Service Drive Revolution with Chris Collins
Got a question for the show? Call us at 1-833-3-ASK-SDR! Chris Collins, the leading Automotive Service Manager Coach and Service Advisor Trainer in the world, discusses little known service drive secret weapons to help pull your service department ahead of the pack. Everything from hiring technicians, increasing dealership CSI, building relationships for long term customer retention, to increasing customer pay sales and more, is all discussed here on Service Drive Revolution. All from the automotive industries #1 go-to guy for Fixed Operations; Chris Collins. Listen, and enjoy!
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Episodes (500)
SDR #374: Fixed Ops Should Carry Dealerships
Aug 31, 2026
SDR #373: 5 Things Great Service Managers Do
Aug 24, 2026
SDR #372: BDC: AI or Humans - What's Better?
Aug 17, 2026
SDR #371 - Selling Cars From The Service Drive
Aug 11, 2026
SDR #370: How To Reduce Parts Obsolesence
Aug 3, 2026
SDR 369: The Gap Between Posted / Effective Labor Rate
Jul 27, 2026
SDR #368: It's Not Traffic... It's Your Techs!
Jul 20, 2026
SDR #367: 5 Dumb Things Service Managers Say
Jul 14, 2026
SDR #366: 3 Mistakes You're Making With Video Inspections
Jul 6, 2026
SDR #365: How Owning A Dealership Changed Me
Jun 26, 2026
SDR #364: What I Learned As A General Manager
Jun 22, 2026
SDR #363: Live Kick-Off: What You'll Learn!
Jun 15, 2026
SDR #362: How I Fix Broken Auto Dealerships
Jun 8, 2026
SDR #361: How I Mastered Dealership Financial Statements
Jun 1, 2026
SDR #360: How I Arguably Made The Best Advisor Training
May 25, 2026
SDR #359: How I Got In The Car Business Part 1
May 18, 2026
SDR #358: Viewer Q&A: Secret To Getting Promoted
May 11, 2026
SDR #357: YouTube Q&A: Your Top Comments Answered
May 4, 2026
SDR #356: Coaches Roundtable: Your Top Questions Answered!
Apr 27, 2026
SDR #355: Why Customer Retention is Your Best Marketing Strategy
Apr 20, 2026
SDR #354: Why Your Techs Quit & How To Motivate The Ones You Have (Part 2)
Apr 13, 2026
SDR #353: Why Your Technicians Are Quitting!
Apr 6, 2026
SDR #352: The AI Revolution in Fixed Ops: Unfair Advantage or Impending Doom?
Mar 30, 2026
SDR #351: The $50,000 Menu - Tips To Explode Your Service Drive Profits
Mar 23, 2026
SDR #348: What I Look For When Hiring A Service Performance Coach
Mar 2, 2026
SDR #347: Top 9 Reasons Service Managers Fail (And How to Avoid Them)
Feb 23, 2026
SDR #346: Most Shop Foremen Are Doing This Wrong (And It's Costing You Production)
Feb 16, 2026
SDR #345: Increase Your NPS Score!
Feb 9, 2026
SDR #344: Chris Collins Answers: Why Your Fixed Ops System Is Failing
Feb 2, 2026
SDR #343: Handling Difficult Customers in Fixed Ops the Right Way
Jan 26, 2026
SDR #342: Stop Blaming Communication: The System Is What's Broken
Jan 19, 2026
SDR #341: The Fixed Ops Leadership Mistakes Killing Service Department Profit
Jan 12, 2026
SDR #340: Your Fixed Ops Questions Answered: Scheduling, Walk-Arounds & Diagnostics
Jan 5, 2026
SDR #339: Why Top Leaders Set Goals Differently (Lessons from Taylor Swift)
Dec 29, 2025
SDR #338: Why Unapplied Labor Was Made By The Devil
Dec 22, 2025
SDR #337: Low Hanging Fruit For Quick Fixed Ops Profits!
Dec 15, 2025
SDR #336: Why Service Department Goals Fail!
Dec 8, 2025
SDR #335: The Biggest Problem in Auto Dealerships No One Wants to Fix
Dec 1, 2025
SDR #334: TOXIC SHOP CULTURE FIX: How to Reset Your Dealership & Win Back Your Technicians
Nov 17, 2025
SDR #333: Your Fixed Ops Questions Answered: Surviving Bad Bosses, Broken Systems & Service Drive Problems
Nov 10, 2025
SDR #332: Top Dog 2025 Roundtable: Fixed Ops Leadership Lessons from the Service Drive
Nov 3, 2025
SDR #331: Service Department Culture Mistakes: What's Destroying Your Fixed Ops Team (and How to Fix It)
Oct 28, 2025
SDR #330: Top 7 Service Advisor Pay Plan Failures
Oct 21, 2025
SDR #329: The Moneyball Secret Every Service Manager Needs to Know
Oct 13, 2025
SDR #328: How Great Leaders Keep Technicians and Advisors from Quitting
Oct 8, 2025
SDR #327: Are You Paying Your Techs Enough?
Oct 8, 2025
SDR #326: 7 Steps to Go from Service Manager to General Manager
Sep 22, 2025
SDR #325: Are YOU Ruining Your New Service Advisors?
