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Paint and Panel: The Edge

Paint and Panel: The Edge

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Welcome to The Edge: the podcast from Paint & Panel Magazine that truly gives collision-repair specialists the edge. If you’re a business owner or manager, you can’t afford to miss out on the latest industry chat. Is the new equipment on the market worthwhile for your business? What are the best practices and inspiring stories in your industry? Do you want to keep up with what your competitors and market leaders are doing? Paint & Panel will answer all of these questions and more.
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Paint and Panel: The Edge - PAP066: What can we expect from the Collision Repair Expo
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03/14/22 • 33 min

This week’s key takeaway:

What can we expect from the Collision Repair Expo? - with Stuart Charity

Episode intro:

We’re super-excited about the upcoming Collision Repair Expo! After a two-year hiatus during Covid, it’ll be great to catch up with some of our old friends from all corners of Australia, and no doubt we’ll make some new ones too.

As well as the networking, we can’t wait to see the seminars and product demos from all across the industry. We thought it would be great to talk to Stuart Charity, CEO of the Australian Auto Aftermarket Association, the co-hosts of the Collision Repair Expo. Stuart gave us a great lowdown on what’s in store for this year’s expo, which is themed “the future of collision repair is here”, plus details of how to register. Good news folks... it’s absolutely free!

We look forward to seeing you at there - make sure you come to the Paint & Panel stand and say hi.

In this week’s episode you will learn:

-Stuart’s own journey in the industry

-The power of community in the automotive sector

-Why expos like this are so important, particularly in Australia

-Why you must see the world-first live spray booth

-The post-Covid demand for expos

-What seminars are in store at the expo

-The emphasis on ADAS and mandatory data sharing

-Which industry experts will be giving you the latest

-How shop owners and technicians will benefit

-What celebrities will be in attendance

-How to register for the expo

Show links:

** The Collision Repair Expo @ Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre, April 7th - 9th. Register for free here: http://www.collisionrepair.com.au

** Find Stuart on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-charity-44729217/?originalSubdomain=au

** Do you have something unique you want to share with us? Contact Paint & Panel editor Sam Street at: [email protected]

** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au to sign up for our weekly E-newsletter

** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode.

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Paint and Panel: The Edge - PAP138: How to Achieve More in 2024

PAP138: How to Achieve More in 2024

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01/15/24 • 49 min

This week’s key takeaway: How to achieve more in 2024 Episode intro: We’re kicking off 2024 with something a bit different... a little spot of business coaching from someone outside of collision repair. David Carlin is the other half of presenter-Ben’s coaching business, Max My Profit, and he’s an expert on goal setting and long-term planning. Now is the best time to get your team together, make plans and thrash out your goals. New year, new start! By the end of this episode, you’ll know how to set your goals for 2024 and be confident you can achieve them. In this week’s episode you will learn:
  • How to delegate
  • How short-term goals should match up with long-term goals
  • SMART goal setting
  • How to measure the progress of your goals
  • How to get buy-in from your team
  • How to find the time to make long-term change
  • The importance of business coaching
  • Recruitment hacks
Show links: ** Go to http://maxmyprofit.com.au/blueprint and do a free quiz to help you understand the coaching you need ** The Max Your Business podcast featuring a collision repairer who changed his life thanks to business coaching: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ot817wFif2biGaB4xKJ3l ** Do you have something unique you want to share with us? Contact Paint & Panel editor Sam Street at: [email protected] ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au to sign up for our weekly E-newsletter ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode.
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This week’s key takeaway: Wrapping up 2023 with Sam Street and our Hall of Famers Episode intro: It's that time of the year again... it’s time for Paint & Panel’s roundup of 2023. It’s been an eventful year of high demand, more cars on the road and not enough parts to go around. We welcome back two industry-friends of the show who are both Paint & Panel Awards Hall of Famers. Robin Taylor (Performance Services Development Consultant at Axalta) and Steve O’Brien (MD at iBodyshop) join Ben and editor Sam for a roundtable discussion about the good and the bad of 2023 and what we can expect for 2024. We’d like to say a big thank you to all of our listeners in 2023 - we hope you had a good year. See you all on the other side! In this week’s episode you will learn:
  • How the industry dealt with high demand with a skills shortage
  • Is COVID still an issue for the industry?
  • The scale of the part-supply problem
  • How the industry has made itself more efficient lately
  • Why there are more cars on the road at the moment
  • How smash repairers are reinvesting in their futures
  • The most popular podcast topics of 2023
  • What the industry is doing to attract new talent
  • Predictions for 2024
  • How independents can stand out in 2024
Show links: ** Find Robin on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-taylor-6b915612?originalSubdomain=au ** Find Steve on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-o-brien-ibodyshop/?originalSubdomain=au ** Do you have something unique you want to share with us? Contact Paint & Panel editor Sam Street at: [email protected] ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au to sign up for our weekly E-newsletter ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode.
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Paint and Panel: The Edge - PAP129: Exploring Bold Strategies with Ben Chesterfield
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10/16/23 • 23 min

