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| Episode | Date |
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Avoiding Socialsm in the Service Drive | SDR #376
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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Socialism In The Service Drive | SDR #375
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Sep 07, 2026 |
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SDR #374: Fixed Ops Should Carry Dealerships
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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SDR #373: 5 Things Great Service Managers Do
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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SDR #372: BDC: AI or Humans - What's Better?
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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SDR #371 - Selling Cars From The Service Drive
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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SDR #370: How To Reduce Parts Obsolesence
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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SDR 369: The Gap Between Posted / Effective Labor Rate
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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SDR #368: It's Not Traffic... It's Your Techs!
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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SDR #367: 5 Dumb Things Service Managers Say
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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SDR #366: 3 Mistakes You're Making With Video Inspections
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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SDR #365: How Owning A Dealership Changed Me
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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SDR #364: What I Learned As A General Manager
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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SDR #363: Live Kick-Off: What You'll Learn!
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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SDR #362: How I Fix Broken Auto Dealerships
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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SDR #361: How I Mastered Dealership Financial Statements
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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SDR #360: How I Arguably Made The Best Advisor Training
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May 25, 2026 |
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SDR #359: How I Got In The Car Business Part 1
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May 18, 2026 |
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SDR #358: Viewer Q&A: Secret To Getting Promoted
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May 11, 2026 |
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SDR #357: YouTube Q&A: Your Top Comments Answered
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May 04, 2026 |
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SDR #356: Coaches Roundtable: Your Top Questions Answered!
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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SDR #355: Why Customer Retention is Your Best Marketing Strategy
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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SDR #354: Why Your Techs Quit & How To Motivate The Ones You Have (Part 2)
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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SDR #353: Why Your Technicians Are Quitting!
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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SDR #352: The AI Revolution in Fixed Ops: Unfair Advantage or Impending Doom?
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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SDR #351: The $50,000 Menu - Tips To Explode Your Service Drive Profits
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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SDR #350: 5 Dumb Things Service Advisors Say After a "No" (Stop Doing This!)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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SDR #349: 7 Traits of Top-Performing Service Advisors
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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SDR #348: What I Look For When Hiring A Service Performance Coach
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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SDR #347: Top 9 Reasons Service Managers Fail (And How to Avoid Them)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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SDR #346: Most Shop Foremen Are Doing This Wrong (And It's Costing You Production)
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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SDR #345: Increase Your NPS Score!
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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SDR #344: Chris Collins Answers: Why Your Fixed Ops System Is Failing
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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SDR #343: Handling Difficult Customers in Fixed Ops the Right Way
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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SDR #342: Stop Blaming Communication: The System Is What's Broken
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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SDR #341: The Fixed Ops Leadership Mistakes Killing Service Department Profit
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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SDR #340: Your Fixed Ops Questions Answered: Scheduling, Walk-Arounds & Diagnostics
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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SDR #339: Why Top Leaders Set Goals Differently (Lessons from Taylor Swift)
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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SDR #338: Why Unapplied Labor Was Made By The Devil
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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SDR #337: Low Hanging Fruit For Quick Fixed Ops Profits!
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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SDR #336: Why Service Department Goals Fail!
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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SDR #335: The Biggest Problem in Auto Dealerships No One Wants to Fix
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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SDR #334: TOXIC SHOP CULTURE FIX: How to Reset Your Dealership & Win Back Your Technicians
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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SDR #333: Your Fixed Ops Questions Answered: Surviving Bad Bosses, Broken Systems & Service Drive Problems
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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SDR #332: Top Dog 2025 Roundtable: Fixed Ops Leadership Lessons from the Service Drive
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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SDR #331: Service Department Culture Mistakes: What's Destroying Your Fixed Ops Team (and How to Fix It)
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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SDR #330: Top 7 Service Advisor Pay Plan Failures
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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SDR #329: The Moneyball Secret Every Service Manager Needs to Know
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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SDR #328: How Great Leaders Keep Technicians and Advisors from Quitting
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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SDR #327: Are You Paying Your Techs Enough?
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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SDR #326: 7 Steps to Go from Service Manager to General Manager
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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SDR #325: Are YOU Ruining Your New Service Advisors?