Sep 15, 2025
SDR #324: What To Do When Customers Say, "NO!"
Sep 8, 2025
SDR #323: What Canada Does Better Than the U.S. (And It's NOT Poutine)
Sep 1, 2025
SDR #322: How Service Managers Get Fired
Aug 21, 2025
SDR #321: Benchmarks For Net-To-Gross, Hours Per RO & Ford Recalls
Aug 21, 2025
SDR #320: From Quick Lube Tech to Master Tech: The Blueprint for Fixed Ops Success
Aug 21, 2025
SDR #319: From Parts Manager To GM - Dave's Incredible Rise Through The World Of Fixed Ops
Aug 21, 2025
SDR #318: How To Make The Best Technician Videos
Aug 21, 2025
SDR #317: Navigating The Next Dealership Crisis
Aug 21, 2025
SDR # 316 Auto Industry High Performers vs. Low Performers
May 12, 2025
SDR #315 With Automotive Expert Glenn Lundy!
Apr 14, 2025
SDR #314 With Emmy-Winning Sportscaster Jim Kozimor
Apr 7, 2025
SDR #313 with Grammy-Nominated Producer Scott Erickson
Mar 31, 2025
The Correct Way To Present A Diagnostic Fee To Your Customers
Nov 25, 2024
Channel Update: Service Drive Revolution
Nov 20, 2024
9 Reasons Why Service Managers Fail
Nov 18, 2024
Service and Parts Benchmarks for Profitability | SDR #312
Nov 11, 2024
How Great CSI Can Be So Easy | SDR #311
Nov 4, 2024
A Behind-The Scenes Look At Top Dog 2024 | SDR #310
Oct 28, 2024
The Dealership Business Model Part 3 | SDR #309
Oct 21, 2024
The Dealership Business Model Part 2 | SDR #308
Oct 14, 2024
Q & A | How to Teach an Old Advisor New Tricks
Oct 11, 2024
The Dealership Business Model Part 1 | SDR #307
Oct 7, 2024
Q & A | Should Your Service Department Have a Dispatcher or Shop Foreman?
Oct 4, 2024
Top Dog 2024 Speaker Will Guidara | SDR #306
Sep 30, 2024
Q & A | Hiring Technicians for the Peak Season
Sep 27, 2024
Top Dog 2024 Preview with BBQ Grandmaster Harry Soo | SDR #305
Sep 23, 2024
Q & A | The Best Strategy To Follow Up With Declined Work In Your Service Department
Sep 20, 2024
What's Your Dealership Worth? | SDR #304
Sep 16, 2024
Q & A | Automated Phones vs Humans
Sep 13, 2024
How a Service Department Becomes Profitable | SDR #303
Sep 9, 2024
Q & A | Insurance Adjuster to Service Advisor: Career Switch Insights
Sep 6, 2024
Dealership Pretax Profit Down 33% | SDR #302
Sep 2, 2024
Q & A | Credit Card Fees in the Service Drive
Aug 30, 2024
Are You Ready for 14 Year Old Cars? | SDR #301
Aug 26, 2024
Q & A | Better Way for Service Managers to Price Internal/Captive Labor
Aug 23, 2024
Dealership Economic Hurricane Survival Plan | SDR #300
Aug 19, 2024
Q & A | Service Advisor Customer Communication
Aug 16, 2024
Lessons for Service Advisors from McDonald's | SDR #299
Aug 12, 2024
Q & A | Service Advisor Pro Tip: Turn Brand Complaints into Customer Loyalty | Fixed Ops
Aug 9, 2024
Why Are Service Managers In A Broken System? | SDR #298
Aug 5, 2024
Q & A | The Hidden Differences Between a Service Advisor and Collision Estimator
Aug 2, 2024
Service Department Culture vs Chaos | SDR #297
Jul 29, 2024
Q & A | Mastering Service Advisor Communication
Jul 26, 2024
How Will AI Affect Your Service Department? | SDR #296
Jul 22, 2024
Q & A | Should Dealers Give Employee Discounts?
Jul 19, 2024
New Service Manager? Avoid These Pitfalls and Drive Success | SDR #295
Jul 15, 2024
Q & A | Should You Charge for Unverified Diagnoses?
Jul 12, 2024
Revolutionize Your Service Drive: 5 Proven Selling Techniques for Advisors | SDR #294
Jul 8, 2024
Q & A | How To Handle Body Shop Warranty Claims
Jul 5, 2024
5 Critical Mistakes Dealers Make: Is Your Service Department at Risk? | SDR #293
Jul 1, 2024
Q & A | Can You Be a Service Advisor Without Car Knowledge?
Jun 28, 2024
Hiring Crisis! Why Dealerships Can't Find Advisors | SDR #292
Jun 24, 2024
Service Drive Revolution Announcement
May 6, 2024
The Secret to Exceptional Customer Communication in the Service Drive | SDR #291
Apr 29, 2024
Q & A | Making Service Contracts Easy
Apr 26, 2024
How to Build a Top Dog Service Team in Your Dealership | SDR #290
Apr 22, 2024
Q & A | Drive By Rewind: Unwritten Rules Service Advisors Need to Know!
