Growing an auto detailing side hustle

[Danny Dobrota]

Hello everyone, this is my first thread here on the fastlane forum.

A little about me:
Im a 17 year old entrepreneur living in romania. Became obsessed with entrepreneurship after starting "self improvement" (yeah the meditation cold shower horseshit, the working out aspect was good though) and being recommended Unscripted. Absolute eye opener. Didnt do anything entrepreneurial for months due to this insurmountable limiting belief that "customers would never buy my stuff, it has to be perfect, they would never. Its impossible for me" Only started because my friend convinced me to start because "whats the worst that could happen"


A little bit about my entrepreneurial accomplishment, as context to explain how i got to starting auto detailing:
I started towards the end of 2022 a different kind of dropshipping side hustle with a friend, and we didnt really know what we were doing but it was a specific niche that was blowing up in our country, long story short we both made about 1500$ profit over the course of about 7 months, because we thought that selling our stuff as cheap as possible and buying the most expensive stuff made us the best option, and we basically had a lot of volume but no profit. I had quit that hustle since last July to December because i didnt like the amount for work for the little bit we were making, and bcuz i wasnt on such great terms with said friend. I then remained in that niche and had some money saved up so i bought physical stock and it was (and still is) selling slowly for a higher price, so i could save abit up, but the niche is basically 100% dead.

Now about how i started detailing:
I then had around $2k saved up, and i really wanted to start a business alone, that had more scalabilty AND i would learn far more. I overthunk SOOO much as to what to do, read an entire book on the topic (Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan), watched 10+ hours of content of Alex Hormozi just noting as to what to do when starting, re-read The Millionaire Fastlane, and ended up with so many criteria as to how to start that i felt even more lost.

"So i solve a need or problem, provide a lot of value, but the priority is to learn not to earn, but i also have to not overthink it, and you get the best ideas by solving your own problems, but you need to verify them with the market, and it has to follow CENTS, etc." -
- That horrendous state of limbo lasted for about a month, and i kept cycling between these kind of questions, while in the car, and thought "hey, the car's kinda dirty. How would interior car cleaning be?"

Fast forward after diving down the rabbit hole of the how's, if its profitable, asking people for their opinion on it if it would work here in romania (romanians are abit stingy in general), etc.
(shoutout @perchboy for some advice aswell)

Just said f*ck it im done wasting time let me just do SOMETHING, so i put up ads on facebook saying im doing a 50% off promotion, after getting all of them banned for a week and trying a new account, first post blew up. Many people commenting, few actually scheduling, ended up with only one person scheduling.
Dude had the worst mid sized car imaginable on the interior, but was a really nice guy and helped abit aswell because i was under-equipped for that catastrophe of a car.

A weekend later i finished and got my first real sale for 92$, he tipped 16$ too. (gonna put currency in usd, great guy, the work was atrocious though. Learnt alot.

Next week did another detail in the weekend, dude was just normal, didnt care much, liked the work, an SUV for 70$ (50% off remember), 5 and a half hours.

Now i have the facebook profile made, logo done, packages post done aswell, multiple scheduled clients for the coming weeks, and want to scale.


My scaling plans atm are: -knock on 100 doors (in the richer neighbourhoods in town)
-set up google ads and pay weekly atleast 25$
-set up fb ads and pay weekly atleast 25$


I will post on this thread at least weekly. The post will be with my goals, then with my execution of them the following week. Im open, and invite, ALL and ANY feedback. I wont try to hide any details, no matter how embarrasing or whatever, of my business so i can get judged as good as possible.
I wish all you guys good luck in your businesses !

 

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[perchboy]

O’n hmef vu tii vjev zua’si veloph edvoup huuf tvagg csu.

Nz tdemoph qmept evn esi: -lpudl up 100 fuust (op vji sodjis piohjcuasjuuft op vuxp)
-tiv aq huuhmi eft epf qez xiilmz evmietv 25$
-tiv aq gc eft epf qez xiilmz evmietv 25$

O’f 100% tiv aq e Huuhmi Catopitt Qsugomi ETEQ. O cuulif op e $200 kuc zitvisfez, epf e $250 kuc vufez gsun ov. GUS GSII

Og zua’si tisouatmz huoph vu sap huuhmi eft O’f djidl uav hivvoph e xictovi gsun @Fudlof tu zua qez gus dmodlt vjev edvaemmz dupwisv.