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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SDR #324: What To Do When Customers Say, "NO!"
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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SDR #323: What Canada Does Better Than the U.S. (And It's NOT Poutine)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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SDR #322: How Service Managers Get Fired
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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SDR #321: Benchmarks For Net-To-Gross, Hours Per RO & Ford Recalls
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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SDR #320: From Quick Lube Tech to Master Tech: The Blueprint for Fixed Ops Success
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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SDR #319: From Parts Manager To GM - Dave's Incredible Rise Through The World Of Fixed Ops
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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SDR #318: How To Make The Best Technician Videos
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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SDR #317: Navigating The Next Dealership Crisis
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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SDR # 316 Auto Industry High Performers vs. Low Performers
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May 12, 2025 |
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SDR #315 With Automotive Expert Glenn Lundy!
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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SDR #314 With Emmy-Winning Sportscaster Jim Kozimor
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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SDR #313 with Grammy-Nominated Producer Scott Erickson
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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The Correct Way To Present A Diagnostic Fee To Your Customers
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Channel Update: Service Drive Revolution
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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9 Reasons Why Service Managers Fail
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Service and Parts Benchmarks for Profitability | SDR #312
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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How Great CSI Can Be So Easy | SDR #311
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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A Behind-The Scenes Look At Top Dog 2024 | SDR #310
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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The Dealership Business Model Part 3 | SDR #309
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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The Dealership Business Model Part 2 | SDR #308
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Q & A | How to Teach an Old Advisor New Tricks
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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The Dealership Business Model Part 1 | SDR #307
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Q & A | Should Your Service Department Have a Dispatcher or Shop Foreman?
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Top Dog 2024 Speaker Will Guidara | SDR #306
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Q & A | Hiring Technicians for the Peak Season
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Top Dog 2024 Preview with BBQ Grandmaster Harry Soo | SDR #305
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Q & A | The Best Strategy To Follow Up With Declined Work In Your Service Department
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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What's Your Dealership Worth? | SDR #304
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Q & A | Automated Phones vs Humans
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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How a Service Department Becomes Profitable | SDR #303
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Q & A | Insurance Adjuster to Service Advisor: Career Switch Insights
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Dealership Pretax Profit Down 33% | SDR #302
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Q & A | Credit Card Fees in the Service Drive
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Are You Ready for 14 Year Old Cars? | SDR #301
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Q & A | Better Way for Service Managers to Price Internal/Captive Labor
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Dealership Economic Hurricane Survival Plan | SDR #300
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Q & A | Service Advisor Customer Communication
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Lessons for Service Advisors from McDonald's | SDR #299
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Q & A | Service Advisor Pro Tip: Turn Brand Complaints into Customer Loyalty | Fixed Ops
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Why Are Service Managers In A Broken System? | SDR #298
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Q & A | The Hidden Differences Between a Service Advisor and Collision Estimator
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Service Department Culture vs Chaos | SDR #297
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Q & A | Mastering Service Advisor Communication
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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How Will AI Affect Your Service Department? | SDR #296
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Q & A | Should Dealers Give Employee Discounts?
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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New Service Manager? Avoid These Pitfalls and Drive Success | SDR #295
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Q & A | Should You Charge for Unverified Diagnoses?
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Revolutionize Your Service Drive: 5 Proven Selling Techniques for Advisors | SDR #294
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Q & A | How To Handle Body Shop Warranty Claims
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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5 Critical Mistakes Dealers Make: Is Your Service Department at Risk? | SDR #293
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Q & A | Can You Be a Service Advisor Without Car Knowledge?
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Hiring Crisis! Why Dealerships Can't Find Advisors | SDR #292
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Service Drive Revolution Announcement
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May 06, 2024 |
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The Secret to Exceptional Customer Communication in the Service Drive | SDR #291
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Q & A | Making Service Contracts Easy
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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How to Build a Top Dog Service Team in Your Dealership | SDR #290
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Q & A | Drive By Rewind: Unwritten Rules Service Advisors Need to Know!
