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Top Dog 2026 Coaches Roundtable Service Drive Revolution #381

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Consistent CSI In The Service Drive | Service Drive Revolution #380

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How To Drive More Traffic To Your Service Drive | Service Drive Revolution #379

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Best Service Advisor Training Has... | SDR Live #378

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You Don't Need Advisor Training | SDR #377

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Avoiding Socialism in the Service Drive | SDR #376

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Socialism In The Service Drive | SDR #375

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SDR #374: Fixed Ops Should Carry Dealerships

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SDR #373: 5 Things Great Service Managers Do

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SDR #372: BDC: AI or Humans - What's Better?

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SDR #371 - Selling Cars From The Service Drive

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SDR #370: How To Reduce Parts Obsolesence

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SDR 369: The Gap Between Posted / Effective Labor Rate

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SDR #368: It's Not Traffic... It's Your Techs!

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SDR #367: 5 Dumb Things Service Managers Say

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SDR #366: 3 Mistakes You're Making With Video Inspections

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SDR #365: How Owning A Dealership Changed Me

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SDR #364: What I Learned As A General Manager

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SDR #363: Live Kick-Off: What You'll Learn!

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SDR #362: How I Fix Broken Auto Dealerships

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SDR #361: How I Mastered Dealership Financial Statements

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SDR #360: How I Arguably Made The Best Advisor Training

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SDR #359: How I Got In The Car Business Part 1

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SDR #358: Viewer Q&A: Secret To Getting Promoted

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SDR #357: YouTube Q&A: Your Top Comments Answered

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SDR #356: Coaches Roundtable: Your Top Questions Answered!

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SDR #355: Why Customer Retention is Your Best Marketing Strategy

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SDR #354: Why Your Techs Quit & How To Motivate The Ones You Have (Part 2)

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SDR #353: Why Your Technicians Are Quitting!

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SDR #352: The AI Revolution in Fixed Ops: Unfair Advantage or Impending Doom?

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SDR #351: The $50,000 Menu - Tips To Explode Your Service Drive Profits

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SDR #348: What I Look For When Hiring A Service Performance Coach

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SDR #347: Top 9 Reasons Service Managers Fail (And How to Avoid Them)

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SDR #346: Most Shop Foremen Are Doing This Wrong (And It's Costing You Production)

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SDR #345: Increase Your NPS Score!

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SDR #344: Chris Collins Answers: Why Your Fixed Ops System Is Failing

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SDR #343: Handling Difficult Customers in Fixed Ops the Right Way

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SDR #342: Stop Blaming Communication: The System Is What's Broken

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SDR #341: The Fixed Ops Leadership Mistakes Killing Service Department Profit

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SDR #340: Your Fixed Ops Questions Answered: Scheduling, Walk-Arounds & Diagnostics

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SDR #339: Why Top Leaders Set Goals Differently (Lessons from Taylor Swift)

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SDR #338: Why Unapplied Labor Was Made By The Devil

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SDR #337: Low Hanging Fruit For Quick Fixed Ops Profits!

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SDR #336: Why Service Department Goals Fail!

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SDR #335: The Biggest Problem in Auto Dealerships No One Wants to Fix

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SDR #334: TOXIC SHOP CULTURE FIX: How to Reset Your Dealership & Win Back Your Technicians

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SDR #333: Your Fixed Ops Questions Answered: Surviving Bad Bosses, Broken Systems & Service Drive Problems

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SDR #332: Top Dog 2025 Roundtable: Fixed Ops Leadership Lessons from the Service Drive

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SDR #331: Service Department Culture Mistakes: What's Destroying Your Fixed Ops Team (and How to Fix It)

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SDR #330: Top 7 Service Advisor Pay Plan Failures

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SDR #329: The Moneyball Secret Every Service Manager Needs to Know

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SDR #328: How Great Leaders Keep Technicians and Advisors from Quitting

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SDR #327: Are You Paying Your Techs Enough?

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SDR #326: 7 Steps to Go from Service Manager to General Manager

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SDR #325: Are YOU Ruining Your New Service Advisors?

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SDR #324: What To Do When Customers Say, "NO!"

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SDR #323: What Canada Does Better Than the U.S. (And It's NOT Poutine)

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SDR #322: How Service Managers Get Fired

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SDR #321: Benchmarks For Net-To-Gross, Hours Per RO & Ford Recalls

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SDR #320: From Quick Lube Tech to Master Tech: The Blueprint for Fixed Ops Success

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SDR #319: From Parts Manager To GM - Dave's Incredible Rise Through The World Of Fixed Ops

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SDR #318: How To Make The Best Technician Videos

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SDR #317: Navigating The Next Dealership Crisis

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SDR # 316 Auto Industry High Performers vs. Low Performers

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SDR #315 With Automotive Expert Glenn Lundy!

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SDR #314 With Emmy-Winning Sportscaster Jim Kozimor

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SDR #313 with Grammy-Nominated Producer Scott Erickson

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The Correct Way To Present A Diagnostic Fee To Your Customers

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Channel Update: Service Drive Revolution

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9 Reasons Why Service Managers Fail

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Service and Parts Benchmarks for Profitability | SDR #312

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How Great CSI Can Be So Easy | SDR #311

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A Behind-The Scenes Look At Top Dog 2024 | SDR #310

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The Dealership Business Model Part 3 | SDR #309

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The Dealership Business Model Part 2 | SDR #308

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Q & A | How to Teach an Old Advisor New Tricks

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The Dealership Business Model Part 1 | SDR #307

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Q & A | Should Your Service Department Have a Dispatcher or Shop Foreman?

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Top Dog 2024 Speaker Will Guidara | SDR #306

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Q & A | Hiring Technicians for the Peak Season

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Top Dog 2024 Preview with BBQ Grandmaster Harry Soo | SDR #305

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Q & A | The Best Strategy To Follow Up With Declined Work In Your Service Department

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What's Your Dealership Worth? | SDR #304

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Q & A | Automated Phones vs Humans

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How a Service Department Becomes Profitable | SDR #303

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Q & A | Insurance Adjuster to Service Advisor: Career Switch Insights

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Dealership Pretax Profit Down 33% | SDR #302

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Q & A | Credit Card Fees in the Service Drive

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Are You Ready for 14 Year Old Cars? | SDR #301

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Q & A | Better Way for Service Managers to Price Internal/Captive Labor

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Dealership Economic Hurricane Survival Plan | SDR #300

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Q & A | Service Advisor Customer Communication

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Lessons for Service Advisors from McDonald's | SDR #299

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Q & A | Service Advisor Pro Tip: Turn Brand Complaints into Customer Loyalty | Fixed Ops

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Why Are Service Managers In A Broken System? | SDR #298

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Q & A | The Hidden Differences Between a Service Advisor and Collision Estimator

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Service Department Culture vs Chaos | SDR #297

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Q & A | Mastering Service Advisor Communication

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How Will AI Affect Your Service Department? | SDR #296

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Q & A | Should Dealers Give Employee Discounts?