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.
An Honest Guide From Professionals, Who Train Detailers for a Living. Most guides you’ll find online about starting a detailing business are written by software companies that want to sell you a booking
Detailing Aircraft Professionally – The Facts Reading time – around 10 mins Are you looking to start an aircraft detailing business? UK Detailing Academy receive daily enquiries to our inbox regarding aircraft detailer
How to price detailing services and value your work Working out how to price your detailing services is one of the first hurdles every new detailer hits — and the most common reason they
Choosing a Detailing Course that meets your needs. So you’re interested in joining the detailing industry and starting up a business? Or maybe it’s a hobby you’re looking for some professional instruction on,
Time to Expand: How to Grow Your Detailing Business So, you took the plunge. (Not there yet? Here’s how to start a detailing career first.) You quit your job, bought some equipment, maybe leased a
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…
Customer Expectation Management: the Foundation of Customer Retention The most successful detailing businesses aren’t always the ones with the most expensive equipment or the longest service list. They’re the ones that manage what
We run a niche group course – Health and Safety for Detailing Businesses – and those who like to just arrive at a customer’s house and wash cars may be wondering; It’s a day
Work referrals, credibility, networking, backlinks – what a detailing trade association actually does for your business, and what it won’t.
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…
Is there ever a “best” time to start a business?
Best is very subjective. For some, the “best”time is when they’re fed up with their current job and want a change, for some it’s a long planned out strategy based on market trends and careful saving to realise their dream career.
Professional Motorcycle Detailing: A Specialist Skill Why do UKDA offer a separate course in detailing motorcycles? At a basic level they’re no different from cleaning a car, right? Same roads = same contamination, surely?