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Unreasonable Hospitality with Will Guidara | SDR #289
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Q & A | From The Express Service Advisor To The Main Shop
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Be a Teacher, Not a Preacher: The Key to Effective Service Manager Training | SDR #288
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Q & A | How Parts Managers Can Drive Service Sales and Boost Profits
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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How to Eliminate Comebacks: The Silent Killer in Your Service Department | SDR #287
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Q & A | Overcoming Negativity from Staff After a Dealership Acquisition
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Is Technology Hurting Your Service Department Communication? | SDR #286
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Q & A | Advisor Pressured into Warranty Fraud: What Should They Do?
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Are Video Inspections KILLING Your Service Sales? | SDR #285
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Q & A | Are You Losing Customers Over Pricing?
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Eliminating Negative Advisor Attitudes | SDR #284
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Q & A | How to Set Customer Expectations for Service Delays
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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What To Do When Your Service Manager Isn't Cutting It | SDR #283
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Q & A | Training Service Staff Without Sacrificing Output
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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How To Maximize Your Mobile Service | SDR #282
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Q & A | First Day Tips for New Auto Shop Employees
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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The Raw Truth Your Leadership Training Isn't Telling You | SDR #281
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Q & A | No Upsells? How Express Lubes Leave Money on the Table
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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9 Mistakes Service Advisors Make | SDR #280
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Q & A | Clever New Service Marketing Ideas You Must Steal
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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How to SMASH Customer Objections in Auto Service | SDR #279
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Q & A | The Best Power Sport Pay Plan Strategies
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Is Repair Order Count Growth Killing or Saving Your Service Department? | SDR #278
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Q & A | Private vs Public Dealerships: Which Offers Better Careers?
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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3 Surprising Secrets to Keeping Your Best Technicians Long Term | SDR #277
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Q & A | Advice For New Service Managers Stepping Into Chaos
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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What Your Shop is Secretly Saying About You | SDR #276
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Q & A | 90 Day Action Plan for New Service Managers
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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5 Ways to Fix High Unapplied Labor in Any Shop | SDR #275
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Q & A | Tips for Retaining Automotive Service Technicians and Preventing Turnover
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Bold 2024 Auto Industry and Economic Predictions | SDR #274
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Q & A | Tips for Becoming a Dealership's Next Service Director
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Top 5 Mistakes Even Great Service Managers Make Early On | SDR #273
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Q & A | Defining Shop Foreman Duties
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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How to Increase Revenue in Cold Months | SDR #272
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Q & A | Pricing Your Auto Repair Shop's Value
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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2023 Service Coaching Truths Reviving Dealers' Bottom Lines | SDR #271
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Q & A | Guidance to Level Up into a Service Manager Role
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Assessing 2023 with High Expectations of Ourselves | SDR #270
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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The 90-Day Plan to Train Standout Service Advisors
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Can Parts & Service Collaborate? Ideas to End the Department Rivalry | SDR #269
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Service Advisor Stuck With Too Many Appointments? Here's What To Do | Q & A
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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5 No-Brainer Ways to Keep Your Best Technicians Happy | SDR #268
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Becoming a Rockstar Internal Service Advisor
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Keeping Your Service Advisors Engaged, Motivated, and Driven to Succeed | SDR #267
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Tips for Selling More Alignments
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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How To Be A Top Performing Technician | SDR #266
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Authorization vs Diagnosis -Which is Better?
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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6 Game-Changing Traits of the Highest-Performing Service Advisors | SDR #265
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Expert Tips for Bridging the Tech & Service Advisor Communication Gap
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Smart Ways to Overcome Parts Shortages | SDR #264
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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How to Handle Rogue Employees in the Auto Dealership
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Secrets of The Irreplaceable Service Manager | SDR #263
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Leading Your Technicians To Success
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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The Role Of The Shop Foreman | SDR #262
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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How To Deal With An Aggressive Service Director
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Why Your CSI Sucks | SDR #261
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Strong Service Advisor Metrics
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Automotive Recruitment Strategies for 2023 w/ Steve Johnson | SDR #260
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Never Turn Away Walk-Ins
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Should Your Service Drive Be Open On Sundays? | SDR #259
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Negotiating Salary, Appt. Scheduling, Updating Customers
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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How to Run a Profitable Detail Dept | SDR #258
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Tracking the Quote Through to the Sale
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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90% of Performance is Mental w/ Zach Sorensen | SDR #257
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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How to Reduce Chaos in the Drive
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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New LIVE Training for Service Managers | SDR #256
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Dealing With Anxiety As A Service Advisor
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Service Dept. Biggest Missed Profit Opportunities | SDR #255
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Increasing Productivity & Professionalism in the Drive
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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How to Get Your Service Dept. In Shape | SDR #254
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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How to Fairly Dispatch Work Between Hungry Techs
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Red Flags: How To Spot a Poorly-Run Dealership | SDR #253
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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What About Customer-Supplied Parts?
