Some Oppinions Wanted

[oweban]

YMMV? what the, like i said in first post look at what is needed in ya local area and work with it

your mileage may vary

[MBS206]

Most people who are working for themselves and raking in good money, are usually in high demand, low supply areas.

When we setup our business, we were only the second company around doing our line of work full time (There were others who had small "ventures" as an aside to compliment another part of their business)

Since then, there are now that many back yarders "giving it a go" that it has cruelled the industry in my area.

They've gone an bought tiny little second hand machines, work purely for themselves on the weekend to make some drinking money, they under cut each other to the shit house, and carry no insurance etc etc.

The difference we're talking, they're running a 1 Man crew, with a little $5000 machine, on the back of a $1000 trailer, towed by their family car.

We're talking 3 machines together worth over $150 000, 3 Trucks, 2 Trailers, and 4 staff members (Other then family).

The other people are happy to go onsite for $40, unfortunately, for us, it costs us more then that to send out a two man crew to even arrive on site once you take into account, diesel, insurance, registration, workers comp etc etc.

The lucky part for us is, we have some local government contracts all tied up, as we are the only ones capable of doing them. Unfortunately, because of these backyarders, they still attempt to go for these large contracts (Of which the government agencies KNOW they incapable of doing) but use them as an argument chip to force our prices down, and then they still pay late, often with us having to chase them, purely because some lazy person hasn't signed the paper work and passed it to the next person.

Different games, for different folks.

Car detailing as such, will be the same type of issue as our family business, every young kid out there "loves cars" and is happy to go and wash and detail them for $10.

The best thing to do quite often, is get into a field that you enjoy, but is not a hobby (IE, avoid automotive Juz), that pays well, be in it for about 5 years, get all of the experience and knowledge you can, and when you're confident you can make it work, branch out on your own. Even if you do it like some people do, start the business part time until it's running "okay" with a normal job as your background, and then "jump boat" to work for yourself if you really want to.

But if you know anything about being able to automate process', one of the biggest things you can do to help yourself is a specialised online store, that you basically only have to over look things, and then you can still have a job elsewhere, small continous income from online store, plus a good income elsewhere. Online stores eventually grow if you go into the right things...