Selling Your Auto Service Business To An Employee
Selling to an employee isn’t an option for every shop owner. Sometimes, healthy businesses simply don’t have any employees who are willing or capable of taking over. In other cases, financial considerations and/or the seller’s exit plans make an employee-based sale a no-go.
Car Care Council Announces Partnership With Family Service Day
Family Service Day’s flagship initiative, called “Keeping Cars Kickin’,” is a program through which repair shop owners and employees across the country provide necessary preventative maintenance and car-care education at no charge to local families who need help caring for their vehicles.
How VJ’s Auto Service Offers Unique Service Offerings With Family-Oriented Atmosphere
When VJ Sabanayagam and his wife opened a single-bay independent repair shop in Monrovia, CA, in 1997, they had no idea how quickly their small business would grow. In addition to routine maintenance, repairs and electrical diagnostics, VJ’s is also a factory-certified sales and service center for Onan generators and Blue Ox tow equipment, commonly found in recreational vehicles.
Why Customers Are Family At Hills & Dales AutoCare, Inc. In Canton, OH
Turn on the radio in Canton, OH, and you’re bound to hear a commercial for Hills & Dales AutoCare. And the first thing you’ll notice is a young girl’s voice sharing what makes the shop unique. That voice belongs to shop owner Marty Long’s 14-year-old daughter, who has been recording the shop’s radio spots for the past six or seven years.
Jim Berberich Joins Elite As A Business Development Coach
Berberich was exposed to the auto service industry growing up, as his father was a master tech for Ford and his uncle owned an auto electric rebuilding business. In college, Barberich decided to blaze his own trail and became a manufacturing engineer, but soon found his way back to the auto service industry by joining his wife, Diane, as the owner of Al’s Automotive and Tire.
Value Of A Business Plan
Business plans are for start-ups, right? Why would an established business need one? The fact is, the questions you have to answer as a start-up get forgotten in the daily hubbub of running a business. A little time spent asking some basic questions can trigger new opportunities, greater freedom or both.
Randy Pickering Joins Elite As Business Development Coach
Elite has announced that Randy Pickering has joined the company as its newest business development coach. In his new role, Pickering will utilize his 39 years of experience as a shop owner to provide one-on-one business building guidance to current shop owners throughout the U.S.
Shannon Family Automotive: Extolling The Value Of Its Services Boosts Profits
Having opened Shannon Family Automotive four short years ago, co-owners Larry and Colleen Shannon, who are only in their early 30s, have learned a thing or two about running a successful independent automotive repair shop. First: Sometimes you have to spend money to make money.
Mike Kost Joins Elite As Business Development Coach
Elite has announced that Mike Kost has joined the company as its newest business development coach. In his new role, Kost will utilize his 20 years of experience as a shop owner to provide 1-on-1 business building guidance to current shop owners throughout the U.S.
Adapting To Change – The Key To Success In Business
It is often said that change is the only constant. Nobody understands that better than Chuck Wichrowski, owner of Baum Boulevard Automotive, an 8-bay automotive repair shop in Pittsburgh, PA. He has built his entire business model around the concept.
