Gavin McGahey from Planning Plus Software & Auto Body Shop Consultants had the opportunity to talk with a special guest all way from America, Mr. Greg Lobsiger from Loren’s Body Shop. Gavin came across Greg through Dave Luehrs, Elite Body Shop site where he was generous enough to do a 20-part series on profitability that […]
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Recently Gavin held a quick 10 Minute Q & A with Colin Stevenson from HC Stevenson Consultancy who offers remote estimating services for collision repairers. Give me the two-minute Colin Stevenson work journey? All right. 1978; left school, went into an apprenticeship as a painter, stayed painting in the one shop for 13years, went repping
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Gavin has the book; he has the knowledge, and he is a Business Coach and Russ wanted to know if Gavin was available to do half-hour chats with people from a coaching perspective on a shop-by-shop basis or was it too difficult in this climate to reach people. With tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams,
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Russ agreed, Gavin was not the only one to learn the hard way. One of his favourite sayings is “I’ve learned by my mistakes, that’s why I know so much.” It has been a constant series of failures, but Russ says they are not wins and losses, they are wins and lessons now. Russ looks
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Recently Gavin was interviewed by Russ Hill, National Client Manager at Crashzone about his book Know Your Numbers! It’s The Heartbeat Of Your Business. Russ has been in the industry as long as Gavin and says there can be skepticism about experts telling repairers what to do, Russ wanted to clear that up. Gavin started
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How does sharing the numbers with your team benefit you and your business, what made you decide to share the numbers and what was the result. Joe Hinkens from Mainline Autobody in California learnt early on that there were two camps, some business owners who keep all the information close to their chest and then
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Absolutely not! That was the clear answer from Joe Hinkens from Mainline Auto Body. Decades on, Joe is still called upon by his colleagues who are curious or interested in what advice he can offer on clever pay plans with a mindset that it will fix their problems or fix their situation. His advice is,
Joe Hinkens from Mainline Auto Body has always been of the mindset that he wanted to press the easy button, when possible, take a shortcut where possible and not beat himself up to learn something new or develop a new skillset if someone has already carved that path. Follow their lead, so over the many
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Woodriff Smash Repairs is just in the final stages of rebranding, getting all the old apparel and logos out of the business and presenting the Woodriff Preferred Auto brand. How this all came about was through an exercise with their business coach Terry. With Terry being the consultant, he was there to support, and he
Coaching brought on some changes for the Leadership Team at Woodriff Smash Repairs. They took a step back and looked at what they wanted to be known for and started to create the foundations of what Woodriff Smash Repairs was then, and now moving forward to Woodriff Preferred Auto. They looked at the four pillars
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