More than 4,000 car washes across the country will be providing free car washes for veterans and active duty personnel on Nov. 11.

 

The free program has given more than 2.3 million free car washes since 2003.

 

You can join the nearly 1,500 companies in four countries who will honor veterans and active duty personnel by registering your wash today.

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There is one challenge that every OEM struggles to address when designing a car: blind spots. But, a 14-year-old seems to have found a way to eliminate them. Alaina Gassler’s project, “Improving Automobile Safety by Removing Blind Spots,” uses a webcam, projector and 3D-printed material to accomplish this seemingly impossible task.

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Jo Thornley, Head of Brand and Partnerships at Dynamis, discusses the different options that car wash operators have to increase and expand their business.

Source: Business Insider
Researchers demonstrated how they were able to “speak” to smart speakers and smartphones running Google's Assistant, Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri using cheap lasers, even getting them to perform tasks like opening a garage door and starting a car remotely.

Source: Midland Daily News
Splash-N-Dash Car Wash owner Randy Weiss of Midland, Mich., built his first car wash from the ground up when he was 26 years old. Now he’s celebrating the 20th anniversary of the business with his new partner, his son, Ryan.

Source: Business Wire
The International Car Wash Group announced the acquisition of four Goo Goo Express Carwash franchisee sites – three in Rome, Ga., and one in Chattanooga, Tenn. – bringing the ICWG South East regional brand to total of 54 locations.

Source: Entrepreneur.com
The health of any relationship -- whether company to employee, husband to wife, parent to child – depends, in great part, on whether the expectations are legitimate and realistic and whether the parties live up to what is expected. In a sense, each relationship is a “contract.” The contract is the totality of explicit and implicit expectations that define the operating rules of the relationship – and its content will determine the strength of your partnership.

Source: Inc.com
How concerned should you be about a chronically late employee? Is it worth making an issue over 15-20 minutes, especially if the employee is exempt?

Source: Forbes
Even the oldest members of Gen Z have never known a world without the internet — and have had iPhones in their lives since the age of 10. So, how brands market themselves and how they connect with these younger consumers has been wholly redefined. As brands work to keep up, those using yesterday’s playbook are bound to fall behind. However, for the brands that study and understand the new Gen Z landscape, there’s tremendous opportunity. To successfully capture Gen Z’s attention, here are a few rules of the road.

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According to Statista, 2.82 billion people are active social media users and we will have around 3.1 billion social media users by 2021. That’s a third of the world’s population. Over the past decade, social media has turned into a gold mine for brands. If used aptly and judiciously, brands strike gold.

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