The Detail Solutions Podcast

It seems like with everything else in the detail industry that the training market is becoming over saturated. Obviously you have the respected training brands, then there's the detailers no one's ever heard of doing trainings and the guys that are out of touch and their training techniques might not apply anymore. So what's a detailer whose looking to better their skill set do with al...

Grant Menard is someone I've been surprised we've never met. We know a lot of the same people and have been to a the same events, but never have crossed paths. I was excited to finally have him on the show and to get to finally meet him. Grant started detailing in his garage as a part time gig during school. After graduating Penn St. he went into the Pharma industry and there he learned th...

Ken Mercer is El Presidente of Starke yacht Care. Their #1 objective is to deliver high-quality, marine-grade surface technology products to yacht owners and detail professionals. Starke has a revolutionary line of boat detailing products that exceed industry standards. From compounds and polishes to coatings and sealants Starke Yacht Care has something for your luxury marine detailing needs. Supp...

It's been a while since Esme was last on and I never knew the audio quality was so bad. I reached out to her every so often asking her to come back on and she always said "Yes", but scheduling was tough. Well we finally worked it out and now she's back and talks about her detailing journey. She retells how she got into detailing working for a shop for the first 4 years. Then how...

John Hogg suggested an idea to me about the ideas behind product development and dismissal of the smoke and mirrors side of the industry. So I invited John to talk about how he goes about developing products for Angelwax. I also talk to John about the "smoke and mirrors" side of the industry and being a chemist how he can see through the smoke. Support this show and follow us on Facebook...

Angela Gilham started her detail career in the body shop and after some time away for school, took a job as a boat detailer. After working for a few people she realized she could do it on her own and made the leap to starting her own business. Angela has made a name for her self in her field and has worked on many boats ranging from 40+ footers to 180 foot yachts. Angela got into the ppf side of d...

Jerry Grant was a Master Plumber when he started detailing parttime for some extra Christmas cash. After a few months of booking his nights and weekends, he decided to make the jump to fulltime. With the support of his family and friends Jerry dove headfirst into detailing and learning wherever he could. He attended a Detailing Success 1 day extreme training and saw what the could do for his busin...

Jonathan Michael Monson may seem like he's come out of nowhere, but the truth is he worked hard to grow his business. After a nagging back injury Jonathan had to start scaling his business adding help to get jobs done. With adding help meant he needed more jobs to cover an employee. So, he dove back into his old marketing habits from when he was a GM for a tire chain. Placing the right ads on...

I see a lot of people in the detail industry talking about being "Mentors" or offering their services to mentor new or up and coming detailers. The problem I have with this is what makes them qualified to mentor someone who's starting out or looking for advice? I've had people before ask me to help them and my reply is usually "No" not because I don't want to, but b...

I've a few ideas for episode topics revolving around ceramic coatings for a while now, so I decided to lump them into one episode. Mike Cardenas co-founder of Aquatek Coatings and Rain Albertson lead trainer with Angelwax helps us through the weird musings of ceramic coatings. I've always been curious about the coating cults and how some detailers will just blindly follow and do whatever a...

Jeff Davis was our guest this week and boy did he have story to tell. Jeff told us about growing up poor and bouncing around from hotel to hotel and family member to family member's houses. Eventually his father moved the family to North Carolina, but that's where Jeff found trouble in the form of the streets. At 17 he got involved with the drug trade and while it might not have been the r...

Sheldon Kaye from MTE joins again to talk about the new detail competition trial run being held at MTE this year. He and our very own Jason Bruno have been working hard to come up with something that should work for everyone. Then Randy Hobson jumps on to tell us more about the foundation that they are starting to help the whole recon industry. The Keeping it Reel fishing tournament is the jump of...

Eron Knox has taken the opportunity to join Jescar finishing products as a brand ambassador and product development. Knoxy tells us about his goal to create a product that can cut any paint system but finish down like no other. We talked to him about finally coming to Mobile Tech Expo and what he'll be displaying in the Jescar booth. Knoxy as always takes some time to get his jabs in on Jason...

