Stories Archive
What to Expect from the Labor Market: Recruiting, Wages and Legislation
February 8, 2023
4 minute Read
By Susan Palé, CCP
Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. We not only hear this word 15 times a day, we experience it every day – at the gas...
Read MoreSoapy Joe’s Dives Into Digital Collectibles
February 6, 2023
3 minute Read
By Nicole Nelson
Many car washes are toying with a number of platforms in digital marketing, but only one car wash to date is making its...
Read MoreThe Next Place for Digital Advertising
February 1, 2023
8 minute Read
By Nicole Nelson
Last spring, Sam Sousa made the decision to explore a marketing medium that was previously untapped at All American...
Read MoreThe Science of a Great Landing Page
January 30, 2023
7 minute Read
By Emily Madison
One of the fundamental challenges today is finding ways to convert your potential customers into actual high lifetime...
Read MoreHow Transparent Do You Need to Be?
January 25, 2023
8 minute Read
By Lindsey Quick
Costs are rising in nearly every sector and on nearly every kind of product and service available. Consumers are feeling...
Read MoreWant to Grow Your Car Wash? Google It.
January 23, 2023
8 minute Read
By Elsbeth W. Russell
Google is unarguably the leading search engine, with around 5.6 billion searches each day and a 92% market share....
Read MoreThe Power of Customer LTV and Retention
January 18, 2023
10 minute Read
By Tom Gresham
For years, customer lifetime value was almost a mythical concept, said Peter Fader, author of “Customer Centricity: Focus on...
Read MoreEvery Deal Is Different When Financing
January 16, 2023
6 minute Read
By Joan Tupponce
When Tom Hoffman Jr.’s parents were expanding their business rapidly in the late 1990s, they had to take out a mortgage on...
Read MoreLEAD Program Wins Award
January 11, 2023
2 minute Read
International Carwash Association’s LEAD Car Wash Manager training program has been honored with the Brandon Hall Group Bronze Award for...
Read MoreLessons From Netflix
January 9, 2023
9 minute Read
By Tom Gresham
Netflix has been in the headlines for the wrong kinds of reasons in 2022. The streaming service trailblazer announced in...
Read MoreHow It Works: RFID
December 12, 2022
3 minute Read
RFID
Car washes are increasingly using RFID technology for payment, vehicle identification and more. What’s behind this two-part...
Read MoreThe Long Road to China
December 5, 2022
5 minute Read
In just four years, Splash Car Wash of China has opened 57 locations. But the road to that accelerated growth wasn’t the most direct. In...
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