Apr 19, 2024
Unreasonable Hospitality with Will Guidara | SDR #289
Apr 15, 2024
Q & A | From The Express Service Advisor To The Main Shop
Apr 12, 2024
Be a Teacher, Not a Preacher: The Key to Effective Service Manager Training | SDR #288
Apr 8, 2024
Q & A | How Parts Managers Can Drive Service Sales and Boost Profits
Apr 5, 2024
How to Eliminate Comebacks: The Silent Killer in Your Service Department | SDR #287
Apr 1, 2024
Q & A | Overcoming Negativity from Staff After a Dealership Acquisition
Mar 29, 2024
Is Technology Hurting Your Service Department Communication? | SDR #286
Mar 25, 2024
Q & A | Advisor Pressured into Warranty Fraud: What Should They Do?
Mar 22, 2024
Are Video Inspections KILLING Your Service Sales? | SDR #285
Mar 18, 2024
Q & A | Are You Losing Customers Over Pricing?
Mar 15, 2024
Eliminating Negative Advisor Attitudes | SDR #284
Mar 11, 2024
Q & A | How to Set Customer Expectations for Service Delays
Mar 8, 2024
What To Do When Your Service Manager Isn't Cutting It | SDR #283
Mar 4, 2024
Q & A | Training Service Staff Without Sacrificing Output
Mar 1, 2024
How To Maximize Your Mobile Service | SDR #282
Feb 26, 2024
Q & A | First Day Tips for New Auto Shop Employees
Feb 23, 2024
The Raw Truth Your Leadership Training Isn't Telling You | SDR #281
Feb 19, 2024
Q & A | No Upsells? How Express Lubes Leave Money on the Table
Feb 16, 2024
9 Mistakes Service Advisors Make | SDR #280
Feb 12, 2024
Q & A | Clever New Service Marketing Ideas You Must Steal
Feb 9, 2024
How to SMASH Customer Objections in Auto Service | SDR #279
Feb 5, 2024
Q & A | The Best Power Sport Pay Plan Strategies
Feb 2, 2024
Is Repair Order Count Growth Killing or Saving Your Service Department? | SDR #278
Jan 29, 2024
Q & A | Private vs Public Dealerships: Which Offers Better Careers?
Jan 26, 2024
3 Surprising Secrets to Keeping Your Best Technicians Long Term | SDR #277
Jan 22, 2024
Q & A | Advice For New Service Managers Stepping Into Chaos
Jan 19, 2024
What Your Shop is Secretly Saying About You | SDR #276
Jan 15, 2024
Q & A | 90 Day Action Plan for New Service Managers
Jan 12, 2024
5 Ways to Fix High Unapplied Labor in Any Shop | SDR #275
Jan 8, 2024
Q & A | Tips for Retaining Automotive Service Technicians and Preventing Turnover
Jan 5, 2024
Bold 2024 Auto Industry and Economic Predictions | SDR #274
Jan 1, 2024
Q & A | Tips for Becoming a Dealership's Next Service Director
Dec 29, 2023
Top 5 Mistakes Even Great Service Managers Make Early On | SDR #273
Dec 25, 2023
Q & A | Defining Shop Foreman Duties
Dec 22, 2023
How to Increase Revenue in Cold Months | SDR #272
Dec 18, 2023
Q & A | Pricing Your Auto Repair Shop's Value
Dec 15, 2023
2023 Service Coaching Truths Reviving Dealers' Bottom Lines | SDR #271
Dec 11, 2023
Q & A | Guidance to Level Up into a Service Manager Role
Dec 8, 2023
Assessing 2023 with High Expectations of Ourselves | SDR #270
Dec 4, 2023
The 90-Day Plan to Train Standout Service Advisors
Dec 1, 2023
Can Parts & Service Collaborate? Ideas to End the Department Rivalry | SDR #269
Nov 27, 2023
Service Advisor Stuck With Too Many Appointments? Here's What To Do | Q & A
Nov 24, 2023
5 No-Brainer Ways to Keep Your Best Technicians Happy | SDR #268
Nov 20, 2023
Becoming a Rockstar Internal Service Advisor
Nov 17, 2023
Keeping Your Service Advisors Engaged, Motivated, and Driven to Succeed | SDR #267
Nov 13, 2023
Tips for Selling More Alignments
Nov 10, 2023
How To Be A Top Performing Technician | SDR #266
Nov 6, 2023
Authorization vs Diagnosis -Which is Better?
