Guides
Guides for PPF, tint and detailing shops
I run a PPF shop, so I'll say it plainly: we're all installers before we're business owners, living in the bay instead of the back office. These are the playbooks I wish I'd had — pricing for real margin, tracking film to the foot, starting and marketing the shop, and putting an AI team on the quotes that went quiet — all on one flat plan for the whole crew.
The short answer
What do these guides cover, and which one should a shop read first?
- Pricing: how to price a PPF job, quote a window tint job and build ceramic coating packages from real material cost and real install hours rather than a wall menu.
- Operations: how to track film to the foot so every job carries true COGS, and what actually changes when material is counted the way you buy it.
- Growth: how to get more PPF leads channel by channel, how to market a detailing business, and how to win back the quotes that went quiet.
- Buying decisions: what shop software costs by category with dated sources, what missed-call text-back is and what the texting rules require, and whether PPF or ceramic is the right sell.
- Every guide opens with a short answer you can read in twenty seconds, carries the date it was last updated, and links the pages that go deeper.
Bottom line: Start with the pricing guide for your trade. Almost every other problem a busy shop has — discounting, the wrong jobs in the calendar, a good month that made no money — turns out to start there.
11 guides · 3 clusters · last updated
Pricing & margin
What a job costs you, what to charge for it, and what the software under it costs.
Running the shop
Opening the doors, and counting the film that walks back out of them.
Winning work
Where the next ten customers come from, and what to sell them.
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