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We detailed an Enterprise rental we got for a customer once. It was filthy and we couldn't let them cruise around in that!

Will give carwashy.com a look. To remind customers I use HighriseHQ to call on confirm appointments. Whenever I do a deal, I promote it through my email list first, then Facebook with a landing page set up to capture contact information. Be very careful with coupon sites, it cuts down on your margins SIGNIFICANTLY. That being said, I ran a promotion with Gilt City (best %'s of all sites I explored) here in Atlanta and build specific high-end packages for the campaign and made sure to keep a keen eye on my margin for each package. Sold a handful and saw a nice jump in website traffic on launch day.

Some free/damn near free products we use here at Atlanta Auto Salon to help manage our business: Scheduling: Google Calendar Invoicing: Quickbooks Taking payments: Square Keeping in touch with customers: Ace of Sales for my email campaigns, Highrise for my CRM Attracting new ones: Facebook, Google+, Forums, Thesis for on page SEO, Leadpages for landing pages, custom forms for email capture.

I use Gtechniq's Fabric Guard, we've been very happy using it. I also hear good things about Ceramic Pro's and will by trying it shortly.

Welcome! Always great to see more GA members on board!

To get the photo above the photographer used a boom and then photoshopped it out. From very talented photographer Alex Bellus: DSC_1885 by por550dean, on Flickr rawAZB_9093_1 by por550dean, on Flickr http://alexbellusphoto.com

Welcome! Great to see another GA member

In our experience, the more hydrophobic a coating is, the shorter time-frame it lasts. Never-wet is super-hydrophobic but has a very short life-span. On vehicles, we use a hydrophobic material that has lasted a little over a year with its repellant properties. Our base coating, will protect paint for many years but is not as hydrophobic as the top later. So as for now, it is a trade off between time and "hydrophobic-ness" of the coating.

I've been using those wooden paint stirrers from Lowe's wrapped in a microfiber towel to get to really super hard to reach areas. Been working great!

Adam's Paint Correcting Polish & Paint Finishing Polish on microfiber pads on this G35. Great customer and huge Adam's fan!

Such a great looking car! Was lucky enough to see it at Pebble Beach last year.

Who is the Adam's dealer in Hawaii? Recently had to ship out there and it was pretty expensive from ATL.

Crazy busy here in Atlanta but here is a quick 50/50 of a correction the guys are working on right now:

Rob & Shane working on a 2-stage paint correction

Thanks for all of the props guys! And thanks to Adam's for making such an amazing metal polish. It killed what the owner wanted us to use in shine and ease of use.