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24 Oct 15:41

For QR172 Learn the Art of Car Detailing with an Online Course! (QR1710 Value)

For QR172 Learn the Art of Car Detailing with an Online Course! (QR1710 Value)

Workin’ At the Car Wash… Your Own!


With such a dusty, sandy home that Doha is, you’d be the smartest guy on your block if you knew the RIGHT way to detail a car. Treat your auto baby with some lovin’ and she’ll treat you well right back!

 
90% off shimmering, shiny wheels!
 


Course Syllabus

Unit 1: Detailing the Interior

Shown how to make light work of an interior clean as Jim Papallo, from Pacer Auto Products, shares his trade secrets and demonstrates how it is done.

  • How to vacuum the interior
  • What vacuum tools to use
  • How to get into hard to reach crevices
  • How to do extraction cleaning of upholstery
  • How to apply upholstery protection
  • What products to use for cleaning interior windows
  • How to professionally dress the interior


Unit 2: Engine Bay & Wheels

How to effectively clean and dress the engine bay and wheels to a professional standard.

  • Mistakes to avoid
  • What products work best
  • How to make your job easier
  • How to dress the engine bay to make the motor look brand new
  • How to correctly use tools


Unit 3: Body Wash

How to wash the body of the car, the most important part of the detailing process.

  • What products to use
  • Tips on the best equipment to use
  • The areas that people forget
  • How to make your job easier


Unit 4: Polish & Wax Professionally

Covers polishing and waxing the exterior paintwork, how to buff up oxidised paint and how to apply a cutting polish and wax by hand to bring up a rich deep shine in the paintwork.

  • How to put the finishing touches on
  • What products and equipment to use
  • How to use a power buffer
  • The correct pads to use on the buffer


Unit 5: Specialty Products & Problem Solving

Looks at useful accessories and tips to add to your skills.

  • What quantity of products to buy
  • What vehicle will suit your business
  • How to get available jobs
  • How to avoid mistakes
  • How to diversify your business
  • How to build repeat business
  • How to work with water restrictions
  • About your work environment
  • How to up sell to your customers
  • How to know your customers
  • How to look for additional business
  • How to stay at the cutting edge of your trade


Unit 6: Business Management & Marketing

Learn the 10 most important steps to get your business up and running and earning you money quickly.

  • How to name your business
  • What bank accounts you should open
  • What stationery you need
  • How to prepare invoices
  • How to get testimonials
  • How to research your competitors
  • About effective communication systems
  • What insurance you will need

 

 

Blue Mountain was founded by team of IT experts who have worked in all areas of IT for over 20 years. We have experience in day to day computing and IT recruitment through to advanced networking and programming. We know what basic users and IT professionals are looking for and what you need to get that job!

 

So Blue Mountain Training was created to make the vast world of IT as easy as possible with our interactive online training. Our courses are designed using the latest technologies that incorporate, flash, video, interactive learning, hot spots, mock testing, virtual classrooms and live simulations.

 

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18 Aug 07:39

Watch The Buffy Parody Series So Bad It Never Aired. Until Now.

by Meredith Woerner on io9, shared by Mike Fahey to Kotaku

Back in 2007, the folks behind Not Another High School Movie created the pilot for Not Another High School Show. As you can probably guess, the show was a spoof of all the tween TV series we love, starring Alison Brie and Jennifer Lawrence. Now, the first-ever footage from the parody series is out. It's not great.

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11 Apr 09:42

This Wax Should Stop Your Glasses Slipping

by Alex Magdaleno
Nerdwax
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Those of us who need glasses — and are too afraid to touch their eyes to wear contacts — have to put up with some annoying and frustrating things. Rain, smudges and 3D movies can be real pains, but you might soon be able to check one annoyance off the list: your glasses sliding down your nose

Don Hejny created Nerdwax — a beeswax and coconut oil-based blend of all-natural and organic ingredients in a lip balm-sized tube that you apply to the pads or bridge of your glasses to prevent slippage.

Hejny, an audio engineer from Nashville, Tenn., was inspired to create the wax four years ago when he was at a concert in Texas and saw a musician he was working with constantly have to push her glasses back up her nose. Out of sympathy, he wanted to walk on stage and hold her glasses in place so she could focus on playing her music Read more...

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12 Mar 18:29

The Best Music to Work or Study To Could Be Video Game Soundtracks

by Melanie Pinola

The Best Music to Work or Study To Could Be Video Game Soundtracks

Lots of different sounds can make you more productive while you work or study (particularly music you're not familiar with ), but video game soundtracks might be the best option of them all if you need to concentrate.

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09 Mar 14:54

The Habits of Successful People: They Start Small

by Joel Gascoigne

handsThe other day I was listening to Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and and I found it amazing how this book, which has now sold over 15 million copies, originally started:

“I prepared a short talk. I called it ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People.’ I say ‘short.’ It was short in the beginning, but it soon expanded to a lecture that consumed one hour and thirty minutes.”

After giving this talk for some time, Carnegie found that the attendees started discussing their experiences and some “rules” emerged. Eventually the talk became a course, and there was a need for a textbook of sorts. Here’s how the now famous book became a reality:

“We started with a set of rules printed on a card no larger than a postcard. The next season we printed a larger card, then a leaflet, then a series of booklets, each one expanding in size and scope. After fifteen years of experimentation and research came this book.”

