Auto Repair Shop Management Mistakes That Cost One Owner $40K a Month
The most useful session at Shop Hackers 2026 didn’t open with a framework or a slide about mindset. It opened with a shop owner walking the room through his own auto repair shop management mistakes: the specific, dollar-for-dollar cost of each one, and the four unglamorous fixes that turned his numbers around. No new equipment.…
Best Time to Hire Automotive Technicians
(Hint: It’s Not When You’re Desperate) Most shops decide to hire automotive technicians the moment they feel the pinch — a tech quits, a bay sits empty, the schedule backs up. So the job post goes live that same week, right when the shop needs someone most. There’s a problem with that instinct: it’s exactly…
Yo Shop Owners — Here’s Why You Can’t Hire (the Right) People
Alright y’all. Here we are, three full years into running Promotive, a 100% independent automotive repair shop recruiting agency… or for lack of a better term, head-hunters. We have placed nearly 1,000 candidates and have worked with several hundred shops and ran discovery calls (initial appointments) with over 1,000. We only work with shops we…