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CLEAR OPPORTUNITY IN CAR-PROTECTANT FIELD.


BUSINESS NAME: Clear Guard

BUSINESS ADDRESS: 10050 Melinda Melinda - ["Melinda: Linda with Multiple Tuple Spaces", S. Hupfer, <hupfer-susanne@yale.edu> YALEU/DCS/RR-766, Yale U Feb 1990].  Way, Suite 6, Northridge Northridge is the name of some places in the United States of America:
  • Northridge, Los Angeles, California, a community in California's San Fernando Valley
  • California State University, Northridge
 

PHONE: (818) 581-0632, (818) 701-9643

OWNER: Ashley For use as a person's name, see .
Ashley may refer to: Places
Australia
  • Ashley, New South Wales
United Kingdom
  • Ashley, Cambridgeshire
  • Ashley, Cheshire
  • Ashli, Cyprus
  • Ashley, Devon
  • Ashley, Dorset
 McGee

ESTABLISHED: November 2004

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: Two

DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS: Installation of clear, flexible urethane urethane (yoor´ithān´),
n ethyl carbamate used as an anesthetic agent for laboratory animals, formerly used as a hypnotic in humans.
 that protects the paint on cars, trucks, RVs, boats, motorcycles and more, to protect them from rock chipping, abrasion abrasion /abra·sion/ (ah-bra´zhun)
1. a rubbing or scraping off through unusual or abnormal action; see also planing.

2. a rubbed or scraped area on skin or mucous membrane.
 and weathering.

IS THIS YOUR FIRST BUSINESS? Yes

WHY DID YOU START THIS BUSINESS? I was working for someone else who did the same thing, and I decided to move on.

WHERE DID YOU GET THE IDEA? I was with another company that installed similar products. They were limiting their accounts, so I decided to venture out on my own with it.

HOW LONG WAS IT FROM CONCEPT TO OPENING? Three months

WHAT DID YOU DO DURING THAT TIME? Designed fliers, shopped for the product and approached auto dealerships for potential work.

WHAT WERE YOUR STARTUP COSTS AND HOW DID YOU FINANCE THE BUSINESS? With $3,000 from savings and help from family and friends.

WHO DID YOU RELY ON FOR ADVICE? Sales managers sales manager ngerente m/f de ventas

sales manager ndirecteur commercial

sales manager sale n
 in similar businesses and dealers of the product.

WHAT HADN'T YOU CONSIDERED BEFORE OPENING? How quickly the product was selling and the interest it generated from auto dealerships.

WHAT IS YOUR EXPECTED REVENUE THIS YEAR? Between $40,000 and $60,000

WHAT GOALS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE COMPANY? To bring in more dealerships and hire more employees. Also, to branch out into different counties in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, .

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Photo:

(color) Ashley McGee, owner of Clear Guard, holds up a strip of the urethane coating for vehicles. The substance protects paint jobs and can prevent chipping from rocks and weathering.

Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News
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Date:Jun 20, 2005
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