Loyalty360 Chris Northey, Director of Marketing, Mister Car Wash is excited about the company’s Unlimited Wash Club (UWC) customer loyalty program that has built direct marketing momentum and brand loyalists. Northey participated in a Q&A with Loyalty360 to talk about the status of the program and ongoing customer-centric efforts.

MLive.com Quality Car Wash will open up its sixth location next month in Holland Township. The company's latest automated car wash location serves a dual purpose. It offers customers a place to clean their cars, fill up gas tanks and grab snacks, but the facility is also a showroom of sorts for the manufacturing side of the three-generation family business that supplies million-dollar modular car washes systems around the globe.

Vindy.com Anyone who donates a nonperishable food item at Salem Car Wash in Salem, Ohio, now through Nov. 27 will receive $1 off a car wash. In addition, Salem Car Wash will donate $2 for each "The Works" or "Ultimate" car wash purchased through Nov. 27.

NJ.com Shammy Shine car wash and quick-lube has opened on Route 22 in Greenwich Township, and is celebrating with a week of $1 car washes until Sunday, Nov. 16. The new Greenwich Township wash service features a 110-foot-long wash tunnel and free vacuums at the end, something offered only at one other Shammy Shine location in Pennsylvania, as well as a three-car quick lube drive-thru oil change.

The Globe and Mail For family businesses, strategic planning really begins and ends with a single powerful question: Why are you in business? The answer to this question will affect the quality of decision making by business families, as well as the bottom line. Does the family want to secure its prosperity and sustain its wealth over generations? Without a long term plan, things fall apart.

Nevada Business Small businesses grow through the ingenuity of their owners. An owner’s pride in a flourishing business can make identifying and implementing a succession plan difficult, but addressing succession planning can prevent disastrous outcomes.

SmartCompany Businesses need to get their pricing right in order to succeed. SmartCompany spoke to two leading finance experts for their top tips on how to develop a top-notch pricing strategy.

Business Insider Psychological science has found out at least two things about human nature: We don't always act in our own best interest and we're easily manipulated. If you take it from Harvard psychologist and "Stumbling On Happiness" author Daniel Gilbert, these tripped-up tendencies are evident in the way we make purchases.

Mark VII Equipment Inc. has named Chris Andersen as its new CEO.