Latest Carwashowner Podcast Episodes
Honoring Car Washing's Greatest: Lamar Beck
CAR WASH The Podcast - June 27, 2024 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsThe International Carwash Association’s Hall of Fame Award was first presented in 1962 to car wash operator and inventor, Jimmy Butts. Since that time, the award has continued to honor titans of the car wash industry. We’re talking about true innovators and leaders - those who have left an ind...
Creating Brand Superfans
CAR WASH The Podcast - June 20, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratings"Superfans are loyal, engaged customers who are going to advocate on your behalf. They're more likely to go back and tell their friends about you. But here's the thing about superfans: you don't buy them. This is not about if you can run the right ad or find the right people online and target th...
License Plate Recognition as Lead Generation
CAR WASH The Podcast - June 13, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsLicense Plate Recognition (LPR) technology is used broadly across industries, from loss mitigation for lenders to recognizing the vehicles of wash members in the car wash space. In 2009, DRN Data entered the loss mitigation space working with lenders, banks, credit unions, and insurance agenci...
Training Experts: Destiny Baker of Mammoth Holdings
CAR WASH The Podcast - June 06, 2024 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsAt The Car Wash Show 2024, Claire Moore, Chief Learning Officer for International Carwash Association, interviewed several learning and development leaders in the car wash industry. We look forward to sharing these conversations throughout our 2024 podcast season. In the first interview of our ...
Australia’s Vibrant & Evolving Car Wash Industry
CAR WASH The Podcast - May 30, 2024 10:10 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsDoug Cross, Business Manager for the Australian Car Wash Association, joins Eric Wulf, CEO, International Carwash Association (ICA), and Kendra Johnson, VP of Business Development, ICA, for a conversation about the upcoming opportunities at the Car Wash Show Australia 2024. Cross breaks down w...
Stories from the Show Floor 2024
CAR WASH The Podcast - May 30, 2024 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsThe Car Wash Show 2024 in Nashville was a huge success! With record-breaking attendance and a sold-out exhibition floor, the event exceeded expectations. This year’s show featured engaging events including live presentations at the Pitch theater, the Hall of Fame celebration, The Big Bash, Innov...
The Show Show 2024
CAR WASH The Podcast - May 02, 2024 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsThe Car Wash Show 2024 in Nashville is just ten days away! It will feature the most exhibitors we've ever had, the largest square footage, and it is sold out! Claire Moore, ICA's chief learning officer, is here this week to reveal some of the opportunities you may not know about along with a f...
Revitalizing Your Wash
CAR WASH The Podcast - April 18, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratings"The most important thing on a remodel is that you go big .... it's really important that you don't just put lipstick on the pig." If you are considering remodelling your wash, there are many questions you need to answer before you begin. What amenities do you want to add? What is your budge...
Training; Are You Part of the 99%?
CAR WASH The Podcast - April 11, 2024 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsWhen it comes to investing in your people, staff training is where it’s at. It even took the top spot in the Q1 ICA Pulse survey. In fact, 49% of those surveyed shared that they are planning on spending more on training in 2024 and 50% about the same as last year – leaving only 1% that were plan...
Checking In with an Economist
CAR WASH The Podcast - April 04, 2024 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsCould understanding the trends of the U.S. economy make you a better car washer? It might. In this episode, Eric Wulf, CEO of International Carwash Association, and Alex Chausovsky check in on the current state of the U.S. economy and how to understand, define and interpret it to make more stra...
Digital Davids Can Beat the Goliaths
CAR WASH The Podcast - March 28, 2024 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsMembership models and unlimited clubs have become the norm in the car wash industry, but the methods by which we convert visitors to members are mostly restricted to face-to-face in-person sales. This week on the show we explore the question: Could customers join our membership programs online.....
You’re Wrong About the Future of Work
CAR WASH The Podcast - March 21, 2024 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsThe future of work is not only difficult to predict, it is the wrong question to ask. The question we should be asking instead is: How do we build an incredible team that can help us get to whatever the future of work looks like? Eric Termuende, author of "Rethink Work" joins us with a bold sug...
A Deeper Dive into AI
CAR WASH The Podcast - March 14, 2024 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsContinuing our content theme from last week, we have another conversation around artificial intelligence. Brian Sathianathan, co-founder of Iterate.AI, joins us to talk specifically about AI in the car wash space. Iterate.AI works with companies across many industries including several big car...
Where to Start With AI
CAR WASH The Podcast - March 07, 2024 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsOur guest is Terry Brock, who just celebrated his 40th year as a Marketing Advisor. He joins us to talk tech trends which, let's face it, are mostly AI these days. Brock shares with us some thrilling use cases for AI in the carwash space as well as some input on common concerns. Every new te...
Behind the Brand: AVW Equipment Company
CAR WASH The Podcast - February 29, 2024 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsDanka Dubak, director of marketing for AVW Equipment Company, joins us to go behind the brand and discuss the trends AVW is seeing in the industry from a supplier's point of view. AVW is a family-owned business that just celebrated 51 years in operation and Dubak is the third generation. As su...