Nov 3, 2023
6 Game-Changing Traits of the Highest-Performing Service Advisors | SDR #265
Oct 30, 2023
Expert Tips for Bridging the Tech & Service Advisor Communication Gap
Oct 27, 2023
Smart Ways to Overcome Parts Shortages | SDR #264
Oct 23, 2023
How to Handle Rogue Employees in the Auto Dealership
Oct 20, 2023
Secrets of The Irreplaceable Service Manager | SDR #263
Oct 16, 2023
Leading Your Technicians To Success
Oct 13, 2023
The Role Of The Shop Foreman | SDR #262
Oct 9, 2023
How To Deal With An Aggressive Service Director
Oct 6, 2023
Why Your CSI Sucks | SDR #261
Oct 2, 2023
Strong Service Advisor Metrics
Sep 29, 2023
Automotive Recruitment Strategies for 2023 w/ Steve Johnson | SDR #260
Sep 25, 2023
Never Turn Away Walk-Ins
Sep 22, 2023
Should Your Service Drive Be Open On Sundays? | SDR #259
Sep 18, 2023
Negotiating Salary, Appt. Scheduling, Updating Customers
Sep 15, 2023
How to Run a Profitable Detail Dept | SDR #258
Sep 11, 2023
Tracking the Quote Through to the Sale
Sep 8, 2023
90% of Performance is Mental w/ Zach Sorensen | SDR #257
Sep 4, 2023
How to Reduce Chaos in the Drive
Sep 1, 2023
New LIVE Training for Service Managers | SDR #256
Aug 28, 2023
Dealing With Anxiety As A Service Advisor
Aug 25, 2023
Service Dept. Biggest Missed Profit Opportunities | SDR #255
Aug 21, 2023
Increasing Productivity & Professionalism in the Drive
Aug 18, 2023
How to Get Your Service Dept. In Shape | SDR #254
Aug 14, 2023
How to Fairly Dispatch Work Between Hungry Techs
Aug 11, 2023
Red Flags: How To Spot a Poorly-Run Dealership | SDR #253
Aug 7, 2023
What About Customer-Supplied Parts?
Aug 4, 2023
Why You Should Move Your Best Salesperson to Service | SDR #252
Jul 31, 2023
My Techs Don't Want to Work Saturdays
Jul 28, 2023
How Do You Pay Techs On Warranty Work? | SDR #251
Jul 24, 2023
Setting Up Acquisition For Service Customers
Jul 21, 2023
How to Design a Winning Service Advisor Pay Plan | SDR #250
Jul 17, 2023
Top-Performing Games For Technicians
Jul 14, 2023
How To Reduce Employee Turnover & Increase Engagement | SDR #249
Jul 10, 2023
My Service Manager Keeps Undermining Advisors
Jul 7, 2023
Car Business Divorce Rate: How to Have A Successful Marriage in the Car Business | SDR #248
Jul 3, 2023
Holding Your Staff Accountable
Jun 30, 2023
How To Stay On Top When Business Is Booming | SDR #247
Jun 26, 2023
Working With Family At A Car Dealership
Jun 23, 2023
Effective Communication With Your Technician As A Service Advisor | SDR #246
Jun 19, 2023
How To Move Up From Foreman To Manager
Jun 16, 2023
How To Manage a Slow Month | SDR #245
Jun 12, 2023
Decreasing Apathy In The Service Drive
Jun 9, 2023
Why Service Managers Make the Best General Managers | SDR #244
Jun 5, 2023
Getting Promoted From Service Manager To General Manager
Jun 2, 2023
Tips To Become A Great Service Manager | SDR #243
May 29, 2023
Ensuring Success As A New Service Manager
May 26, 2023
How To Get More Customers This Summer | SDR #242
May 22, 2023
What Are The Key Features Of A Perfect Service Department?
May 19, 2023
10 Reasons Why Your Customers Leave | SDR #241
May 15, 2023
How Much Money Do Service Advisors Make?
May 12, 2023
Is Service Training As Valuable As Sales Training? | SDR #240
May 8, 2023
Independents vs. Dealerships
May 5, 2023
What Service Drives Can Learn From the Bud Light Controversy | SDR #239
May 1, 2023
Everything Goes Right But the Customer Is Still Upset
Apr 28, 2023
The Pros And Cons Of Building A Bench | #SDR 238
Apr 24, 2023
What's the Best Profit & Retention Video to Show My Owner?
Apr 21, 2023
Should Service Managers Drive The Shuttle? | SDR #237
Apr 17, 2023
Building Healthy Habits As A Service Advisor
Apr 14, 2023
How To Manage Up When My Boss Is Clueless | SDR #236
Apr 10, 2023
Why Don't We Talk About The Service Advisor Shortage?
Apr 7, 2023
The Benefits Of AI In the Service Drive | SDR #235
Apr 3, 2023
Tiered Subscription Services In The Drive
Mar 31, 2023
Can Tablets & Video Inspections Save Your Service Drive? | SDR #234
Mar 27, 2023
Mending Fences With An Abusive Owner
Mar 24, 2023
Identifying And Handling A Toxic High Performer | SDR #233
Mar 20, 2023
Selling Service When Setting Appointments
Mar 17, 2023
John Taylor: From Porter to Dealer Principal | SDR #232
Mar 13, 2023
Getting Upper Management On Board With Expansion
Mar 10, 2023
5 Characteristics Of High-Quality Technicians | SDR #231
Mar 6, 2023
Attracting Advisors In Remote Areas
Mar 3, 2023
How To Motivate the Unmotivated | SDR #230
Feb 27, 2023
Handling A Sacred Cow Who Doesn't Own Their Mistakes
Feb 24, 2023
How Obsession Inspires Higher Performance | SDR #229
Feb 20, 2023
Who Should Dispatch Work?
Feb 17, 2023
What Dealers Get Wrong About Gross Profit | SDR #228
Feb 13, 2023
How Can I Prevent Tech Comebacks?
