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- Mobile Car Wash Market Opportunities in California By Lance Winslow
The current lack of industry leaders represents an exceptional opportunity for a large and organized mobile car wash company to achieve regional domination and eventually dominate the Southern California carwash market. The best place to start a regional assault on this market would be to concentrate North and West of Los Angeles; Chatsworth and …
- Retail Customer Opportunities for Pressure Washing Companies By Lance Winslow
Pressure washing companies must look for customers in the retail industry to make sure they stay busy. Large Box Stores and Grocery Stores are often you best customers in that regard. Cleaning concrete or doing “flat work” makes sense for a number of reasons, 1.) It is not labor intensive like washing trucks; 2.) Routine scheduled customers make …
- Carwash Manual Sample Outline By Lance Winslow
Car wash businesses are unique to other businesses. In fact they are about as unique as the many different type of vehicles one is asked to wash. Many vehicles are best cleaned using slightly different techniques. If you own a carwash or a mobile car wash you will need an operations manual to assist your managers in staying efficient.Below is a s…
- Flea Market Business: How To Outsell Other Flea Market Vendors By Donny Lowy
Flea market business. Does that phrase make you excited, but anxious at the same time?If it does it’s probably because although you know that there is money to be made, you also realize how much competition exists in the flea market.To make money with your own flea market business you need to have good quality flea market merchandise at low price…
- Sample; Territory Reduction Policy for a Franchise Company By Lance Winslow
I propose this thought on the subject of Franchisee territory reduction based on performance for a Mobile Business Model. Please read the sample policy below as it explains the reasoning and methodologies considered to extend brand without risking underdeveloped territory. We will use a Mobile Car Wash Franchise Business for this discussion. This…
- 1 Overlooked Key to Small Business Success By Amy Andrews
Is this you?You dreamed of owning your own business, doing what you love and enjoying
unlimited earning potential. You researched. You planned. You prepared. Finally,
you launched.Your dream was realized...and then your business started to grow! Could it get any
better? Well, yes, but if you're like many others, you may have encountered …
- How Do I Choose The Right Business Opportunity For Me? By Matt Clarkson
First you have to start with knowing your budget and how much you can afford to spend on a business opportunity. There are ways of starting a business opportunity online for as little as $50 as an affiliate; this figure goes all the way up to $1 Million dollars with a McDonalds restaurant.You need to look at all the things you’re interested in an…
- Truck Detailing Shop Business Case Study By Lance Winslow
As an entrepreneur you can learn a lot by following the real life case studies of other entrepreneurs. Often the text books in school leave out the beginning details and the juicy part of how it all comes together and is created out of nothing but a thought. I have an interesting case study for you and it explains how my company got into the truc…
- Two Types Of Business Plan Cover Pages – Which One Are You Using? By Michael Elia
This is the tale of two business plans with very different cover pages. They both contain a unique and exciting business opportunity with the potential for high investment returns. Arriving in the morning mail, each neatly bound plan lands on the desk of the same potential business investor. Both plans are competing with hundreds of other documen…
- Pressure Washing Graders and Tractor Motors By Lance Winslow
When pressure washing heavy equipment each piece of equipment has a slightly different procedure to ensure efficiency. When a pressure washing company is bidding such jobs by the piece of equipment instead of the hour, they must be cognizant of this so they can maximize profits. Loaders, backhoes, bull dozers and scrapers are all cleaned slightly…
- Professional Car Care Businesses You Can Start By Lance Winslow
If you are in the professional car care business you may be looking to expand your business, for that no one can blame you. But which add on service makes the most sense? You will have to make an honest assessment of your current clientele and decide that for your self. If you own a fixed site detail shop, a car wash or a mobile automotive appear…
- Creating a Power Plan By Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
Part of the power plan is making sure you have all the necessary contact information within a company. It is one thing to have the CEO’s information, as he is the decision-maker, but it is quite another to have the information on others that you may be working with directly. You will not likely work directly with the CEO on any project or product…
- The Perilous Franchise Agreement: What Did You Sign? By Bradley Hansen
