The Parts Debate
What will it take for insurers to part with aftermarket parts and for repairers to allow recycled parts to play a major role in their repairs?
The Inventory Ate My Profits
When you stack inventory on your shelves, you might as well be stacking dollar bills. The key is to control your inventory – instead of letting it control you.
The Aftermarket Parts War
Don’t surrender in defeat. If your business has suffered because of imitation-parts usage, consider these strategies to help heal your battle wounds.
The Road of Success
Focus on Dick’s Body Shop……
No Bonding Allowed
It wasn’t long ago that the only choice a repair technician had to replace a quarter panel, roof or door skin was to cut it off and weld it back on.
Fighting Fraud
Bring up the subject of fraud and most people within hearing distance will turn tail and run the other direction.
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.
Which Benefits Are Beneficial
For most collision repair shop owners, devising
an effective employee benefit plan is a guessing game at best.
Surviving a Shop Inspection
Don’t wait to become a statistic. Any money spent on being proactive now is money that won’t be spent on fines later
Purchasing Power
Before you hand over the cash, rattle off your credit card account number or sign the bottom of a check, be sure you can justify the expense of that new piece of equipment.