| Okay so, you run a mobile car washing business and | | | | never quit. By the time we got done with one side of |
| you want to increase your revenue generation by | | | | the street, it was time to start over, they just watched |
| adding some car dealership lot washing contracts. That | | | | every day all day long. |
| makes sense because the car dealerships have lots | | | | Some of the other dealerships wanted us to be off of |
| of cars, and they must be cleaned to sell; no one | | | | the lot by 10 AM so they could sell cars, which makes |
| wants to buy a dirty car right? Sure, so your next | | | | it tough in the winter because of the ice formation |
| question is what price point can you charge and still | | | | when you put water on the cars in many areas. |
| make money. Not long ago, I was asked about this by | | | | The detailing contracts for auto dealerships are very |
| an already successful car washing entrepreneur; | | | | good when the economy is good, but you must |
| "I noticed on one of your posts [articles] you suggested | | | | understand that auto dealerships are very slow to pay |
| $.85 for twice a week. Wow, can it be done for that | | | | and you don't want to become a bank where you are |
| without have the contract for detailing as well?" | | | | doing services for them and they are paying you for |
| He was referring of course to the synergy gained by | | | | three months. That just costs you a lot of cash flow |
| detailing for auto dealerships and also maintaining the | | | | and all that labor until you get your money. |
| washing contracts as a bundled service, which is the | | | | Remember in a service business "cash flow" is king, |
| favored strategy for mobile auto detailers and mobile | | | | everything else is just talk. You're better off to go find |
| car washing companies. But what if you only had the | | | | something else to wash rather than letting some |
| lot washing contract and not the detailing contract; | | | | company string you out on payments and receivables. |
| does it still make any sense? | | | | And remember that God made dirt on the first day, |
| Well, yes, in fact, we had many accounts which were | | | | and that gets all over everything so you should be able |
| only wash accounts at between.65 and $.85 per car, | | | | to find something to wash other than just car lots. |
| where we did not have the detailing contract yet, for | | | | It appears the mobile car washing entrepreneur agrees |
| the auto dealership. For instance at the Sacramento | | | | and is thinking here too. We used to consider car lots |
| Auto Mall, all the car lots are set on the street that | | | | as busy work, keeping our crews busy and thus |
| looks like a giant circle, and we would have the crews | | | | making money, but it was hardly our best profit center. |
| going different directions on that street, and we would | | | | Please consider all this. |