If you can't get to a car wash, let service come to you...
Richard
Gill was running a small automobile detailing operation in Sarasota
when “one of my older regular customers became immobile enough that he
couldn’t drive to the shop anymore.”
That was the beginning of
his transition from a fixed location to Auto Salon Mobile Detail
Center, the business he’s operated for the past 14 years.
Now, Gill said, he caters to those in Southwest Florida who can’t make it to a traditional car wash or just don’t have the time.
“Consider a stay-at-home mother,” he said. “Their kids are at home, and
they don’t have the time to take their kids out and wait in a car wash.
It’s a convenience service for people who don’t have the time or don’t
want to sit and wait.”
He also has commercial customers who hire him because they don’t want to use up employees’ time going to the car wash. It helps that he’s the only person a customer has to deal with as opposed to perhaps a dozen at a full-service car wash.
Repeat
business is the key to success for a mobile detailer, Gill said. “Our
prices are always the same, whether it is a Toyota or a Rolls Royce. We
post our prices on our website and never very from them. And our
standards are high...repeat business is very important to us, we work
hard to make sure our customers are happy and use our service over and
over again.”
By Dick Hogan
News-Press, Ft Myers
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| Richard Gill of Auto Salon Mobile Detail Center hoses down the windshield of a truck being washed. |
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| A truck tire is washed down as part of the detailing of the vehicle. The vehicle, which was being washed by Auto Salon Mobile Detail Center, was cleaned on location in an office parking lot. |
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