wanted to share my website with megs family

[nabisco shine]

all products i use is meguiars www.jasonsdetailing.weebly.com feel free to reply what you guys think thanks

[FinalTouchDetail]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

I am VERY confused as to your thoughts on your pricing.

Your basic wash/wax is 60 bucks (fair pricing)

But you add Claybar and 2-3 stages of polishing for 40 bucks.....

You are adding at least 4-5 hours of work on for 40 dollars? I would at least double that package to 200 for that level of correction.

You also separately list "clean glass" on the second package leading me to believe you don't clean glass in your wash/wax package?

[nabisco shine]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

the clay 2-3 stages is 100 for small and for bigger it goes up and thanks for noticing the glass part ill ad that in but for water spot its additonal

[FinalTouchDetail]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

I understand it's for a small vehicle, but the pricing is way off when a simple wash/wax for that same vehicle is 60 dollars.

You are adding basically 400% of the work (assuming wash/wax takes 2 hours and clay +2-3 stage polish takes 8 hours) for 60% price increase.

[nabisco shine]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

ok what should i do? i charge cheap as of right now so i can get my name out there, then maybe raise my price after i get really big, any ideas

[nabisco shine]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

any help would be good i also like your site very nice

[Bill Davidson]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

ok what should i do? i charge cheap as of right now so i can get my name out there, then maybe raise my price after i get really big, any ideas

Are you selling your service or your name?
If the service is worth $200, perhaps you should be charging accordingly.

Do a good job and your business will grow. Work for nothing and you'll soon be out of business.

[FinalTouchDetail]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

It is much harder to raise prices after you have a client-base.

It is better to charge a fair price for your time, slowly develop a client-base, and then grow off of that from word of mouth due to your quality workmanship.

[Matt Majeika]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

Are you selling your service or your name?
If the service is worth $200, perhaps you should be charging accordingly.

Do a good job and your business will grow. Work for nothing and you'll soon be out of business.

Bill makes a great point.

I'm working on pricing as well and you have to break it down by the amount of work that you put into it, and not worry about your name. If you do quality work, that's what you'll be known for. Your work will speak for itself!

You can be known for cheap prices, but like Bill said, you'll be out of business soon because your costs are higher than your income. It's nice to be "fair" to clients, but you also have to be "fair" to yourself. It's YOUR business!

[JoeDirt]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

I agree on prices- once you're low, you can't easily go up. Once you do, they'll look elsewhere, since "you worked for $xxx.xx before, why not now?"

For the next thing- I'm just offering my opinion as looking over your site as a 3rd party, just constructive criticism...

Get better pictures. The cars are clean, but with the lighting or maybe your camera the pictures are not very good at conveying what you can do. Most you can't really tell if they were detailed, to be honest. There is no real visual impact. Detailing is a purely visual medium- ditch some of the dark cars and get some reds, yellow, nice bright blue... If some were cell cam pics, that's not good. To me, I doubt you did, but some of them look like you tried to retouch them to make them look worse before detailing. The set of the Solstice for example- not a good set I would get some direct sunlight shots of the swirls, etc., and then show the after (maybe a 50/50 as well) in the same type of light.

I think better, larger pics will help a LOT...

[nabisco shine]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

thanks joe you can click on the pic to make it larger when you go on showcase

[nabisco shine]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

and where i live always rain and everytime i get done with a car its overcast! and i dont want to drive a custmer car couple miles to get good sun, i dont want to risk getting an accendent.

[JoeDirt]

Re: wanted to share my website with megs family

Good point- probably don't want to be driving around to get pics. But- I'm sure you could get some really beautiful pics in Kailua Kona!