I have no experience.
I mean I wash my own car but not to the level that you guys do it.
I'm fairly new to detailing.
I came here to learn the techniques and the procedures to get started.
My experience with detailing has just been mostly with my cars and family cars.
It's just something I really like doing and want to pursue it as a business.
Well I have no experience in detailing but I plan to open my own detailing shop.
My experience with detailing so far is just a hobby and some side work but coming here
I wanted to really widen it and turn it into a job.
Originally from the UK in Manchester.
I've currently just moved to Utah to set up a detail business in Utah.
I love to keep my motorcycle and my truck as clean as I possibly can that's really all
there is other than watching you guys on YouTube and every other company I can find on YouTube.
Family members have a few muscle cars and there is always shows that they need to get
prepped for so I'm the guy that goes in and gets em done.
Very minimal just doing my own vehicles but now I want to start my own mobile detailing company.
I'm looking for a business that goes hand in hand with what I do already which is cars
and be able to duplicate more people at my business.
So I think with detailing I can definitely show someone how to wash a car properly and
that way I can hire more people and build my business.
I'm looking to start my own business and grow it into something more.
Yeah I want to start my own business.
I plan on doing mobile details.
I currently have another business that I operate and I need more stream of income.
So might as well sharpen the abilities that I can already do well.
I definitely want to start my own business.
I want to take this up full time.
I'm here on a business Visa so as part of that I set up a company called Veteran Detail
with an aim to employ US veterans.
I'm looking to change careers, start my own business and possibly be with the family a
lot more than I have for the past thirty years.
I'm a very good Googler.
I actually went online and I did a search on detailing schools and things like that.
And whenever I pulled up the YouTube I saw that you guys had over seven hundred videos
at the time.
Just browsing online on YouTube looking at ways to make my techniques better.
I watch all of your videos and did some research on your detailing course.
On YouTube watching videos watched a lot of them.
From around New England area New York there's a bunch of people that do them and then I
caught on to Chemical Guys and I think I've watched every one that you guys have produced.
Use all your products from another detailer that was doing my cars and I just started
using the products myself and I like them.
I really like the fact that this class teaches the business side of it because that kind
of stuff really interests me.
Just business but I also really like working with my hands so I really want to start polishing
and everything like that.
Just learn how to clean the car professionally and learn how to market more than what I already
know which I think I'm doing a good job at but you can always learn more from someone
that is doing it bigger than you.
I'm looking forward to learning about the marketing strategies especially when it comes
to Chemical Guys, building brands and maintaining customers.
I came here to learn everything and I want to learn everything.
I'm obviously expecting how to use all the machines, products and tools and how to detail
cars but other than that how to run a good business and how to talk to customers.
From the course, I'm more of a practical person as opposed to academic.
So I'm looking at all the practical skills like interior and exterior detailing.
But also in the marketing of how to develop and market your own business and your own brand.
What I would like to learn to do is something that I want to do, not something that I have to do.
How to properly use the products and how to detail properly.
I'm expecting to learn everything from how this operates, how to market yourself and
how to become a professional detailer.
Week was excellent.
Learned a lot of stuff.
It was awesome.
My week was awesome I had a great time and I learned a lot.
This week was wonderful.
I had an absolutely fantastic week.
It was a really good experience.
My week was excellent best week in a long time.
We've been working on all kinds of different cars and it has given me the confidence to
take on any car that comes my way.
Learned not only how to work with the tools but also how to really run a business and
interact with customers.
Everything that was stated in the literature and the videos how the program is advertised
all the subjects were covered in great depth.
I've been detailing cars before and I thought I knew exactly what I was doing because I
was getting results.
Having come here and you see the difference in results that you can get once you've had
the professional instruction is just a night and day difference.
It really takes you to a place that no other place will take you.
It's worth every penny.
Paint correction, different paint correction techniques, all the equipment to use, how
to use that equipment safely and how to use the equipment so that it does the job for
you.
The machinery and the selection of pads and chemicals or compounds will do the work for you.
It's amazing how little effort you need to put in to get absolutely phenomenal results.
I learned a lot of marketing skills of how to market.
Even in my existing business I can take what I learned just on the marketing side and build that.
I'm really excited and I'm ready to go back and do something big with it.
