Buying Power: Downdraft Spraybooths
Thinking about purchasing a new downdraft spraybooth or prep station? If you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.
Shop Owner Profile: Mom and Pop Operations
Family-run businesses still dominate the market, while the Mom and Pops running them are becoming better educated.
Market Profile: The Collision Repair Market in 1997
A year filled with changes and challenges, some shop owners came out ahead while others dreamed of getting out
Insurer-Related Profile: Relationships with Insurers
Some shop owners got mad, some got even and some didn’t even get mad.
The Road of Success
Focus on Dick’s Body Shop……
Fighting Fraud
Bring up the subject of fraud and most people within hearing distance will turn tail and run the other direction.
Breaking the Bottleneck
The collision industry has gone through a gamut of changes in
the last 20 years – most of them due to the constantly changing
automobile industry and the technology required to repair those
vehicles to preaccident condition. Others have been due to EPA
guidelines and the concern for the environment. Along with these
changes, new equipment, materials and procedures have been introduced.
Championing Ideals
Caring about customers and employees pays off!
Banking in Cyberspace
Though banking by computer may never completely replace “going to the bank”, most of the nation’s 10,000 financial institutions will offer online banking services by the year 2000.
The Necessary Equipment
If your shop were simply painting used cars,
you could do an adequate job with a bare minimum of equipment.
A paint gun, a random orbit sander and a masking machine would
get most of the work done. If you intend to do productive collision
repair, however, much more equipment is necessary.