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Want to start a repair shop? Moving from being a technician to a shop owner? What do you need to know before starting your own shop? Today Bogi from All Girls Garage joins me with 5 tips to starting your own automotive repair shop. This is something many of us technicians consider at some point in our career
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Great video….. thanks for the advice , im doing my research on opening a small engine shop in my garage and im trying to get everything set up , b4 i dive in .lol i do already have alot of customers coming in asking me to fix their snowblowers or lawn mowers …. i have basically being doing it for 2 years but . Just gotta get few things in line first ….. bogi thanks again . Also subscribed to yr channel. #smallenginenation #keepwrenchin
Great video reliable services
One thing I would say 90% of your basic tools will be picked up before going out on your own.
People are cheap and will do everything to try and save money for them. They are not going to the small business because they want to help you out they are going to a small business to save money. I know of several small business that thier rates are almost as much as dealers plus when they go to them and more problems come out after you have fixed the càrs of people.
What the main thing is that you can work on cars have staff and still provide a bad service.
The best advice about starting your own business is that know your strengths and weaknesses. Put the right people in the best spots if you are good at the repairs then dont sit and try to do your taxes if you have no clue how taxes work. This way you can make money for the business but dont close your self off to let others do the other jobs. Learn how to do your books
In short being a small business is no different then being a big dealership. The only difference between the two is the dealerships knows where there strengths are and puts the right people in the right places. If you are going to do everything for you like a married couple you work together to build your life together same with a business. You cant do it all by your self!
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Just to be fair, everyone success in the business world had a long streak of failure, its just part of the whole thing.
Also is there a happy medium or perhaps a wild card? I do like steadiness and getting paid, but frankly I do want larger paychecks and I hate being told what to do by people who have been elected "managers" and I really don't see myself in another position of being an employee. I dont mind doing work for customers and achieving the needs of other people, I dont think that means they're my boss. I think a "boss" is an over inflated position in the workforce who has been assigned to "keep others in line." Im kind of an introvert and I'd really rather not talk to anyone while I do my work, and even as a technician I feel im bothered too much. However with a customer its a different story. Everything I do is in service of a customer and the greater good of the product. Is there a way to get away from bosses, and possibly a rigid schedule? My friend and I do side work and we try and run it as a shop to any degree we can within legal limits, and its nothing but rewarding. All the challenges and shortcoming are there, but this time we put OUR name on it and call it a day, and the paycheck goes to us. Him and I compliment eachother well and we'd like to start a shop or him and I with maybe a few other technicians to help increase volume, but based on this video as well as what many others say, it all just drives me further from what I love to do. It seems like the only pure way to enjoy working on cars and learning automotive technology and help people is to do it for free for friends and family.
To be honest I was always told to do what I love and let the money follow, and it wont feel like Im working a day in my life, but that seems to be as far as possible from the truth. I really just want to produce honest work from the depth of my soul, but that wont pay the bills because I feel obligated to profit every second of doing it.
Is there a way out of this? being a freelancer seems like the option to take but I don't know how to do that without being under someones belt.
I started a automotive repair shop in Sweden right after school, Everyone from my shop class told me that i would fail within the first year including my teachers.. i would have to work 12h+ days to make money and its just not worth doing it. That was 13 years ago, im still in business. I work 8-5 Mon-Fri making three times more then my class mates does at the dealerships. I now have two employes, five bay shop with 4 two posts and a 4 post with alignment, i wrench around 5-6h each day, the rest of my day goes to taking care of customers, doing estimates, cleaning the shop, paying bills and doing choires. I was always bad at school, i hate numbers and rather wrench the rest of my life. I pay an auditor to do all my numbers, each monday i get an report of my expenses, income and profit for the past week and offcouse monthly and yearly reports aswell. I bought all my equipment with cash, first year i had a 1980s used 2 post lift and cheap basic tools, after 6 months i could buy a brand new 2 post cash and at that point i started making alot more money. This year 3 new shops in my city has failed, they bought too much equipment with money they did not have, and that caught up with they within the first year. So that would be my advice if you are looking into starting a new shop. Take it easy, invest in equipment when you can acctually afford them.
Hire a good Accountant, Uncle Sam plays no games
Great advice!!