Windshield chip repair
Fits best: a starter-tier owner who likes quick wins.
Pros
- ✓Tiny startup; insurance often pays
- ✓High margin per job
- ✓No special license to start
- ✓Works all year
Cons
- !Small tickets need volume
- !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 40 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 80 jobs a month. Add mobile car wash for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Add fleet contracts and full windshield partners.
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
Add fleet contracts and full windshield partners.
The details
- Vehicle
- Own car
- Repeat customers
- Low
- Licensing
- Low
- Season
- Year-round
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
Often billed to insurance; fleets are steady customers.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (80), times 12 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: EntrepX working estimate.