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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.

Not 100% sure but I believe so. High Mountain Classics in CO does the restoration work and track support for the cars. They have everything in their shop to re-create any broken or missing parts during restoration as most parts are now unobtanium.

We get a lot of very interesting cars through our shop but nothing tops this past week. Rob and I spent 5 days in Palm Beach detailing 5 pre-War Bugatti Grand Prix cars for the Cavallino Classic. They ranged from a 1925 Type 35C to a 1936 Type 57SC and all of the cars were on track for two days and then headed over to two concours to be displayed. One car in particular required most of our intention, the bare aluminium Type 37. We went through quite a bit Adam's Metal Polish to keep the car shining all week as we battled the oxidation from the salt in the air. This first pic shows just how well Adam's worked on the 80 year old metal. All of these pics are my pics from the track days at Palm Beach International Raceway. A photographer grabbed lots of shots while at the Concours so I'll throw them up when he gets them to me. Enjoy the pics and thanks for checking these beautiful works of art out!

Another Atlanta member, awesome! Welcome to the forums

We are between Norcross and Doraville, 2905 Amwiler Road Suite A

Thank you! Definitely stop by if you are in the area, always some cool cars in the shop. We did the staches for Movember to help raise $ and awareness for men's health . And yup, that is an Ariel in the background, good eye!

Welcome! If you make your way over to Atlanta swing by our salon, always like meeting other detailers

Nice work up on your page! We get a lot of views and likes on our page, people like to see what we are up to and we get the word out on events we attend and host. Facebook has been great for us! http://www.facebook.com/atlantaautosalon

Thanks Lynn! Didn't see you had already posted this for us. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Our annual Winter Prep Detailing Clinic will be held December 1st from 11am until 3pm. We had a huge turnout last year and overfilled the Toy's for Tots toy box. Our goal this year is to double that! There will be plenty of refreshments as well as raffles. Look forward to seeing you all there!