When we started off our business we made a terrible mistake. We tried to hit the market with a low cost quality service. Just listen to how it sounds...."low cost quality detailing service"...does that rhyme...?
Well..we´ve had a hard time of getting off that sector of beeing a low cost company but if I would start it all over again I would charge the same costs as the colleges do and put an hour extra on the car instead. I don´t think it is about how many cars we make I think it is more about how good you make the cars. We do about two cars aday per person and charge the costumar roughly 35-45 USD an hour included all taxes.
Yes we do have some extra help. We outsource as much paperwork as we can, we aint good at that. We got an acounter that take care of the receits and we got a company that takes care of the invoices and the collection of money (I can realy recommend that).
Our cost for the products, water and electricity is roughly 10% of the income.
Good Luck but think twice about what you charge.
