Relevance of Marketing Strategies for Gas Stations in China – An Analysis Using SPSS

This study aims to find out the relevance of marketing strategies for gas stations in China. According to IBISWorld, the companies holding the largest market shares in China’s gas station industry include China Petrochemical Corporation, China National Petroleum Corporation, Sinochem Corporation, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, and BP (China) Holdings Limited. Marketing has changed over the past several years. Similarly, gas station marketing is all about more customers, greater sales, and higher profits. Technology provides many different marketing tools to see more fresh faces at the door, increase repeat sales, and improve profits. Word-of-mouth advertising should be encouraged, especially when contests are being held. The prizes from these contests may include car essentials, free coffee, free car wash, or coupons to be used at convenience stores. Customers who have won these contests would surely go around advertising the particular gas station, ultimately bringing in more customers. Other than that, managers can boost the sales volume through radio promotions as well. This study also aims to give future businessmen and women some ideas on how to deal with different kinds of strategies when it comes to marketing, especially in China in hope to cater and prove to the people of China the possibility of promoting businesses, such as the oil industry.

Creación e implementación de una aplicación web para la administración de citas para un autolavado

According to a press release emitted by INEGI on December 2nd, 2020, 93.2% of the companies in Mexico reported problems caused by the current pandemic, and more than a million businesses closed their doors permanently. In this context, the need to create technological tools that promote the development of activities of micro, small and medium businesses emerged. In this project, the development and creation of an application for a car wash business that allows clients and workers to book and manage appointments and the payment of services are presented. The development of this project was carried out with the framework SCRUM, using different tools for collaborative development such as ASP.Net for web applications, Visual Studio as Integrated Development Environment (IDE), a relational database system, and Model-View-Controller (MVC) as an architectural pattern. This module can be adapted to any kind of business with the same needs in the same field or other fields.

The Influence Of Marketing Mix On Usage Decision Of Auto Clean Waterless Car Wash Services

Increasing the number of vehicles makes a great business opportunity for car wash services. AutoClean Waterless is a company engaged in car wash services that utilise innovation by using special fluids so that it saves water. The problem faced by AutoClean in Bogor City is AutoClean’s sales have not been stable because there is still a decrease in transaction and termination of partners. Sample in this research were 185 respondents. Data were analysed using descriptive analysis and SEM LISREL. The result of this research shows that consumer use behaviour is influenced by weather, priority factors in using car wash services are quality, price, ease for access, and customers more often come to outlets that are not in the mall and majority customers use silver packages. Consumer perception of AutoClean innovation shows that innovation is one of the most essential factors in usage decisions of the consumer. The marketing mix (7P) has a significant influence on usage decisions. Marketing strategies to increase sales in AutoClean Waterless can be applied by making AutoClean customer segmentation based on customer characteristics. Then the company can make priority targets following following predetermined segmentation. Next, AutoClean can make positioning by looking at the priority factors when customers choose car wash services, such as quality, price and ease of access

Phytoremediation of Physico-chemical Parameters in Wastewater Effluents from Car Wash Bays in Yenagoa Metropolis, Nigeria

Surface water pollution through the discharge of untreated wastewater is on the increase globally. Efforts made using conventional techniques had not yielded the needed results. This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of some native aquatic plants for the removal of some physico–chemical parameters from car wash wastewater effluents in Yenagoa metropolis. The plants used for this study were lemna minor, nymphaea nouchalli, pistia-stratiotes, eichhornia crassipes and ceratophyllum demersum; while the physico-chemical parameters investigated in this study include pH, DO, COD, BOD5, NO3, PO4 and turbidity. The wastewater samples collected from car wash bays were analysed to determine the level of the physico-chemical parameters concentrations using standard methods. The experiment was conducted in a green house for 42 days retention period. The results indicated that the cultured plants reduced the physico-chemical parameters to a minimum level, except DO, which increased in concentration. Therefore, they are considered good bioremediators of the parameters under review and the bioremediation potentials of the plants are in the order of P. stratiotes > L. minor > E. crassipes > N. nouchalli> C. demersum. It is therefore recommended that these plants should be used to treat wastewater effluents based on the investigated physico-chemical parameters.

Mathematical analysis of a self-service car wash in the aspect of application of renewable energy sources

The paper presents a model of a self-service car wash. Sub-models of water, electricity and natural gas consumption were developed. Heated water is used to wash vehicles and in winter to heat the floor. Electricity is mainly used to power high pressure pumps. The data to develop submodels were based on a time series of 1 year from a 5-station car wash located in central Poland. Chemical consumption and costs were not analyzed in this paper. Generally, this data is quite difficult to access and not provided by car wash manufacturers or owners. The developed model allowed estimating the possibility of using renewable energy sources in the form of solar collectors and photovoltaic panels to balance the energy demand of a car wash depending on the number of washing stands and car wash load. Application of solar collectors allows saving 334 m3 of natural gas per year and 11.2 MWh of electricity in the case of applying photovoltaic panels. The amount of electricity consumed by the carwash is so large that mounting the panels on the whole available area will not provide the required amount anyway. Installation of photovoltaic installation on the premises of touchless car wash is justified in the case of connecting the installation to the public network, which was treated as a battery. The cost of maintaining such a battery is 20% of each stored kWh. As a result of the applied solutions, the CO2 emission will be reduced.

Wastewater treatment from washing agricultural machinery by electroflotation and sorption on activated carbons

Wastewater from car wash stations of agricultural machinery is contaminated with mechanical impurities, oil products, pollution generated by exhaust gases, fertilizers and processing agents used in agriculture, as well as a large amount of surfactants. Purification of this wastewater to the quality required for their reuse allows organizing a circulating water supply scheme, which significantly reduces not only the negative impact on the environment, but also the need for clean tap water. This article describes the results of wastewater treatment from car wash stations of agricultural machinery on an electroflotator and post-treatment by filtration through various filter media, incl. through a sorbent made of modified rice straw - agricultural waste.

Analisis Strategi Promosi dan Kualitas Pelayanan Terhadap Kepuasan Pengguna Best Car Care Bogor

The development of the automotive industry at this time can be quite rapid because every year the number of vehicles continues to increase. The development of the automotive industry also encourages the development of industries supporting services such as car repair shops, car salons, sales of spare parts, the sale of accessories, and car wash services. Own car wash services are needed the car users because, in addition to saving time, the car users are also convinced that if their car is washed at the car wash, the car will be clean and well maintained. In offering their services, employers must implement appropriate promotional strategies. Quality of service also supports the company to provide satisfaction for its customers. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of promotion strategies and quality of service on user satisfaction at Best Car Care Bogor partially or simultaneously. A population of 220 people and take a sample of 135 respondents. The research method using multiple regression analysis. Results of research conducted found that the promotion strategy and service quality and significant positive effect either simultaneously or partially on user satisfaction. Advice for employers Best Car Care Bogorfor more attention to the satisfaction of the users of services Best Car Care Bogor, to increase the use of services