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Why You Should Move Your Best Salesperson to Service | SDR #252
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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My Techs Don't Want to Work Saturdays
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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How Do You Pay Techs On Warranty Work? | SDR #251
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Setting Up Acquisition For Service Customers
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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How to Design a Winning Service Advisor Pay Plan | SDR #250
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Top-Performing Games For Technicians
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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How To Reduce Employee Turnover & Increase Engagement | SDR #249
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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My Service Manager Keeps Undermining Advisors
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Car Business Divorce Rate: How to Have A Successful Marriage in the Car Business | SDR #248
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Holding Your Staff Accountable
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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How To Stay On Top When Business Is Booming | SDR #247
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Working With Family At A Car Dealership
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Effective Communication With Your Technician As A Service Advisor | SDR #246
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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How To Move Up From Foreman To Manager
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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How To Manage a Slow Month | SDR #245
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Decreasing Apathy In The Service Drive
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Why Service Managers Make the Best General Managers | SDR #244
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Getting Promoted From Service Manager To General Manager
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Tips To Become A Great Service Manager | SDR #243
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May 29, 2023 |
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Ensuring Success As A New Service Manager
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May 26, 2023 |
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How To Get More Customers This Summer | SDR #242
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May 22, 2023 |
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What Are The Key Features Of A Perfect Service Department?
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May 19, 2023 |
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10 Reasons Why Your Customers Leave | SDR #241
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May 15, 2023 |
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How Much Money Do Service Advisors Make?
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May 12, 2023 |
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Is Service Training As Valuable As Sales Training? | SDR #240
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May 08, 2023 |
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Independents vs. Dealerships
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May 05, 2023 |
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What Service Drives Can Learn From the Bud Light Controversy | SDR #239
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May 01, 2023 |
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Everything Goes Right But the Customer Is Still Upset
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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The Pros And Cons Of Building A Bench | #SDR 238
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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What's the Best Profit & Retention Video to Show My Owner?
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Should Service Managers Drive The Shuttle? | SDR #237
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Building Healthy Habits As A Service Advisor
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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How To Manage Up When My Boss Is Clueless | SDR #236
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Why Don't We Talk About The Service Advisor Shortage?
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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The Benefits Of AI In the Service Drive | SDR #235
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Tiered Subscription Services In The Drive
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Can Tablets & Video Inspections Save Your Service Drive? | SDR #234
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Mending Fences With An Abusive Owner
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Identifying And Handling A Toxic High Performer | SDR #233
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Selling Service When Setting Appointments
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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John Taylor: From Porter to Dealer Principal | SDR #232
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Getting Upper Management On Board With Expansion
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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5 Characteristics Of High-Quality Technicians | SDR #231
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Attracting Advisors In Remote Areas
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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How To Motivate the Unmotivated | SDR #230
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Handling A Sacred Cow Who Doesn't Own Their Mistakes
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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How Obsession Inspires Higher Performance | SDR #229
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Who Should Dispatch Work?
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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What Dealers Get Wrong About Gross Profit | SDR #228
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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How Can I Prevent Tech Comebacks?
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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The Best Ways To Manage Your Time | SDR #227
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Getting Back On Track In Your Automotive Business
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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How To Deal With Angry Customers | SDR #226
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Rude Service Managers
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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How To Avoid Burnout In Work & In Life | SDR #225
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Do Dealerships Have Culture?
