Creating Success with Less Sacrifice
Empower your team to make positive changes to reach the goals you’ve set. By David Rogers Rising operating costs and technician shortages are the norm, and it’s harder than ever …
Why Automotive Shop Management Training Is Essential
Owning an automotive shop is difficult work and ensuring that your shop operates as smoothly as possible can be a complicated process. Automotive shop management training helps to streamline your …
3 Benefits of Starting Your Own Automotive Business
The automotive repair industry is set to grow. According to the United States Department of Labor, the automotive industry will need an increase of about 7% in new automotive technicians …
Making Changes Stick
by David Rogers Change is hard. Realizing that your business needs to change something, and then seeing that through all the way to implementing a new process or procedure or …
How to Be a Team Building Leader
Nolan O’Hara Interview for Ratchet + Wrench Magazine David Rogers, president and founder of Auto Profit Masters and COO of Keller Bros. Auto Repair in Littleton, Colorado, has been helping shop owners grow and …
3 Things to Know When Opening Your Own Auto Shop
Auto repair shops are always going to be necessary for this country. There are a lot of people who require assistance with their vehicles when they break down. These folks …
Stop the Pain of Multiple Diagnostic Charges
Stop the pain of multiple diagnostic charges You don’t have to personalize the process of selling diagnostics! by David Rogers The management triangle represents financial balance between the shop, the …
Leading Your Team To Long-Term Success: Lessons In Leadership
Real leadership requires us to face our fears and do things that can seem against our nature at first. By David Rogers Over more than 20 years of coaching …
Shop Profile – Veenstra’s Garage, Grand Rapids, MI
Mike Veenstra ditched stale marketing techniques and began targeting higher-quality customers – it worked. as published in Shop Owner Magazine For Mike Veenstra, the search is on for location number …
3 Reasons to Work for a Small Automotive Shop
For many people, their career can only be gratifying if they get to do something that they love and they’re passionate about. For some people, a technical career is the …
How (And Why) Your Internal Computer Should Be Rebooted
Doug Kaufman and David Rogers discuss why the old ways may be the wrong ways to reach business success. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and …
Establish Successful Habits To Boost Business
Learn how to break bad habits and establish successful ones to help your business thrive. by David Rogers The last two years have produced some incredible stories. I’ve watched up …
4 Ways a Shop Management System Can Benefit Your Business
According to Cars Guide, there are approximately 1.4 billion registered cars in the United States. When it comes to running a successful auto shop business, many facets need to work …
BUSINESS SUCCESS STARTS WITH TAKING CONTROL OF NUMBERS
Top shops understand what numbers they can control, and they measure them daily. Stack the deck in your favor. by David Rogers The deck is stacked against repair shop owners …
BUCKLE UP: THE ONLY REAL STATUS QUO IS CHANGE
Hiring specialists to manage any area of the production pipeline inevitably leads to restricting it, creating unnecessary costs, and stalling growth. by David Rogers Is the pipeline to your shop …
MAKE A DECISION TO BREAK FREE FROM OUTDATED PROCESSES
The old-school way of running your shop is easier and feels better, but it doesn’t lead to meaningful or lasting change. By David Rogers There are around 45,000 fewer service …
3 Things To Look for When Hiring Auto Technicians
An auto mechanic is one of the essential individuals for your car. A mechanic should be able to do basic repairs and maintenance. They should also troubleshoot problems that arise …
WHY THERE’S A TECH SHORTAGE AND HOW TO FIX IT
Creating a lasting, sustainable shop starts and ends with the management triangle of the customer, employee, and shop by David Rogers As published in Motor Age Much has been said …
4 Reasons Your Auto Shop Needs a New Management System
The hectic nature of contemporary business operations yields great data and records, which can be difficult to manage. Many modern businesses use management systems to handle this enormous data. Auto …
WHAT SHOP OWNERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LEGAL OBLIGATIONS THEY HAVE TO THEIR CUSTOMERS
By David Rogers A few years ago, a fast lube chain I won’t name here got themselves into a big pile of trouble, not for doing something unethical, but because …