This week’s key takeaway: Exploring Bold Strategies with Ben Chesterfield Episode intro: This week we give you one heck of a success story from Ben Chesterfield: the man who took the bold move to diversify and jump into hail repair. Seeing as our theme for Paint & Panel L!ve this year is Bold Strategies and Total Hail Solutions are a sponsor, Sam Street paid him a visit and asked him how he pulled it off. Ben is the GM of Total Hail Solutions in Queensland, who are part of the Car Craft Group. As more and more insurance companies give hail work to specialist hail companies, it’s really worth hearing how Ben is making it work and why it benefits the Car Craft network. In this week’s episode you will learn:
  • Why Ben branched out into hail
  • Where Total Hail get their business from
  • How to work on hail with fleets
  • The average work rate of a hail technician
  • The advantage of being part of a wider group
  • How conventional repair work meshes with hail work
  • How hail repair can be delivered in multiple locations
  • The difficulty for conventional repairers to manage hail
  • The most common repairs from hail damage
Show links: ** Get your tickets to Paint & Panel Live: https://paintandpanel.live/ ** Get your tickets to the Paint & Panel Bodyshop Awards: https://www.paintandpanel.com.au/bodyshopawards ** Do you have something unique you want to share with us? Contact Paint & Panel editor Sam Street at: [email protected] ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au to sign up for our weekly E-newsletter ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode.
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Paint and Panel: The Edge - PAP143: Tackling the ADAS Challenge

PAP143: Tackling the ADAS Challenge

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02/19/24 • 25 min

This week’s key takeaway: Tackling the ADAS Challenge Episode intro: We like to keep you abreast with the latest trends, so we sent Editor Sam to ADAS Solutions to pick the brains of two experts: Adrian Parkes (Founder/Director) Amy Morgan (ADAS Advisor) ADAS Solutions has grown incredibly since they built their first dedicated recalibration site in 2022. Now they have 9 sites across the country. Their mission is to raise awareness on ADAS and ensure the industry is ready for change. Do you know all you need to know about ADAS? In this week’s episode you will learn:
  • How much the industry needs to catch up
  • Why you should do more than repair what you see
  • How fault codes can vary with ADAS
  • The difference between ADAS and EV
  • How Chinese manufacturers are cooperating
  • How soon will we see hydrogen cars?
Show links: ** Find Adrian on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-parkes-mmiame-95382b18/?originalSubdomain=au ** Find Amy on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-morgan-759b5a199/?originalSubdomain=au ** If you want to know more about business coaching from Ben, email: [email protected] ** Do you have something unique you want to share with us? Contact Paint & Panel editor Sam Street at: [email protected] ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au to sign up for our weekly E-newsletter ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode.
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Paint and Panel: The Edge - PAP005: How to use the COVID-19 downturn to build a better business
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04/07/20 • 37 min

This week’s key takeaway:

What is the opportunity for the industry in these difficult times?

Episode intro:

In such unprecedented times, we thought we’d gather together a panel of experts to discuss what our industry can do to adapt. On the panel in this episode:

Sam Street (editor of Paint & Panel Magazine)

Rob Mildenhall (National Panel Manager from Capricorn)

Ryan Zambesi (from RNI Zambesi Spray Booths)

Mark Czvitkovits (from I-Car)

Dan Maher (from L & M Smash, Sydney)

In this week’s episode you will learn:

-What the industry can and can’t do at the moment

-Is our industry classed as an essential service?

-The scale of the drop in demand

-How to keep your staff clean and safe

-The power of reaching out to experts

-The importance of training during these times

Show links:

** Nominations are now open for the 2020 Paint & Panel Bodyshop Awards. Go to http://www.paintandpanel.com.au/live to submit your nomination.

** Go to www.paintandpanel.com/au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode

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Paint and Panel: The Edge - PAP054: How to Hire Amazing Apprentices with Ease
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09/27/21 • 27 min

