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 ICA news
Annual free wash day for Veterans adds 140 wash locations to bring its total to more than 3,100 locations in four different countries.
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Industry News
Crew Carwash donated $22,000 and 3,000 pounds of canned goods to Gleaners Food Bank following a one-day collection drive at 21 Central Indiana Crew locations.
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ABC 15
The Hallow-Clean Haunted Carwash, located at Jacksons Car Wash in the Paradise Valley area, is hoping to give customers a unique scare as they raise money for Banner Children's health clinic.
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Middletown Transcript
Car washing is good business as more people move to Middletown, according to the various car wash business owners in the area, including Chris and Cathi McQuaide of Diamond Car Wash, on Sandhill Drive.
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KPHO Phoenix
CBS 5 viewers and friends helped pay it forward and set a record at this year’s Paul’s Car Wash. The five-day event at Desert Ridge Marketplace raised $259,555 for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Central Arizona.
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Wicked Local
When Tony Lombardo was little, he enjoyed helping his father at his family’s car wash. Twenty-five years later, Tony’s son, Beau, likes to help his dad at his family’s car wash.
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UPI
An Atlanta motorist traveled through a car wash with flashing LED lights and his passenger captured the experience with the "best car wash ever" on camera.
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Leadership
The Huffington Post
The potential for success for a new franchise is much greater than for a new, stand-alone business. Do you wonder why? The answer is really quite simple. A business must have a clear, disciplined and repeatable business operating system. This is typically what a franchise owner receives when purchasing a franchise.
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Fast Company
Laura Vinroot Poole, the owner of Capitol, a luxury clothing retailer in Charlotte, North Carolina, was on the verge of going out of business. Before the downturn, Capitol had experienced 10 years of strong, consistent, double-digit growth. Like many entrepreneurs and business leaders, Poole rallied, using those challenges and the potential for failure to reinvent herself and grow her company anew. Here's how.
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Marketing
International PPC
Getting involved in the local community can be the key to long-term customer affinity for small businesses. There are several ways of gaining popularity and visibility among locals but not all community outreach strategies pay off and time is money. Here is a list of five effective community outreach ideas for small businesses that are worth any business owner’s time.
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Entrepreneur
Seven years ago, in the midst of an economic recession, Boston’s Yale Appliance + Lighting was losing money. "I’d read somewhere that people will buy some things anyway during a recession -- and one of those things was refrigerators," recalls CEO Steve Sheinkopf. "So we pumped more money into radio and newspaper advertising, thinking it would help. It didn’t -- it hurt." So how did Sheinkopf use digital marketing to turn around his grandfather’s company?
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Supplier News
A national leader in specialized insurance, McNeil & Co. has issued tips to help car wash owners and operators manage risk when working with chemicals. McNeil & Co.'s Car Wash Insurance Program has become the fastest-growing insurance option for car wash owners and operators, offering clients decades of industry experience and knowledge. Risk management is a key pillar of McNeil's programs, and the company hopes to help all car wash owners better identify chemical hazards and understand how to mitigate the risks associated with them.
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