Feb 10, 2023
The Best Ways To Manage Your Time | SDR #227
Feb 6, 2023
Getting Back On Track In Your Automotive Business
Feb 3, 2023
How To Deal With Angry Customers | SDR #226
Jan 30, 2023
Rude Service Managers
Jan 27, 2023
How To Avoid Burnout In Work & In Life | SDR #225
Jan 23, 2023
Do Dealerships Have Culture?
Jan 20, 2023
5 Ways To Tell You if Your Business is Running You | SDR #224
Jan 16, 2023
The Next Step To Increase Your CSI
Jan 13, 2023
How To Make The Most Out Of 2023 In Your Automotive Business | SDR #223
Jan 9, 2023
Dealing With Disgruntled General Managers
Jan 6, 2023
How To Sell Bigger Jobs In Your Service Department | SDR #222
Jan 2, 2023
Different Ways To Explain Diagnosis To Customers
Dec 30, 2022
The Best Books Of 2022 | SDR #221
Dec 26, 2022
How To Motivate A Tough Technician
Dec 23, 2022
Your Best Picks For 2022 | SDR #220
Dec 19, 2022
How Low Can You Go?
Dec 16, 2022
5 Habits Of The Exceptional Service Manager | SDR #219
Dec 12, 2022
How To Increase Productivity As An Automotive Technician
Dec 9, 2022
The Best Top Dog 2022 Takeaways | SDR #218
Dec 5, 2022
The Best Way To Dispatch Work
Dec 2, 2022
SDR Rewind: Every Service Advisor's Holy Grail Service Drive Revolution
Nov 28, 2022
Drive By Rewind: How To Get Your Technicians To Increase Production
Nov 25, 2022
SDR Rewind: Morning Routine Of A Millionaire Service Advisor
Nov 21, 2022
Drive By Rewind: How To Sell More Service WITHOUT Annoying Customers
Nov 18, 2022
SDR Rewind: 5 Ways To Increase ROI In Your Service Drive
Nov 14, 2022
Best Of SDR: Christian's Comedic Talent
Nov 11, 2022
SDR Rewind: Explaining Prices
Nov 7, 2022
Repair Authorization Issues
Nov 4, 2022
SDR UPDATE
Nov 3, 2022
The Differences Between A Manager And A Leader | SDR #217
Oct 31, 2022
Why Service Advisor Pay Plans Keep Changing | SDR #216
Oct 24, 2022
The Best Approach To Maintenance Contracts!
Oct 21, 2022
Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy's Tips For Understanding Human Nature | SDR #215
Oct 17, 2022
How To Compete With Tenured Service Advisors
Oct 14, 2022
Dog The Bounty Hunter: A Personal Conversation | SDR #214
Oct 10, 2022
The Key To Being A Good Service Manager
Oct 7, 2022
Combating The Great Resignation With Dr. Anthony Klotz | SDR #213
Oct 3, 2022
What Adds Value To A New Facility?
Sep 30, 2022
How To Get In The Game For Tire Season | SDR #212
Sep 26, 2022
The BEST Setup For A Labor Matrix!
Sep 23, 2022
Does The Parts Manager Matter? | SDR #211
Sep 19, 2022
How Service Advisors Can Increase ELR
Sep 16, 2022
What The Best Dealerships To Work For Have in Common | SDR #210
Sep 12, 2022
Unwritten Rules Service Advisors Need to Know!
Sep 9, 2022
Why Is There An Auto Tech Shortage? | SDR #209
Sep 5, 2022
How to Manage and Pay Your Shop Foreman
Sep 2, 2022
Why Service Advisors Are So Stressed Out | SDR #208
Aug 29, 2022
How to Recruit and Manage Good Service Advisors
Aug 26, 2022
Using Subscriptions to Boost Customer Loyalty and Retention
Aug 22, 2022
How to Be a Successful Service Advisor on Commission
Aug 19, 2022
A Conversation With Top Business Coach David Meltzer | SDR #206
Aug 15, 2022
What To Expect When Starting Out As A Service Advisor
Aug 12, 2022
5 More Reasons Service Managers Get Fired | SDR #205
Aug 8, 2022
How To Deal With Toxic Managers
Aug 5, 2022
How Much Do Service Advisors Make? | SDR #204
Aug 1, 2022
Connecting With Customers Who Don't Like You
Jul 29, 2022
Types of Automotive Service Advisors | SDR #203
Jul 25, 2022
Dedicating Technicians To Internal Work
Jul 22, 2022
Why Dealerships Lose Their Customers To Independent Shops | SDR #202
Jul 18, 2022
My Advice For Young Service Advisors
Jul 15, 2022
From Lube Tech To Now | SDR #201
Jul 11, 2022
How To Get Your Advisors To Call Customers Daily
Jul 8, 2022
How To Turn A Struggling Service Department Around | SDR #200
Jul 4, 2022
Express Advisors: Good or Bad?