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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5 Ways To Tell You if Your Business is Running You | SDR #224
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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The Next Step To Increase Your CSI
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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How To Make The Most Out Of 2023 In Your Automotive Business | SDR #223
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Dealing With Disgruntled General Managers
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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How To Sell Bigger Jobs In Your Service Department | SDR #222
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Different Ways To Explain Diagnosis To Customers
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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The Best Books Of 2022 | SDR #221
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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How To Motivate A Tough Technician
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Your Best Picks For 2022 | SDR #220
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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How Low Can You Go?
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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5 Habits Of The Exceptional Service Manager | SDR #219
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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How To Increase Productivity As An Automotive Technician
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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The Best Top Dog 2022 Takeaways | SDR #218
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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The Best Way To Dispatch Work
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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SDR Rewind: Every Service Advisor's Holy Grail Service Drive Revolution
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Drive By Rewind: How To Get Your Technicians To Increase Production
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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SDR Rewind: Morning Routine Of A Millionaire Service Advisor
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Drive By Rewind: How To Sell More Service WITHOUT Annoying Customers
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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SDR Rewind: 5 Ways To Increase ROI In Your Service Drive
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Best Of SDR: Christian's Comedic Talent
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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SDR Rewind: Explaining Prices
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Repair Authorization Issues
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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SDR UPDATE
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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The Differences Between A Manager And A Leader | SDR #217
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Why Service Advisor Pay Plans Keep Changing | SDR #216
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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The Best Approach To Maintenance Contracts!
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy's Tips For Understanding Human Nature | SDR #215
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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How To Compete With Tenured Service Advisors
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Dog The Bounty Hunter: A Personal Conversation | SDR #214
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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The Key To Being A Good Service Manager
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Combating The Great Resignation With Dr. Anthony Klotz | SDR #213
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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What Adds Value To A New Facility?
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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How To Get In The Game For Tire Season | SDR #212
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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The BEST Setup For A Labor Matrix!
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Does The Parts Manager Matter? | SDR #211
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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How Service Advisors Can Increase ELR
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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What The Best Dealerships To Work For Have in Common | SDR #210
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Unwritten Rules Service Advisors Need to Know!
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Why Is There An Auto Tech Shortage? | SDR #209
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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How to Manage and Pay Your Shop Foreman
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Why Service Advisors Are So Stressed Out | SDR #208
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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How to Recruit and Manage Good Service Advisors
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Using Subscriptions to Boost Customer Loyalty and Retention | SDR #207
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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How to Be a Successful Service Advisor on Commission
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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A Conversation With Top Business Coach David Meltzer | SDR #206
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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What To Expect When Starting Out As A Service Advisor
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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5 More Reasons Service Managers Get Fired | SDR #205
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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How To Deal With Toxic Managers
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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How Much Do Service Advisors Make? | SDR #204
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Connecting With Customers Who Don't Like You
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Types of Automotive Service Advisors | SDR #203
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Dedicating Technicians To Internal Work
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Why Dealerships Lose Their Customers To Independent Shops | SDR #202
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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My Advice For Young Service Advisors
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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From Lube Tech To Now | SDR #201
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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How To Get Your Advisors To Call Customers Daily
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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How To Turn A Struggling Service Department Around | SDR #200
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Express Advisors: Good or Bad?
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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The Secret To Effective Dealership Marketing | SDR #199
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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How To Dispatch Work To Techs Without Causing Chaos
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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How Service Advisors Can Overcome Sales Objections | SDR #198
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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The Right Way To Ask For Pre-Approved Maintenance
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Should You Pay Technicians Hourly Or Flat Rate? | SDR #197
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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How To Get Promoted To Manager As A Technician
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Getting To Know Chris Collins | SDR #196
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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The Easiest Way To Increase Your Parts Profits
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Critiquing The Service Advisor Walk Around | SDR #195
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May 30, 2022 |
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What Questions To Ask Customers At Write-up
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May 27, 2022 |
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Best Ways For Parts And Service To Succeed Together | SDR #194
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May 23, 2022 |
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How To Get Your Technicians To Increase Production
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May 20, 2022 |
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Dealers Are Going Direct To Consumer | SDR #193
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May 16, 2022 |
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Can You Still Boost CSI Without Loaner Cars?
