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Posted on: August 24th, 2012

While You Wait

Regardless of what kind of winter we have coming, your customers will wait in longer lines than at almost any point throughout the summer. We know it’s coming so our answer, for the most part, has been to process faster and wash cars faster to reduce (not eliminate) the wait time. But regardless of what…

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Posted on: May 3rd, 2012

Common Mistakes- ‘Yeah But’ Syndrome

I have met hundreds of people over the years that have wanted to go into business for themselves and almost every one of them is plagued by the ‘yeah but’ syndrome. Not sure what that is? I’ll say to them something like the traffic count is not good and I get back “’yeah but’ we…

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Posted on: May 3rd, 2012

Technology

I read an article the other day on foxnews.com about 15 things our kids will never know.  Some of the things on the list really caught me off-guard; things that have been so revolutionary in my life I just couldn’t imagine kids today not knowing what they are.  Things like CD’s- remember your first CD…

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Posted on: April 3rd, 2012

You Have to Ask the Right Questions OR Have the Right Partner

As I think back to when we entered the car wash business and our first wash was failing, I remember a conversation I had with a financial partner. “Did we get bad advice?” My answer today would be that we got the right answers to the questions we asked, however, we asked the wrong questions.…

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Posted on: March 31st, 2012

Everyone's Part of the Show

The other day I attended Disney on Ice with my 8 year old daughter and I really didn’t pay attention to the songs or characters. What I was paying attention to was the ‘show.’ I began to study everything that was going on in all corners of the floor; it’s amazing what you miss if…

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