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Car Wash in Canada

[Tutored]When going out of the car wash business I am a big believer in learning from mistakes or learning from history. I have to review what I have done in this business so that I won't make the same mistakes next time. I have run this business for over a year and half. I used to believe this business was so profitable and easy to operate as I had been told. The start was not very good. I was so inept at handling the things that involved my .. 더보기
[Conan]The most important thing is understanding of a principle! Yesterday, I had a big problem on the tube heaters. The facility has six tube heaters. These heaters are connected to the humidity controller. When the inside of the car wash facility is so humid, then the controller kicked off the heaters and the fans to ventilate the moisture. otherwise the inside kept too much moisture. Also when it is cold inside, the heaters are kicked off to make the insid.. 더보기
About the car wash business - Part 1 2009-02-24 When I heard about the car wash before I started that kind of business, I just thought that business is so profitable based onthe cost verse the price. Someone who I know runs a car wash in Calgary. His facility is the type of coin-op(coin operating). He said the break even point is 20% of the sales while he owns the business without a loan. That means 80% is the profit. I couldn't b.. 더보기
My business account was overdrafted! :-( I run businesses for almost 5 years now, I had experiences that the business account was overdrafted twice. I felt bad every time I had this kind of a incident. The fear about these drove me loosing the optimistic attitude for the future. What if I lose this business? The first time was quite easy to get over the tightened cash flow. It was nothing but short-term tightness of the cash. I was not.. 더보기