Purchasing a franchise has become one of the most popular avenues for individuals looking to escape the rigid work day of a 9 to 5 job and take the leap into the world of independent business owner. After all, who doesn’t dream of being their own boss and controlling the limits of their own financial future? For anyone looking to act on their e…
- How the "Crab Effect" Obstructs Growth and How to Conquer It By Laurie Hayes
Some of the greatest words of wisdom for any man or woman seeking change or growth are, "Surround yourself with people who will support and believe in you."Creating any kind of significant change requires determination, focus, energy, a game plan, and more than anything else, desire and a positive attitude.Sometimes, we become stalled in our prog…
- FFP vs. CPFF Contracts By Lisa DeMaio
SBIR Corner: FFP vs. CPFF contracts:In the SBIR/STTR world, the single most important decision you need to make is whether you are going to bid a job as Firm Fixed Price (FFP) or as Cost plus Fixed Fee (CPFF). These are two very different contract types and the decision to use one contract type over the other is very important to the overall succ…
- A Look at Small Business Incorporating in Florida By Eddie Tobey
The choice to incorporate a small business in Florida has several advantages. Corporations are separate legal entities and, as such, the corporation rather than individual owners pay both the taxes and the liabilities. If you are thinking of running (or are currently running) a small business, incorporating in Florida might be a good idea becaus…
- Administration Of Your Small Business By Marsha Maung
You've been meaning to tend to the administration part of your business, that is, the growing list of things to do that relates to your small business. You've shoved all other appointments aside and starts getting down to working on the nitty gritty details, you're ready to go all out and tick everything on the list off! But where in the world is…
- Setting Prices - Pricing Your Consulting Services By Megan Tough
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PRICINGIn case you hadn’t noticed, people can react very differently when faced with the same price for a product or service. In fact in most cases, we’ll never actually know what is in their minds when they consider a price and then decide to respond to it in certain way. So what does that mean for those of us pricing and sell…
- Small Business Health Check-Up By Kim Beardsmore
If your home business is not performing the way you hoped for, rather than stay away at night...use this simple list to check-up on possible reasons why your business is under performing.1. You don't offer free original content.2. You don't use a signature file on your e-mails.3. You don't offer free software.4. You don't have your own domain nam…
- Invest Wisely in Yourself and Your Business By Abe Cherian
One of the most amazing things about consumers is that
people are not aware of the publications available within
their industry.It is a very wise decision to visit a local library and ask
the business librarian how to find magazines or
publications that are in your industry. They will help you
locate them and it may be a good idea to subscribe to…
- Wow! What an Automobile! Hey! Where Did It Go? Somethin's Rotten in Denmark! By John T Jones, Ph.D.
From the Eye of the Potato: Perception is Everything!After WWII, the boys came home and a couple of them became our scoutmaster and assistant scoutmaster. They decided to resume the old troop traditions and take us to the Grand Tetons for a week.Each boy had to anti-up $13.00 to go. That was a formidable some in those days. I earned $8.00 cutting…
- Mobile Car Wash and Cleaning Post Office Jeeps By Lance Winslow
If you own a mobile truck washing, pressure washing or mobile car wash business you may wish to consider washing postal vehicles. They have one of the largest fleets in the world and they are relatively easy to wash. Yes, like all quasi-government agencies they pay slowly, but you know you will get paid as long as you show up to wash.Pressure was…
- Small Business Publicity -- Worth It? By Denise O'Berry
You bet it's worth it. Publicity via news releases, along with building relationships with reporters and editors is really good for your small business.As one who is adamant about "it's not who you know, it's who knows you," news releases play a big part in that awareness. Plus getting publicity helps establish you as an expert in your specialty.…
- Competition in the Mobile Car Wash Industry By Lance Winslow
We have all seen the mobile washing units cruising our city, usually they are trucks, vans or trailer set ups with a water tank and a pressure washer unit aboard. They market their services with flyers and business cards, however most of their business comes from weekly repeats and referrals. Some cities have hundreds of these units going around …
- Three Big Barriers To Small Business Marketing Success By Kevin P. Dervin
When you feel like you’re always busy working on your business, but not getting where you want to go, it can be frustrating trying to figure out how to get your marketing on track. It can easily become a “not seeing the forest for the trees” feeling.Here are three big barriers I regularly come across with business owners and how you can avoid the…
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