Keeping your employees happy isn't as complicated as you might think. Check out this article in CAR WASH Magazine for tips on keeping your employees engaged, happy, and feeling well-recognized without the need to pony up a lot of extra cash.

 

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Coaching and developing others is part of a manager's job. So communicating what performance standards they expect and giving honest and constructive feedback are key skills for any manager.

Employees can be the greatest thing or the worst nightmare for a business owner – it all depends on who you hire and who you decide to keep. Almost all employees fall into one of these four categories.

While older generations tend to rely on product information from traditional media sources or from manufacturers themselves, millennials are more inclined to trust advice from the people in their lives. As marketers, this means we shouldn’t be thinking of millennials as just another group of consumers to convert, but as potential advocates for our brands.

With more than half of adults in the United States now using a smartphone to connect to the Internet, if you want to get your message out to your customers and target customers, your mobile web marketing plan needs to consider the types of devices in use. Here are 9 mobile marketing tactics for your small business.

Clem Reding likes to take advantage of opportunities when they come up. Reding has been an Albany, OR, businessman since 1985 when he opened a Chevron station at the current sight of Lassen Chevrolet. It was in 1993 that the opportunity first knocked. That opportunity turned into the first Four Seasons Car Wash and just last month, Reding expanded on his initial plan opening a third Albany car wash.

While the government shutdown has unfortunately arrived, one local business is taking action to assist their community to give back. So this week, The Smart Car Wash slashed their prices in half, and launched a "Shutdown Relief" initiative.

When car owners pull into the lot at Sapphire Bay Car Wash, they are transported to a tropical island experience complete with an underwater adventure right in their own car.