Welcome to the Wash Pit

Well, here we go. Welcome to the Wash Pit, the car wash industry’s latest blog.

There’s a little pressure on us, of course. We really want this blog to stand out as a source of useful, valuable, pertinent information for our followers and the Members of Wash Alliance. The authors of this blog have written for several car wash magazines in the past and always received good feedback. We hope that the information we place on this blog is the same.

Different than the car wash rags, however, we hope that this blog, because it is leaner and more focused, will be a real idea generator for our readers.

As a car wash owner myself, I know that I have had very few original ideas. But I’ve also created a successful business by spring-boarding off of the ideas of others (many times taken from car wash periodicals or other blogs). Our hope with this blog, therefore, is to provide our readers with not just information and know-how, but inspiration as well.

Especially in this economy, it’s awfully easy to get down and depressed and then let your business slide. But sometimes, all it takes to rebound is an inspirational idea or someone else’s success story to light a fire under your ass.

In this blog, we’ll be giving examples from our own washes, as well as the stories that inspired us to improve. In addition, we’ll be letting you in on operational, marketing and financing techniques that are working for different operators all over the country (many of them Wash Alliance Members).

Finally, we want to hear from you. If there’s something in an article you want to hear more about, or learn more about, let us know. You can always leave a post (below), or you can contact us through our website at www.washalliance.com.

Stay tuned, folks. It’s a fine day for a car wash.