Paintless Mentor Podcast | Paintless Dent Repair Training | Automotive Repair Marketing | Mobile Marketing
Learning Paintless Dent Repair and getting business was hard. It doesn’t need to be, especially when you discover interesting things from other fields. Things which at first do not appear related at all. This Podcast will make these connections to marketing and selling your service, and yes, to pushing dents.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2022
PM82- 5 Ways Dealer Work Kills Profits - How to Fix Them
Used car work is the low hanging fruit of any reconditioning business. PDR, detailing, touchup, just a snippet of what gets done to a used car. Get some dealers, build your confidence in dent repair…
00:36:29 |
Fri 11 Aug 2017
PM81- How to Raise PDR Prices without Losing Customers
Everything is going up in price, you know this. You also know prices need to go up for your PDR services. You might also know its the easiest way to increase profits, just charge more. But will you …
00:32:16 |
Sat 05 Aug 2017
PM80- How to Deal with a New Broker in Your Town
Lots of work, lots of techs to do it. Some enterprising fellow sees a chance to put himself between it all and make some easy money. Broker is a 4 letter word in most PDR circles and sometimes with …
00:33:54 |
Sat 29 Jul 2017
PM79- Embarrassed to Be a PDR Technician?
'Why didn’t you become a doctor or lawyer?' 'You should marry a doctor or lawyer.' A cliche for sure, but are we secretly embarrassed to call ourselves technicians? Some are. Once had this conversat…
00:27:35 |
Fri 21 Jul 2017
PM78-Ron Kronon - How to Get and Keep Wholesale PDR
“Have you guys ever burned out pushing dents?” "No, I haven’t” This was my answer to Ron Kronon in this episode’s interview. But I was not completely honest. Burn out just might be why I stopped the…
01:12:30 |
Sat 15 Jul 2017
PM77- Tools and Strategies for Social Media
Social Media can make your paintless business grow. But its a lot of work. To get traction, you have to post a minimum of once a day. Not only can this be a lot of work, its a huge distraction which…
00:31:29 |
Fri 07 Jul 2017
PM76- Should You Hire Employees for Your PDR Business?
As you apply good marketing strategies to your business, you will feel growth pains. You might consider adding a tech or two to the paintless team. Be warned: hiring is fraught with danger in any bu…
00:43:45 |
Fri 30 Jun 2017
PM75-How to Avoid Overwhelm in PDR
I have this strange fear of cave diving. Those scuba tank and flipper wearing adventurers have my admiration. Still, just thinking about them doing it can send me into a sitting panic. Irrational? Y…
00:48:42 |
Sat 24 Jun 2017
PM74-Are You Leaving Hail Money on the Table?
What really happens when you bid a hail job for a body shop and say, “I’ll do it for X”? Is it possible to sell your future on just one job? A hail season’s worth? I once felt that, hey, I’m just one…
00:43:10 |
Fri 16 Jun 2017
PM73- The Value of One Customer
Please a customer and they will tell 10 others. Its a tired old axiom, but it only scratches the surface of what’s really going on in your paintless business. Is it possible that one client could be…
00:34:37 |
Fri 09 Jun 2017
PM72- Moving Day
All the excitement of getting a new shop or house is too often snuffed out by the labor of packing and moving. We've been throwing stuff in corners and cubbies, never to touch it again for years. Now…
00:16:16 |
Fri 02 Jun 2017
PM71-Be and Act Like the PDR Expert You Are
Hail Season puts a paintless tech and business owner in a unique position. You are viewed as the authority on price, fixability, repair options, etc. But some PDR business owners are shy and reserv…
00:26:47 |
Fri 26 May 2017
PM70-Should You Sell Your PDR Business?
Ever wonder what your PDR business might be worth? Would you sell it? Never kill the goose that lays golden eggs, they say. What are some factors to consider?
- Who will buy it?
- Will they run it well…
00:35:16 |
Fri 19 May 2017
PM69- Is It Time for a Bigger Shop?
Overhead. The largest expense you have. Some techs say, I don’t want to be tied to a shop. Some would never be without one. Others think its too expensive and opt for a $700 truck payment instead. H…
00:43:09 |
Sat 13 May 2017
PM68-Make Your PDR Website Even Better
I really like the picture on our paintless repair website. But what does it say to customers? Does it convey the message which will get them to call and give us money? How would you even know? This e…
00:40:57 |
Fri 05 May 2017
PM67-How Your PDR Customers Think About Price
“How much for a small dent?” You hear this many times a day if you do retail. Of course, you have to get to the bottom of the real deal. We show you how in this episode. But should you give a price…
00:29:25 |
Fri 28 Apr 2017
PM66 - Rules Over Customers?
Could the rules you impose in your business be anti customer? You might be surprised to learn that company rules led to the death of over 100 people in Japan. We share our own nightmare customer sto…
00:42:38 |
Fri 21 Apr 2017
PM65 - Easy Scripting Your Paintless Videos
Making videos is exciting. Its fun, its new, woo hoo! Until it comes time to edit. Voiceover? Narration? You need to tell a story, get your message across, get them to call you. What should you say? …
00:31:01 |
Thu 13 Apr 2017
PM64 - Keep Customers Inside the Park at All Times
In a theme park like Disneyworld, you get an immersive experience. Every where you look, fantasy. Oh, and something to buy too. Fun. Disney and Las Vegas are the two places where all your money gets…
01:02:45 |
Thu 06 Apr 2017
PM63 - 1% Better is All You Need to Win
Ever feel like a small fish in a big pond? How can you get ahead of your competition? Good news, you only have to be a tiny bit better to win. Do better at these 5 key areas of your business by just…
00:36:23 |
Fri 31 Mar 2017
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