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Grow Your Maintenance Work, Grow Your Margins
Auto repair shops that perform high levels of maintenance work have higher profits. Maintenance work also yields longer-term customers who are more trusting and more satisfied than repair customers. Click here for three ways to grow...
Why is Video Important for Your Auto Repair Shop’s Website?
If you’re running any type of small business today, it’s more important than ever to have an engaging, effective website. A critical part of that website in 2018 is educational video content. Here’s why. #1 – Customers want it. People...
Three Ways to Profit from New Equipment
The rising cost of equipment is one of the largest challenges that shops face today, and it’s likely to get worse as cars become more computerized. Click here for three ways to make sure that major equipment purchases will pay for...
What is an Auto Repair Shop Business Plan, Really?
With so many hours focused on managing your auto repair shop, sometimes it’s hard to take a step back and see beyond that description of your business. Odds are, your repair shop is a lot of other things, too. It’s where you see many of...
Three Terrible New Year’s Resolutions for Auto Repair Shop Owners
It’s getting to be the time of year where everyone is taking a look at things that went really well in 2017, and also things that didn’t go so well. Those thoughts always seem to lead to New Year’s Resolutions. While it’s a little...
What Makes a Great Auto Repair Shop Employee?
It takes more than technical skills to make a great technician, and it takes more than people skills to make a great service writer. They must also be great employees. Click here to learn about a a few things that you should screen for...
Change Your Provider, Keep Your Web Address!
One of the things that repair shops worry about when they join us is that they’ll lose their domain name when we start managing their website. A domain name is the web address of your shop – for instance, www.KennedyAutoSolutions.com. ...
How Current US Automobile Trends Affect Independent Auto Repair Shops
For auto repair shops, most financial opportunity lies in out-of-warranty vehicles still on the roads. That means that it’s important to consider what that mix of vehicles looks like (and what it’s going to look like in the coming years)...
Three Ways to Improve Auto Repair Shop Employee Morale
One of the biggest impacts a shop owner can make as a leader is to provide a great work environment – one that allows their employees to happily provide for themselves and their family, instead of making them miserable. But it’s not just...