There are many ways to build your career and boost the quality of the shop, from the owner to the service advisor to the technician. Here are insights from leading coaches and experts to help…
It’s important to the customer that you improve this area. Here are some tips…
If you don’t set a customer’s expectations on your terms, you’re going to have to live up to their expectations on their terms, says a shop owner and coach. A customer may have come in for an oil change and…
Automotive professionals looking to take a certification test can now register for the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence’s (ASE) winter session. Registration is open until March 31, 2022. There are more than 50 ASE certification tests, covering nearly every…
Auto Service World — ASW Conversations: Extending services beyond your shop’s four walls On the latest episode of ASW Conversations, our host and publisher Peter Bulmer speaks with Shiva Bhardwaj, founder and chief executive officer of Pitstop, a Toronto-based mobility…
New software from Mitchell 1 includes new automotive fleet management and communication features. The latest enhancements in Manager SE help increase a service provider’s capability to integrate and communicate with their automotive fleet customers, Mitchell 1 said in an announcement.…
By Susan Hitchon There’s no question that loyal clients are highly coveted in any industry. Under stable or normal market conditions, almost any business owner would agree that client loyalty needs to be at the top of the priority…
By Allan Janssen There are plenty of ways to lose money in a repair shop. Avoiding the pitfalls in the bays, the manager’s office and at the front counter is what defines success in this business. When it comes to…
How to create real loyalty with your ASP clients.
Some of the most common ways service advisors sabotage their own performance.
By Peter Bulmer We conducted a straw poll recently to find out what lessons people are taking away from the extraordinary circumstances we’re all facing this year. I’ve learned… …to maintain a wide array of services…
As motor oil grades and specifications develop and vehicle technology evolves, auto repair shops must have several different grades of oil on hand where only a couple would have sufficed in the past. With this in mind, and combined with the…