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Fragmented Marketing: How It’s Hurting Your Brand + Wasting Your Money

Shop Marketing Pros

We were auto repair shop owners, not marketers. This was 2002 to 2008. I wrote a guide on creating a real world marketing plan for your auto repair shop. But seriously, there are a lot of companies out there who specialize in marketing auto repair shops and provide a host of services.

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How Profit First Helped Turn An Entrepreneur Into A Businessman

Shop Marketing Pros

I also got my financial and business management skills from him, and that was a disaster. I worked for the Mercedes dealership for a few years before eventually opening my own auto repair shop. On top of that, my wife and I were terrible at managing our personal finances. It could have been an empire. I wanted that.

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Failing Forward: Look Back, Learn, and Move On

Shop Marketing Pros

In 2008, we failed big. We lost our auto repair shop and went bankrupt. The Fear Of Failure In Marketing Marketing is one of those places where the auto repair shop owners we talk to tend to have a lot of fear. You can’t build a great auto repair business without marketing. That’s a valid fear.

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What ‘Family-Owned and Operated’ Really Entails

Brake & Front End

In the auto repair industry, trust is the cornerstone of our service promise, and the stronger the trust factor is at your shop the more effective your service promise will be. This relative got to work and rose in responsibility, moving from lube tech to service advisor and eventually to assistant manager.

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What is a Porsche PDK Transmission?

Alex's Autohaus

One gearbox manages reverse, first, third, and seventh gear while the second gearbox handles second, fourth, and sixth. Managing two clutches would be next to impossible manually, however, these transmissions utilize a computerized system to hydraulically manage the shifts and clutch for you.

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Autoshop Solutions Wins 2024 Vega Platinum and Gold Website Awards

Autoshop Solutions

A Gold award was also won for Westgate High-Tech Auto Care’s website design. “To say we are excited to take home our first Platinum award is an understatement,” said Jacob Massengill, Marketing Manager for Autoshop Solutions. Westgate High-Tech Auto Care focuses on high-tech European auto repair in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Who Are the Best Marketing Partners/Companies for Your Auto Repair Shop?

Shop Marketing Pros

If you’re looking for a marketing company to work with to market your auto repair shop, you should talk to multiple of the companies on this list and make the decision that you think will be best for your auto repair shop. A CRM by definition is a customer relationship management tool.