Jul 1, 2022
The Secret To Effective Dealership Marketing | SDR #199
Jun 27, 2022
How To Dispatch Work To Techs Without Causing Chaos
Jun 24, 2022
How Service Advisors Can Overcome Sales Objections | SDR #198
Jun 20, 2022
The Right Way To Ask For Pre-Approved Maintenance
Jun 17, 2022
Should You Pay Technicians Hourly Or Flat Rate? | SDR #197
Jun 13, 2022
How To Get Promoted To Manager As A Technician
Jun 10, 2022
Getting To Know Chris Collins | SDR #196
Jun 6, 2022
The Easiest Way To Increase Your Parts Profits
Jun 3, 2022
Critiquing The Service Advisor Walk Around | SDR #195
May 30, 2022
What Questions To Ask Customers At Write-up
May 27, 2022
Best Ways For Parts And Service To Succeed Together | SDR #194
May 23, 2022
How To Get Your Technicians To Increase Production
May 20, 2022
Dealers Are Going Direct To Consumer | SDR #193
May 16, 2022
Can You Still Boost CSI Without Loaner Cars?
May 13, 2022
Does Service Benefit From Dealer Markups? | SDR #192
May 9, 2022
How Much To Pay Your Technicians
May 6, 2022
Tips To Become A Great Service Manager | SDR #191
May 2, 2022
How To Sell More Service WITHOUT Annoying Customers
Apr 29, 2022
Explaining Prices To Customers Using Market Based Pricing | SDR #190
Apr 25, 2022
The Quickest Path From Foreman To Service Manager
Apr 22, 2022
The Role Of An Effective Service Advisor | SDR #189
Apr 18, 2022
The 5 Most Important Parts Of The Service Advisor Walk Around | SDR #188
Apr 11, 2022
The First Step To Hire Mechanics ASAP
Apr 8, 2022
How Interstate Batteries Deliver The Most Trustworthy Source Of Power To The World
Apr 4, 2022
How You Can Be An Irreplaceable Millionaire Technician
Apr 1, 2022
Your R.O. Counts are About to Drop
Mar 28, 2022
Are Monkeys Running The Asylum?
Mar 25, 2022
How To Get Promoted At Your Dealership
Mar 21, 2022
How To Be A Good Service Advisor
Mar 18, 2022
Training Your Service Advisors To Valet
Mar 14, 2022
Turning Your Service Department Into A Video Game
Mar 4, 2022
Morning Routine Of A Millionaire Service Advisor
Feb 28, 2022
Building Trust Through Repair Authorizations
Feb 25, 2022
Service Advisors Need To Stop Being Average
Feb 21, 2022
Questions Your Service Advisors Should Be Asking
Feb 13, 2022
Working For a Highly Trusted Dealership
Feb 12, 2022
Are EVS The Future Or The End?
Feb 7, 2022
The Horror of Buying a New Car
Dec 20, 2021
Stop Charging for Diagnosis
Nov 22, 2021
The "Top 10" List You DON'T Want Your Business to be on
Nov 15, 2021
How to SAVE Money on OEM Parts
Nov 12, 2021
An Interview with the 2021 Service Manager Challenge Winner!
Nov 8, 2021
Driving Traffic in a Post-Pandemic World
Nov 5, 2021
The Service Manager's Guide to Having Saturdays Off
Nov 1, 2021
Drive By: Is Being Likable More Effective Than Being Right?
Oct 29, 2021
Service Manager Challenge Finalist Shares His Rise to the Top (Dog)
Oct 25, 2021
Could Taking Initiative SOLVE These Common Service Drive Setbacks?
Oct 22, 2021
An Unconventional Approach to Fixing Conventional Shop Problems
Oct 15, 2021
The 11-Step System to Hiring the BEST!
Oct 11, 2021
Getting Creative With Gamification to Incentivize Your Whole Dealership
Oct 8, 2021
Everything Must Go! The Auto Industry is for Sale
Oct 4, 2021
Drive By: The Foolproof Way to Control Your CSI Scores
Oct 1, 2021
It's Time - Tire Season is Already Here!
Sep 27, 2021
Drive By: The Truth About Pooled Hours for Techs
Sep 24, 2021
Everything You Need To Know About Top Dog 2021!
Sep 20, 2021
Flat-Rate vs. Hourly: The Debate Continues
Sep 17, 2021
The Business of Influence with Chase Hughes
Sep 13, 2021
Express Lanes: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Sep 6, 2021
Harnessing the Power of Persuasion with Dr. Robert Cialdini
Aug 30, 2021
Learn to Love Your "Lauras" - A lesson on Respect in the Workplace with Stephen Mason
Aug 23, 2021
Everybody Wins with Alternative Purchase Options w/ DigniFi's LeeAnn Radonski
Aug 9, 2021
How to Find Untapped Skilled Labor for Your Service Department w/ Raleigh Wilkins of Sales Platoon
Aug 2, 2021
Service Departments: Open to Change? or Stuck in the Past?
Jul 26, 2021
3 Workshops You Won't be Seeing at NADA
Jul 19, 2021
The True Value Of Your Technicians
Jul 12, 2021
How Carvana is Increasing Customer Visits to Dealership Service Departments
Jul 5, 2021
Trends in the Trucking Industry are Impacting Your Daily Life with Chryssa Hunlock
Jun 28, 2021
Is Automation the Future of Your Dealership?
