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How to Sell Your Body Shop
5/10/2010
If you’re a regular reader of BodyShop Business, you already know that times are tough in the collision repair industry. Sales are down, costs are up and profits are hard to find.
Looking at the numbers, itȁ...
Body Shop Profit Tips
2/9/2010
It’s early in the new year, and everyone is holding their breath and hoping to see a big turnaround in business. But we all know that turning things around has less to do with crossing fingers and more to do with takin...
Developing a Lean Body Shop Business Model
1/18/2010
Nearly every conversation I have with those who are starting down the “lean” path begins with a question around some specific and structural concern, i.e., “How do you pay your people?” or, “...
Making the Most of a Body Shop's Space
1/18/2010
How many of you have walked around your body shop wondering how much better it would be if it just had more space? But the “ideal shop” isn’t always feasible. All body shops are unique in certain ways, su...
SHOP PROFILE: Shedding DRPs for Survival
10/22/2009 3:07:37 PM
In collision repair, it’s survival of the fittest, so it’s no accident that Detroit’s Nortown Collision has been around for over 60 years. As the vehicles, the people and the city Nortown serves have evol...
No Magic Here
2/9/2009
After several years of writing pieces on how lean can be applied to collision repair, I still get people asking, “How do I get it done?” Most want to know specifically what they should do, and I often get reques...
Go High Tech
10/30/2008 4:12:50 PM
Are you still doing business the old-fashioned way? Making multiple phone calls and faxes to complete an estimate, wasting time handling paper documents and using shop management and estimating systems with limited parts orde...
Picking a PBE Jobber
10/30/2008 4:05:12 PM
There’s no question that the collision repair business in the United States is changing, and this change is affecting everyone in the distribution chain: product manufacturers, manufacturer’s reps, warehouse dis...
Green & Mean
10/30/2008 3:24:11 PM
Collision Survival Guide
9/3/2008 2:03:04 PM
The price of gasoline is hovering around $4 per gallon, and miles driven have dropped dramatically. The U.S. economy is in a definite slowdown. Mortgage foreclosures are at record highs, and real estate values are dropping li...
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