Mobile Auto Detailing and Car Washing At or Around a Sports Stadium – Market Potential
Well, I started out in the aircraft cleaning and detailing business, and later I had franchised mobile auto detailing and car washing units around the country. Today in retirement, I am often contacted by people in the industry, or new start-ups in the sector, and they have some rather intriguing questions. I doubt there’s much I don’t know about in the industry, or have not encountered, and despite all the new technology that is now being used, the actual operations of the business haven’t changed all that much yet.
Indeed, I say that because I believe someday there will be autonomous mobile detailing units which will send out a robot to detail a car. But that’s not today, these robotic systems will be detailing the personal flying craft of the future in 30 years I suppose, maybe 20 or 25. In any case, I was talking to a fellow entrepreneur about all this the other day, and he indicated to me that he would like a mobile robotic unit to help him clean cars at sports stadiums. https://shinesdetailing.com.au/He lives not too far from a sports stadium, and he said that over 25,000 cars show up, and they’re only there for three or four hours, and there is no way no matter how large his crew is, or how many units they have that they could ever possibly even clean a small percentage of all those vehicles.
Whereas that might be true, he ought to get busy and clean as many as he can. The best way to get this type of business is to go make friends with those that run the Stadium, and the sports teams that practice and play there. If it is a baseball stadium, make friends with the coaches and players to detail their cars, once on the property you can make friends with the facility maintenance people, and try to get a contract giving you the exclusive for specific areas of the parking lot. When people come in you collect their money, give them a ticket, clean their car, and when they come out it is completed. It’s not as difficult as you might think.
Further, often car dealerships will have events where they sell their used cars in these giant parking lots, and there are always other events going on. Once you are in, and they have a copy of your insurance, you should be able to clean cars for anyone who shows up at any event in the future. You just need a crack team that can go balls to the wall for 3 to 4 hours and complete as many cars as possible in that time period. Indeed I wish you luck if this is a sector of the mobile detailing industry or mobile car washing industry you care to expand into. Please consider all this and think on it.