Restoring Beauty to America’s Roadways - BodyShop Business

Main Navigation

Advertisement
Social Connect
Resources
Our Brand Family
BodyShop Business - Babcox Media
The information source for the collision repair industry.
Sponsored Content

Restoring Beauty to America’s Roadways

By Steve Calitri

WreckWeek
By WreckWeek
Published:

To many in America, particularly automobile buffs, the car is like a beautiful model designed and engineered by man; purely functional, yet designed with sleek and sensual contours. When the bodies of these gorgeous models are decaying or damaged, the auto body shop is called on to restore the vehicle to its original beauty. The best plastic surgeon wishes he could restore beauty with the precision of a body man.

Restoring Beauty to America’s Roadways is the slogan of WreckWeek, featuring ShopXpo and TowXpo at the Fort Worth Convention Center, June 20 – 22. Exhibits on the ShopXpo floor will offer body shop owners and managers the equipment, tools, and systems needed for their trade. The WreckWeek Academy, conducted by DRIVE, offers seminars in improving efficiencies, reducing costs, and growing profits. How to successfully negotiate and deal with insurance companies is one of the topics addressed by DRIVE.

Collision Center owners who run their operations well, do so because they are focused on excellence. Mentally it is hard to take one’s mind over to the financial side of the business with the goal of making the business grow. Creating Wealth from one’s business base is one of the WreckWeek Academy seminars, this one conducted by DRIVE’s Larry Monroe. The wealth-building techniques discussed by Monroe alone makes the trip to Fort Worth worthwhile for every body shop owner across the country.

Investment strategies, retirement planning, tax optimization, and diversifying income streams will be explored in WW’s wealth-creation seminar. This presentation, as all of them, is addressed from the core understanding of what it takes to run a body shop. DRIVE specializes in consulting and educating business owners of auto body and auto-repair shops.

In “Restoring Beauty”, WreckWeek and ShopXpo have set out to speak to the pride and skillset of the body shop owner and manager. The Academy speaks to the owner who wants to be more profitable and create more wealth. For a complete breakdown of the Academy seminars being offered, go to WreckWeek.com.

DRIVE will also be available for free consultations on ShopXpo’s exhibit floor; just one more reason to consider flying to Dallas-Ft. Worth.

Shop owners who service the automobile are the epitome of the American entrepreneur, serving a niche need in the functioning of society. They are men of both grit and finesse. Many will love one of WW’s special event, The Big Smoke and Cattle Roundup, where this industry’s cigar aficionados can go to enjoy a premium cigar over a juicy steak.

Shop owners who have entertained buying a tow truck, or growing into the towing trade, will have free access into TowXpo, located in the hall adjacent to ShopXpo. To register for WreckWeek, visit www.wreckweek.com.

WreckWeek, featuring ShopXpo is officially sponsored by Body Shop Business Magazine. Long-established shops may apply to be ranked in the BSB 500 by going to www.bodyshop500.com.

Sponsored by: WreckWeek.

You May Also Like

Sponsored Content

Rolling into the Repair Shop: Advice on Moving Vehicles Safely and Efficiently

By Tony Ashmore and Brian O’Reilly With each damaged car that rolls into your repair shop, there’s a unique set of challenges. Perhaps it’s a vehicle hit hard on the front end that needs the motor taken out or a whole corner destroyed. In the automotive repair industry, safety and efficiency go hand in hand.

US Auto Supply
By US Auto Supply
Published:

By Tony Ashmore and Brian O’Reilly

With each damaged car that rolls into your repair shop, there’s a unique set of challenges. Perhaps it’s a vehicle hit hard on the front end that needs the motor taken out or a whole corner destroyed. In the automotive repair industry, safety and efficiency go hand in hand. Part of that safety is the ability to move these damaged vehicles around your shop with ease, especially when they arrive in various states of disrepair.

Read Full Article

More Sponsored Content Posts
WRECKWEEK’S FIRST YEAR WILL FETE “THE 500”AND SHOWCASE CREATIVE RESTORATIONS

By Steve Calitri

By WreckWeek
An Ode to the Parts Cart: The Deceivingly Simple Solution to Optimizing Shop Productivity

By Tony Ashmore and Brian O’Reilly When it comes to managing your shop, in a perfect world there’s an organized, universal system. A system where every disassembled part is accounted for and stays perfectly intact, and where new parts are not misplaced, allowing every project to finish on time. Realistically though, we’re all human and

By US Auto Supply
Easy, Open and Honest: What Consumers Expect from Businesses in 2024 and Beyond

How has your business and the world changed since COVID-19? One key takeaway from the pandemic was the need for accessibility—the option to do things conveniently and with as little friction as possible. Synchrony recently published a report titled “The Rise of the Consumer: Redefining the Brand Relationship,” where they found that consumers overall want

By Synchrony Financial
Pre-Scan and Post-Scan are Solid Gold for Profitability

To understand where we are, we must always understand where we have been. The first computer-controlled system on a vehicle had to perform only one function, to control the electronic fuel injection. This was back in the day when the 1968 Volkswagen® Type 3 Fastback had a transistorized electronic module manufactured by Bosch® and was

By Snap-on

Other Posts

The BodyShop Business 500: The Longest-Established Body Shops in America

BodyShop Business is compiling a list of the 500 oldest body shops in the U.S.

By Steve Calitri
GOOD TO THE LAST DROP

PPG MoonWalk® system takes color mixing to the next level of precision

By PPG Industries
Find the Perfect Match: Choosing a Franchise

Exploring franchise opportunities requires the same dedication and attention to detail as finding a soulmate, says ProColor Collision’s Scott Bridges. Deciding if you should join a franchise and, if so, which one, bears an uncanny resemblance to the world of dating apps. In both cases, you’re looking for a compatible partner who aligns with your

By ProColor Collision
Optimizing Your Shop’s Performance through the Collision Repair Community

In today’s times, collision repair facilities are being faced with challenges and obstacles from all angles. Shops finally have more work than they know what to do with, some with six-week backlogs. But with that “gold rush” of cars, some have found it harder to maintain their high level of customer service, profitability, and operational

By FinishMaster