2011 Top Shop Award Winner: Virginia Tire & Auto
By Denise Koeth
October 14, 2011
To say Virginia Tire & Auto is a family-run business is a vast understatement. Yes, founder Myron Boncarosky works closely with the next generation, daughter and son-in-law Julie and Mike Holmes - but it goes far beyond that.
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2011 Top Shop Finalist: Family Tire & Auto Service
By Eric Brothers
October 14, 2011
Family Tire & Auto Service has been in business in eastern North Carolina scarcely more than six years, but more than deserves its new title of 2011 Tire Review Top Shop Award Finalist due to continued growth and profitability, coupled with ...
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2011 Top Shop Finalist: Hay Tire Co.
By Joanne Draus Klein
October 14, 2011
The day that Henry Hay was criticized for being "too damned honest to be in the retail tire business" was the day he made one of the best decisions of his life.
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2011 Top Shop Finalist: Tate Boys Tire & Service
By Joanne Draus Klein
October 14, 2011
One co-owner is a retired professional baseball player for the San Francisco Giants. The other played college football for the University of Tulsa. And the chief financial officer was on Brigham Young University's football team.
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Against All Odds: Accomplished Dealers Share Their Immigrant Roots
By Joanne Draus Klein
July 15, 2011
In an age of technological ease, socially accepted incompetence, and a media-inflated sense of personal entitlement, inspiration to do business can be hard to find....
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Business Efficiency Before Expansion
By Mike Steinke
July 7, 2011
How many of you have walked around your shop wondering how much better it would be if it just had more space? But the “ideal shop” isn’t always feasible. All shops are unique in certain ways, such as business influx, location, or...
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Give Your Shop's Website a Tune-Up
By Joanne Draus Klein
March 15, 2011
It's time to turn on the virtual "open" sign, dust off the cyber "welcome" mat and get those customers through the door - the web-based door, that is - to your Internet storefront.
All things "e," after all, are...
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How Top Dealers Create and Protect Their Brands
By Tom Duke
December 14, 2010
There are scores of books and university courses on brands and branding. There is even a publication named Brandweek that covers the latest in ...
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Choosing the Right Business Broker
By Mike Handelsman
October 7, 2010
When it comes time to sell your business, you may consider hiring a business broker. Brokers can be especially helpful in the sale of a tire dealership because they handle a wide variety of tasks including business valuation, advertising or marketing...
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How to Create the Perfect Business Plan
By Joanne Draus Klein
August 9, 2010
They were the words of a wise man, says Daniel Hennelly, and he’s never forgotten them: “Life is what you document, negotiate and execute.”
What does it mean?
“A business pla...
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Detailed Market Research Can Help Dealers Plan Growth
By Jim Smith
June 17, 2010
Ever wondered what customers really think of your business or tire brands? Or what drives their tire buying decision? Or where your true growth...
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The 1% Solution: Knowing Your Break-Even Point
By Gary Naples
April 26, 2010
Every business wants to make a profit, right? An important key to
making a profit is understanding your break-even point. Figuring it out
is a simple and necessary process for any tire dealer’s success.
Surprisingly, many owne...
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Detailing for Added Dollars
By Jason Stahl
April 8, 2010
Remember the elderly man who made the news a few years ago when he drove down to his local bank to cash in one million pennies he had collected over his lifetime?
He walked away with $10,000.
The point? Every litt...
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Business Maintenance for Peak Performance
By Dave Crawford
December 15, 2009
A good friend of mine has a wife who drove a leased SUV. One day about three months before the vehicle was due to be turned in, the engine warn...
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Dealers Share Tips for Success at TIA Roundtable
By Denise Koeth
December 15, 2009
As usual, this year’s SEMA Show was an ideal place to see the latest trends, catch up with old friends, network with business associates and, above all else, look for ways to improve your dealership.
Along those lines, the Tire...
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Get Max Value When You Sell Your Business
By Tom Duke
November 23, 2009
What If you decided to sell your business? How would you do it? How would you price it? What would you do today to protect its value?
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Is Your Business Ready For Diversity and Cultural Marketing?
By Patricia Roberts
October 23, 2009
When the 2000 Census was completed, we were advised that the Hispanic population had increased by 50% and that the black population had increased by 12.3% in just one decade.
Eight years later, on Aug. 14, 2008, the U.S. Census b...
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Looking Forward Tire Company Execs Talk About the Future
By Jim Smith
August 17, 2009
“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.” - Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson ...
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Maximize Web Presence to Improve Your Bottom Line
By Denise Koeth
August 15, 2009
By now even the most low-tech tire dealer knows that having a presence
on the Web is a necessary part of improving his or her business.
The
next generation of consumers has come to rely on the Internet as a
means of gathering tire i...
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Grow in Any Economy
August 3, 2009
Tire dealers have a weapon
to fight the sluggish economy that their bigger competitors don't: their size.
With fewer employees and layers of management, smaller companies can adjust
faster to economic conditions.
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Entries are now being accepted for the
2012 Top Shop Award Program.
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