Posts Tagged ‘Marketing’

Improve Customer Satisfaction and Make More Money

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

We all agree that in order to make more money we must develop repeat customers. To develop repeat customers we must satisfy our current customers.

So, satisfied customers = more money.

Now we simply ask our customers to point out areas that we were less than perfect and then we change our systems and procedures to correct our weaknesses.

The best tool for this task is the customer satisfaction survey.

Several shops already utilize a customer satisfaction survey system. Some shops use an outside company to handle the process and other shops handle everything in house and there are a few shops that handle everything electronically through their website or email.
Regardless of how you decide to do it, here are a few tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your customer surveys.

Several shops already utilize a customer satisfaction survey system. Some shops use an outside company to handle the process and other shops handle everything in house and there are a few shops that handle everything electronically through their website or email.

Regardless of how you decide to do it, here are a few tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your customer surveys. (more…)

Give Customers a Reason to Call You

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Joe Momber at Auto Body News wrote an interesting article in this month’s (Jan) edition of Auto Body News. Joe covers a number of strategies to get more business in your shop. It’s well worth the time, so click here to check it out.

Okay, you have a website. Now what?

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Website FrustrationSo you created a website and then braced yourself for the onslaught of customers that were waiting to beat down your door to give you money.

But wait… nothing happened.

A long of nothing happened. How can this be? Something must be wrong! Everyone said, “Get a website!”, so I got a website. But nothing happened. If fact, I’ve had a website for several months and no one even knows that I have it!

Did I get ripped off? Answer: Maybe, but most likely you didn’t.

Let’s look at how to make your website work for you.

First let’s focus on the website itself: (more…)

Cleaning up with Guerilla Marketing Tactics

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

washCarFREE Car wash! Aah, the age-old promise of something for nothing. Well… I talked to a shop owner last week that has a new spin on the ole Free Car Wash pitch. This is not to be confused with the “Free Car Wash for life” that I blogged about a month ago.

This guerrilla marketing tactic goes something like this – (more…)

How a blog can seriously help your business

Monday, October 26th, 2009

I just read an excellent article in the Net Gazette and I wanted to pass it on.

Click here to read the article.

Most Collision Repair shops have relatively small sites and that makes it more difficult to rank high in the search engines. This article helps us understand how the search engines work and gives us advise on how to improve our SEO.

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