Giim gsii vu qn ni epf O’mm sap zua vjsuahj xjevt xusloph gus ni sohjv pux xovj GC Eft.

 

[Danny Dobrota]

O’n hmef vu tii vjev zua’si veloph edvoup huuf tvagg csu.



O’f 100% tiv aq e Huuhmi Catopitt Qsugomi ETEQ. O cuulif op e $200 kuc zitvisfez, epf e $250 kuc vufez gsun ov. GUS GSII

Og zua’si tisouatmz huoph vu sap huuhmi eft O’f djidl uav hivvoph e xictovi gsun @Fudlof tu zua qez gus dmodlt vjev edvaemmz dupwisv.

Giim gsii vu qn ni epf O’mm sap zua vjsuahj xjevt xusloph gus ni sohjv pux xovj GC Eft.

Jiz csu, katv fn'f zua

 

[Danny Dobrota]

O fofpv ipf aq lpudloph up 100 fuust, fuoph huuhmi eft, us gedicuul eft. Fottequopvoph, o lpux.

Vjot xiil o fof 2 fiveomt, cuvj dmoipvt gsun mudem gc hsuaqt. Vjiz cuvj vuul ec 5 juast, gostv fafi xet emsohjv, nefi 50 (cdab ji vuul aq vji 50% ugg uggis). Emm jot piohjcuast tex ni fuoph vji fiveom epf dunqmonipvif nz sitamvt epf xusl ivjod, iwip huv e sepfun fafi qettoph caz vu tvuq vu etl ni og o uggis vjiti tiswodit epf hewi jon nz dupvedv opgu, teof ji xuamf demm piyv xiil

Pux xovj vji tidupf fafi, o miespif e wemaecmi mittup... Piwis apfiswemai nz xusl. O vuvemmz apfisqsodif nz tiswodit xjip o gostv huv jot demm, o djeshi 150 gus e cetod taw fiveom, cav o teof g ov miv uggis 100 tu ji eavunevodemmz eddiqvt, cav ji fofpv, tu o demmif jon cedl epf etlif og ji'f ci xommoph ev 65. Simadvepvmz ji eddiqvif.
Xipv vu jot qmedi, fof e gdloph uavtvefoph kuc x/nz qsuggitoupem iraoqnipv vjev o jewi, ji xet fidipvmz qmietif epf voqqif 10. Etlif jon vu siwoix up huuhmi xjodj ji fof. Ji vjip etlif ni og o xepv vu fu jot uvjis des gus 50, vjip o siemotif:

Og o apfiswemai nz exituni xusl vjot jussipfuatmz, iwip og o hiv sigissemt moli jux o etl nz dmoipvt, vjiz xomm tii ni gsun vji qistqidvowi ug vji viipehis vjev fuit qsugittoupem miwim xusl gus fosv djieq.. Xupv iwis fu fotduapvt eheop, upmz cupatit gus nusi dmoipvt.

O emtu liiq tqipfoph vuu muph fu neli iwisz puul epf dseppz qisgidv, cav o liiq tiioph vjev vjiz piwis iwip muul vjisi epf puvodi vjev vu cihop xovj..

Puvjoph ot xusti vjuahj vjep egvis 5-6 juast ug xusl vu tii tuni qudliv djephi jepfif vu zua, epf siemoti ovt vuvemmz zuas geamv. Je.

Epzxezt. Nz qmept gus piyv xiil esi:
-Hiv 100 catopitt desft qsopvif vu howi qutv fiveom epf ev fuus vu fuus opvisedvoupt
-Lpudl up 100 fuust (sodj piohjcuasjuuf) iovjis qetv 5QN fasoph xiilfezt us Tevasfez
-Qutv feomz up GC hsuaqt xovj e foggisipv qovdj (johjmohjvoph dmoipv't qsucmint/piift gostv, vjip nz tumavoup epf exituni tiswodi)
-Qutv qsiw fiveom sitamvt up tudoem nifoet
-Tiv aq eqquopvnipvt xovj qsiwouat "quvipvoem" dmoipvt, DJESHOPH HUFFENP NUSI.

QT: dassipdz o nipvoup ot ATF. $.
QQT: on uqip vu epz epf emm giifcedl, giim gsii vu siqmz xovj tuni ug zuas vjuahjvt up xjev on fuoph sohjv us xsuph, o muwi onqsuwoph