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BUSINESS EDITORIAL - Management
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Tracking Lean Performance and Productivity
3/11/2010 11:08:48 AM
What is your primary method for keeping score of your business performance? Like the rest of the world, it’s probably your accounting system, your financials. It’s the same way for everyone. Whether you’...
Body Shop Profit Tips
2/9/2010
It’s early in the new year, and everyone is holding their breath and hoping to see a big turnaround in business. But we all know that turning things around has less to do with crossing fingers and more to do with takin...
Making the Most of a Body Shop's Space
1/18/2010
How many of you have walked around your body shop wondering how much better it would be if it just had more space? But the “ideal shop” isn’t always feasible. All body shops are unique in certain ways, su...
JUNE COVER STORY: Protect Your Interests
6/3/2009
How many times have you said in frustration, “But I had a signed repair authorization!” after a customer gets steered right out your door and down the street to a competing collision repair facility? It&#x...
MARCH COVER STORY: Rally for Retail
3/2/2009
At your current shop labor rate, can you repair enough cars in your market to pay all of your overhead, parts/materials, employee wages, loan payments, etc., and still achieve your profit goal? The answer is no. Rising Co...
Plan for Success
2/9/2009 3:17:46 PM
I’ve got my business plan right here! That’s the most common response I get when I ask body shop owners where they keep their business plans. Of course, the comment is made while they’re pointing to th...
Go High Tech
10/30/2008 4:12:50 PM
Are you still doing business the old-fashioned way? Making multiple phone calls and faxes to complete an estimate, wasting time handling paper documents and using shop management and estimating systems with limited parts orde...
Young Guns
9/26/2008
Collision Survival Guide
9/3/2008 2:03:04 PM
The price of gasoline is hovering around $4 per gallon, and miles driven have dropped dramatically. The U.S. economy is in a definite slowdown. Mortgage foreclosures are at record highs, and real estate values are dropping li...
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