PAP000: Welcome to the Paint and Panel podcast The Edge

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!

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

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!

Next Episode

PAP001: Managing your business with iBodyshop

This week’s key takeaway:

How can you use workshop management software to get better results for your business?

Episode intro:

For our very first episode we speak to Steve O’Brien, founder of the revolutionary iBodyshop: a cloud-based estimating and management system that is empowering bodyshop businesses across Australia to be more efficient and drive more sales. Steve has been providing systems for the industry for 31 years, and nowadays has over a thousand customers across Australia and New Zealand. A whopping AUD 2.4bn of insurance claims went through iBodyshop last year.

A bit more about iBodyshop:

-The software has been developed through a lot of listening

-iBodyshop encompasses everything but payroll into one system, cutting admin hours massively

-A 30-day free trial is available

-Multi-site functionality, enabling managers to monitor each site remotely

iBodyshop out in the field:

We speak to David Iacobucci from DSI Panels in Victoria and Mark Debono from East Coast Paint & Panel in Cairns to find out how iBodyshop has transformed their businesses.

In this week’s episode you will learn:

** The importance of iBodyshop to the launch of a new site

** How David and Mark's teams adapted to it

** How long David and Mark spend using it

** How iBodyshop is used collaboratively inside a business

** How quotes are processed

** How to train people to use iBodyshop

** How iBodyshop enabled a 61% increase in sales in just one year

Show links:

** Go to www.ibodyshop.com to sign up to Steve’s system

** Paint & Panel Shop Tour (March 12th, Sydney) and Next Generation Seminar for younger repairers, shop owners and managers (March 13th, Sydney). More info: www.paintandpanel.com.au/bodyshop-tour

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