With cars made to last longer, costing more and more people hanging onto their vehicles long after the warranty has expired, there is a growing need for qualified after-market automotive care businesses. Even before the warranty expires, there are many car owners willing to pay to maintain the appearance of their vehicles, inside and out, and a small shop specializing in automotive detail work can find a lucrative business in virtually any community. This is also the case for those who can not afford to trade cars every year or so but still need a dependable car that runs.
When was the last time you heard someone say you love to wash the inside of the car’s windows? Most people can handle picking up a roll of paper towels and a bottle of glass cleaner and wiping down the outside of their windows, but when it comes to the inside of the glass, most will wait until they can no longer see through the windows before cleaning them. Automatic car washes, especially in the day of brushless technology, often leave many cars with streaks and do not remove all the things that attach themselves to the car finishes and owners are willing to pay to keep their car looking like they just drove it off the showroom. This can be a place to cash in for those interested in a car care business.
Opening your own car care business may be possible on a shoestring, adding services as money becomes available, but most car owners are going to expect to see professional operation before allowing any type of work to be done to their vehicle. Very few will trust their prized possession to someone with a tree in the backyard, no matter how good you are, even for something like a car wash and wax. They want to know that when they pick up their vehicle it does not look like it was cleaned by the local sports team.
If the money is available, consider buying into a franchise business. For virtually every types of car-care need, there is a franchised business. From oil changes, transmission repair and tire sales, there are national chains that offer the right person a significant opportunity to build a successful business. And while come folks may not be in tune with following someone else’s business model, franchisees typically find success by following a proven business plan.
Opening your own repair business may be slightly cheaper and there will not be a company representative telling you how to do almost every phase of the work, but with a franchise, you have instant name recognition as well as instant credibility of offering services professionally.
Even if you very little about the type of services the franchise offers, hiring the right people and sticking with the franchise training plan can quickly put a new business into your future. Not everyone that sell hamburgers actually puts them together, they just know how to hire the right people to offer a quality service and how to keep customers satisfied.