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Why You Shouldn’t Cut Back on Digital Marketing

Profit is a good word, and the more the better. But when things get tight, owners and managers have to make tough decisions about what to do with their budgets, and often the cuts they make are exactly the opposite of what they should be doing.

Healthy Curiosity: Clinging to the Old Ways of Doing Things Could Be Detrimental to Your Shop’s Growth

Curiosity is a key element in the evolution of both people and businesses. Often, however, the structures we surround ourselves with don’t lend themselves to exploring new ideas or new ways of doing things.

Dollar Average Repair, Close Rate and Other Ways to Measure Your Body Shop’s Success

I’m firmly convinced that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

In Challenging Times, Book Explores Why Some Collision Repairers Are ‘Crushing It’

In “The Secrets of America’s Greatest Body Shops,” Dave Luehr explains why now is the best time in history to be in the collision repair industry.

What I Wish I Could Tell My Younger Self

Body shop owners and managers who are now older and wiser reflect on what they’ve learned about the collision repair industry.

Key to Business: Increasing Sales and Controlling Expenses

There’s a hole in your shop floor representing your expenses, and the only way to fill it is to generate gross profit. And that’s the key to success: increasing sales while controlling expenses.

Small Business Commitment

I had driven by this one body shop many times. They had sparkling glass on their front doors and a nice customer waiting area. Then I saw the one sign that’s a universal indicator of a truly great body shop: I-CAR Gold Class.

Production: Don’t Be a Bottleneck

Bottlenecks come in many shapes and sizes – paint booths, frame machines, even people. Here’s how to identify and fix them.

Super Ideas for Your Shop

These initiatives from creative shops might just inspire you to be different and daring.

Business Management: Electronic Avenue

A lot of body shops are still ordering parts via the phone or fax, but electronic parts procurement is slowly but surely gaining ground.

10 Things That Will Kill Cycle Time in Your Body Shop

These are 10 things that body shops do every day that make no sense in our industry and only serve to make us more inefficient and less profitable.

The New Class

These young body shop owners are dead set on breaking the mold and altering customers’ stereotypes of collision repair facilities.