Auto Shop Showcase

Gary tells a story about how an auto repair shop owner found him via Direct Mail Marketing. Within six months, Gary helped him turn his repair shop around to the point where he could sell the business and move into full time ministry. Answered prayers, or mere coincidence? Give Gary a call and find out for yourself! --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

--- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube Gary tells about his early days in Houston, TX as a Peanut Butter and Jelly salesman. Over time, he got to know grocery store owners and managers and how their operations ran. Turns out running an auto shop business is not that much different!    

Auto Repair Employees can be categorized into three different groups: Sponges, Spectators, and Camels. You may not understand what I mean, but knowing this will be HUGE for your leadership game. Pick up Richard Flint's book today, read it, then call me at (270) 282-1262. If it hasn't changed your life, I'll refund your money! --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Loyalty is hard to come buy in the Automotive Repair Business. What if you're looking at it all wrong? Gary Gunn learned the acronym "OTOE" in his business Launch Club. If you want auto repair repeat customers, following these four steps will change your outlook and fill up your bays! Want to know more? Call Gary at (270) 762-1262 TODAY!   --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Do you *really* know how to leverage your auto shop's profits? Gary's clients who are part of his Financial Bundle learn important principles toward this goal, including "True Cost Of Doing Business", "True Net Profit", and the three financial funds: Operations, Reserves, and Investment Funds. Check our scoreboard daily to see how you're progressing toward true financial freedom!   --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Do you know how to leverage your Auto Repair Shop's Processes? Gary's "Freedom Pathway" mentoring program for shop owners has all the answers. Write down the 10 most important SOP's (processes / systems), and list out all of the steps to each one. Then train your staff on one of them once per week, for ten weeks. Then, train the next one for ten weeks, and so on. When you regularly drive home the most important systems, your staff will never forget how to do them! --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Gary Gunn interviews Tim Ross of Upswell on implementing auto shop direct mail marketing. Once your shop's targeted direct mail campaign is scheduled, make sure your service advisors, general manager, and technicians are fully aware of it. When customers call in about the specials you are advertising on your cards, make sure you can answer their questions and fulfill all their automotive repair needs. This is a HUGE opportunity to create new, lifelong customers! --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube    

Gary tells about a shop owner who lost half his staff right after he had hip surgery. This forced him to put his family on the desk while he recovered and recruited new employees. If half of your Service Advisors, General Managers, and Technicians walked out, would you have to take these measures? Would you have enough money in reserves to weather the storm? If you don't, you need to reach out to Gary. Call (270) 282-1262 or email garygunn@autoshopshowcase.com TODAY!   --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Gary Gunn Interviews Auto Shop Owner Bryan Kelley in this Showcase episode. Bryan details the process where he transitioned from an owner working in the business daily to running it remotely. Bryan talks about how he trained his staff so well that they didn't need him on site. Don't miss this episode on how an automotive shop owner can achieve total freedom without sacrificing productivity and profits! --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Could it be time to sell your auto repair shop? Are you even ready to sell your business? There is life after the automotive repair industry! Take stock of your position, so you have a sound exit strategy. Contact Gary for more info! --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Online advertising can bring in big business, but good old fashioned auto repair direct mail can still bring cars to your bays! Take it from me, Gary Gunn. I've used direct mail marketing successfully for over 20 years, and the shops I've coached have also done HUGE numbers advertising with direct mail cards targeted to potential customers. Call me at (270) 282-1262 to learn how you can sell more repair jobs with direct mail campaigns.   --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Protect your profits! Gary shows us a can't miss Auto Repair Shop Money Formula that any Shop Owner can apply. Think discounts are helping your shop? Think again - they could be costing you a LOT of money in profits! Email Gary at garygunn@autoshopshowcase.com for this and more invaluable tools for your shop!   --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Do you REALLY know how to leverage your auto shop staff? As an auto shop owner, you hold the power to train your technicians and service advisors for greatness! A business is only as good as it's employees, after all. But how? Gary outlines three crucial meetings you must regularly have with your staff: Staff Mentoring Session (SMS) Staff Behavior Session (SBS)  Staff Potential Session (SPS)  It's up to you as shop owner to mentor and invest in your people. Call Gary today at (270) 282-1262 to learn more.   --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

You've heard it said "don't put off tomorrow what you can do today". Gary Gunn says there is no time like the present to start improving your auto shop business. That means documenting your systems and processes in SOPs, and organizing them into a How-To Manual. If it sounds too hard, it's not! Give Gary a call TODAY at (270) 282-1262 and he'll show you "how to"! --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Your auto repair business plan could best be compared to an Oreo cookie. Let Gary explain: Your front of house staff - general manager and service advisors - make up one of the cookies. Your technicians are the other cookie. What holds them together and keeps everything operating smoothly? Your Standard Operating Procedures or SOPs. When your auto repair business plan runs on SOPs, housed in your How-to Manual, you as an automotive shop owner don't even need to show up! The people run the systems and the systems run the business, so you can stack up cash and prepare for your exit strategy. --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Gary details his interaction with a frustrated auto shop owner named Joe. Because Joe has put off writing SOPs for his auto shop business systems, he lacks consistent leadership and communication with his staff members. Nobody can clearly define what their job expectations are. Does this sound like you? Call Gary at (270) 782-1262 for your FREE SOP Starter Kit. You won't regret it! --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Many settlers traveling the Oregon Trail suffered and died, due to lack of preparedness. What if they knew what to expect and could have made a checklist? They didn't have that luxury, unfortunately, but your auto repair shop does, in the form of a How-To Manual with written SOPs! Your shop CAN run smoothly and avoid disaster. Call me, Gary Gunn at (270) 282-1262 and let me show you how! --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Are you an Auto repair shop owner who is struggling to get your staff to do things properly? Does the prospect of writing SOP's and compiling them into a How-to Manual seem daunting? Let Gary Gunn show you how to make an auto repair how-to manual! Chapter 4 of Gary's book Turnaround Point covers that very subject!  Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRpWaFBDLB4  Call Gary at (270) 282-1262 for a FREE gift to help put your How-To Manual into practice and growing your automotive shop's profits. --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube        

Persistence. Consistency. These are necessary ingredients for running an auto repair shop. Just like making pancakes, you've got to follow the recipe if you want everything to come out right. Gary outlines his recipe for the perfect automotive shop. How many of these ingredients are written down in your shop's SOPs? If you don't have a recipe book for success - a.k.a. a How-To Manual - then you need help ASAP from Gary, the master chef! Call today - (270) 282-1262. --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube  

Gary recalls selling $7,000 worth of lifts to an auto repair shop years ago. He panicked, because he was inexperienced and wasn't sure how to collect the money! This was before the age of online sales and portable credit card readers. Luckily, he had his selling SOP handy to walk him through the checklist for collecting the cash, so he could have the lifts delivered the following day. --- Showcase is a podcast series focused on Automotive Repair Shop Owners. Since 1979, Gary Gunn, AAM has worked with owners in both equipment sales and business coaching. Now, Gary brings his experience and expertise to shine a spotlight on industry success stories and share tools to help others take their shops to the next level. Visit AutoShopShowcase.com to sign up for monthly business mentoring with Gary Gunn for your auto repair shop. Follow Showcase on Facebook Subscribe to Showcase on Youtube