Expert Advice: Growing or Selling Your Business
Whether you want to grow your business or sell your business, it’s wise to follow in the footsteps of shop owners who’ve gone where you’d like to go.
Balancing Act: Making Goals and Plans
You can’t manage time, so quit trying. Focus your energy on setting goals and establishing plans to achieve them, and you’ll find your time better used and your life more balanced.
Stuck On Plastics: Adhesion Problems
Ever had a flaky experience when refinishing plastic parts? You’re not alone. To help prevent further adhesion problems, consider these common-sense cures — used by a pro whose history with plastics is long and sordid.
Weighing the Options: Repair or Replace?
To repair or replace shouldn’t be decided by tossing a coin or by an insurance company. If you’re unsure what to do, your best bet for success is to talk with techs who’ve been there, done that.
Why Get Certified: ASE Certification and Profits
ASE Certification can help boost your shop’s professionalism and customer confidence — which, in turn, can help boost your shop’s profits.
Why Comply? Mandates of the EPA and OSHA
With all the regulations mandated by the EPA and OSHA, it’s easy to spend so much time trying to comply that you hardly have any time left to repair cars, right? Wrong! Quit complaining and start complying.
Creating The Super Estimator
Transform a mild-mannered estimator into “The Man Who Sells Steel Repair” by teaching him how to communicate effectively with people.
You Can Look, But You Can’t Have: 1999 Concept Cars
Out-of-this-world objects were sighted in Detroit, where dozens of futuristic concept cars landed at the 1999 North American International Auto Show.
A New Profit Center: Part 3 of “Getting Paid for What You Know”!
It’s estimated that more than 100,000 people in the United States need — and will pay for — your automotive expertise on a daily basis. This is the last part of a three-part series designed to show you how to get paid for what you know.
Spreadsheet: Documentation
In the United States, more than 800 million auto-related transactions occur each year requiring documentation.