UK Detailing Academy’s running blog commentary on the detailing industry’s questions, useful guides, and articles designed to help you start, grow and run your detailing business.
Pricing is one of the most difficult aspects when running a service business. It’s a knife-edge, multi-directional balance of maintaining competitiveness, accounting for the actual running costs of a business, and ensuring you have enough
UK Detailing Academy are now the official and exclusive UK training centre for LeTech Leather Care and Restoration.
Are you looking to start an aircraft detailing business? The sheer upturn in enquiries we now get regarding aircraft detailer training has prompted this post. It’s one we’re going to be pointing people to
Question time: Can I get a government-approved qualification in Detailing and/or Valeting in the UK? Answer: No.(not yet) Short and simple – but if that answers your question, albeit rather bluntly, you can leave
Pricing, once you’ve worked out the individual numbers, isn’t difficult: Costs + Salary needs + Tax = Price. It’s quite a simple formula, but still the question “how much would you charge for this”
So, you took the plunge. You quit your job, bought some equipment, maybe leased a van or a small unit and started your detailing business! That was a year or two back now, and
There are so many assumptions, spurious science, “everyone knows” facts out there on the internet for new, innocent and enthusiastic entrants to the industry – who will sit for hours and research the best way to deliver services – that it’s easy to accept many supposed “facts” at face value, which make sense until you start to query them…
Managing Expectations in the Car Care Industry. The most successful detailing businesses are not the ones that deliver exactly what the customer asks for, but deliver the best possible outcome with a balance of
Vibration issues are no new topic in detailing, But what is HAVS? Why is it dangerous? And what are we trying to prevent?
There are a few other options which generally suit an existing detailing business – PPF, PDR, alloy wheel refurbishment, SMART repair, Wrapping, Window tinting – but by far the most natural addition seems to trend as Leather Repair. And for good reason.
There’s always been a bit of confusion within the detailing industry over whether there is a need for such a body to semi-regulate and support what is an unregulatable industry…
It’s easy, especially when you been running for a while to let swathes of time pass assuming you’re still covering your costs based on your calculations a year or two back – or was it three…? With a raft of running costs potentially increasing over the next few months, it’s probably having a quick tot up again to make sure you’re not working solely for the love of the job…
