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Episode 51: How to Get More Customers to Choose Your Top Wash

Your wash menu is the only salesperson you have that talks to every car, every day. At most washes, it's working against you. When your menu has five washes with names n

Episode 50: How to Keep Car Wash Members Through Rainy Season

A customer pays twenty-five dollars for your top wash. The next morning it rains. She didn't lose a car wash. She feels like she lost twenty-five dollars. That feeling h

Episode 49: How One Car Wash Increased Retail Washes by 50% on Halloween Without Discounting

Most car wash operators think fall means one thing: discounts. Cut your price, hope the volume covers it, and wait for winter.This episode is about a different approach.

Episode 48: You're Not Losing Members. You're Buying The Wrong Ones.

An operator overheard one of his own guys at the pay station telling a customer: just sign up, you can cancel. He pays five dollars a signup. Most car wash owners pay som

Episode 47: Why Your Customers Leave for the New Car Wash

A new car wash opens a few miles up the road, and within a few months your car count is down. Most operators blame grand opening pricing, or newer equipment, or the fact

Episode 46: Do This Before Your Promote Your Next Manager

Most car wash owners think they have a hiring problem. They can't find good people, their crew doesn't care, and they're hiring constantly without anything getting better

Episode 45: Why Car Wash Owners Can't Scale (And What to Do About It)

Most car wash owners aren't stuck because of their wash. They're stuck because of how they're running it. In this episode, I break down the real reason growth stalls — a

Episode 44: Why 31% of Car Washes are Losing Retail Revenue (And How to Stop It)

The International Car Wash Association's Q3 Pulse Report just dropped — and one number should stop every operator in their tracks. 31% of car washes reported that retail

Episode 43: The One Sentence That Protects Your Car Wash's Future

You hired somebody to protect the number. He's protecting it. He's also cutting the things that were going to pay you next spring, and he has no idea he's doing it. From

Episode 42: Your Sales Process Might Be Your Churn Problem

Your sales process might be the reason your members are leaving.Churn just hit a new high across the car wash industry, and the fix everyone's selling is more sales techn

Episode 41: Your Best Salesperson Might Be a Sign at Your Car Wash

Most car wash operators put real money into getting customers to the lot. Then they hand those customers over to signs, screens, and staff interactions that work against

Episode 40: How to Increase Your Car Wash's Social Media Engagement

Most car wash operators post on social media for months and never see it turn into new members. The problem usually isn't how often you post. It's whose story you're tell

Episode 39: Why Your Car Wash Ads Get Ignored

Your digital ad has less than three seconds to earn attention before someone scrolls past. Most car wash ads waste those three seconds talking about the wrong thing. In

Episode 38: What Your Car Wash's Website Should Say (Line by Line)

Your car wash website has about five seconds to answer three questions before someone leaves. Most websites fail all three, and it's not because they're ugly or slow. It'

Episode 37: Your Car Wash's Marketing is About the Wrong Person

Most car wash marketing is about the car wash. That's the problem. In this episode, the first in a five-part series, I walk through the StoryBrand framework and show you

Episode 36: Your Members Aren't Canceling. Their Cards Are.

Your members aren't canceling. Their cards are. And most operators have no idea it's happening because nothing on the daily report tells them. In this episode of The Car

Episode 35: Car Wash Digital Ads: Why "Awareness" is Killing Your Budget

Most car washes pour money into digital ads and get nothing back. In this episode of The Car Wash Growth Playbook, Josh Taylor sits down with Stacie Norton, OptSpot's Dig

Episode 34: The Two Hidden Ways Car Washes Lose Revenue

Great customer service is not the finish line. It's the floor. And most car wash operators are quietly dropping below it without realizing it's costing them thousands in

Episode 33: How to Turn Rainy Days into Profit

A five-day storm isn't one bad week. It's three different revenue moments, and your text club is built for all of them. Most car wash operators brace for rainy weeks and

Episode 32: How to Launch a New Car Wash (Without Hoping People Show Up)

Most new car washes open cold. They run free wash giveaways the week before opening, get a busy Saturday, and watch traffic disappear by month two. There's a better way.I