New business website...

Off to a great start!

From an aesthetics view point (which I am very picky about), I love your side-bar menu. Colors look spot on and the 1st round of services sound about right.



Keep us up to date on how the business is going and feel free to throw any more questions my way if you have them. I think you'll do quite well with the new market segment.
 
todd@bsaw said:
Off to a great start!

From an aesthetics view point (which I am very picky about), I love your side-bar menu. Colors look spot on and the 1st round of services sound about right.



Keep us up to date on how the business is going and feel free to throw any more questions my way if you have them. I think you'll do quite well with the new market segment.
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Thanks bud. To be quite honest, I didn't have anything to do with the design/colors other than choosing a template and the side menu, plus the items in it obviously. I do get to pick and play with the content on each page, and for a 30 min page I'm extremely happy with it. They do allow you to put a photo on the title bar at the top, so I'm going to create an image with a logo, car, etc. so it's not so boring, but I will stick to the simple theme and go with those colors for now.



I will definitely be filling up your PM box but for now I just want to get stuff out there so I can start advertising, etc. Thanks again for the well wishing.
 
Started getting a few calls and might be scheduling my "first detail" this weekend! I barely realized that even though I know a lot about detailing I still don't know how to do this lower end, 2-3hr full detailing. Oh the confusion!
 
todd@bsaw said:
The hardest part is knowing when to stop. :P
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Yea I'm definitely going to do some practicing with LC white, green, orange pads & SIP or D151 to see how many passes, etc. are best. Any tips are greatly appreciated.



I know I'll have to do a very quick wash as well as wheel/tire cleaning, quick clay, etc. Goal is 3hrs for the $150-200 details alone, 2 with a helper so we'll see.
 
One of the biggest issues I have with those quick details is claying when a car is very contaminated. If I were doing a full correction, I normally wouldn't worry too much about inducing some minor marring because "it'll buff out" when I get to that stage, but when you're cutting out the major correction it can cause a major issue. You can't really just skip it and jump to a 1-step and it's difficult to lightly clay without causing more damage and making the car look worse than before.



You may be able to turn those cars into higher sales details by charging more for the contamination removal and light polishing if you can educate the customer on the issue. Just a heads up, especially if you include claying into your package pricing. You're not going to be able to fit every car into a 3 hour detail if one outlier is going to take 2 hours of claying.
 
todd@bsaw said:
One of the biggest issues I have with those quick details is claying when a car is very contaminated. If I were doing a full correction, I normally wouldn't worry too much about inducing some minor marring because "it'll buff out" when I get to that stage, but when you're cutting out the major correction it can cause a major issue. You can't really just skip it and jump to a 1-step and it's difficult to lightly clay without causing more damage and making the car look worse than before.



You may be able to turn those cars into higher sales details by charging more for the contamination removal and light polishing if you can educate the customer on the issue. Just a heads up, especially if you include claying into your package pricing. You're not going to be able to fit every car into a 3 hour detail if one outlier is going to take 2 hours of claying.
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Oh I'm definitely not claying to perfection. The claying that's included is blue Clay Magic bar going over a section 1-2 times. Enough to clean up enough for polishing, but if more is required I'll be sure to point that out.
 
I really like the simple format. The only thing that I found is that when I opened the page it seemed "dark"...sort of like when you open a site and a pop up comes up that you have to close out of before proceeding to the main page. Maybe it was just my monitor?



With Weebly do you have to buy a domain with them to use their hosting and template services?
 
dfazekas said:
Very clean and simple.

I think you're off to a great start.
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Thanks.



JPostal said:
I really like the simple format. The only thing that I found is that when I opened the page it seemed "dark"...sort of like when you open a site and a pop up comes up that you have to close out of before proceeding to the main page. Maybe it was just my monitor?



With Weebly do you have to buy a domain with them to use their hosting and template services?
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I think I could see what you're talking about comparing it to a pop up, as the template is the site placed within a darker background... however it doesn't seem too prominent on my computer.



As for weebly, I simply bought the domain through godaddy, since I have everything for LUSTR Auto Detailing hosted and bought from them, and then just created the site. There were no requirements from weebly to create the site. I simply had to change some nameservers through godaddy as per weebly's instructions, so that the domain points to that site. Was very simple and I honestly created the site in about 30 minutes, after spending 30 minutes figuring out the prices & services.
 
I also think it's a little "dark". I would change the font colors on the side bar menu and the font type on the top of the page to something that "pops" while still looking clean and simple. I'd also work a logo in there somewhere. The layout and size is perfect. Very easy to navigate.
 
Site functions well and is organized-you get an A for that, but the colors are boring and lack the luster that I would attribut to high-end detailing services. Shades of blue or maybe something in black/gray + a key color (eh hem tssdetailing.com) could make the site be more memorable and retain some graphic resonance.



As for your questions on 3 hour detailing runs...to me that sounds like you're cutting A LOT of corners. It takes me minimum of 5 hours to go from dirty car to single-step polished car. But it could be the difference of our processes. Mine is jack up car, wash driver side fender wells, rims, wheels, lower car, repeat other side. Wash car, clay bar car, wash car again to remove anything left, then dry it. Then I tape all the trim/windows/molding and fire up the Flexcalibur and a Green pad with some CG AIO. One last wash to get all the compound out of the cracks, ice the tires, maybe seal it too if it's a 'nicer car' and then get paid.
 
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