Feb 11, 2020
This week’s key takeaway:
How can you use workshop management software to get better results for your business?
Episode intro:
For our very first episode we speak to Steve O’Brien, founder of the revolutionary iBodyshop: a cloud-based estimating and management system that is empowering bodyshop businesses across Australia to be more efficient and drive more sales. Steve has been providing systems for the industry for 31 years, and nowadays has over a thousand customers across Australia and New Zealand. A whopping AUD 2.4bn of insurance claims went through iBodyshop last year.
A bit more about iBodyshop:
-The software has been developed through a lot of listening
-iBodyshop encompasses everything but payroll into one system, cutting admin hours massively
-A 30-day free trial is available
-Multi-site functionality, enabling managers to monitor each site remotely
iBodyshop out in the field:
We speak to David Iacobucci from DSI Panels in Victoria and Mark Debono from East Coast Paint & Panel in Cairns to find out how iBodyshop has transformed their businesses.
In this week’s episode you will learn:
** The importance of iBodyshop to the launch of a new site
** How David and Mark's teams adapted to it
** How long David and Mark spend using it
** How iBodyshop is used collaboratively inside a business
** How quotes are processed
** How to train people to use iBodyshop
** How iBodyshop enabled a 61% increase in sales in just one year
Show links:
** Go to www.ibodyshop.com to sign up to Steve’s system
** Paint & Panel Shop Tour (March 12th, Sydney) and Next Generation Seminar for younger repairers, shop owners and managers (March 13th, Sydney). More info: www.paintandpanel.com.au/bodyshop-tour
** Go to www.paintandpanel.com/au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode