His average repair order is $3,900 at one of his shops, $4,200 at the other - with absolutely no embellishment of the estimate, just ensuring that the shop documents and gets paid for everything it does. That reading, and the estimating procedures he's subsequently developed for his business, has paid off. "It told me that a '#' sign means this, that 'OH' stands for this, and to calculate clearcoat like this." "I read the P-pages like you read a book," he says. His first step was to read the Mitchell International labor guides that the shop used back then. "Ignorance, in this case, was indeed bliss, because no one had yet brainwashed me as to what they would or wouldn't pay," Anderson says today in estimating seminars he conducts around the country. Today, Anderson owns and operates Wagonwork Collision Centers, a two-shop business in Alexandria, Va., with annual sales of about $5 million.īut 21 years ago, with little in the way of shop experience or training, Anderson found himself being asked to write estimates. In February of 1986, Mike Anderson had been working in his father's shop for about four months when the shop's manager quit.
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