Gary,
You know the story. I think it was a little over two years ago. I was ready to lock the doors and throw the keys in the night drop and walk away. You even gave me a few months of one on one coaching free just to help me through. As you’ll probably remember I was pretty low. Slowly you got me back into Tuesday classes. But if I remember correctly we did a financial health assessment first. That’s when I really started to wake up. After that I talked some things over with my service manager. We found that the business was running us. That day we started the turn around.
We had talked and I confided in you P&L’s and budgeting were Greek to me. You told me Tuesday webinar budgeting for profit. I started attending. Now not only can I do a budget, because of the tools and reports I got from the class I watch the numbers daily. Between budgeting and turning into a “yes” company (join ASL and learn what that really means). Cartec started showing a profit. I was able to pay off past debt. Cartec now has money in the bank to fall back on. Due to your coaching it’s actually enjoyable to own my business.
I haven’t even mentioned the twenty group meetings. What can I say shop owners and managers from around the country getting together sharing ideas, makes for one intense and helpful weekend. The ideas and the help from fellow members, there’s no way to put a price on it. The funny thing is it’s because of the webinar’s and your coaching I can afford to attend or should I say I can’t afford not to attend.
Cartec is still a work in progress. But thanks to Gary Gunn and Automotive Service Leaders Last year (2009) we had a 29% increase over 2008. This year in the first quarter we’re up 19.5% and we have seen 94 more cars. And the great thing, there not empty numbers were making a profit. If Gary Gunn can turn around a little five bay shop in Oklahoma If you listen to him and use the tools from the website, Gary Gunn and the board of directors can turn your business around.
Gary I can’t thank you enough.
Jerry Kaminski
