The Detail Spot Auto Detailing Podcast

When you first start your auto detailing business it is so fun. You become filled with excitement and passion for cleaning, maintaining, and protecting vehicles. I like to call this the honeymoon phase of being your own boss. After you realize detailing has become the thing that puts food on the table and pays the bills it becomes not as fun anymore. There is a point to where it gives you a crazy...

What is the perfect client and why are they any more important than any other paying customer? Building a sustainable and scalable auto detailing business is all based on how good your business is overall and how good your clients are. These "perfect" clients are the foundation for your business and will ultimately decide if your detailing business to what you dreamed it can be. Think about it thi...

Have you ever been unsure of what you need to do when you are slow and don't have a full schedule? It happens and I have been there personally. Or have you ever just had days or weeks to where you just don't feel like doing the things you know you should be doing? I have also been there as well. We are human and don't do everything like a robot would. We dread doing things that make us uncomfortab...

Starting a career as an auto detailer often starts with just the pure passion for cleaning, maintaining, or protecting a vehicle. This passion is something we all have in us and it eventually turns into something that puts food on the table. You really can do whatever you dream of in this industry. You may want to have a massive shop with multiple employees or maybe you just want to work solo...

Figuring out when to raise prices can be challenging because at first you really can’t be the highest priced detailer in your area.   In the very beginning sadly nobody knows who you are. This means that being higher than the rest in your area will be almost impossible because your have not got established yet. But don’t get discouraged because it does not take as long as you think. Once you...

If you are thinking to yourself "my detailing business could be busier than what it is" then definitely check this out. Slow days, weeks, months, or even slow years happen when owning an auto detailing business but can be prevented. You can prevent these slow periods by implementing two pretty simple things in your game plan. These things that I talk about in this episode are something that really...

On social media we often times see the best of things within the industry. No one ever really talks about the things that just truly suck. Justin Wise with Wise Guys Detailing was forced to essentially take a pay cut at a job that he was with for 6 years. Instead of staying he decided to take the risk and start up his own auto detailing business. He shares the everyday struggles that come wit...

Starting and running an auto detailing business is a lot of work. It takes a lot of focus in areas that we really do not know about when we initially start. And what happens in a lot of cases is detailers will wonder why they are not getting the leads they hoped for or getting the type of clients they really want to work with.  In this episode of The Detail Spot Auto Detailing Podcast I share...

If you have not started your auto detailing business yet or are in year 1-2 of your detailing business then this episode is for you. This episode goes over what to do and what not to do in the new stages of your auto detailing business. These are all things I wish I would've practiced early. We all start our business because we want to be our own boss, have freedom, and make more than what we coul...

The auto detailing industry is crazy profitable. You can make as much money as you can possibly fathom and scale your business to whatever point you can dream of. It does take some focus in certain areas though because without leads coming in, a good business foundation, and knowing some strategies in the beginning it can get a little discouraging.  In this episode of The Detail Spot Podcast...

Success when you first start your business is unheard of sometimes. There are a lot of areas that we really don't think about when we first get into detailing.  In this episode of The Detail Spot Podcast Jacob Dixon with Dixon's Mobile Detailing shares some of the areas he placed his focus to really get the ball rolling. He tells us some of the goals he has in his detailing business and some...

Eric with Lumberjack Auto Detailing joins us again on this weeks episode to talk about some of his past experiences and how it may inspire other detailers just starting. In this episode you will learn: How to get started with what you can afford Some great tools and products if you are just starting How to handle accidentally damaging a client's vehicle When you are first starting a car detai...

Royalty Auto Spa had a vision to own a successful auto detailing business and came together as partners to make sure that vision came to reality.  In this episode you will learn: How to start & grow a detailing business with partners Inside scoop on using Facebook for your detailing business How to get a higher end type of clientele  Ty, Nate, and Clayton are all partners o...

Starting and growing an auto detailing business can be extremely tough. Some detailing businesses have success quicker than others. In my personal experience I had slower success. It took me about a year of losing money and quitting to go work a normal 9-5 job before finally figuring out where to spend my efforts. In this episode of The Detail Spot Podcast I share with you 3 tips to starting, grow...

Bradley the owner of Auto Works Detailing may be one of the funniest guys in the detailing industry. Aside from being funny, this guy really knows his stuff and how to grow an auto detailing business. He has went from mobile detailing all the way to now moving into a facility where his business will offer detailing, corrections, ceramic coating, and window tint. He shares a little bit of...

How to start or run an interior detailing business with Carlos Serrano. Carlos owns and operates an auto detailing business in Dallas, Texas and actually thoroughly enjoys doing interior detailing. He has built his detailing business to a point to where he can charge top dollar for interior detailing services along with other services such as ceramic coating and paint correction. Interior detailin...

Why is marine detailing so overlooked within the industry? This is the case because most detailers do not even offer marine detailing as a service due to either their area does not have the market for it or because the work involves a lot more skill.  But I don't think people realize how much this service can truly bring in.  Shane Mackey joins us this episode to share how Waxing Of...

One of our favorite things to do with The Detail Spot Podcast is to bring on some of the leaders in the auto detailing industry to share their journey and how they got to the top in this space. And in this episode we have an amazing journey to share! Owning a car detailing business is a tough task by itself. Michael is not only the owner of Nola Auto Spa but he is also a full time firefighter.&nbs...

In this week's episode of the The Detail Spot Podcast, we have Lumberjack Auto Detailing on to tell his success story. Owning your own detailing business can be really hard and stressful. It takes a lot of upfront work, persistence, and long hours. Eric the owner of Lumberjack Auto Detailing shares with us everything from how he started to now owning a massive successful detailing studio.  Li...

Hang out with us as Devil In The Detail Gbr talks about detailing processes and products that he prefers from an enthusiast standpoint. Ben truly loves detailing and the satisfying results that come with it. In this episode he hangs out with us and talks about products, routines, cars, and more. Hope you enjoy. 🔗 Join The Detail Community - thedetailcommunity.com 🔗 Ben's Instagram - @devil_...

Every detailing business needs a website. In the day of time we live in websites are a must have because Google is primarily where people search when they need a detailing or ceramic coating service. In this episode of The Detail Spot Podcast we have Fred with GloveBox Detail talk about some things to greatly improve a website’s performance, rank, and overall appearance. Fred is an SEO guru and ac...

Imagine starting an auto detailing business and in one year it generates $100,000 plus in sales. That is honestly insane. Tanner Thurmond owns a detailing, ceramic coating, PPF business in Tullahoma, Tennessee called TRC Detailing Specialist. Tanner tells us how he pushed his business to crazy levels in such a short amount of time. He has such a strong work ethic and really knows where to place hi...

Ceramic coating is such a game changer for us detailers because of how much money we can make providing this service. It is one of the highest priced and most premium services in the auto detailing industry. Every detailer wants a schedule full of these.  The problem is that not every client can or wants to pay what it cost to install a ceramic coating. So how to you get more of these on your...

Joel Accuardi, the owner of Undrdog coatings shares his advice, core values, and a little about how his coating is changing the game for detailers in this episode of The Detail Spot Podcast. I really respect Joel and Undrdog Protective Coatings because they come at this game with an unorthodox and unique approach. He shares with us why he does it this way. You are going to really enjoy hanging out...

Are you a hobby detailer or a professional detailer? In other words do you just simply detail in your business or do you do everything that goes into running a successful detailing business? Most of us are hobbyist when we first start. We know how to provide a great result and that's about it. The downfall to this is it takes so much more than just detailing to have success at this game. We have t...