starting a Detailing Business
The concept of action learning is the use of actual work issues and challenges as the developmental activity itself. In short, action learning can be described as learning by doing (p.64).
So 2 years ago Id actually dropped out of college. The reason was mainly just a lack of motivation. In addition, I was studying computer science which I hated and could not see myself having a future in. Needless to say, my parents and I werent on the same page so I moved out and was living in the basement at my friends moms house. At this time I was on YouTube for several hours a day trying to find any way to make money. Id seen a numerous amount of people become successful after dropping out of college that I knew that Id eventually find something if I searched long enough. Eventually I found some guys in Florida that were detailing cars, which is just cleaning cars inside and out with extreme detail. The difference is that they would only clean luxury and exotic cars and charge 400-500 dollars to do each car. Ive always loved cars, so it seemed perfect for me but I had no money. I ended up selling basically a lot of my belongings on craigslist in order to buy proper cleaning equipment. After that I bought a domain name, and hosting and created a website using wordpress. On the website I copied jax kar washs website to the tee and advertised myself as a “mobile detailing fleet”. I printed out hundreds of fliers and went door-to-door putting them in mailboxes. I lied on the website saying that we were a family-owned business since 1999 with several locations. I made a Yelp account and bought fake reviews for it which got me a partnering deal with Groupon. I was making a lot of decisions on the fly but I was learning so much about modern business from doing it. When it came to actually cleaning the cars, I had no idea what the proper detailing techniques were but I just did what I thought would work and