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May 13, 2022 |
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Does Service Benefit From Dealer Markups? | SDR #192
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May 09, 2022 |
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How Much To Pay Your Technicians
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May 06, 2022 |
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Tips To Become A Great Service Manager | SDR #191
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May 02, 2022 |
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How To Sell More Service WITHOUT Annoying Customers
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Explaining Prices To Customers Using Market Based Pricing | SDR #190
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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The Quickest Path From Foreman To Service Manager
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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The Role Of An Effective Service Advisor | SDR #189
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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The 5 Most Important Parts Of The Service Advisor Walk Around | SDR #188
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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The First Step To Hire Mechanics ASAP
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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How Interstate Batteries Deliver The Most Trustworthy Source Of Power To The World
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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How You Can Be An Irreplaceable Millionaire Technician
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Your R.O. Counts are About to Drop
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Are Monkeys Running The Asylum?
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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How To Get Promoted At Your Dealership
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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How To Be A Good Service Advisor
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Training Your Service Advisors To Valet
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Turning Your Service Department Into A Video Game
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Morning Routine Of A Millionaire Service Advisor
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Building Trust Through Repair Authorizations
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Service Advisors Need To Stop Being Average
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Questions Your Service Advisors Should Be Asking
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Working For a Highly Trusted Dealership
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Are EVS The Future Or The End?
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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The Horror of Buying a New Car
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Stop Charging for Diagnosis
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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The "Top 10" List You DON'T Want Your Business to be on
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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How to SAVE Money on OEM Parts
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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An Interview with the 2021 Service Manager Challenge Winner!
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Driving Traffic in a Post-Pandemic World
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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The Service Manager's Guide to Having Saturdays Off
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Drive By: Is Being Likable More Effective Than Being Right?
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Service Manager Challenge Finalist Shares His Rise to the Top (Dog)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Could Taking Initiative SOLVE These Common Service Drive Setbacks?
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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An Unconventional Approach to Fixing Conventional Shop Problems
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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The 11-Step System to Hiring the BEST!
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Getting Creative With Gamification to Incentivize Your Whole Dealership
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Everything Must Go! The Auto Industry is for Sale
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Drive By: The Foolproof Way to Control Your CSI Scores
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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It's Time - Tire Season is Already Here!
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Drive By: The Truth About Pooled Hours for Techs
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Everything You Need To Know About Top Dog 2021!
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Flat-Rate vs. Hourly: The Debate Continues
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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The Business of Influence with Chase Hughes
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Express Lanes: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Harnessing the Power of Persuasion with Dr. Robert Cialdini
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Learn to Love Your "Lauras" - A lesson on Respect in the Workplace with Stephen Mason
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Everybody Wins with Alternative Purchase Options w/ DigniFi's LeeAnn Radonski
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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How to Find Untapped Skilled Labor for Your Service Department w/ Raleigh Wilkins of Sales Platoon
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Service Departments: Open to Change? or Stuck in the Past?
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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3 Workshops You Won't be Seeing at NADA
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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The True Value Of Your Technicians
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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How Carvana is Increasing Customer Visits to Dealership Service Departments
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Trends in the Trucking Industry are Impacting Your Daily Life with Chryssa Hunlock
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Is Automation the Future of Your Dealership?
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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The Secrets to Recruiting Top Techs with Steve Hamre
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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The Missed Opportunity with Tire Sales with Scott Rea
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Motivating Employees & Screening Employers with Michelle Elrod
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May 31, 2021 |
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Can Leaders Be Friends With Their Employees?
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May 24, 2021 |
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How Many R.O. Should an Advisor Write?
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May 17, 2021 |
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How the Global Chip Shortage Is Affecting the Auto Industry w/ Reuters' Ben Klayman & Stephen Nellis
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May 10, 2021 |
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How Long Should Used Cars Take To Recon?
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May 03, 2021 |
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Seriously, You Still Have Dispatch?
