Raj Hasan NagarajaFounder of Bookmycarservice Published On: Thursday, November 05, 2015 Views 4045

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

Raj Hasan is a man with abundance of expertise in the automotive industry. His career spans across a decade, giving him much credence. He is known for his team management skills as well as marketing and sales development. His ingenuity is clearly depicted by the number of honors and awards received by him over the course of time.

His career started as a strategic marketing manager, where he spends most of the last decade. Thereafter he took cognizance of the booming startup culture in India and conceptualized his own venturebookmycarservice.in. It isnew concept in Car Repair and Service Aggregation wherecustomer can book his/her Car Service/Repair appointment through our website. The last one year has been truly memorable for Raj as his dedication is coming to the forefront and resulting in the success of his startup. Within a span of 10 months, he has been able to close 3500+ and developed associations with more than 570 service centers in Karnataka.

Please provide a brief overview of your product/ service.

Bookmycarservice.in is the platform in Bangalore to help you to find the Nearest and the Best car Service Centers for your car Service/Repairs, Car Wash, Buy /Sell Pre-owned cars, Battery Replacement, Car Accessories, Car Detailing, Polishing, Interior and Exterior Cleaning, Tyre Replacements, Insurance Renewals.

To Provide High-quality service and customer satisfaction, we have chosen 570 Service/Repair Centers across the city.

What inspired you to build the above product/ service?

I am in the automobile industry over a decade now .We found that Most of Car Owners including us would have had bad experiences when there is a need to service their vehicles, because they just dropped in at any service center. More often than not they do this, for the lack of knowledge of where they should be going. To bridge this gap is what Bookmycarservice.

What is your life mantra?

Be creative.

What was the most challenging part of your journey till now?

Most challenging part is living up to the expectations of service providers and customers.

How did you overcome those challenges?

We are taking help of new technologies available and adding new apps to our platforms.

Share some details about the investments that you have been able to fetch for the business till now.

We are funded by ourselves. Now few of the investment managers have approached we are in the process of getting investments from VC’s.

How do you protect yourself from the problem of Brain Drain?

We have a friendly work environment everyone is equal. We are open for suggestions and critics from the employees. Most of the decision are taken after taking opinions from the employees. We do reward the employees for their contributions.

According to you, what are the three qualities an individual must have to achieve success?

Creative, Dedication and perseverance.

Which online tools/ services/ apps do you use the most and would like to recommend as well?

Google apps

Share any one habit which you think makes you more productive.

Look out for new technologies and apps.

Answer in less than 50 words

• One tip to success:

Be Creative, Have Dedication towards your work and Have perseverance .Be live in your Self .

• One mistake you believe every individual must avoid:

Over confident

• One most important lesson that you have learnt till now:

Have Perseverance everything will fall in place.

What are your plans for next 3 years?

The company has clear future goals in mind, it plans to make a pan- India presence and will launch soon across India. Other major goals include servicing more than 7500 Cars in Bangalore by March 2016, Starting operations in more than 5 Cities by March 2016, Building up a 24/7 Breakdown team in Bangalore by end of 2016 and Starting Insurance Renewal and focus on used cars, car wash, battery and Tyre replacement , spares and accessories business.

What are your top three getaway destinations?

Coorg, Dandeli and Doodh Sagar.

Share a quote that inspires you the most.

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

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