Dixiedrifter
New Member
Ok I have been toying around with several ideas... what about doing car washes?
Scenario #1:
The gimmick is to pair up with a gas station. You offer the gas station a low ball rate to clean their lot in exchange for an opportunity to wash cars at their place of business for $2-3 each with an 8 gallon fill up. The pitch is that your washing will bring in extra customers and that will result in more sales for them.
So, on Friday afternoon, about noon you pull into the parking lot with your 14 foot rolling billboard up in an open area their parking lot, you give the cashier a roll of tickets and a money box. When the customer gets the required amount of gas, the customer pays the cashier, and the cashier gives the customer a ticket. The customer then takes the ticket back to the car wash area and hands it to the washer. The washer hands the customer a flyer with a list of items cleaned, a link to the web site and a 10% off coupon.
Scenario #2:
You contact schools and other youth groups and offer to organize and host a charity car wash. You charge $100.00 per day or 30% of the gross proceeds, whichever is greater. You provide the buckets, chemicals, mitts and signs and they provide about 10 ppl to assist.
4-5 are out on the side of the road flagging down traffic, then you have the donation taker, which you charge say like $10 for a wash. The donation taker would hand the person driving the car a full page flyer on one side, and on the other a copy of the school's team sports schedules.
At the next stations you have 4 manning the buckets with mitts, and one mans a wheel scrubber. Your at the end of the line with your washer and give the cars an undercarriage wash, maybe clean the engines, apply wax and then last a spot free rinse.
The net result of both scenarios is that you get paid to deliver the customer advertising along with a hands on demonstration, and you get jobs which more than makes up for the loss of time you spent dicking around with washing cars all day for little of nothing...
Scenario #1:
The gimmick is to pair up with a gas station. You offer the gas station a low ball rate to clean their lot in exchange for an opportunity to wash cars at their place of business for $2-3 each with an 8 gallon fill up. The pitch is that your washing will bring in extra customers and that will result in more sales for them.
So, on Friday afternoon, about noon you pull into the parking lot with your 14 foot rolling billboard up in an open area their parking lot, you give the cashier a roll of tickets and a money box. When the customer gets the required amount of gas, the customer pays the cashier, and the cashier gives the customer a ticket. The customer then takes the ticket back to the car wash area and hands it to the washer. The washer hands the customer a flyer with a list of items cleaned, a link to the web site and a 10% off coupon.
Scenario #2:
You contact schools and other youth groups and offer to organize and host a charity car wash. You charge $100.00 per day or 30% of the gross proceeds, whichever is greater. You provide the buckets, chemicals, mitts and signs and they provide about 10 ppl to assist.
4-5 are out on the side of the road flagging down traffic, then you have the donation taker, which you charge say like $10 for a wash. The donation taker would hand the person driving the car a full page flyer on one side, and on the other a copy of the school's team sports schedules.
At the next stations you have 4 manning the buckets with mitts, and one mans a wheel scrubber. Your at the end of the line with your washer and give the cars an undercarriage wash, maybe clean the engines, apply wax and then last a spot free rinse.
The net result of both scenarios is that you get paid to deliver the customer advertising along with a hands on demonstration, and you get jobs which more than makes up for the loss of time you spent dicking around with washing cars all day for little of nothing...