10 Tips For Techs
As a technician, you should be doing all you can to save money and work efficiently. Why? Because by implementing a few new work habits, you can increase shop profits — and your chances for a raise.
Lining Your Pockets: Spray-on Bedliners
As pickup trucks have gained popularity, savvy shop owners have capitalized on the trend by adding spray-on bedliner businesses to their body shops.
Getting Into Customers’ Heads: Increasing the Chances of Selling Every Job
Hopefully, we can all agree that collision repair falls into two distinct operations: sales and production. Your shop may have the very latest heated downdraft booth and the snazziest computer-driven structural-repair bench, but unless you can get the customer to let your shop perform the repair, all the equipment in the world won’t help.
When OSHA Comes A Knockin’
An OSHA inspection is something nightmares are made of. And for one New Jersey shop owner, the nightmare was reoccurring because OSHA kept coming back, and back, and back …
Wheeling In The Profits: Tire & Wheel Service
Traditionally deemed mechanical work, tire and wheel service could be the edge your shop needs to attract more customers and inflate profits.
Working Designs: Bodyshop Layouts
More equipment and more space won’t automatically yield more profit. Productivity and profitability are just as much functions of managment as they are physical capacity.
A Place For Everything: Organization and Productivity
Organizing tools often falls last on a shop owner’s to do list. Unfortunately, a lack of organization can be one of the first things to affect productivity.
A Meaty Design: Layout to Increase Profits
Give your shop’s layout more bite! Though you’re not making hamburgers, you can McDonaldize your shop’s design and procedures to increase profits.
Make Room For Elbow Room: Clutter & Organizing Space
Removing clutter and organizing space is an inexpensive way to better utilize your shop’s layout — and to increase shop productivity.
Change Waits For No One
In the rapidly changing world of collision repair, something that was revolutionary yesterday may be obsolete tomorrow — including your business.