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Paint and Panel: The Edge


Jun 21, 2021

This week’s key takeaway:

10 ways to make more money in your collision repair business

 

Episode intro:  

We’ve got some absolute gold on the show this week. Simon Whittaker has been a business advisor and management accountant for 40+ years, and in more recent times he’s been a specialist in collision repair. As we hear, some of the results he has achieved in our industry are absolutely staggering.

 

Listen to this one with a pen & paper and take some notes! There is advice that absolutely anyone in collision repair can benefit from.

 

In this week’s episode you will learn:

-How Simon transformed a collision-repair business just like yours in only one month

-How to really ‘know you numbers’

-Why you need industry benchmarking

-The definition of COGS

-How to categorise your jobs to make sure you properly consider labour costs

-Why you need a good performance management tool

-How to track your employer’s efficiency

-How to stop reworks

-The value of upselling extra work

 

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