A couple of years ago, I was talking to a startup entrepreneur who was trying to set up a mobile detailing company in South Africa. We talked about the equipment he might need, and he admitted he needed to buy a generator. I recommend that he get a hold of a Honda generator which is much more reliable than any of the other brands. He told me it costs too much for those types of generators, but they did have quite a few Chinese made generators which were only one-third the cost available in his city.
Indeed, this is what many of the contractors use there and when they break, they just buy a new one. Yes, that might be a good strategy, and there are always people who wish to save money. In fact here in the United States some people buy junky equipment to start their mobile auto detailing business, and I've seen more than my fair share of cheap generators on the back of trailers, in the back of pickup trucks, or in car detailing vans.
Not long ago, I noted a cheap generator for sale, only $89.99 and the ad said it was a $90.00 savings, which would put the list price at $179.99 normally. Still, that is a decent price as well, but price is only one of the important things to consider when buying equipment for your mobile auto detailing business you see.
Interestingly enough, I was reminded about this yesterday when a car detailer had contacted me by e-mail asking what type of equipment he should purchase to get his business going. I suppose this article would be good advice for him, and I will probably give him the same lecture that I'm giving you here today. That is this; you'd be better off buying the more reliable generator because it will use less fuel, it'll last five times as long, and it will be much quieter when you use it.
The last thing you'd want to do is have a noisy generator, and unable to talk to a customer who asked you a question about getting their SUV detailed, and then walked off because they couldn't hear what you were saying. In some cities they also have noise ordinances, and you really don't want to disturb the peace just because you are detailing a car early in the morning, you don't want to wake up the neighborhood, especially in the high rent district where most of the best detailing customers happen to reside. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new series of eBooks on the Mobile Detailing Business. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a The Detail Guys, a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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