WD Deliveries: Response to a Failing Market?
During recent travels I had the opportunity to read a book written by Robert Kiyosaki. In the book, he made an analogy about supply and demand thats been running through my mind. It had to do with peoples reactions to changes within the laws of economics.
When Mistakes Happen
A succession of seemingly innocuous parts-ordering mistakes results in a Mount Everest-sized pile of returns, a lop-sided inventory, a redundancy of effort and a dwindling bottom line can make a jobber want to pull his hair out.
Getting In-Sync
Technology is a fact of life in business. Technology is ready for us. The question is, are we ready for it?
Time Wins Over Technology
Early adopters, never adopters and everyone in between. How fast technology is adopted is based on its real-world use and bottom-line benefits.
Advertising Strategies: Choosing Your Media
This article offers useful information for understanding and using different types of media to get your message out. In addition to the helpful hints and pointers for advertising your parts store, the underlying all-important message of these articles is that advertising is an equally important aspect of your business. It ranks right up there with every other management function of the parts store. That is, of course, if you want true success in your business.
Flash! Reprogramming Vehicle Computers
Typically, when someone brings up the subject of “flashing” you get two reactions. The technologically informed parts professionals think about added revenue and service, while rowdier folks think about doing something that could land them in front of a judge.
Managing Technology Through Parts Store Management Systems
Connectivity has always been important in distribution, but the Internet has changed how essential connectivity really is.
Electronic Accessibility
As electronics and computer controls advance in technology, the real issue for the aftermarket is the ability to repair these systems.
Romancing the Dot Bomb
Even the Internet needs proper channels of distribution.
Action and Reaction
Remember manufacturer sales people? There might be a connection between their reduction and a renewed strength of the OE brand.