SUCCESSFUL REPAIR SHOP OWNERS USUALLY NEED HELP… AND THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT!
By Terry Keller
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: when you started your shop, you did it all.
You worked at the front counter, did most of the work in the bays, chose the marketing, and lead a small team of people you hired yourself.
The busier you got, the more directions you were pulled in. Managing employees and holding them accountable…tracking productivity and making sure nobody is wasting time and money…spending hours digging through expenses to make sure you’re not losing money…doing more than ever and getting less done.
And tell me this doesn’t sound familiar:
“How many entrepreneurs have missed their son’s football games or daughter’s soccer games? A dilemma emerges as the entrepreneur sells the vision, manages one or more functions, and works the floor. Vacations become a fading thought.
Blood pressure rises…Every day, every month, all year long they find themselves traversing an endless loop. They are busy, but not making progress toward their vision.”
The problem is that even the best business owners need support, says George Tyler in a GREAT article in Colorado Biz Magazine called “From entrepreneurial vision to profitable reality“.
It’s true of nearly every shop I’ve been in. That’s where Terry was when I met him (use the box on the right to get his messy, bloody story for free), and it’s where shop owner after shop owner is stuck.
The problem isn’t usually what the shop owner is trying to do with the shop…the problem is usually that shop owners just don’t have the time to do it alone.
When a shop owner “spends 70-80 percent of their time crusading for the business, the company’s revenue grows,” writes Tyler.
But if the shop owner “spends only 20-30 percent, the company begins to slide into financial ruin.” In other words, you need help getting back to what made you successful at the beginning: the time to concentrate on what you love.
Some of this takes work. Hiring people to take your place as you move into remote management won’t happen overnight.
But when it comes to holding employees accountable, freeing up your time, stepping out of the role of number-cruncher, and knowing more about your productivity and profitability without adding to your workload…
The RPM ToolKit™ does all of these things for you so you can get back to being the spouse, parent, and shop owner you wish you had the time to be. And it does these things for less than the cost of a single RO each month.
Like Tyler writes, to avoid running in place and wearing themselves out, shop owners “must identify the problem; resume being the visionary, and find people to conduct each required role.”
In other words, the best thing a shop owner can do to become more successful is to find a tool or an expert that can “review the symptoms, diagnose the problem and recommend a cure.”
From gross profit to day production, from technician efficiency to service writer closing ratio, the RPM ToolKit™ gives you the power to find the holes in your production, see where money is being left on the table, and instantly get access to solutions from our online encyclopedia, video tutorials, audio podcasts and more.
It’s truly the ONLY WORKING Scan Tool in existence…for your SHOP. Even better than a scan tool, the RPM ToolKit™ gives you the step-by-step answers on how to fix everything it diagnoses – with one click.
Read George Tyler’s entire article…you don’t have to be stressed, overwhelmed or stuck working in your business instead of on it… In other words, you can be successful, and help costs less than an average RO each month!