I learned a ton of stuff.
I learned how to polish, I learned how to market and every single thing about detailing.
I learned a lot stuff actually.
My mind is full of information now.
The hands on part was really cool something I really wanted to do I felt like it came
pretty easy to me but learning all the marketing techniques and things like that, how to treat
your customers and how to handle situations has been the most valuable to me.
Polishing and what have you is not terrible difficult to get the grasp of but business
and marketing, the information I learned here, very impressive.
The best thing I learned was I have a lot more abilities than I thought I did.
I learned marketing and that's going to be a big help in my new business venture and
I've made a lot of good connections with a lot of good people here.
I learned a lot of different things as far as how to market my business, how to hire
employees which is a huge part of running a business as well as professional techniques
and better advice to maintain a more efficient business.
I was surprised with how easy it was to polish because I came here with no prior knowledge
of how to polish and it was pretty easy and the teacher explained it perfectly and everything made sense.
The most surprising thing I learned this week was probably the marketing aspect.
Probably marketing, Paul's knowledge of marketing is amazing, so that helped a lot.
I think the most surprising thing is that it's not hard to be hands on with the vehicles
but something I need to work on is dealing with the customers and things like that so
that was an eye opener for me.
There's a lot of people that share the same common interest.
All different ages, backgrounds, states and I met a lot of cool people this week.
I didn't initially think about the depth of knowledge I would gain from the experience
that the guys have here of running a detail business.
I've run a business before but a lot of that was just me on my own and now I'm looking
to employ other people within the business and the information I got from Chemical Guys
with various things towards marketing, how to promote yourself, promote the business
and the services are things I didn't even realize are included in the course.
So those things have exceeded my expectations so again that knowledge that I've gained just
all adds to the benefit of coming here.
I've learned a lot and I'll take all of those things forward and put those into my business
plan of how to grow my business.
Definitely going to try and avoid the family and friends because they're going to want
some free services.
As soon as I get home I'm going to start building the detailing business inside my business
and hopefully we can grow big.
I plan to open my detailing business in a garage where customers can get their vehicle
detailed with Chemical Guys products.
Get to work, start advertising more, start detailing some beautiful cars and make customers happy.
When I get home I plan on starting my own detailing business being mobile and hopefully
maybe later on get some employees and apply everything I've learned here and see where it takes me.
When I get home I plan on starting up and doing detail services for friends and starting
with Eco washes and waterless washes for everyone.
See if I can't do a little of this on the side and see if I can't make an actual business out of it.
I plan on taking what I learned from this week of information, advice and techniques
to apply it to my business.
When I get home first thing I'm going to do is start organizing and getting my equipment
together for my new business and start to build a customer base and my brand.
I've never been on social media before but now I'm on Facebook and Instagram as of this
morning and I'm already started.
My idea when I came is that I'm an ex British Forces Veteran and I'm going to use US Veterans
as my work force and we're going to detail cars.
I feel a lot more comfortable less reserved.
From the time I came in on Monday versus today I definitely feel more confident in my abilities
of detailing and I feel more confident in customer interactions and how to give really
good customer service to make sure the customer is happy with the work done.
All my confidence in my ability to detail has grown dramatically.
The unknown makes you afraid so I didn't know how to detail when I got here and now I feel
that there isn't anything I couldn't do in the detailing field.
The fear is gone of damaging someones property or doing the wrong thing.
Having a back up of Chemical Guys behind us is going to be huge.
Being able to communicate with the guys here and the people in the office has been a wonderful
experience and it is a huge relief and I'm not going to walk out the door and
try to figure it out for myself.
I feel more confident in my ability as a detailer and also my ability to communicate efficiently
with customers and even employees now.
When I walked in Monday I had a perception of what I was expecting to cover on the course
obviously that is listed the subjects you are going to cover.
What I didn't realize is how in depth into those individual subjects they would go and
the results that can be produced from being in and around listening to all of the various
instruction that you take.
Take that on board and practice it and that's the main thing.
If any of you are skeptical about coming to California, yes it will cost you money for
the flight, it will cost you money for a hotel, rental car, it'll cost you money to go to
Santa Monica Beach to have dinner but come you will learn.
If you are going to take a detail course this is the detail course to do!