Win Your Own Business!
With the 2012 ice cream season underway, comes the store face-lift, dessert research and final touches to opening on April 12, 2012. Each year is exciting because fun new dessert amenities targeted for the ice cream industry is available. Different flavors of ice cream for both soft serve and hand dipped seem to be unlimited. Half the [...] Read more »
How many of you played the recent lotto driven by dreams, fantasies, need or even desperation? Did you find yourself purchasing tickets as a result of the ongoing media hype, talk among your friends or office colleagues? Did you start to think that if you didn’t buy your own ticket or play the lottery pool at work you would [...] Read more »
Washing your car at Vanity Car Wash doesn’t have to be boring. Co-Owner, Corey Burke loves to see the smile on his customer’s faces when they are in the self-serve bays washing their vehicle. Music erupts from the speakers in each bay and is just loud enough to hear while the customer is washing. “It [...] Read more »
A Hillsdale, Michigan business may be the first operational business to give itself away. It is a different way to look at turning the businesses over to new owners than the usual sale. Victoria Burke, Partner/Owner of the Vanity Car Wash said, “Entrepreneurs or experienced business owners wanting to buy a new business have a lot of [...] Read more »
Who knew a plastic key with a computer chip could be so versatile, fun and useful? Cars are a big investment and car care is important. Victoria Burke states, “Many people still want to wash and vacuum their own cars, but the dreaded thought of racing through the process to beat the timer and make [...] Read more »
When it was apparent the economy wouldn’t be bouncing back anytime soon, we were determined to make something good and positive happen as we sought new owners to take over the Vanity Car Wash & Ice Cream businesses. With jobs scarce, and bank financing tight there still had to be a way for us to transition [...] Read more »
Some days it seems like only yesterday we proudly started serving our customers at the Vanity Car Wash & Ice Cream in Hillsdale, Michigan. Other days, we don’t remember the time that we weren’t washing cars and dipping ice cream. To the outsider it may look easy and always fun. Running a successful business is [...] Read more »
Building Vanity Car Wash #2 and Ice Cream Too Prior to the property purchase, all three of us were in the car going somewhere. Tom and I were discussing the potential new car wash project when suddenly Corey piped up from the back seat and asked if we were talking about building another car wash. [...] Read more »
SELECTING PROPERTY LOCATION & EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS This is entry #2 of our journey to build our first car wash. In 1987-88 we attended the Michigan Car Wash Association Trade Show in Novi, MI (now the Midwest Car Wash Association). We looked at a lot of equipment and asked a ton of questions and talked with various car wash owners [...] Read more »
Vanity Car Wash & Ice Cream Owner Doesn’t Keep Quiet & Shares All I’m going to be sharing our family journey up the path of our goals to diversify our energy and financial plan as we believed we wanted to own a business. Just like us at one time, you have ideas, dreams and plans [...] Read more »