How to Build Value & Prepare to Sell Your Shop or Dealership
Episode Description On today’s episode, we’re talking with Rick Perrin, Partner, B2B CFO, about how a shop owner can exit business successfully and profitably. We cover a number of topics, including: how a shop owner can prepare to sell their business, how valuation is calculated, and even what a technician
Easy Ways Shops Can Improve the Technician Shortage By Working with Schools
In this episode of WrenchWay Weekly, we discuss simple and effective strategies that shop owners and managers can use to help get more students entering the industry. Watch the full episode, or review the episode highlights below. Episode 26: How Does Your Shop Get Involved With Schools? In a recent
Building the Foundation to Attract Young People to the Industry
Episode Description Welcome to another episode of Beyond the Wrench. This week, we’re talking with Timmy Martin. Timmy is an Automotive Technology Instructor at Red Oak Independent School District. Timmy is passionate about educating young students about how the industry operates. We discuss how shops can help grow automotive programs
Webinar: Why Most Shops & Dealerships Fail at Recruiting Technicians
Happy New Year! We've got a lot of amazing things coming your way this year. Something we plan on bringing you a lot more of is a lot more virtual roundtables and webinars. (All of which will be free, of course!) We'll be kicking off our year of amazing events
Fixed Ops: What We Learned in 2020 & What to Expect in 2021
Episode Description We’re kicking off the new year with a bang! We’ve brought back two of our most popular podcast guests of 2020 — Ed Roberts and Tully Williams. In this episode, we discuss what we learned in fixed operations in 2020 and what we expect to see in 2021.
5 Most Popular WrenchWay Blog Articles of 2020
I think we can all agree that 2020 was a year for the books. It may not have been easy, but we’ve pulled through and we’re looking forward to 2021. Even though we really only launched the WrenchWay blog six months ago, we wanted to take a look back at
4 Most Popular Beyond the Wrench Episodes of 2020
Wow, where the heck did 2020 go? It feels like just yesterday we were launching our Beyond the Wrench podcast during the start of what has turned out to be the craziest year of our lives. Given the tumultuous times, we started out the Beyond the Wrench podcast with frequent,
The Missing Step to Successfully Recruiting Technicians
Episode Description For the final episode of 2020, we’re talking with Mark Wilson, CEO of WrenchWay & Find A Wrench. We discuss the importance of understanding the process a technician goes through from the time they are made aware of a job opening to the time they are hired. There
Hire the Person, Not the Resume
Have you ever hired somebody based solely on their resume? What I mean by this is not that you hired them sight unseen, but more that you had the feeling that you were going to hire somebody before they even walked in the door? I know I have, and I’ve
What Technicians Look For in a Shop With Damon Agostino, Sixth Street Automotive
Episode Description On this week's episode of Beyond the Wrench, we talk with Damon Agostino who is a Technician at Sixth Street Automotive in Macclenny, Florida. Damon gives us his perspective into what technicians look for in a shop, including: How management can motivate technicians Struggles with new techs coming