Car Wash News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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?