GSB-42: Second Q&A Episode

Gas Station Business 101 Podcast - How to Start, Run and Grow a Successful Gas Station Business

Welcome to Gas Station business 101 podcast, I am Shabbir Hossain, and this is episode 42. For those of you who are joining me for the very first time, this is a show where we discuss from how to start, run and grow a gas station/convenience store business successfully and make money. In each and every episode we discuss a new topic that is targeted towards improving your business one step at a time.

Topics could vary from marketing ideas, to fuel management to bookkeeping and many more just like these topics, if you want me to cover a topic in a future episode, feel free to email me, and I will try my best to cover it in a future episode. Now here is the fun part, if you send me a topic that is valuable enough for everyone, and I make an episode out of it, that episode will be dedicated to you. Sounds good?

Let's get started.

Q1. How to use Facebook for gas station marketing? (Reference Episode#10)

Q2. Can leasing a gas station get me an E2 Visa? ( Reference Episode#31)

For answer also read my blog post by clicking HERE

Q3. I have ATM, should I start selling money orders too?

Q4. How to do I find out about previous contamination of a gas station that I am buying?

Q5. How do I know if the tanks of a Gas station I am buying has fiberglass tanks and not metal tanks like you said some stations have?

Q6. What kind of insurance do I need to get that can protect me from various loss and theft?

Q7. At closing the seller wants me to pay a percentage of the retail inventory, what should I do?

Q8. Should I change from selling diesel to selling E85 as E85 is much cheaper, and I am in a very competitive neighborhood

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