Paintless dent repair
Fits best: a patient, skilled technician.
Pros
- ✓High margin and hail-season spikes
- ✓Opens on under $10K of equipment
- ✓No special license to start
- ✓Works all year
Cons
- !Months of training before you’re good
- !Little repeat business, so marketing never stops
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 25 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 50 jobs a month. Add mobile paint and bumper repair for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Chase hail work and dealer accounts.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Chase hail work and dealer accounts.
The details
- Vehicle
- Car or van
- Repeat customers
- Low
- Licensing
- Low
- Season
- Year-round, hail season spikes
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
PDR tools $2K–5K; skill takes months to learn.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (50), times 12 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: EntrepX working estimate.