How to Run a Community Service Car Wash
How to Run a Community Service Car Wash
The service that Steve, Toby and I provided was a Car Wash that was run on a school day, with the schools hoses and taps. The Ownership was a partnership, with all of us 3 splitting the money into 3 when we made the final profit. We each made 30 dollars after successfully cleaning around 19 cars, charging 5 dollars a car. The location of the business was at the back of the N block at Bellarine secondary college.
The product was developed by us and given to the teachers by going around with a sheet and giving them tickets and offering them if they wanted a very good car wash. The Materials we used was, Wax and Wash Special formulas, a few sponges, a bucket, a hose and the taps. The Staffing responsibilities were basically all the same, except I handled the money.
We all brought some sponges to school on the day of the car wash, and Steve provided the wax and wash. There wasn’t much skills we had to have except for how do wash a car properly, and how to handle the money. People that gave us help and advice was you, from giving us advice on how to go about getting some customers, and what we should have done to make the working load easier was, employ a few other people to help us wash cars cause it was very hard.
We targeted the teachers for our car wash, as they were they only ones that can drive cars and were the only ones with access to the school grounds. We did a little bit of Market research, by asking some of the teachers if they would be willing to get their car washed. We got a fairly good response so we went ahead with our idea. We had to get to the teachers 1st, because we heard that another class was also offering car washes, but after all we got in 1st and the other class didn’t end up going ahead with it.
We needed to make the price enough so that we could get enough to keep us happy, and what we thought was a fair price for our duties. We promoted the business by giving a free wax job, which some of the teachers seemed 2 like. We didn’t really plan...