700th Episode Milestone- 7 Trends [RR 700]
Key Talking Points
- Donnie Hudson, 3 Location, Troy Auto Care, Troy, MI
- Retaining great employees
- Listen to your employees and keep the morale up
- Flexible schedules
- Feedback- transparent communication
- Take care of your people and they will take care of you
- AJ Nealey, Nealey Auto Service, Edgewater and Deale, MD
- Talent mining (Finding superstars)
- Hand in hand with retention
- Your employees should be your biggest advocate and biggest fan
- Do you have the right culture internally and align with your organization?
- Can new hires be adaptable to a new culture they aren’t used to?
- Each role builds the company
- Seth Thorson, Eurotech, New Brighton, Woodbury, Medina, MN
- Tesla Factor
- Electric cars break and need repair/maintenance- an opportunity
- Tesla training starting to come to the market
- “Service Mode” disables live view and summon capabilities
- Don’t say no to EV’s
- Dr. Laura Shwaluk, The Auto Shop, Plano, TX
- Retaining great employees
- “Now Hiring” signs no longer work
- 50-65% of workers that are currently working are either actively looking for a new job or open to a new job
- How engaged are your employees with their work and the business?
- When you lose an employee you lose productivity
- Employees are looking for a “home”- core values, being appreciated, respect from owners and team members, integrity, achievement projects, sportsmanship
- Emily Chung, AutoNiche, Markham, ON
- Attracting the next generation
- By the time we talk to them about trades mid to late high school it’s already too late. We need to get them interested at a younger age and get rid of the stigma with parents
- Capturing the youth- by high school they have already formed their opinion of their career paths.
- How are you portraying your shop? What does it look like to the parents?
- Keith Perkins, L1 Automotive Diagnostics, Tulsa, OK
- Mobile Car Repair Trend (Vehicle Service)
- Working on a car in someone’s driveway- unsafe
- Over 60 google listings in the local area of Tulsa, OK, less than 10% are more than 4 years old of mobile auto repair business-wide acceptance
- Facebook Marketplace/Craigslist- individuals ready to perform repairs
- What started this movement? Technicians that didn’t have a “home”
- Consider “concierge service” for picking up and driving back
- Colleen Yarger, Mark’s Independent Service, Chatsworth, CA
- Aging fleet
- Car shortage- people aren’t as willing to get new cars.
- 10-15 year old cars is the new niche- bigger tickets
- Automobiles that are age 12 years or older are anticipated to increase by 15%
- The number of vehicles 5 years old or less is predicted to increase by almost 25%.
- Research shows in 2021, there will be an estimated 76 million vehicles aged 16 years or older in the United States.
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Carm is the founder and host of the Remarkable Results Radio Podcast and the pioneer of automotive aftermarket podcasts. Carm calls on his years of experience in the aftermarket to bring engaging stories from his guests.
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