I found that absolutely fascinating – the book came out of a short talk and a few notes on a postcard-sized piece of card. Interestingly, I think a lot of the really big successes start like this.

The dangers of “big”

The challenge for a lot of us is that when we go about our lives, we interact with so many “big” things and we forget or don’t even know how they originally started. It’s difficult to understand how the evolutionary process of products and brands contributes and is vital to what they are today. We also all have big aspirations and want to get there fast.

I’ve personally made the mistake of trying to jump to “big” too soon many times before: the goal of my previous startup was to kill the business card, and we struggled to execute effectively on a much smaller scale. I think there are probably countless other examples out there where founders try to have an immediately huge vision.

Great things start small

What I’m starting to notice more and more, is that great things almost always start small. Most of us know that Richard Branson started the Virgin brand with a student magazine, but Virgin is just one of many examples which shows that the reality is counterintuitive: actually, the best things we know and love started as tiny things.

I’ve found that if I look into my own life, I find similarly that some of the most important achievements I’ve made started as little projects. Buffer itself is a great example: it started as a two-page website, and the short blog post describing this process has turned into a talk I’ve given more than 30 times.

Make it smaller: you’re more likely to succeed

One of my most interesting realizations from this thinking and from seeing many examples is that we probably should think and execute on a smaller level. If we do this, we’re more likely to succeed. I wrote about this previously, in the context of not trying to change the world right away. I was pleasantly surprised when Paul Graham wrote a comment in the discussion on my recent article which suggested similar:

“Don’t even try to build startups. That’s premature optimization. Just build things that seem interesting. The average undergraduate hacker is more likely to discover good startup ideas that way than by making a conscious effort to work on projects that are supposed to be startups.”

Start everything with an MVP

I think Eric Ries really nailed this concept with his notion of the Minimum Viable Product. The great thing is, we see that even historical successes like Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, published in 1936, started as just a short talk and a few notes on a small piece of card. That was the MVP, and it was a perfect way to start. And if the content in this smaller form hadn’t resonated with people, my guess is that the book wouldn’t even exist.

I believe that we could and should start to think about everything beginning as an MVP, starting much smaller than we might currently think about it. Andrew Chen has a great example: decide what blog posts to write based on Tweeting the potential headline. I think there are countless other opportunities for this too, in all areas of life.

Have you thought about the relationship of big thinking to success? Did something work out better when you started smaller? I’d love your thoughts on this topic.

This is the 9th article in our series with advice on building a business, company culture and life-hacking from Joel, CEO here at Buffer. You can grab all posts here.

Photo credit: Images by John ‘K’

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26 Dec 08:06

Borderlands' Handsome Jack Gets His Own Live-Action Series

by Luke Plunkett

Borderlands' Handsome Jack Gets His Own Live-Action Series

Machinima says there's a "full film" coming on January 3, with a series to follow. If this teaser was supposed to get people excited, well...OK.

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14 Dec 16:06

This Week in Time Capsules: Nikola Tesla Statue Rises in Silicon Valley

by Matt Novak on Paleofuture, shared by Brian Barrett to Gizmodo

This Week in Time Capsules: Nikola Tesla Statue Rises in Silicon Valley

Our weekly round-up of time capsule news includes a group of kids in Ohio who sealed an Xbox into a capsule, the tragic story of a recently unearthed time capsule from 2003 that didn't fare too well, and a new Tesla monument in Silicon Valley that includes some predictions for the world of 2043.

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15 Nov 14:53

November 15, 2013


Hey geeks! I'll be posting some of my content over at The Nib. It's a political cartoon site. Is there a tag for that? Not safe for opinions?
16 Oct 19:10

Every Outfit Walter White Ever Wore in Breaking Bad

by Adam Clark Estes

Every Outfit Walter White Ever Wore in Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad tributes aren't hard to find. We've seen an entire episode translated into emoji. We've seen the show's theme played on equipment from a meth lab. We've even seen a Breaking Bad Lego set. But this new website might be the most obsessive tribute yet.

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10 Oct 16:58

October 10, 2013


WE WANT AN END TO THE DELUSION OF TIME *NOW*
20 Sep 15:56

Mess

'Sorry, I left out my glass of water from last night.' OH GOD I APPARENTLY LIVE IN A GARBAGE PIT.
19 Sep 19:52

September 19, 2013


Hey, I was on The Collapsed Psi talking about BAHFest. Check it out!
05 Sep 01:10

Add Terrible Tasks to Your To-Do List to End Procrastination

by Melanie Pinola

Add Terrible Tasks to Your To-Do List to End Procrastination

File this in the "weird but works" category: to curb procrastination, add items you'll want to procrastinate about to the top of your to-do list.

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03 Sep 17:18

September 01, 2013


03 Sep 17:16

September 03, 2013


My friend Phil, from 5th Street Games, has an *awesome* looking game up on Kickstarter!

28 Jun 13:23

June 28, 2013


BOOYA
14 Mar 22:25

thedavidoreilly: This is a simple motion-diagram thing I made...



thedavidoreilly:

This is a simple motion-diagram thing I made when talking about animation to non-animators.