I actually have more fun posting C&Bs of honda civics or explorers with nasty carpets. Oh yes and my favorite...videos of extractors juice.
I actually have more fun posting C&Bs of honda civics or explorers with nasty carpets. Oh yes and my favorite...videos of extractors juice.
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Originally Posted by gmblack3
I think you just like grossing everyone out with those videos!
I guess this would be a opinion from the opposite end of the detailing food chain. I love learning all I can about detailing and try to soak up as much info from any source possible. When a forum member goes to the trouble to post in a lengthy post his process in turning a nightmare correction into a sight to behold , I comment and try and express thanks for sharing his experience and explaining his technique. Only to be disappointed to have the original poster comment to all of his regular cronies and ignore those of us of lessor talent. I have learned to move on and concentrate on expanding my detailing knowledge . I see other forums besides this one following the same pattern. Other friends have expressed these same observations and visit the forums less and less all of the time. Now I`m aware that some of the top respected members get frustrated when someone they have never heard of questions their methods . But it doesn`t take long to figure out if the guy is really interested in learning or another know it all sob. Just my thoughts on the subject and when I finally figure out this photo bucket deal, I`ll look forward to showing my Click n Brag photos.
Originally Posted by gmblack3
Exactly. That definately switches things up a little.
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Originally Posted by mikenap
Soon I will do a compilation of stract juice.
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Originally Posted by hotrod66paul
Thank you for posting this. I try to refrain from browsing the Click N Brag section these days for this reason specifically. I`ve gone out of my way to compliment many people in their threads only to be ignored.
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Looking forward to viewing the replies to this when I get back to the shop tomorrow. Also curious to see how off-the-wall some of the new threads are....and may I suggest:
1. How large was your kidney stone while detailing a vehicle?
2. Worst injury while detailing?
3. If your style of detailing were a wrestler, who would it be?
That last ones just to see if anyone would pick Jim Duggan
I guess I should cover another thing or two on my mind. More common mistakes I feel people make that could result in having less impact from their posts.
1. Long posts with boring cars.
Let`s face it, many of us have done some of our best work on "normal" cars, but they`re not exactly eye candy. If you worked on a fairly common car that wasn`t exactly unique, and you didn`t do anything unique to it, it can still be worth posting by all means. A much larger amount of people can relate to a $30k car than a $300k car, and I know most of my work is done on daily drivers; so I`d never want to put that business off. A local or car-dedicated forum is where that vehicle will do best, and if you try to contend with the latest from Auto Concierge or Street Dreams, I think you`ll find yourself coming up short. Shorten the length up a bit and make the work more to the point by removing excess pics. As Scottwax would say: I don`t need 10 claying pics or ten 50/50`s to know you did that work: I believe you.
If you`re posting something "normal" it should either be to the point or show-casing some amazing work.
2. You know where you`re from, I don`t.
A major reason to post Click & Brags are to let your potentially clients know you exist. Even though more people know I`m a detailer in Michigan than ever, I will continue to hammer that point home, because plenty of people still do not. Sometimes, detailers are looking for referrals to give a client who is moving or needs info for a buddy. Fellow detailers are only going to look so hard, and those that make sure everyone knows where they`re from are likely to get the referral.
There are a lot of good detailers here, but chances are they`re not all in your city/metro-area. Let us know where you`re doing your awesome work from.
3. Long post? It better be worth it.
I doubt anyone wants to sit through a long boring thread, even on an exotic now-a-days. Every detailer in 2012 will be smart enough to pack a camera when they go an work on a Veyron SuperSport to upload pics. This is a form on entertainment, and just like movies, the only thing worse than a bad one, is a LONG bad one. I`ve felt I couldn`t hit my page down button fast enough at times. It`s ok that you`re not Todd Helme with plenty of insightful information and nice computer graphics to pair. No Todd Cooperider, DJ Mayo or David Saunders behind a camera? Most of us aren`t either, so skip some of the pics that are redundant please. It`s even OK that you`re not Barry Theal, Jesse from Apollo, or Mike Napoli that can make us laugh with witty words. Keep it to the point.
If you`re posting more than 60-80 pics, I sure hope you`re going to show some real cool stuff!
4. Think like Fermani.
This guy has been around forever and doesn`t have to make a ton of C&B`s because he`s still all over making posts, chiming in, and staying relevant in the detailing community.
There`s more than one way to become "known."
5. Sometimes its best to not say certain things.
If you post about a car you spent 1,000 hours on, and other pro`s feel like they could replicate the work on a similar car in a fraction of the time, people will have a negative feeling about your work.
6. Sometimes its OK to just be honest.
The audience likes to connect to the author. If you haven`t been doing it forever and are still learning something, or ran into a problem you now realize you shouldn`t have, that`s ok to say! We`ve probably been there ourselves. Screwed by a client? Someone cancel twice on you? Realize the polish that finished down flawless on that Vette doesn`t finish down the same on your first Porsche? Yup.
If a car or client made you better because you learned something from it, let others know in the write-up. More experienced people will see how you`ve learned and grown as a detailer, and less experiences people will look up to you for sharing knowledge. It`s a win-win!
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Originally Posted by TMD
1. I had to have my wife call a client once to postpone, due to a kidney stone attack. I was lying on the floor moaning in extreme pain, she went into another room to make the call. Then we went to the ER for some nice pain meds.
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As a lurker who is always trying to improve my skills, the older C&B`s seemed more educational and went more in depth with the products and the process. As of late, the C&B`s have become an advertising tool for some of the detailers who never post in any other section of the forums, and every detailing forum has the same cut and paste of the C&B. Heck, some of them read like a NASCAR driver trying to get in every sponsor. :lol
While I think it is probably very effective as a marketing tool, for a guy like me who visits often just sees them as a plug for their services. Maybe the C&B`s have become a tool for recruiting potential customers instead of a learning tool for the fellow detailers? I`m always looking for the `something different` and the ones who explain what they did, and why they did it (time constraints, budget constraints, etc.).
Of course this is just my opinion and I still read the C&B`s, mainly for the huge turnarounds and the detailed write ups. I like the tough ones and the nasty extractor juice ones, too.
Randy
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Originally Posted by ZimRandy
Great point and was once brought up in this thread:
http://www.autopia.org/forum/click-b...s-autopia.html
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I`m for one who doesnt post his job on any forums beside my local forum. I see way too much replicated thread copy/paste. I think that`s freakin boring.
I don,t want to name any names but you know who you are. I guess you want to be everywhere but to some, me included, it just show a `` I`m the show! Look at me`` -attitude.
Too much copy/paste these days and the fact that everybody can do detailing. Not everyone can write nicely detailed review like you see on detailedimage but I bet you I can polish a ferrari with blacklight and apply ezyme on it just like the thread shows. Like you said.. show and tell is getting boring.. do something else.
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I feel the guys who aren`t posting a ton of long C&B`s are the ones doing real well. :noidea:
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