spendmy time on education, on how to grow a business, how to market a business, how to sell in business,then how to detail or how to become a better detailer. because the margin between goodto great in relation to having a successful business with growth is very very little,right. you can take an average detailer and have exceptional marketing and sales and theywill surpass just about every detailer that has great detailing skills but doesn't markettheir business. and i'm not saying you can have low quality, that's not, i'm not sayingthat's the exception. you have to offer exceptional
services, exceptional detailing services,and exceptional customer service. but what i'm saying is the difference between havingan 80% or 60% paint correction achievement, meaning you remove 60% of the swirls and scratches,compared to 80% of swirls and scratches is very little. the customer probably won't evennotice the difference if you show them. so that's what i'm referring too. just becauseyou think that being the best detailer is going to be the growth, is going to drivegrowth to your business, is not actually the answer. i would spend most of the funds thatyou have, however you, whether you save or you have a credit line or whatever it maybeit. i'd spend most of that on marketing and sales to grow the business and keep the detailingaspects of things to a minimum. because after
a certain point, it gets trivial. after acertain point, the customer hardly notices the difference between you spending an extratwo hours or one hour compared to just the thirty minutes it takes you to complete itis now going to show up. it's not the real propeller for growth. so hope this video helps,i know this wasn't the exact concrete maybe some of you were looking for because it'sgoing to differ in so many ways. but as far as the concept, it's really focus in on whatyou want to focus on, i already repeated myself twice. but focus on what you want to offer,in the beginning phases, see what what's more convenient for you, what's more cost effective,and then go from there as you build customers, as your getting more money coming in, thenof course you can start and venture off to
new products, new chemicals, see what otherservices you can offer. so hope this video helps, leave a comment down below and tellme what you think and i'll see you on the next video.
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