If you own a mobile oil change business, well then it might make sense to change employees oil in their cars while they are at work. And if you do this it might make sense to find the places with the most employees to service while their cars are all in one place. It therefore makes sense to change oil in the parking lots of large corporations. This discussion recently came up between two entrepreneurs in the mobile oil change sector and one gentleman asked; I have been setting up "employee days" where everyone in the company knows I am going to be on-site on a certain day each month offering service. Sounds complicated, but the idea is worthy, good strategic thinking. We simply have them email the entire company to alert them that it is on Thursday our oil change vans will be there to change oil in the cars. But you must sign up by 5 PM Tuesday. We fax a sign up sheet; they fill it all out and then fax it back to us on Wednesday. We buy the filters we need on the way there on Thursday, set up, pick up keys and envelopes line the cars in a row, Start 5 engines and do them five at a time by similar types or engine sizes. Heck it is a regular production, but realize unlike the washing of cars every week, it only happens one time per month or every three months at some places. I recommend every month so they can drive a different car on your Employee day, such as their spouses car or even their RV, trailer their boat or second cars. Consider all this in 2006. |
