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On 7/5/2017 at 7:56 PM, meowpox said:

We use Squarespace! Easy to manage, beautiful templates and easy to customize. I like to manage it myself because I have very particular taste, plus we have a very active blog. But that said, I probably am not using it to its potential in terms of SEO (still have to learn). We pay $26/mo for their basic commerce plan, which is $8 more than their basic business plan. We get tons of compliments.

I am a strong believer in building a strong brand, and that includes first and foremost an amazing logo and a beautiful website. People will follow you if everything you put out there just looks amazing.

Our Website

@meowpox I checked out your website and it looks very clean. Your front page has no information about your business at all. Do you ever get customer asking what you do? Looks like you sell merchandise, do you fix cars also?

On 6/3/2018 at 7:33 PM, wilfredo celedon said:

www.atechfresno.com

@wilfredo celedon looks like your website is built by mopro. How much did it or does it cost you?

On 8/22/2017 at 8:53 PM, cdhowell said:

OK, it seems most agree that diagnostics should be charged. I am curious as to how most of you are charging. Just by time or by test. In the past I have only charged by time up to 2 hrs. Unless it's intermittent or requires a lot of tear down to do the test. I have been thinking a lot about menu board pricing. $X Smoke test. $X Fuel pressure test. $x Coolant pressure test. The dreaded P0300 could get spendy for the customer. Thoughts 

Yes diagnostic time is a must. It costs money to have equipment, scan tools and updates to those scan tools and software. Customer don't always understand that.

LOL...yes it is.

Not as often either unless, but should be a prevetive maintenance service.

I missed this topic, but that's pretty interesting that he did that.

I'm just glad it's gotten much warmer!

I agree. In the end, you are only as good as the people you surround yourself with in business.

Happy Easter.

Quality techs are getting harder to find. With all the new technology and a different work ethic today, it seems the work force is in need of competent people.

Agreed!

Welcome!

Welcome aboard!

That's pretty funny...

Wow is that an eye opening article.

I agree.

Good info.

I saw the AUTOBOSS recently, otc tool similar to the Launch.

Link: http://www.autoboss.net/en/pV30.asp

Features:

Live data graphic display

Full component activation

Read & change ECU coding

Setting of adaptation values

CANBUS function supported

Internet update function

HYUNDAI immobilizer

Testing report saving function

VOLKSWAGON immobilizer III

Coding of the new control modules

NISSAN idle speed self learning function

Multi-language for international market demand

Hand-held independent operation, supporting PC link

I'll check it out on my droid!

If you have a carquest that you buy from, you can use their auto alert program. www.cqautoalert.com

Wow...here's the thing that's even more scary if you bank onlne...



"Businesses do not have the same protection against fraud that consumers enjoy," Krebs wrote. "Indeed, most companies that get hit with this type of fraud quickly figure out that their banks are under no legal obligation to reimburse them.
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Must have been nice and warm... Welcome Back!

A mechanic was removing a cylinder-head from the motor of a car when he spotted a well-known cardiologist in his shop. The cardiologist was there waiting for the service manager to come and take a look at his car when the mechanic shouted across the Garage.

"Hey, Doc, want to take a look at this?"

The cardiologist, a bit surprised, walked over to where the mechanic was working on the engine.

The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and asked, "So Doc, look at this engine. I open its' heart, take the valves out, repair any damage, and then put them back in, and when I finish, it works just like new. So how come I make $39,675 a year and you get the really big bucks ($1,695,759) when you and I are doing basically the same work?"

The cardiologist paused, smiled and leaned over, then whispered to the mechanic..........

"Try doing it with the engine running."

Yeah....that's too much. This is odd...

If this is to be the way the law is being enforced then the newspapers on sale in this country which carry topless women every day would have to be banned

If they're media has topless women...why can't you hand a calendar?

As a general rule we do not install customer supplied parts. Occasionally we make exceptions if we are exceptionally slow or if there are extenuating reasons. We are busy enough that we do not have to do this. The people with their own parts are not the people we want.

Same here.

Seems to me that lately the media is all over every single recall that comes out from the Japanase makers. Granted, the Toyota and other recalls are all serious, but for instance.. Yesterday a Nissan recall was announced. The US government is also all over these manufacturers...from what I hear. They are under the microscope.

All this has to reduce confidence and build the domestic brand awareness...no?

Sometimes it seems like Japanese bashing movement to build the domestic carmakers back up. Not trying to raise a conspiracy theory...just wondering.

What makes the risk for the Japanese automakers greater is that the actual quality of the vehicles is now roughly the same as the quality of the two leading domestic brands, Chevrolet and Ford. That wasn't true a decade ago.

 

The J.D. Power initial quality survey found that for 2000 model year vehicles, Ford and Chevrolet vehicles had between 29% to 42% more problems than Toyotas and Hondas. But for 2009 model vehicles, the gap is down to between 1% and 4%.

 

The recall crisis has the chance to "level the playing field a little bit more in perception," said Schuster.

Toyota's recall ripples could hit Honda, Nissan - Mar. 1, 2010

Lucky.....he's probably on the beach somewhere right now...

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