Paramedic to Car Washer
CAR WASH The Podcast - February 22, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsTony Sposit always wanted to be a paramedic. And after high school that is exactly what he did. But in between his 24-hour paramedic shifts, he decided he wanted to find more work (he claims he was driving his wife crazy around the house). When the Frenchtown-Monroe Auto Wash opened near his hom...
Good Management, Better Spaghetti
CAR WASH The Podcast - February 15, 2024 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsIf you’ve found yourself wondering about how you can better motivate today’s employees … or how to level up your spaghetti … you’re in luck. Our guest, Joe Mull, has some hard truths and expert tips about both in, surprisingly, the same conversation. Mull, the author of Employalty (plus severa...
Go Pink with Quick Dry
CAR WASH The Podcast - February 08, 2024 12:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsIf you attended The Car Wash Show in 2023, you undoubtedly saw Quick Dry’s booth with pink carpet. Jonathan and Lindsay Wiles, who run the family-owned business, called it the ugliest booth at the show. But the carpet was to bring awareness to a great cause. In October of 2023, Quick Dry launc...
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
CAR WASH The Podcast - December 14, 2023 16:30 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsThis episode closes out season three of CAR WASH the Podcast. We spent some time playing clips from some of our favorite shows from the season and discussing what is coming up next year from the International Carwash Association. The episodes we discussed in order of appearance can be found at...
Keeping and Engaging Today's Wash Workforce
CAR WASH The Podcast - November 30, 2023 17:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsClaire Moore of the International Carwash Association, Justin Salisbury of Breeze Thru Car Wash, and Michael Schultz of Rich's Car Wash joined Matt DeWolf in an informative live panel at the Car Wash Show™ 2023 in Las Vegas. They discuss talent engagement, investing in your workforce, and how ...
The Great Market Pause with Jeff Pavone
CAR WASH The Podcast - November 21, 2023 17:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsIn early November of 2022, Jeff Pavone was on the show to talk about what was happening in the car wash industry in a two-part episode called The Great Market Reset. A year later, Pavone is back with his insight on the industry from his perspective as a founding partner of Amplify Car Wash. We...
Behind the Brand: Qual Chem
CAR WASH The Podcast - November 09, 2023 17:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsClaudia Moldovan Crea, CEO and Jessica Price Easter, Director of Marketing join us to go Behind the Brand with Qual Chem.
The Best (New) Ways to Spend Your Marketing Dollars
CAR WASH The Podcast - October 26, 2023 16:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsMarketing is all about spending money to (hopefully) make money. The trick is knowing where to focus that spend. This week we are playing you a panel, recorded live at the Car Wash Magazine Live Studio at the Car Wash Show™ 2023 in Las Vegas. Levi McClendon of OptSpot, Nick Rodia of Sgt. Clean...
Maintaining Culture as You Grow
CAR WASH The Podcast - October 19, 2023 16:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsThis episode is all about people and is applicable to much more than the car washing community. Justin Salisbury, president of Breeze Thru Car Wash joins us to talk about how Breeze Thru Car Wash has maintained its culture as they have grown to 12 locations. He defines culture, gives great tips ...
Bringing Car Washers Together in Europe
CAR WASH The Podcast - October 05, 2023 16:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsThe Car Wash Show Europe was held in Amsterdam two weeks ago and we sent a member of the podcast staff to report on the goings on there. He is back this week to play some of those conversations and chat with Matt about his experience at the show.
European Car Wash Market Update
CAR WASH The Podcast - September 28, 2023 15:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsThis week Matt DeWolf is handing the mic over to four very capable speakers who were gathered at the Car Wash Show Europe in Amsterdam last week. Eric Wulf of the International Car Wash Association along with Bryan Madderson of the Car Wash Association in the UK, Thomas Drott of the Federal As...
Manager to Manager
CAR WASH The Podcast - September 21, 2023 15:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsThis is a conversation for managers by managers. Iona Kearney of Speedy Sparkle Wash, John Sproul of Camel Express Car Wash, and Shad Valle of Metro Express Wash joined us to discuss their personal management successes, failures, and ideologies. This panel was presented live at the Car Wash ...
How Data is Changing the Marketing Game
CAR WASH The Podcast - September 14, 2023 16:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsSo you collect some data but don't know what to do with it? You collect no data and don't know how to start? You don't know how to get more information from your customers? You want to turn your data insights into a more personalized relationship with your customers? In this episode, we bring y...
The Car Wash Show Europe: Coleman Hanna
CAR WASH The Podcast - August 31, 2023 16:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsWe are continuing our conversations with vendors who will be headed to the Car Wash Show Europe one month from now! In this instalment, we chatted with Jean de Negri. Negri oversees International Sales for Coleman Hanna Car Wash Systems. Jean de Negri told us about his amazing path to Colman Ha...
The Car Wash Show Europe: Washworld
CAR WASH The Podcast - August 24, 2023 16:30 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsWe are continuing our conversations with vendors who will be headed to the Car Wash Show Europe one month from now! In this instalment, we chatted with Nate Wellens. Wellens is the Distributor Sales Support & International Sales Representative at Washworld. The Car Wash Show Europe 2023 is in ...
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