By Alexandros Aslamazis This is my last blog post for 2013. It was a difficult year, yet with some great opportunities for developing new geographical markets. It is obvious that economic slowdown will continue in 2014. European Union, the world’s largest economy, is facing a second wave of crisis, and definitely not only in […]
According to Wikipedia, procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the “last minute” before the deadline. Well, procrastination is something we face in
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What? Why? Customer pays our bills, customer is our everything… True, but… I have my short story to tell you. About eight months ago, one sunny, beautiful morning in May we received a phone call from one of our forwarders. “Where should we deliver the goods, your warehouse is burning?” It took a few
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Just a few weeks ago I had a conversation with a car body shop owner, who complained to me that to find a good painter nowadays is difficult. All the candidates claim that they are as good as close to perfect, but after a week of a trial you understand that this is very far
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In this post I would like to turn your attention to 3 tools, which almost every auto body repair shop owns and at the same time ignores their existence. Everyone knows that by investing in this equipment you will be able to improve overall paint quality, save time and money. This is the reason why
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We all try hard to get new customers and to turn them into loyal clients, which will be spreading a good word-of-mouth about our bodyshop. A happy customer will most likely tell 3 other people about you; right after his experience with your business, while an unhappy one will tell another 10, about how bad
How to exceed your customers’ expectations? Without dropping your prices of course… Read More »
I have to admit, I like comparing things which are not meant to be compared just for fun. So, after the blog post “4 things a car painter and a doctor have in common?”, have a look on what the most skilled killer has in common with a peaceful (well I suppose in most cases)
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By Alexandros Aslamazis Some of you may be even surprised that such a question is posed anyway. However, my eyes have seen a good deal of car sprayers using whatever solvent they find available in their body shop to treat the surface prior coating. This is why it makes no harm to repeat certain refinishing
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A few weeks ago I made a fast – one day trip to Serbia, specifically to visit Serbian automobile capital, Kragujevac city, which was truly fascinating. Transformation from old Zastava factory, which used to produce old Yugos, to a modern Fiat plant, made me really think that anything is possible. Just in 1999, NATO was
I am busy. You can’t expect me to be neat too… Read More »
Despite the fact that in modern vehicles, new plastics and composite materials, are more and more used, steel and aluminum remain the basic materials for car body construction, 1st and 3rd place accordingly (2nd by volume material used in cars is plastic).On average, one passenger vehicle contains about 1000kg of steel, and aluminum represents up
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