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Raise Your Labor Rate, Get Less Declines
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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New Tech Turnover, Why Over 60% of Techs Quit in the First 2 Years
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Post-Covid Pain w/ Mia "The Chaotic Feminist" (Service Drive Revolution)
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Why Service Managers Get Fired
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Debating Important Service Metrics With A Consultant
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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What To Do if Your Tech Asks for a Raise & Why CSI Surveys are Dangerous
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Will Manufacturers Cut Dealers Out of the Equation with Prof. Daniel A. Crane
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Winter Slowdown & 2 Advisors That Don't Get Along
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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3 Burning Questions from the Service Drive (Ft. Mia, The Chaotic Feminist)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Why it's Important to Change Things Up
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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The Service Drive of the Future
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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My Favorite Law In Our New Leadership Training
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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The Hard Truth of Employee Retention
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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My Hack To Having A Better Life
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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What Is Fixed Absorption?
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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How To Create A System For Success
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Why You Can't Hire Techs
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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The Most Important Thing For A Service Manager To Understand
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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What Is Leadership?
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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How To Crush Your Goals-- Guaranteed
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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The Service Drive Naughty And Nice List
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Do You Want To Increase RO Count?
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Four Reasons Why Consultants Can't Save Your Service Drive
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Does Market Size Matter?
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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How to Become a Master of Time Management
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Lessons From Bruce Lee - Part 2
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Lessons From Bruce Lee - Part 1
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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What We're Thankful For
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Self-Care Part 5: How to be Friends With Everyone
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Empowering Advisors with Celebrity Service Advisor Mia Griggs
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Self-Care Part 4: A Game-Changing Secret
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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The Top 10 Reasons Why Customers HATE Service Advisors
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Self-Care Part 3: The Key To Unlimited Productivity
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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The Best Marketing Books of All Time - Part 2
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Self-Care Part 2: How to Never Lose Control
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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The Best Marketing Books of All Time - Part 1
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Self-Care Part 1: The Secret to Your Success
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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How to Retain Technicians
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Practice Makes Perfect
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Is It Okay To Steal From Your Customers?
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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The Quickest Way to Sabotage Yourself
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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The Top 5 Career Moves Service Advisors Can Make
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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How To Read Employees' Minds
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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How to Use Tire Season to Steal Market Share
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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How to Win Any Argument
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Which Presidential Candidate Is Better For The Auto Industry?
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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The Best Way To Achieve Consistency
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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When Should You Deviate From Manufacturer Recommended Maintenance?
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Omission Bias
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Every Service Advisor's Holy Grail
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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The Volunteer's Dilemma
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Your Service Department's Secret Weapon-- And It's FREE!
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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The Ostrich Effect
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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The Top 5 Four-Letter Words Advisors Say
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Confirmation Bias
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Using Humor To Connect With Customers ft. Andrew Tarvin
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Novice Problems Need New Solutions
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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The Top 5 Things Service Advisors Take For Granted
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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How Expectations Affect Outcomes
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Dealerships vs. Independent Shops - Part 2
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Pyrrhic Victory
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Dealerships vs Independent Shops - Part 1
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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5 Monkeys
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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The BEST of 2020-- So far...
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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3 KPI's Service Managers are Judged on-- Whether They Know it or Not
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Drive By - You Are How You Feel
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Are You an Amateur, or a Pro?
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Drive By - How to Shatter Your Glass Ceiling
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Do Service Advisor Personality Tests Work?
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Drive By - How to Reinvent Yourself
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Why Less is More For Your Service Drive
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Drive By - How to Win at Life
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Why Service Managers Are The Dealers Of The Future
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Drive By - Finding Your Inner Self
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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What is Your Service Advisors' S.O.S.?
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Drive By - The Secret Might Just Be To Shut Up
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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How Service Managers Can Stop Their Pay Plan From Changing
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Drive By - Groundhog's Day For Service Managers?
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May 29, 2020 |
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100th Episode - 6 Advisors That Will Kill Your Service Drive
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May 25, 2020 |
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Drive By - What is the Secret to Happiness?
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May 22, 2020 |
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The 5 Landmines to Avoid When Reopening
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May 18, 2020 |
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Drive By - How to Get UnStuck
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May 15, 2020 |
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Should Service Managers Fire Advisors Who Do This?
