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Slightly Toasted #27: Auto Spas, Trash Can Clean-a-Palooza, Freshbooks
Or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Hustle
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Today’s Menu:
The Main Dish 🍽️: Auto/Wellness Spa
Strange Brew 🫙:
Hustle Hack 💹:
The Big Score 💰️:
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Ok…Lets get cooking.
The Main Dish | Business Ideas
Wellness‑While‑You‑Wait Auto Spa ❇️
🔦 The Pitch: Why just wait for your oil change when you could get a massage, sip a detox juice, and emerge refreshed and road‑ready? This business blends express car care with high‑margin wellness services, turning vehicle downtime into personal uptime. Think: valet vibes meets biohacking boutique.
What’s Cooking? (The Opportunity) 🍪
Most people dread going in for car maintenance. It’s inconvenient and boring. This concept reinvents the experience by offering a relaxing spa visit during your vehicle’s service appointment. You capture two types of customers with one visit: the car owner and the wellness seeker. It’s an underutilized time slot turned into a highly profitable upsell window.
Bonus? No customer acquisition cost for the spa; they’re already there.
Recipe (The Solution) 🧾
Go‑To‑Market Steps:
Lease a 6,000–8,000 sq ft space with 3 auto bays and a 1,500–2,000 sq ft spa zone.
Hire certified mechanics + on-call spa techs (1099 model).
Launch with a limited spa menu: chair massage, brow/lash, infrared sauna, IV therapy.
Book via a unified platform: customer picks both car service and spa options at checkout.
Offer first-time “Oil & Relax” bundle for $99.
Startup Costs:
Equipment + improvements: $235K (SBA-financeable)
Founder cash required: ~$47K
Break-even: 18 bundled clients/day
(Margin per client averages 60–70%.)
Check, Please (Monetizing) 💲
Revenue Channel | Notes |
|---|---|
Car Maintenance | $90 oil change, $55 profit |
Express Spa Services | $45 massage, $31 profit |
Upsells | Detox juice, IV drips, brow tint |
Monthly Memberships | $39/mo — locks in loyalty + cash flow |
Fleet & Corporate Packages | B2B volume + recurring billing |
Each customer = $167 avg ticket → $112 profit per visit
Stack 30 cars/day = very healthy business.
Domain Name Ideas 🖥️
Strange Brew | Lets Get Wierd
Trash Can Clean‑a‑Palooza
Take your average, boring bin-cleaning service and crank it up to carnival-level delight. Trash Can Clean-a-Palooza is a mobile garbage bin cleaning service with a show—complete with bubble machines, themed trucks, and staff in circus coveralls who turn a routine task into a neighborhood event.
Instead of quietly rolling in to clean your trash bin, this crew announces themselves with music, mini-performances, and scent-neutralizing pizzazz creating a spectacle that neighbors talk about and post online. Kids get collectible “Stink-Stoppers” tokens. Adults get a sparkling bin and a bonus porch deodorizer. Everyone wins.
It’s half sanitation service, half street-side funhouse.
Why It Could Work
💥 Unexpected + Shareable: Turning trash bin cleaning into a performance makes for natural UGC (user-generated content). Neighbors come outside. Parents snap photos. Kids collect tokens. Suddenly your service becomes the talk of the block.
💰 Low Overhead, High Margin: With route density and automation (120+ bins/day), profit margins hit 75%+. Add sponsorship banners and upsells, and it’s a revenue two-fer.
🧼 Subscription + Spectacle = Stickiness: Homeowners get convenience. Kids get rewards. Sponsors get visibility. You get repeat revenue. Plus, the rotating themes (e.g. Pirate Plunge, Space-De-Stink Force) keep it fresh all year.
Hustle Hack
Freshbooks
Running a business is hard enough,don’t let invoicing and bookkeeping slow you down. FreshBooks is a user-friendly accounting platform designed with entrepreneurs in mind. It helps you send professional invoices, track expenses, accept payments, and manage time all in one place. Whether you're freelancing or scaling a service biz, FreshBooks keeps your financials organized so you can focus on making money, not spreadsheets.
The Big Score
Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. by Colen Campbell is like a playbook for entrepreneurs who don’t want just one win—they want a system. Learn the step-by-step strategies used by serial entrepreneurs to build scalable businesses, exit at the right time, and do it all over again. It’s the blueprint for turning one success into a repeatable empire.
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