Zero to $6k a Month With a Mobile Detailing Business (Greatest Hits)

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Josh Belk is a full-time college student, he works full-time in web design, and in what little spare time, he’s started a $6,000 a month mobile detailing business with his younger brother. This idea came about when Josh connected the dots between obsession and opportunity. On the obsession side, Josh would always see his brother out in the driveway cleaning his car. On the opportunity side, he received an email about business ideas anyone could start, and mobile car washing was one of them. He asked his brother if he wanted to team up to see if they could make some money cleaning cars — and with that, Belk Mobile Detailing was born. Tune in to hear the full podcast episode to hear how the pair: landed their first mobile detailing customers price their service stand out from the competition Full Show Notes: Zero to $6k a Month With a Mobile Detailing Business New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Mint Mobile — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! OpenPhone — Get 20% off of your first 6 months! Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!

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0:00.0	Here's an oldie but a goodie from the archives from the Side Hustle Show Greatest Hits Collection.
0:06.1	How a couple college students built a $6,000 a month business out of a Honda Accord.
0:13.6	What's up, what's up, Nick?
0:15.0	Loper here. Welcome to The Side Hustle Show because yes, you can cut your own paycheck.
0:19.9	I got a note from a listener the other day,
0:21.7	and he explained he was a full-time college student, working full-time in web design,
0:26.7	and in his spare time had started a $6,000 a month side hustle with his younger brother,
0:32.2	cleaning and detailing cars. Josh Belk from belkmobileailing.com said the inspiration came from two things.
0:40.6	Thing number one was his brother's obsession. He drove his car about 12,000 miles in the first three
0:47.7	months of owning it. It was a Honda Accord and was driving it just all the time. It's just what he
0:52.7	liked to do for fun was drive it around.
0:54.6	And while he was driving it all the time, he had to make sure to keep it clean.
0:59.2	So I'd always see him out in the driveway, detailing it, vacuuming out his car.
1:05.0	And thing number two was an email from Ty Lopez.
1:08.9	I was just kind of browsing through this email that he had sent out, and one of the ideas
1:13.1	was to start a mobile car washing business.
1:16.0	And I just kind of put the two and two together and told my brother one day, hey, why don't
1:21.2	we try to monetize this thing and make some money on it?
1:25.7	And make some money is what they did.
1:28.6	Stick around in this one to hear how Josh and his brother landed their first customers,
1:32.4	how they price their service, and how they stand out from the competition.
1:36.0	Notes and links for this episode, plus the full text summary of our call,
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