Jun 21, 2021
The Secrets to Recruiting Top Techs with Steve Hamre
Jun 14, 2021
The Missed Opportunity with Tire Sales with Scott Rea
Jun 7, 2021
Motivating Employees & Screening Employers with Michelle Elrod
May 31, 2021
Can Leaders Be Friends With Their Employees?
May 24, 2021
How Many R.O. Should an Advisor Write?
May 17, 2021
How the Global Chip Shortage Is Affecting the Auto Industry w/ Reuters' Ben Klayman & Stephen Nellis
May 10, 2021
How Long Should Used Cars Take To Recon?
May 3, 2021
Seriously, You Still Have Dispatch?
Apr 26, 2021
Raise Your Labor Rate, Get Less Declines
Apr 19, 2021
New Tech Turnover, Why Over 60% of Techs Quit in the First 2 Years
Apr 12, 2021
Post-Covid Pain w/ Mia "The Chaotic Feminist" (Service Drive Revolution)
Apr 5, 2021
Why Service Managers Get Fired
Mar 29, 2021
Debating Important Service Metrics With A Consultant
Mar 22, 2021
What To Do if Your Tech Asks for a Raise & Why CSI Surveys are Dangerous
Mar 19, 2021
Will Manufacturers Cut Dealers Out of the Equation with Prof. Daniel A. Crane
Mar 15, 2021
Winter Slowdown & 2 Advisors That Don't Get Along
Mar 12, 2021
3 Burning Questions from the Service Drive (Ft. Mia, The Chaotic Feminist)
Mar 8, 2021
Why it's Important to Change Things Up
Mar 5, 2021
The Service Drive of the Future
Mar 1, 2021
My Favorite Law In Our New Leadership Training
Feb 26, 2021
The Hard Truth of Employee Retention
Feb 22, 2021
My Hack To Having A Better Life
Feb 19, 2021
What Is Fixed Absorption?
Feb 15, 2021
How To Create A System For Success
Feb 12, 2021
Why You Can't Hire Techs
Feb 8, 2021
The Most Important Thing For A Service Manager To Understand
Feb 5, 2021
What Is Leadership?
Feb 1, 2021
How To Crush Your Goals-- Guaranteed
Dec 25, 2020
The Service Drive Naughty And Nice List
Dec 22, 2020
Do You Want To Increase RO Count?
Dec 18, 2020
Four Reasons Why Consultants Can't Save Your Service Drive
Dec 14, 2020
Does Market Size Matter?
Dec 11, 2020
How to Become a Master of Time Management
Dec 7, 2020
Lessons From Bruce Lee - Part 2
Dec 4, 2020
Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater
Nov 30, 2020
Lessons From Bruce Lee - Part 1
Nov 27, 2020
What We're Thankful For
Nov 23, 2020
Self-Care Part 5: How to be Friends With Everyone
Nov 20, 2020
Empowering Advisors with Celebrity Service Advisor Mia Griggs
Nov 16, 2020
Self-Care Part 4: A Game-Changing Secret
Nov 13, 2020
The Top 10 Reasons Why Customers HATE Service Advisors
Nov 9, 2020
Self-Care Part 3: The Key To Unlimited Productivity
Nov 6, 2020
The Best Marketing Books of All Time - Part 2
Nov 2, 2020
Self-Care Part 2: How to Never Lose Control
Oct 30, 2020
The Best Marketing Books of All Time - Part 1
Oct 26, 2020
Self-Care Part 1: The Secret to Your Success
Oct 23, 2020
How to Retain Technicians
Oct 19, 2020
Practice Makes Perfect
Oct 16, 2020
Is It Okay To Steal From Your Customers?
Oct 12, 2020
The Quickest Way to Sabotage Yourself
Oct 9, 2020
The Top 5 Career Moves Service Advisors Can Make
Oct 5, 2020
How To Read Employees' Minds
Oct 2, 2020
How to Use Tire Season to Steal Market Share
Sep 28, 2020
How to Win Any Argument
Sep 25, 2020
Which Presidential Candidate Is Better For The Auto Industry?
Sep 21, 2020
The Best Way To Achieve Consistency
Sep 18, 2020
When Should You Deviate From Manufacturer Recommended Maintenance?
Sep 14, 2020
Omission Bias
Sep 11, 2020
Every Service Advisor's Holy Grail
Sep 7, 2020
The Volunteer's Dilemma
Sep 4, 2020
Your Service Department's Secret Weapon-- And It's FREE!
Aug 31, 2020
The Ostrich Effect
Aug 28, 2020
The Top 5 Four-Letter Words Advisors Say
Aug 24, 2020
Confirmation Bias
Aug 21, 2020
Using Humor To Connect With Customers ft. Andrew Tarvin
Aug 17, 2020
Novice Problems Need New Solutions
Aug 14, 2020
The Top 5 Things Service Advisors Take For Granted
Aug 10, 2020
How Expectations Affect Outcomes
Aug 7, 2020
Dealerships vs. Independent Shops - Part 2
Aug 3, 2020
Pyrrhic Victory
Jul 31, 2020
Dealerships vs Independent Shops - Part 1
Jul 27, 2020
5 Monkeys
Jul 24, 2020
The BEST of 2020-- So far...