Donnie Anderson is our first guest for the 2024 year, and I was excited for this one as Donnie has been a supporter of the podcast for a while now. Donnie started off his mobile detailing business in his hometown, before moving to the DFW area in Texas to be around more business. After trying to run both a shop based and mobile business, Donnie decided to just concentrate on the mobile side of his...

A couple of weeks ago Greg Masterson reached out and said we should do a podcast again. Well me not being one to turn down a good opportunity asked what he had in mind. Greg suggested doing an episode on what your business needs to succeed in 2024 and I thought it was a great idea to start the year off. A lot of detailers are struggling right now whether they want to admit it or not. Greg is a guy...

Robyn Sweet started out detailing like most of did, by wanting to take care of her own car. That quickly grew to doing family and friends cars on the side. Eventually she started looking into trainings to get better qualified with the level she was looking for. After a couple of years running her business she was asked by Autogeek to become a trainer. All of this while working a full time job as a...

A couple of weeks ago during the Young Guns episode someone asked in the comments during the live what the boys top 10 detailers were? It got me to thinking what if we did a Fantasy Football style draft, but for building our Fantasy Detail shop. We broke down the typical FF role positions to create our draft picks. So play along with us and pick your Fantasy Detailers to create your ultimate shop....

A while back I asked Bruno what would be the benefits of buying into a detailing franchise. The way I see it is you're giving up a piece of the pie for hopefully a larger pie. I don't know many shops that carry that much weight that would make it a smart move. Thankfully Glenn & Tracy Urfer just did such a thing with becoming a part of SparrowHawk mobile detailing. They're going to...

Adam Garvin talks about his time working for Dutch Bros. Coffee at multiple locations before making the jump to full time detailing. He took a break for a bit after some burnout and got into the CDB market when it became legal in his state. After the CDB market started to crash with it being legal across the country he got back into detailing. He had employees running the business while he was awa...

You may remember Parker Lee from the Afterschool Special. After that episode I found out he has a whole network of other high school detailers. Sam and Tobe join him on this episode to talk about their network of under 18 detailers and how they lean on each other for help. They are the next generation of detailing and they're here to tell us how they're taking over. Support this show and f...

What is The Detailing Summit Miami and why should you want to know? William Lara had an idea to bring together Detailers and industry professionals together for the good of the industry. This event would not take the place of or replace a detailing event that is already happening. It will be and event to learn and grow your detailing business. The Detailing Summit Miami will be hosting its first M...

I met Rich Kastle and Skylar Bender from Stoner Car Care in Chicago at the Creator Summit event. They were great guys and I had a blast getting to know them. At SEMA I stopped by the booth to see what they had going on and was given a demo for their new odor less Iron remover and their new windshield coating. I reached out to Rich after SEMA and invited him and JC to come on talk about all the pro...

Tyler Wilson met another detailer in a Facebook group and moved from Georgia to Naples, Fl to partner up. Quickly Tyler realized the other detailer was not as advertised and he was stranded in a new city to start over. Tyler met a potential client by simply holding a door open for him. The client gave Tyler the chance to detail his car which led to another one and another one and more after that....

Why does the detail industry need ANOTHER group that preaches proper training, business practices and support for the industry? We ask Kirk Evans why he feels it's time to introduce Detailers of the Roundtable and what are the plans for the group. Like the IDA I'm always in favor of these type of organizations, but feel they never really deliver what they preach. In an industry filled with...

It's Thanksgiving here in the States and we had to call an audible to do an episode. Joey Love was going to be the guest but had a family thing last minute, so look for that episode in the future. I told Jason let's just get on and do an episode about nothing, We'll call it the Seinfeld episode. Support this show and follow us on Facebook: @thedetailsolutionspodcast and @thedetailsolut...