Big Ideas For Small Budgets: Enlarging your Facility
Imagine adding an estimating or detailing bay for less than $5,000. Think it’s impossible? Not with today’s canopy buildings and overhangs
Why Mechanical Repairs?
Collision repairs happen “by accident”, but success doesn’t. Quit praying for hail and start considering what mechanical services you can offer your customers
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.
Operations Profile: Negotiation Strategies
With less jobs to choose from, some shop owners got pickier while others negotiated everything but their first born
Creating a Winning Team
Note: The following article contains material
from Beau Hamilton’s Team Building seminar, which is conducted
for the collision repair industry and approved by ASA’s Automotive
Management Institute (AMI) for continuing-education credits.
Electrical Troubleshooting
Whether you’re working on a vehicle just involved in a collision or repairing one with a reoccurring electrical problem, a familiarity with strategy-based diagnostic flow charts
is critical.
The Invisible Repair
Bringing a collision-damaged car back to preaccident condition in a fast, quality-oriented manner while still making a reasonable profit is the goal of every modern body shop today.
To Be Dust Free Or Not To Be
An investment in a dust extraction system
Aftermarket Crash Parts vs. OE
Some people view the aftermarket crash parts vs. OE parts debate as a war, with the sides being the collision repair industry (wearing the armor of the OEMs) battling the insurance
industry (sporting aftermarket armor).