Business By The Numbers

Why 70% of New Technicians Quit Within a Year ​[E240]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Would you take the job you're offering your own technicians? Could a candidate's spouse

Break-Even Is About Profit, Not Sales [E239]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Do you actually know your break-even point, or just a number that feels close enough? A

Why Deleting That Invoice Could Cost You at Tax Time [E238]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Are you accidentally paying taxes on money you're never actually going to collect? Coul

Rich vs. Wealthy: The Personal Finance Trap Quietly Sinking Shop Owners' Retirement [E237]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Are you chasing being rich, or are you actually building wealth? Could the shop owner m

The 5 Blind Spots Quietly Killing Your Shop's Sale Price [E236]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Why do two auto repair shops with virtually identical profits sell for wildly different

Chris Cotton on Why Less Than 10% of Shops Ever Hit Their True Capacity [E235]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Why are less than 10% of shops operating within even 40% of what they're actually capab

Is Your New LLC Protecting You Or Quietly Costing You Money?? [E234]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Is your new LLC actually protecting you, or just quietly draining your bank account? Be

Secured vs. Unsecured: The Borrowing Playbook Every Auto Shop Owner Needs Before They Need It [E233]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve You need money. Maybe it's to cover payroll this week, maybe it's to buy the alignment

Debt-Free Isn't the Win You Think It Is [E232]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Your bank account just hit zero. What do you do in the next 24 hours? And if you're pla

Debt-Free, Cash-Broke: The Reserve Mistake Nobody Warns You About [E231]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve How much cash did your shop actually make last month — and how much of it is still sitt

The 4 P&L Mistakes Quietly Sinking Your Shop's Profit [E230]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Do you actually know how much money your shop made last month? If 90% of new clients wa

The IRS Flagged His Return: Here's the Playbook That Won the Case [E226]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Why does the IRS really pick a tax return to audit? And if a CPA who does this for a li

Same Labor Rate, Different Profit: What the 2026 Benchmark Report Reveals About Where You Do Business [E228]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Why is a shop charging $300 an hour in Texas still taking home less profit than a shop

What the Top 10% of Auto Repair Shops Are Doing Differently — And What the Bottom 10% Refuse to Fix [E227]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Is your shop growing in revenue but shrinking in profit? Are you convinced that raising

Auto Shop Benchmarks: Biggest Changes, Key KPI's and Trends [E226]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Your technicians got more productive in 2025. Your labor rate went up. Your parts margi

529, Roth, or Trump Account? What Shop Owners Actually Need to Know [E225]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve What if the government — and a few well-known billionaires — were offering to deposit c

The Parts Reconciliation Gap Costing Auto Repair Shops Six Figures [E224]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Is your shop management system telling you one number while QuickBooks says something e

The Big Four: Why Your Overhead Isn't the Problem — Until It Is [E223]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Is your advertising budget working for you, or quietly draining you? Are you paying a c

The Hiring Playbook Auto Shops Are Missing: PTO, Tool Allowances, and the 3-Day Interview Rule [E222]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve Are your PTO policies scaring off the technicians you actually want? Could a $100-a-wee

How Cutting Costs Doesn't Always Mean Keeping More Profit [E221]

Thanks to our partners Promotive, WickedFile, Maverick Shop Owners, and Overdryve You bought a slower machine to save money. You kept the cheap tech to avoid risk. You s