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Auto repair shop advice
Promoting a New (or Old!) Service
Whether you’re trying to justify a new equipment purchase or you just want to increase your profit margins, most shop owners have a particular service they’d like to grow without wasting a fortune to market it. The good news is that the...
Building Customer Trust from Six Feet (or Six Miles) Away
It’s important for auto repair shop owners, managers and service writers to build a connection with potential customers. Your shop will have more sales, higher margins and happier customers if those customers trust your employees to do...
Building a Strong Shop Identity
Today’s customers are used to shopping around for everything. To prevent a race to the bottom on prices, work hard to exceed your competitors in a way that really matters to your customers. Click here to learn how.
Showing Appreciation To Your Employees Builds Loyalty
This is one of the toughest times in recent memory to be an employee. The biggest reason isn’t mass layoffs or low wages or safety risks. It’s not because of anything related to employment at all. It’s simply because this is one of the...
How To Optimize an Auto Repair Shop Website for Voice Search
Here’s the short answer – by doing everything you should already be doing to optimize your website for regular search. Unfortunately, there are a number of “marketing firms” out there that would have you believe that you should pay them a...
Promote Specialized Services to Stand Out from Competitors
If you’re a general automotive shop, the odds are pretty good that you’re happy to see customers who need new brake pads and rotors. When we ran an informal survey of our customers asking them which five services they most prefer to do,...
Unemployment is High. There Still Won’t Be Enough Technicians.
The national unemployment rate continues to drop after the largest spike since the Great Depression, reaching 8.4% in August. That’s a massive improvement over April’s 14.7% but it’s still a number reached only once (during the Great...
Good News for Auto Repair Shops – Used Car Sales Spike
The sweet spot in the market for auto repair shops is vehicles that are 6-12 years old. The owners of these vehicles have recently gotten rid of their car payment, are no longer under warranty and will have to start investing in their...
3 Things To Consider If Your Repair Shop Has Too Much Business
The economic impact of COVID-19 varies tremendously from region to region. Some shops have faced such steep revenue declines that they’ve already been forced to close their doors. But many of our customers are telling us a very...