(Hint: It starts with the ASA Marketplace.) ASA.bizunite.com Why Use the Marketplace? The ASA Marketplace provides convenient, one-stop shopping for ASA’s entire member benefits portfolio. Along with some of ASA’s most popular savings through AutoZone, VANTIV, Meadowbrook Insurance and other merchants,…
Policy proposal presents opportunity for safety improvements. The Automotive Service Association (ASA) has prioritized the task of urging states to adopt periodic motor vehicle safety inspection programs in its policy objectives. This action has included annual events on the subject…
Many years ago I watched my next-door neighbor use a dime to remove and reinstall a screw in an attempt to fix a toy of mine.…
As a collision repairer, what will you need to know to work on this vehicle’s advanced mixed material structure? Cadillac will expand and elevate its portfolio with the upcoming launch of its new top-of-the-range model, the 2016 Cadillac CT6. A…
Automotive professionals have workshops, seminars and other aids to educate and inspire them to excel in their daily routines. But how many agendas include a segment on communicating with difficult people? Those who can afford it pay personal trainers to…
July’s NACE | CARS show promises a ‘Right Now’ experience. EDITOR’S NOTE: It takes enormous advance planning to stage an event like this year’s NACE | CARS Expo scheduled for July 23-25 at Detroit’s Cobo Center. The conference is scheduled…
See what makes us different ... and the same! In this issue’s “Generationally Speaking,” we feature RON HAUGEN, owner/president, and HEATHER ALBERTSON, service adviser, of WESTSIDE AUTO PROS in Des Moines, Iowa. See what makes us different … and the…
How to rethink your thinking to move the organization forward. The execution fads in business – strategic planning, management by objective, total quality, just-in-time, and others before these – have had their day. Like most fashionable management concepts, execution really…
Every shop owner runs into ‘situations.’ How they handle them is important ... do you agree with these fellow ASA members? Dilemma: This scenario comes from a collision shop that we’ve been doing business with for more than 25 years.…
Leaders of the Automotive Service Association’s (ASA) Mechanical and Collision Divisions spent busy days on Capitol Hill recently as both groups held meetings with members of Congress and staff to discuss issues of ongoing importance to ASA, its affiliates and…
