House health care oversight continues. The U.S. House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Health and Technology held a hearing titled, “Self-Insurance and Heath Benefits: An Affordable Option for Small Business?” The purpose of the hearing was to examine the…
Put the ASA Marketplace to Work for You! Let ASA Help You Save on the Products, Services You’re Already Using Learn How to Better Manage Your Business Discover what more than 1,400 industry professionals have realized: the benefits of being…
Strong leadership character traits reflect good humor, guilelessness and sincerity. In this last installment of this series, I’ll finish with the last three of the nine principles of effective Character at the Top. The first three outlined the attitude you…
Learn three factors to help your shop be as efficient as possible in diagnostics. We expect to complete testing inside of an hour in most cases in my shop. Even for the hard jobs, it is our rule of thumb.…
Shop Owner Elected 2014 NASTF Chair Allen Pennebaker, owner of Orinda Motors of Orinda, Calif., an ASA member-shop, was elected the 2014 chairperson of the NASTF board of directors, the first independent shop owner to chair NASTF since its founding…
As we put the holidays behind us and enter into a new year, we have the feeling that the calendar change has granted us a new beginning with fresh opportunities. It feels like a time when we put the old…
See what makes us different ... and the same! About 90 percent of ASA member-shops are family-owned businesses, according to our 2013 “How’s Your Business?” survey results. Learn what different generations from the same shop are thinking and how they…