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May 11, 2020 |
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Drive By - Leadership Lessons From Michael Jordan
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May 08, 2020 |
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3 Ways to Sell More and Eliminate Sales Objections, with Sunbit Co-Founder Tal Riesenfeld
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May 04, 2020 |
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Kill the Things That Have Power Over You
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May 01, 2020 |
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Motivating Service Advisors During The Coronavirus Crisis
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Drive By - How To Get Everything You Want In Life
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Should Dealers Pay Service Advisors and Technicians During Lockdown?
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Drive By - What You Should NEVER Say
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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How to Pet the Dog in a World of Social Distancing
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Drive By - How To Hit The Play Button
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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SDR Live - How To Increase R.O. Count During The Coronavirus Crisis
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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The 5 DUMBEST Things Service Advisors Say After Getting a "No."
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Drive By: Truth or Lie?
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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SDR Live - Coronavirus Quarantine Update 2
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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4 HIDDEN Ways Parts Can Sell More Labor
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Drive By - One Thing You Can Do Every Day
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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SDR Live - How to Keep Your Advisors Safe From Coronavirus
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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The Top 5 Things KILLING Service Advisors!
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Drive By - Dress Better Feel Better
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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The Top 5 Sales Mistakes Advisors Make
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Drive-By: How to Avoid Coronavirus Killing Your Service Drive
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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5 Reasons Techs Aren't Efficient
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Drive By - The Secret To Effective Leadership
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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Top 5 Mistakes Parts Managers Make
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Drive By - Know Your Worth as a Service Advisor!
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Do You Know the Fourth Labor Type?
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Drive By - How I Became a Millionaire Service Advisor
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Shift Meeting Hype Songs - The Top 5
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Drive By: Better Relationships - Never Late to Lunch
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Trump (yes, Trump) and Selling More Maintenance
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Drive By - Want Good Things To Happen To You?
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Service Managers' BIGGEST Mistakes
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Drive By - How to be Unstoppable
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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I Would Pay $100,000 For a Personal Assistant, if....
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Drive By - The Antidote for the Fear of Failure
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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CES 2020... Sony Making A Car?
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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Drive By: One Little Thing Will MAKE or BREAK Your Service Department!
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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How To Be Self-Made
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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Drive By: Google Does THIS To Service Managers Every Day!
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Tesla's Unfair Advantage
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Drive By: I Made A Service Manager Cry
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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How to Have More Energy in 2020, Chris' Favorite Things of 2019, and Audience Questions
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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The 5 Unexpected Ways for You to Drive ROI in the Service Department
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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Top 5 Customer Relationship Management Tools For Car Dealers
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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5 Easy Ways For Your Service Managers To Build Customer Service Skills
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Learning on the Fly! Rally Champ, Drifter, Lawyer turned Auto-Entrepreneur: Andrew Comrie-Picard
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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10 Reasons Why Service Advisors Fail
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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The Difference Between 30% and 50% Net to Gross
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Using Humor to Improve Employee Morale with An(Drew) Tarvin
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Volume vs Quality: How Service Advisors Can Find the Balance
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Become the G.O.A.T. in your Service Drive
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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Service Drive Secrets - Behind The Curtain - Part 2
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Service Drive Secrets - Behind The Curtain - Part 1
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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Bring in More Customers by Rethinking Your Marketing Strategy
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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A Little Southern Hospitality Goes a Long Way - Customer Loyalty & Tech Happiness with "The Humble Mechanic"
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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The Holy Trinity of Service Advisor Training
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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'Service Concierge' is the Biggest Threat to Your Service Advisors - Chris Talks to The Mastermind Behind It
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Double Your Profits -> Learn The Psychology of Sales
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May 28, 2019 |
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Why You Should Stop Following the Golden Rule - with Glenn Lundy
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May 13, 2019 |
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Why Trump's Tax Reform Might Cause a Dip in Car Sales and What You Can do to Stay Ahead of the Curve
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Lisa Copeland: Follow the Money
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Chris Answers Your Questions and Talks About the Threat of A.I. Replacing Service Advisors
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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Brian Benstock: Why disrupting the auto industry might be the only way to survive
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Chris Answers Your Questions and Talks About Why People Think He's a Sugar Daddy
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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What Have You Done For Me Lately with Guests Mark and Dave Waco
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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How To Use Marketing Effectively
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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The Role Of The Shop Foreman
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Feb 07, 2018 |