2007 Thoughts on Starting a Mobile Car Wash Business

2007 Thoughts on Starting a Mobile Car Wash Business
By Lance Winslow

Starting a Mobile Car Wash Business sounds fairly easy and indeed it can be, however if you will plan ahead and develop your business with strategic objectives in mind and treat it like a real business then you will go much further and do it in less time. By designing your routes and clustering you business accounts you find yourself spending less time washing and less time driving around in traffic wasting labor and precious fuel.

When achieving the right market mix of Corporate Office Parking Lot Washing, Fleet Car Washing and Residential Washing and Detailing you can build a very profitable business. In this article I want you to consider this and discuss how to do just that. Additionally, we discuss EPA and NPDES requirements for collection and disposal of wash waste-water run-off and strategies to prevent pollution and comply with the laws.

There is quite a bit of competition in the mobile car wash business even if you do not see them until once you start your business. You should discuss marketing strategies, flyer design, vehicle signage, image considerations, branding, labor controls, routing, preventative maintenance and equipment considerations. The secrets that you learn in your research and in my many articles on this subject do not exist elsewhere, as most of this knowledge was discovered the hard way.

For nearly 3-decades I built our company from a small business to a regional car wash business with 53 units serving 39 cities and eventually a franchise company serving 450 cities, 110 markets, 23 states and 4 countries. Now I have written it all down and have made it available in many articles. By following the ideas and concepts you will be able to build your business quicker and without all the mistakes I made along the way.

I thank you for reading this particular article, as it is my first article for 2007 on this subject although something tells me it will not be my last. As you read this article and my many others on this subject I recommend that you use it not only as an operations manual to help you make your business plan and your develop marketing strategies, but also as a thinking exercise to help in the efficiencies of running your Mobile Car Wash Business. Perhaps this article is of interest to propel thought in 2007?

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