Monster iCarPlay Cassette Adapter 800 for iPod and iPhone (3 feet)
Monster iCarPlay Cassette Adapter 800 for iPod and iPhone (3 feet)
- Pops right into your car’s cassette deck to play music from your iPod or iPhone.
- Lightweight, portable design stores easily when not in use
- Improved cassette head mechanism for improved sound quality.
- Spring-loaded cassette head maintains solid contact with your cassette tape player’s head for clear sound
- Dual Balanced conductors delivers more natural audio
iCarPlay® Cassette 800
for iPod® and iPhoneEnjoy Your iPod or iPhone on the Road
Why shuffle through stacks of CDs and tapes to find the song you want while you’re driving? Your iPod has all the music you want just a click away. Just pop the Monster iCarPlay® 800 into your car’s cassette tape player and plug it into your iPod’s headphone port. The Monster iCarPlay lets you and your friends enjoy your favorite music for the whole trip.List Price: $ 24.95
Question by conman’s mom.
I’m thinking about opening up a car audio and truck accessories business. I’ve been doing some research but it’s very overwhelming. I would like for your tips and opinions.
My husband is really good and loves to install car audio and such. I’m good at financial part. We already have the shop and there are only two audio places in town that are extremely high priced. We priced what we can get our inventory for and it’s atleast 100 dollars less than what they are selling it for. I’m just open for all tips and opinions.
Best answer:
Answer by girlwhoknowsitstrue
a few questions
1) have you worked in that field?
2) Do you have enough other money that you need no income from this business for 3 – 5 years?
3) Do you have a way to start small?
4) Who and where is your competition?
So many open businesses in an area that they’re not an expert in.
Honestly, let’s look at it – car audio accessories – well, Sirius and XM are making headway, can you make money installing those systems? Truck Accessories, like Rhino liners? I think you need to buy a franchise.
I’m not trying to scare you, I just think if you don’t have a solid business plan, you’ll be part of the 95% of business that fail in year one.
My advice – go with a franchise if you don’t know what you’re doing, use their expertise, and once you learn it you can go out on your own.
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Car Audio Accessories: From Stereos to Speakers
Article by Eddie Lamb
For most people, driving would be very boring without some kind of car audio accessories. How many people do you know drive without listening to anything on their stereo or CD player? You probably can’t think of anyone. That’s because as much as people love their cars, the same people also love their car audio accessories.
Some people give very little thought to their car audio accessories. They buy their car and just accept what their cars come with, which is usually just a stock radio and stock speakers. Stock just means that the car audio accessories are the ones that come complete with the car, without any upgrades.
However, there are just as many or more that give a great amount of thought to their car audio accessories. For these people, they can’t imagine going anywhere, even the corner store, without listening to their favorite music on a state of the art stereo/CD player complete with an entire set of state of the art speakers. For these people, money is usually no object as their main goal is to stuff their cars with as much sound equipment as possible. You can tell these people when you pull up next to them at a stoplight and your car begins to rattle from the bass coming from their cars.
Listen to Anything You Like on Your New System
The truth is, however, that car audio accessories don’t necessarily just have to be used for music. Now, people are buying car audio accessories for a great many reasons, not just to listen to their favorite songs. Many people use their car audio accessories to listen to talk radio, to listen to training lessons for their job or even to listen to audio books, which is a great way to keep up with the latest publications if you don’t have the luxury to relax and read.
Shopping for the latest car audio accessories can be a lot of fun. Sometimes, getting an entire set of new car audio accessories is like getting a new car. Your entire dash changes and the sound coming from a new set of speakers is nothing like you’ve ever heard before sitting behind your wheel. You can quickly spend a lot of money on a new set of car audio accessories but you’ll soon forget about the amount you spent when you’re jamming out to your favorite type of music on your brand new car audio accessories.
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Before you go into business for yourself, I would HIGHLY reccomend that you read the book Cash Flow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki. You will find that being self employed you are trading LOTS of time for….well……maybe some money (with you having all the overhead and liability). If you choose to start a small business, make sure that you absolutely LOVE what you will be doing.
Just save up a lot of money before starting the business. Also make sure you are educated in that field.
How about we start small first? A small inventory, low overhead, less headaches, etc. – I’m talking of flea markets, car shows, bazaars. Maybe you can start your business on a smaller scale and as you go along, you learn more about the trade by actual experience. Then when you’re ready, go ahead and have your full-time store.
If this sounds good to you, concentrate your research on suppliers (where/what to buy), price structure (price tag – cost = profit), location/scheduling (where/when you want to set up).
Good luck.
My first biz was a stereo installation shop. Lasted not even a year cause I did it wrong. I then opened a detail shop, it closed in under a year. A year later I reopened the detail shop and it lasted 3 yrs then failed. I then went to work for those in the detail industry and got jobs as head detailer at Lexus and Infiniti. While there I hung out at the body shops to get a eye for paint. After like 9 yrs of detailing for myself and for others, I got a job as a touch up paint guy. I worked for them for a year and then went out on my own. 10 yrs later this May and I am still here, going strong, and have one of the best reps around.
Know your field inside and out, live it, breath it, work all levels inside it to know all angels, suppliers, prices, methods, competition, etc.
I would then actually get a map of your town, paper or use like Google Earth, and put push pins all over the map of where every competitor is, no matter how big or small. Then color in or mark off the regions you are going after for clients. Being stereos and all I would assume middle to upper class that has money to spend on their cars.
To save expense, I would skip the shop. Shops seems sweet and all but they are such a pain. Rent, electric, gas, water, dumpster bill, employees, taxes, cleaning the place, security system, stock, just a big pain and it takes up so much of your time and money.
All of my work is mobile, I have the back of a Blazer set up as a rolling mini body shop. Tool box with 300 paints, air compressor, you name it. I can paint up to an entire side of a car from the back of my truck, outside, mobile, on the spot. Great angle for customers….never lose their car, I do the work while they are home or at work.
For you I would say do the same thing. Get a SUV of some sort and get a basic tool box and bolt it down. Put all your wires, tools, harnesses, wire nuts, etc all organzied in the box. Set up anything else you need, extension cords, tube lights, battery jumper box, etc. Name yourself something like Mobile Sound on Wheels or something. Get some biz cards, open up a bank account in the biz name. Then go around to dealerships, detail shops, muffler shops, parking lots with high line cars, ricers and leave cards everywhere. Waste like $ 100 just dumping biz cards all over, even get the little plastic holders at Office Max to hold them in for counter displays.
Color print out all images, catalogs, etc of all items you know you can get, have access too, know how to work, install, etc, every last thing and put it all into a binder. That is now your work bible. As customers call you, you meet up with them, check out their car, what they have, and then you flip through your bible and pick out what you believe will be the best system or items for them. have a price sheet in the back of the book with THEIR PRICE showing, NEVER yours. Leave that price at home.
This will be more of a personal service, more home touch, and I can tell you from dealing with guys with BMW, Porsches, etc all day long. They love guys who know their stuff who come out mobile and do work at their homes so they can watch and learn a few tricks. They just eat it up all day long.
You can even use the SUV as your normal car as well as the stuff is just in back. Plus I can tell you from experience, when you are self employed, you are never off the clock, you are always working, shopping, marketing, spreading the word, something, you do live it, but its a fun life if you love what you do.
Glad to see another come into the car industry. Be different, be yourself, be personal. Don’t follow the crowd, odd man out is who gets noticed and gets the work.