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Final Inspection – Quality Controls & Covid-19 [THA 164]

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Make your Competitor Your Friend [THA 163]

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Are You Paying for Training? The Right Thing To Do [THA 162]

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Insurance Coverage Review – Part 1 [THA 161]

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Open Forum: Ask the Shop Owner – Part 2 [THA 160]

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Service Advisor Role Play #4 [THA 159]

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Shop Owner Open Forum [THA 158]

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Flat Rate vs Hourly-Bonus Hybrid Pay Plans [THA 157]

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Localizing National Training [THA 156]

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Are You Selling Tires? [THA 155]

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Cash is King and Important to Your Business [THA 154]

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Pricing Parts Purchased from Dealers [THA 153]

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How To Increase Your Labor Rate Without Losing Car Count [THA 152]

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Dominate Your Market – Own the Two Mile Zone [THA 151]

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THA 150: Three Financial Challenges – Coaches Perspective

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THA 149: Top Financial Challenges to Overcome – Shop Owner Perspective

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THA 148: Generating Repeat Business

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THA 147: Overcoming Debt

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THA 146: The Value of Twenty Groups

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THA 145: The Extreme Value of Shop Tours Part 2

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THA 144: Drug Testing in the New Age of Legalized Cannabis

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THA 143: myASE Renewal APP – There’s an APP for That!

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THA 142: Business Coaches Lab – Building an Enduring Business Culture – Part 2

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THA 141: Selling Your Business – Valuation Strategies

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THA 140: Interview Tactics for a Cultural Fit

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THA 139: Trending – Close the Shop and Take My Entire Team to Training

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THA 138: The Business Side of ADAS – Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

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THA 137: The Language of Welcome

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THA 136: Branch Growth Strategy

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THA 135: Implementing Profit First – Shop Owners Thrilled With Results

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THA 134: Market Changes and What I’m Doing About Them

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THA 133: Why Soft or Life Skills Training Matters for Business Success

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THA 132: Business Coaches Lab: Building an Enduring Business Culture

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THA 131: Preparing Your Shop For the Next Five and Ten Years

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THA 130: Service Advisor Role Play #3

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THA 129: Customer Financing Options

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THA 128: Valuing and Positioning Your Business For Sale

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THA 127: Overcoming Owner Burnout

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THA 126: Firing Customers – When is it Right or Wrong?

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THA 125: Client Loyalty Programs – Do They Work?

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THA 124: So You Need an Accountability Coach?

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THA 123: The Power of the Supplier and Service Professional Relationship.

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THA 122: Talent Management – Developing Your Leadership Team

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THA 121: APPS That Improve Productivity and Make for a More Efficient You

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THA 120: How Can We Provide Our Technicians a $100K Yearly Pay Package?

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THA 119: Improving Employee Loyalty

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THA 118 Recruiting Students to Discover a Career in Automotive

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THA 117: Creative Brainstorming: How To Build an Idea Factory

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THA 116: Business Coaches Lab – Improving Shop Efficiency

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THA 115: Who Says You Need an Automotive Background to Run a Successful Shop

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THA 114: Taking Community Involvement to the Next Level – CarFest – Philanthropy on Steroids

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THA 113: Taking Care of Your Most Valuable Asset – YOU!

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THA 112: Aftermarket Training in the Age of Rapid Tech Changes. How To Navigate Your Training Needs.

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THA 111: Building New Customers

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THA 110: Charging What We Are Worth

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THA 109: How to Handle the Overload of Information, Workload and All That You Have to Learn.

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THA 108: The Value of a Professional HR Support Company

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THA 107: Discover How To Keep Your Women Customers For Life

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THA 106: Managing a Negative Online Review

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THA 105: Catering to the Millennial Customer

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THA 104: Business Coaches Lab: The Art of Implementation – How to Get Things Done

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THA 103: Turn Price Shopping Callers Into Customers.

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THA 102: Second Chance – Working with and Supporting Addiction

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THA 101: Ghosting – Minimizing New Hire No Shows

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THA 100: Up Your Game: Become a Level Five Leader and Improve, You, Your Business and the Aftermarket

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THA 099: The New Tax Law Impact on the Service Professional

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THA 098: Daytime Training vs Night Time Training – A Discussion of Ideas

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THA 097: Service Professional Loyalty: A Supplier Perspective

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THA 096: Engaging Kids in the Automotive

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THA 095: Taking Good DVI Pictures

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THA 094: ASE – The Industry Credential and YOU!

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THA 093: How Not To Be a Micro Manager

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THA 092: The Extreme Value of Shop Tours

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THA 091: Workshop – Service Adviser Roleplay – Part 2

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THA 090: Business Coaches Lab: Five Dysfunctions of a CEO

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THA 089: Open Four, Five or Six Days a Week. You Decide.

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THA 088: Everything I Did Wrong and What I Learned

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THA 087: Automotive Career’s Starts in High School and in the Home!

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THA 086: Stop Being Busy and Improve Your Productivity!

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THA 085: 21 Tips to Gain an Edge over the Competition – Part 3!

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THA 084: Buying Technician Tools: Create Your Program!

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THA 083: What Separates the Outstanding Technicians

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THA 082: Acquisition Strategies

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THA 081: Niche. Should We Find Specialties and Create a New Business Model or Services?

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THA 080: Bring Them Back: How To Revitalize a Lost Customer

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THA 079: What Drives Your Parts Buying Decisions?

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THA 078: Low Hanging Financial Fruit That Will Increase Your Profits

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THA 077: Business Coaches LAB – Standards

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THA 076: Improving Your Soft Skills. How To Lead and Spread a Positive Vibe.

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THA 075: Am I ready For My Second Branch?

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THA 074: Can David Beat Goliath?

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THA 073: Your Turning Point: The PIVOT(s) That Improved Your Business

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THA 072: Technician Training Strategies & Rewards

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THA 071: Underutilized Shop Management Systems (SMS)

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THA 070: Business Coaches LAB – Leadership

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THA 069: Workshop – Service Advisor Roleplay – Part 1

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THA 068: Why Just In Time Learning is Bad For Your Business

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THA 067: Your Ideal Customer Part 2 – Training Your Team To Embrace Your Avatar

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THA 066: Periodic Motor Vehicle Inspections

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THA 065: Your SMS Data – Who Controls It?