What can I do immediately to combat the recession in my car wash and detail shop other than direct mail, coupons ..

1. Try a "point" system. Since you wash your car 10 times, and you have a free for sale or something. Free washing for all 5 washes. Something thus. 2. Talk with other local businesses and introduce each of the other products. Advertise your business for you and for them the publicity of their own to theirs. Working with them to promote the other. For example, if a donut shop next door. Helping the donuts instead of offering a free car wash with every purchase of 3 dozen donuts, and then give you a dozen donuts, each with 3 free car washes, etc. I'm sure that prices are something that can be developed to make it profitable for both. (3 and free is just one example) 3. Doing anything for your foot. As set a theme based on the day of the week. Manic Monday – all employees of her dress in costume for each of the 80. Football Friday Monday – have all dressed in football as a clean wash cars. You get the picture. But having said gadget to get more customers. Especially when a child sees this and wants to return to their parents. It will give you some more customers and separate it from its competitors. Here in Seattle, who have problems with a little coffee stand. The cabin is full of female employees who wear bikinis or something very sexual. Residents are up in arms about it because they say that sales of sex and that people come to the store to buy coffee and seeing an attractive girl with almost anything. But the fact is … they sell the hell out of coffee. I hope these ideas help. Good luck to you and your company.