Comebacks in Service
How many comebacks do you have on equipment each week? Bob Clements explains our viewpoint on comebacks and how to stop them.
Losing Inventory in Service
What does a simple child's toy have to do with your Service Department? Small changes can escalate into monumental changes. Grading Scale to remember: 5- Gold stars from Sara 4 3- Neutral 2 1- Dumpster fire If you have anything less than a 5, give us a call. We can get your Service Department running efficiently in the new year!
Are you billing correctly in your Service Dept?
One of the questions we routinely ask our Service Managers is: "are you pricing your Service jobs correctly?" In our shops, we don't do work by the hour, but by the job. Using an "A Level" tech's work orders, price your service jobs off their billing efficiency. Need help pricing your jobs? Our Flat Rate Guide is the tool for you! Housed in our Dealer Toolbox, the BCI Flat Rate Guide takes the guess [...]
Flat Rate Basics
What is the best way to price your Service jobs? Flat Rate Pricing (standard labor rate pricing) includes your labor and parts pricing in one easy-to-access rate. Need access to the BCI Flat Rate Guide? Register for the Toolbox and you will have access today! https://tinyurl.com/bddd83b8
Salary caps for technicians
How much can you pay a technician in your service department? In this excerpt from Service Manager Certification, Bob Clements shares the importance of salary caps in your Service Department and how that translates to how much you can pay a technician. Register your Service Manager here- https://tinyurl.com/2p84z85t
The Three Interview Questions that You Need to Ask
In the midst of our current hiring environment, it's more challenging than ever to not rush through the interview process. Just because someone has a pulse and can fog a mirror does not mean they are the right person for our team.Sara Hey, with Bob Clements International, shares the three questions that her team uses as they help find and hire, technicians, parts people, and dealership salespeople for the members of their Dealer Success [...]
Where Can I Find Technicians?
The search for qualified Service Technicians is not for the faint of heart. Dealership owners and managers struggle with the issue of finding, compensating, and keeping service technicians in their dealership. Sara Hey, of Bob Clements International shares how to determine how much you can pay technicians, how you can partner with the local VA and Military recruiters as well as maximizing your job postings to bring you the best candidates. [...]
Creating Social Media Captions for Dealerships
It's the end of the day and the last thing you need to do before you go home is post on your Dealership's social media pages, but you don't know what to say. Sound familiar? Sara Hey, of Bob Clements International shares about a new tool that helps takes the guesswork out of posting on Social Media for your dealership with the new Social Media Caption tool, available in the Bob Clements International [...]
The Triage Process Explained
What is triage and how does it relate to the Service Department? This week, Bob Clements and Sara Hey, from Bob Clements International, explain triaging and how it can reduce chaos in your dealership and help you reclaim your Service Department!
How to Make $1000 in Your Service Department Tomorrow
How can you make $1000 per technician in your service department tomorrow, all the while cutting down on the huge piles of work orders sitting on your desk? The secret is a strategic use of high volume days in your service department. Join Sara Hey and Jeff Blackton from Bob Clements International as they walk you through, step by step, to implement this in your service department tomorrow.
