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Hosted by Andrew Crook · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 144 episodes
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My mission is to help garage owners become more successful in business.Every week I host a 15-minute training topic inside one of the 5 pillars of running a successful independent garage business.Planning, Finance, Performance, Systems & Marketing
Andrew Crook hosts Garage Owners Network (UK), a business show with 144 episodes published.
It’s not if you will use AI, it’s how. This training topic shows garage owners how to use AI properly without replacing judgment, skill, or standards. Using a simple diagnostic job as the example, we explore three practi
Do you focus on the positive or the negative aspects of your business? Are you providing excuses or looking for clues? Because success leaves clues, and the successful are better at spotting the patterns the rest of us s
Most garage owners work hard for money, but they are building only one kind of money: earnings. They turn up, do the work, solve the problems, and keep the wheels turning. But if the business stops earning when they stop
Time is the great leveller; everyone has the same amount every day, it's how you use it that makes the difference. This training topic examines the 3 ways you can use your time. Are you using yours wisely? Join me to fin
Most garage marketing fails because it talks about you, not your customers. "Quality service at competitive prices" doesn't connect with the customer lying awake at 11 PM, worried about breaking down on the motorway. Thi
This training topic shows garage owners why they should stop relying on gut feelings and start measuring key metrics. Past performance leaves clues in the form of repeatable patterns; spotting these patterns in timing, o
"Taking the Business Pulse” is a simple, repeatable habit to transform visibility into profitability. Most garages suffer from poor visibility because they don’t track the right numbers. Start with one daily metric to bu
Garage owners either ignore the competition or compare themselves unfairly. One says, “I just focus on my own business.” The other sees bigger workshops, better websites, newer kit, and feels inferior. Neither helps. You
This training topic explains how to design hooks that connect your services to the customer’s world. Their pain, their problems, your solutions. Using a simple framework, Andy shows how to create better hooks so that you
Why don’t people do the things they know they should? Most people assume the problem is motivation. But behaviour science tells us something different. In this training Topic, Andy explains the MAP Behaviour Model. The m
After suggesting garages increase labour rates in line with inflation, the response was immediate: “If you raise prices, you must add value.” But are we confusing two completely different words — price and value? In this
Most garage owners manage their business like they manage their weight — they step on the scales, don’t like the number, and hope it improves next month. If you are only measuring lagging metrics, they can only tell you
You’ve seen the ads: “Add an MOT bay from only £15 per day.” In this episode, I explain why that number is simply a marketing trick— and why you should include opportunity cost in your ROI calculations. Using a realistic
Most garages aren’t stuck because they don’t know what to do. They’re stuck because they won’t do what it takes. You are not being held back by the market, money, methods, or models. You’re being held back by you. And if
Most micro-businesses have a sales level need. They need more cash flowing through their business. There are only two ways to make this happen: More sales or Higher Sales Values Attracting more of the right customers mea
This training Topic is all about sustainability... but not in the “save the planet” way, but in the energizer bunny kind of way. I mean a business that can keep going, on and on. A garage that can still make money, still
High-performing industries don’t fear failure — they study it. In this Training Topic, we apply Black Box Thinking to the independent garage sector, revealing why common metrics like NPS and online reviews often tell onl
For decades, independent garages have built their businesses on two profit centres: the work and the shop. Labour and parts. But this mindset traps garages in low-value thinking, price comparison, and discount-driven dec
You know you’re going to sell—what you haven’t asked is who will actually buy it. The headline dream is staff ownership, but with only ~1 in 8 workers self-employed nationwide, that's statistically unlikely. The next fan
In this Training Topic, we show how seasonal marketing turns chaos into cadence. Using predictable patterns (weather, school terms, registration/MOT waves), you’ll build a proactive plan — not last-minute ads. You’ll lea
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