Jul 20, 2020
3 KPI's Service Managers are Judged on-- Whether They Know it or Not
Jul 13, 2020
Drive By - You Are How You Feel
Jul 10, 2020
Are You an Amateur, or a Pro?
Jul 6, 2020
Drive By - How to Shatter Your Glass Ceiling
Jul 3, 2020
Do Service Advisor Personality Tests Work?
Jun 29, 2020
Drive By - How to Reinvent Yourself
Jun 26, 2020
Why Less is More For Your Service Drive
Jun 22, 2020
Drive By - How to Win at Life
Jun 19, 2020
Why Service Managers Are The Dealers Of The Future
Jun 15, 2020
Drive By - Finding Your Inner Self
Jun 12, 2020
What is Your Service Advisors' S.O.S.?
Jun 8, 2020
Drive By - The Secret Might Just Be To Shut Up
Jun 5, 2020
How Service Managers Can Stop Their Pay Plan From Changing
Jun 1, 2020
Drive By - Groundhog's Day For Service Managers?
May 29, 2020
100th Episode - 6 Advisors That Will Kill Your Service Drive
May 25, 2020
Drive By - What is the Secret to Happiness?
May 22, 2020
The 5 Landmines to Avoid When Reopening
May 18, 2020
Drive By - How to Get UnStuck
May 15, 2020
Should Service Managers Fire Advisors Who Do This?
May 11, 2020
Drive By - Leadership Lessons From Michael Jordan
May 8, 2020
3 Ways to Sell More and Eliminate Sales Objections, with Sunbit Co-Founder Tal Riesenfeld
May 4, 2020
Kill the Things That Have Power Over You
May 1, 2020
Motivating Service Advisors During The Coronavirus Crisis
Apr 27, 2020
Drive By - How To Get Everything You Want In Life
Apr 24, 2020
Should Dealers Pay Service Advisors and Technicians During Lockdown?
Apr 20, 2020
Drive By - What You Should NEVER Say
Apr 17, 2020
How to Pet the Dog in a World of Social Distancing
Apr 13, 2020
Drive By - How To Hit The Play Button
Apr 10, 2020
SDR Live - How To Increase R.O. Count During The Coronavirus Crisis
Apr 8, 2020
The 5 DUMBEST Things Service Advisors Say After Getting a "No."
Apr 6, 2020
Drive By: Truth or Lie?
Apr 3, 2020
SDR Live - Coronavirus Quarantine Update 2
Apr 1, 2020
4 HIDDEN Ways Parts Can Sell More Labor
Mar 30, 2020
Drive By - One Thing You Can Do Every Day
Mar 27, 2020
SDR Live - How to Keep Your Advisors Safe From Coronavirus
Mar 25, 2020
The Top 5 Things KILLING Service Advisors!
Mar 23, 2020
Drive By - Dress Better Feel Better
Mar 20, 2020
The Top 5 Sales Mistakes Advisors Make
Mar 16, 2020
Drive-By: How to Avoid Coronavirus Killing Your Service Drive
Mar 13, 2020
5 Reasons Techs Aren't Efficient
Mar 9, 2020
Drive By - The Secret To Effective Leadership
Mar 6, 2020
Top 5 Mistakes Parts Managers Make
Mar 2, 2020
Drive By - Know Your Worth as a Service Advisor!
Feb 28, 2020
Do You Know the Fourth Labor Type?
Feb 24, 2020
Drive By - How I Became a Millionaire Service Advisor
Feb 21, 2020
Shift Meeting Hype Songs - The Top 5
Feb 17, 2020
Drive By: Better Relationships - Never Late to Lunch
Feb 14, 2020
Trump (yes, Trump) and Selling More Maintenance
Feb 10, 2020
Drive By - Want Good Things To Happen To You?
Feb 7, 2020
Service Managers' BIGGEST Mistakes
Feb 3, 2020
Drive By - How to be Unstoppable
Jan 31, 2020
I Would Pay $100,000 For a Personal Assistant, if....
Jan 27, 2020
Drive By - The Antidote for the Fear of Failure
Jan 24, 2020
CES 2020... Sony Making A Car?
Jan 20, 2020
Drive By: One Little Thing Will MAKE or BREAK Your Service Department!
Jan 17, 2020
How To Be Self-Made
Jan 13, 2020
Drive By: Google Does THIS To Service Managers Every Day!
Jan 10, 2020
Tesla's Unfair Advantage
Jan 6, 2020
Drive By: I Made A Service Manager Cry
Jan 3, 2020
How to Have More Energy in 2020, Chris' Favorite Things of 2019, and Audience Questions
Dec 30, 2019
The 5 Unexpected Ways for You to Drive ROI in the Service Department
Dec 23, 2019
Top 5 Customer Relationship Management Tools For Car Dealers
Dec 9, 2019
5 Easy Ways For Your Service Managers To Build Customer Service Skills
Nov 27, 2019
Learning on the Fly! Rally Champ, Drifter, Lawyer turned Auto-Entrepreneur: Andrew Comrie-Picard
Nov 11, 2019
10 Reasons Why Service Advisors Fail
Oct 28, 2019
The Difference Between 30% and 50% Net to Gross
Oct 14, 2019