There is a very long list of items an automotive repair shop includes in the category of shop supplies. For example, Acetylene, Protective Materials, Gasket Materials, Bench Lubricants, Special Adhesive, Chassis Grease, Gasket Sealer Comp.,
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During a recent trip to Dallas, Texas, I was a hot coach. I touched down at 10am and it was already 95 degrees! My first order of business was to get to my room to
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If your shop does not sell tires, then ask yourself, “why not?” There are so many benefits to having tire sales as a profit center in your business. Industry-standard says that 25% of all the tires
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Being an ATI coach, I hear this phrase a lot from my shop owners: “I just don’t have time.” It stems from trying to maintain an ownership/life balance combined with issues that haven’t been 100%
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Did you go into business planning to build a multi-million dollar “product” you could sell? When it comes to auto repair, this is rarely the case. Most of the shop owners I work with started
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Succession planning. We can’t talk enough about it and have thousands of shop owners who can benefit from this wisdom. The average shop owner doesn’t think about preparing for his or her exit until they’re
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COVID has reshaped the way we interact with one another to such a degree that new ways to interact have become key to our success in starting, keeping, building, and expanding relationships with your workforce.
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“Hey, can you change the channel?” Some of us have asked this question at one point in time or another or may have been the one who was asked. In either circumstance, we’re well versed in
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Taking the time to source the right person for the job is the most important step in hiring. If you haven’t built a bench of contacts and resources you can lean on when you lose an employee, you resort
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In his book Good to Great, Jim Collins communicates the concept of The Stockdale Paradox. It’s based on the experience of James Stockdale, a high-ranking naval officer who was held captive as a prisoner of war for seven
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