In response to the original post, all I can say is that I took a week off from my day job to detail full time last week. I earned just over $2300 in 5 days of detailing. That is just the total intake of money though. That isn`t considering the overhead involved. Still, if I were making $8000 per month then I could easily afford the overhead involved in running the business as a mobile operation. In fact, if it weren`t for my physical health and the miserable climate 6 months out of the year, I would seriously consider doing this full time. Once you take out the cost for insurance, health care, supplies, and everything else involved with running a business, I`d still be brining in at least $60,000 per year if I did nothing more than maintain the level of business I did last week. That is my max as far as work that I`m able to do. To do more cars than I did would probably require bringing on another detailer which would only increase my revenue.
So the answer is that a successful detailing business can make you really good money. If you have the talent and knowledge to make it successful, and if you live in an area where the service is needed and valued, then you can make a very comfortable living at it. I live in those conditions six months out of the year, so I only do this part time. You have to consider how long you will be able to run the business as part of the things that need to be thought about before you jump in with both feet. My recomendation would be to gain a very good understanding of the processes involved in properly detailing a car and then get lots of practice before you commit your resources to launching a business like this.
I`ve been detailing for ten years professionally (as professionally as a part time detailer can be) and to be totally honest I can probably do it faster and better than someone just starting out. So don`t expect to make $2000 your first week on the job. There are a lot of skills that have to be learned before you can be at that level. That isn`t meant to brag or anything, it is just some honest advice about an industry that all of us are still learning new things about every single time we work on a vehicle.
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