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Car Park Cleaning Service

A business often regarded as menial, obvious, and therefore rejected as a serious opportunity, is car cleaning. Some of the readers of this article will be critical that such a topic is even mentioned. This is a mistaken view. Some of the best small businesses are the simplest.

In our office car park alone there are over 200 parked cars every day. They don't all belong to our staff I hasten to add! All of these cars are washed by their owners on a regular basis at the local Jet Wash.

The cost of this DIY service is £3.50. There is no doubt many of these people would be more than happy to pay the same fee for someone else to wash their car on a weekly basis. Since all of the cars are in one place it would not be a problem to wash the cars as they are parked in the car park. I for one would be at the front of the queue for this type of service.

The profit potential of running this service could be large. If a person was to work 40 hours a week cleaning one car every 20 minutes he could earn: 40 x 3 x £3.50 = £420 per week, plus tips. Not bad for a so-called menial job!

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