This week’s key takeaway: How to hire amazing apprentices with ease Episode intro: Do you find recruitment a nightmare? Like Ben says, it takes a really special organisation to successfully recruit, mentor and manage apprentices... wouldn’t it be so much easier to outsource it? We have a great chat with a client who outsourced his apprentice recruitment and never looked back. We also speak to the man who has helped him take on five successful apprentices. David Iacobucci is the Director of DSI Panels in Victoria - a man who started his own apprenticeship with his father in 1999, before eventually buying out his parents and growing the business himself. Having originally been a doubter, he has now been converted into an apprentice champion by the excellent Joe Scollo and his company Squad. If you want to know how easy it is to build a successful recruiting partnership, just listen to how these guys did it. In this week’s episode you will learn: -The value of a good external recruiter -What a company like Squad can do to help a collision repair business -The importance of pre-screening/vetting -Why some apprentices might fail -How to make apprentices feel they’re part of the family -Real-life examples of apprentices who have been good fits -Why personality is often more important than skillset -Apprentice mentoring -Performance improvement plans Show links: ** Find David on Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/david-iacobucci-39b78316b ** Contact Joe: 0413 673 298 or visit http://www.squad.org.au ** Do you have something unique you want to share with us? Contact Paint & Panel editor Sam Street at: [email protected] ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au to sign up for our weekly E-newsletter ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode.
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This week’s key takeaway: Converting the Ford F150 to RHD and adapting to the Aussie market - with Tom Dohrmann Episode intro: On the show this week we celebrate an incredible feat of Aussie engineering. The Ford F150 is driven off the line in Detroit as a LHD, but once it hits the Australian market, it is a perfectly converted RHD. Australia is the only place in the world that does this, and our guest this week is one of the key people who makes it happen. Tom Dohrmann is the Assistant Chief Programme Engineer for the F150 conversion. He tells us how the conversion is done and what you need to look out for if an F150 comes into your repair shop. In this week’s episode you will learn:
  • How the F150 is as big as the iphone
  • How the conversion is done
  • How Ford Australia has driven the project
  • What repairers need to look out for in the F150
  • The impact of an aluminium chassis
  • How the manual was adapted
  • How to source parts
  • What the F150 is like to drive
  • Why car parking spaces need to catch up
Show links: ** RMA Group website: https://www.rmagroup.net/ ** For F150 repair methods, go to: https://www.icarautomotive.com.au/ ** If you want to know more about business coaching from Ben, email: [email protected] or go to http://www.maxmyprofit.co.au and download the enrolment pack ** Do you have something unique you want to share with us? Contact Paint & Panel editor Sam Street at: [email protected] ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au to sign up for our weekly E-newsletter ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode.
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This week’s key takeaway: How being curious and looking after people will lead to your success Episode intro: Our guest this week was the superstar of Paint & Panel Live, Mr David Shepherd. His keynote address wowed everybody in the room, so we thought we’d get him on the show to give you the chance to learn from one of the best. David started in the industry as a panel beater in the UK, before eventually building up one of the biggest collision-repair businesses in the country (which he sold for a tidy £11m). This man can inspire you to do great things! In this week’s episode you will learn:
  • How David built up his own business
  • How David changed the way insurance companies would inspect his vehicles
  • Why employees should know the reasons why
  • The importance of quality control
  • How recruitment has changed down the years
  • How to talk to customers and industry colleagues
  • Why we should promote good shops more
  • How the industry should appeal to a younger audience
Show links: ** Find David on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-shepherd-426b1b35/ ** Do you have something unique you want to share with us? Contact Paint & Panel editor Sam Street at: [email protected] ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au to sign up for our weekly E-newsletter ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode.
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Paint and Panel: The Edge - PAP000: Welcome to the Paint and Panel podcast The Edge
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01/22/20 • 6 min

Welcome to The Edge: the all-new podcast from Paint & Panel Magazine that truly gives collision-repair specialists the edge.

If you’re a business owner or manager, you can’t afford to miss out on the latest industry chat. Is the new equipment on the market worthwhile for your business? What are the best practices and inspiring stories in your industry? Do you want to keep up with what your competitors and market leaders are doing? Paint & Panel will answer all of these questions and more.

The show will be presented by one of Australia’s leading business coaches, Ben Fewtrell. You might know Ben from his very successful Business Brain Food podcast, but what a lot of people might not know is that Ben was a former panel beater himself and has spent many years coaching body-repair businesses. There will be more experts in the room than just the guests!

In our first taster episode, Sam Street from Paint & Panel Magazine talks to Ben and the listeners about what we can expect from the podcast in the coming months.

You can subscribe to the podcast by finding it on your favourite podcast app (itunes, spotify etc.) or alternatively you can listen at paintandpanel.com.au/podcast

New episodes will be released on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month.

Stay tuned!

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How many episodes does Paint and Panel: The Edge have?

Paint and Panel: The Edge currently has 175 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Street, And, Entrepreneur, Sam, The, Podcasts, Education, Business and Ben.

What is the most popular episode on Paint and Panel: The Edge?

The episode title 'PAP009: Mover & Shaker Steve Lozenkovski shares his story' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Paint and Panel: The Edge?

The average episode length on Paint and Panel: The Edge is 37 minutes.

How often are episodes of Paint and Panel: The Edge released?

Episodes of Paint and Panel: The Edge are typically released every 7 days.

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The first episode of Paint and Panel: The Edge was released on Jan 22, 2020.

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