Protected: Profit Series Part 19 with Greg Lobsiger
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July 2022
Profit Series Part 18 with Greg Lobsiger
MIRROR MATCHING PARTS & LOWERING PARTS RETURNS are very important to high profitability. Mirror Matching Parts: When the parts arrive at our shop for a vehicle that has been fully Blueprinted, they must have a thorough check-in process the day of arrival!! Not two days later or you will just slow the car down if
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Social Media Marketing – tips, tricks, hacks and strategies
I know a lot of people struggle with social media marketing, so Ben Fewtrell from Smash Social has joined with us to share his knowledge and experience and help some of those that are thinking about using social media, or maybe they’re using social media, but haven’t quite got the results that they want to
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Profit Series Part 17 with Greg Lobsiger
One thing I missed discussing during the estimating part, was taking good photos. Rarely can we put a line item on the estimate for, ‘Take photos / one hour labor’ for a car we are going to repair. We wish we didn’t have to do this of course, but it’s just part of being in
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Profit Series Part 16 with Greg Lobsiger
Now on to Parts, Paint & Sublet COGS. I won’t get into parts discounts very deeply here, but finding good parts suppliers, with good discounts, inventory and SERVICE is key. This is year 2022 and if you are ordering parts by phone, fax or email, you will likely never achieve high profitability. One more thing
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Profit Series Part 15 with Greg Lobsiger
Earlier in the week, in Profit Series part 14, I posted an estimate with photos for a quarter panel replacement on 2017 Traverse. Last week’s TEST estimate had approx. 40 estimate lines, 43 hours of labor and approx. $2473 in gross profit. This was an actual job we did in our shop a while back
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Profit Series Part 14 with Greg Lobsiger
Estimating Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with a very successful fellow veteran shop owner, that I have a lot of respect for. We don’t agree on everything, and we run our shops very differently from each other, but that’s ok! He made me think and even gave me a new metric to study,
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