FTR 023: Greg Buckley – Are We Pigeonholing Ourselves Into Just One Area Of Repair?
Greg Buckley is the CEO the 50 + year young Buckley Personalized Auto Care in Wilmington, DE. He’s a member of ASA, an ATI Coach, a member of the Delaware Automotive Service Professionals, past member of the NAPA advisory board council, is vice-president of NAPA business development groups, and is involved as an advisory board member of Kukui, along with AutoVitals. Hear Greg’s previous episodes HERE.
Key Talking Points
- Are we saying NO too often to great opportunities?
- Are we giving away a lot of our services?
- Greg is in the transportation business.
- Do we need to re-think saying yes to our customer’s needs?
- We are pigeonholing ourselves in just one area of repair?
- Enhance the 20% of our customer base that gives us 80% of our volume.
- He wants to see shop owners go after newer client types and utilize your current infrastructure to create additional revenue opportunities.
- If you say no enough you’ll be closed.
- Don’t wait for car count to come to you.
- We have to learn how to find different clients in a strategic way that we can grow services.
- We are going to need to become educators in the transportation business, where we are the hub.
- Safety is a common denominator in everything we do.
- That opens up additional services we can add.
- A special thanks to Greg Buckley for sharing his passion – For The Record.
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