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Weekly Relfection #2

  The second week brought us a lot more of the hands on stuff. We decided that it would be pertinent to begin detailing cars. We began by cleaning both of our cars. This process taught us alot about conservation of product. We understood that we wanted to do the best possible job with a minimal amount of product use. Chemicals are expensive so this lesson was crucial to keeping margins optimal. We applied the amount of chemical use to the spread sheet that we created. Then we began to do other cars. It was during these cars where we really nailed down the process that we did things in when detailing. It is super important to have a set order of things to do when on a job site to be as time efficient as possible. This is where we understood and applied the lesson of time is money. When detailing my dads car we decided that doing the car from the inside out would be best. This process allowed us to have a set number of tools out when doing the inside and then replace them with the ho...

May 23, 2022

 May 23, 2022                     Today Josh and I worked on our website. We decided today would be the day to publish it. We also began taking bookings. We finalized our policy on cancelations and how far we would be willing to go for a job. We also re read all of our text on the website for grammar and flow. On the first day we dis about 1500$ in bookings. We did 5hrs of work. 

May 22, 2022

 May 22, 2022                      Today was another day of detailing cars. We a slightly older car than we were used to. Older cars tend to take longer as the fabrics and plastics wear down and collect more dirt as they age. We did a very thorough job to have this car looking new. We went through our typical process of doing the interior first, then the exterior, and then finally spot-checking both. We are getting much more efficient with our time now that we are back into the swing of doing it. We did about 4 hours of work. 

May 21, 2022

 May 21, 2022                    Today Josh and I worked individually to take care of some small tasks on our own end. I did some social media account management. I did some work on our Facebook page. I got an idea of how we were going to market our company on the site. Then I did more small but numerous things on our square site. I edited the flow of booking on our site and made sure that it was user-friendly. Then I mapped out how we were going to present our company at expresses-fest. I did about 5 hrs of work.  

May 20, 2022

 May 20, 2022                    Today we did more detailing on family cars to get back in the swing of things. We once again started with the interior. We vacuumed the seats and carpet as well as the floor mats. We treated the leather seats and applied a protective coating to the vinyl and plastic. We then moved on to the exterior. We washed it with water and waxed the exterior. Then we cleaned the wheels and rims (our specialty). Then we finished by cleaning all glass surfaces and mirrors.  We did about 5 hrs of work. 

May 19, 2022

 May 19, 2022                    Despite the rain and our plans to detail vehicles got a fair amount done today. We decided despite the rain that would detail one of our cars today. We did a full detail starting with the interior before the rain rolled in. We really focused on getting a step-by-step flow together. This would allow us to be efficient when working during the summer. Spending the least amount of time to get a quality result is crucial to our business so this day was super important. The exterior was not typical as the rain did a fair bit of the pre-soak. We did about 4.5 hours of work. 
 May 18, 2022                    Today we went shopping. We decided that buying in bulk would best fit our needs because we use a lot of products. We also found that this method had the lowest price per unit costs. We went to sams club first as they have good prices in bulk quantity. We got around 300 microfiber rags. Our next stop was Walmart where looked for anything else that we may need. We purchased a small detailing vacuum that would be good at getting into small cracks in vehicles. We did about 3.5 hours of work.