What Every Car Owner Needs to Know When Choosing Detroit Auto Body Shops 

By Parker Herring | November 1, 2009 | Popularity: 1% (?)

Like cars, and like doing something with your hands? Tired of working an office job? One of the places where a lot of small entrepreneurs are carving niches for themselves is in the auto body work field. One of the hot beds of this is Detroit, and Detroit auto body shops are a thriving business, largely because of the ability to get spare parts, and because more people in Detroit are holding onto cars until they literally stop running.

You should know that when you start a business, you are going to need a plan. The business plan will cover things like where you’re going to start as well as where the money is going to come from eventually. The Detroit auto body shop won’t start moving unless you make those hypothetical gears turn.

What’s The Market For A Detroit Auto Body Shop?

Detroit is currently the eleventh most populous metro area in the United States, and has a lot of drivers; it’s also suffering from a serious economic crisis, and has some underserved areas for this. Depending on what part of Detroit you set your auto body shop in, there’s going to be plenty of opportunity to find customers and help them get their cars on the road.

When it comes to a business, like a Detroit auto body shop, the mantra of ‘location, location, location’ still applies. Your customers have to be able to find your auto body shop, and you need to have a shop with all the facilities you need – such as a car lift, and a painting area – that can help. Fortunately, commercial real estate in Detroit is going for bargain basement prices, and you may be able to find a location that was once used for a franchise, like AutoZone, that has all the conditions you need.

Outreach

Once you’re set up, you need to do outreach. Your business will survive or die based on how much traffic (literal, in this case) you get. Your quality of work is one of the major areas that will build business down the road in the future, through word of mouth sales, and customer referrals, and is the fundamental skill you’re selling.

After your business has been launched, outreach is the next logical step. First of all, you need word of mouth advertising. The best way to do this is to ensure that both you and your employees are doing high quality work that will keep the customers coming back. Not only will they return, they’ll tell

Another form of outreach is to insurance carriers. Getting insurance companies to refer your business to their auto insurance clients is critical; it’s often the first word-of-mouth advertising you get. It’s also important that the job be done at a high quality level to keep those referrals going. Most insurance carriers will ask you to fill out extra paper work in addition to the usual invoicing or billing, and while nobody likes paperwork, it’s hard to stay in business without that regular supply of insurance company traffic in this field.

Supplies

The best part about running Detroit auto body shops is that they can obtain the parts for American cars fairly cheap. Probably cheaper than anywhere else in the world. You will additionally be able to get parts from the Original Equipment Manufacturer, which makes for even cheaper parts. Making sure you have a decent line of supplies is a big part of running a Detroit auto body shop.

Nine times out of ten, it’s not good news that brings you to the body shop. However, if you choose a experienced and reputable company, the experience doesn’t have to be awful. Detroit native Parker Herring writes about his experiences with multiple Detroit Auto Body Specialists. Follow the link to find out what YOU should know before choosing a Detroit Auto Body Specialist.

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