We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful David Alam. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with David below.

David, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today How did you come up with the idea for your business?

It was summer of 2022, David just ended his first year of college and knew that it was not for him, Elie was also 99% sure after highschool he was going to pursue something rather than college, both of us sat and brainstormed on something we could build together.

With the power we hold as driven individuals and the bond of brothers, we knew we could be unstoppable.

We grew up in the automotive industry since we were young as our father grew his company in that scene, so we figured this would be the best route regarding the accumulated knowledge and amazing amount of connections we had behind it.

In terms of solving a problem, we knew people wanted clean cars; and we knew how to do that, but we knew how to do it better than everyone around us.

At the end of the day this business model is simple to start, the only issue was finding a space and actually getting our foot in the door.

The most exciting part of it all was the grand vision we had of growing into a nation and possibly worldwide company.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

David (20) is the older brother, Elie (18) is the younger brother; as far as getting into this industry, our father grew his first company in this industry and that has allowed us to know a fair amount in the industry itself.

David worked at his company for about 2 years to accumulate more knowledge, Elie was not working at the time but was always studying/watching videos constantly related to cars, detailing, and the auto industry as a whole.

Creating an automotive detailing business was the easiest and fastest way to create a name for ourselves in this industry considering you do not need schooling or any sort of certificate to start it up.

Each client that calls, messages or simply comes to our shop gets educated on our craft, we do not keep anything in the dark and truly inform every single person on what we do, the reason we do it and the way it will benefit them; it is truly more than just getting a detail.

We set ourselves apart by splitting the company into 2 essentially, David is more of the business oriented one whereas Elie is the detail and hands on master.

Elie and the team will be working on the vehicles while David is recording, taking calls and making more of the business moves to keep everything flowing perfectly, it is like yin and yang.

We are most proud of being the youngest shop successful shop owners around and the exponential growth we have been experiencing lately.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

Our first few months of business were pretty solid, getting a few clients a week, securing fleet deals to keep business moving forward and attempting to build up our status in the area.

But when it came to the winter months, we had only a handful of clients, for months on end we did not know how this business would keep moving forward, and if there was even a future ahead of us for this business.

But we knew we had set this unreal plan, something that far surpasses anything we have ever attempted in each of our lives, and we simply could not fail because of this.

The following summer we hired a few friends, studied how to truly grow a business and everything from there just shot up, business, knowledge, the good and the bad all came really fast; but we succeeded and grew a ton.

We went from maybe 5-10 clients for all the winter months into about 40-60 per month in the Summer of 2023.

Can you tell us about what’s worked well for you in terms of growing your clientele?

Marketing, constant posts on social media, running paid ads and being in front of everyone’s face locally has blown our business up tenfold.

David focuses on this aspect and has brought in hundreds and hundreds of clients into the shop.

Our social media is top tier in the industry, we target hundreds of thousands of people on a monthly basis and that has definitely skyrocketed our shops growth in terms of our presence locally and worldwide.

We post tons of automotive content, from detailing and tinting content to tips and tricks – anyone can consume what we put out.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.ascensionautomotive.co
• Instagram: @ascension.automotive
• Youtube: Ascension Automotive

Image Credits
Taken By David