No...none of those.  Your shop is yours!

The better you do, the better you do!

This is an opportunity for present shop owners and new shop start ups to benefit from: 

1. a license agreement for use of the My Favorite Mechanic name
2. a consulting agreement for services that shall be agreed upon in an acceptance contract between My Favorite Mechanic and the candidate (should the candidate be accepted)

The founder of My Favorite Mechanic enjoys a comfortable balance of hands on experience with training and education. (click on Resume to view the 30 year career path, special training and education)

The following is a partial list of My Favorite Mechanic's areas of expertise. This is also a suggested list and a good 'worksheet' for you to use when analyzing your needs and prior to submitting the Shop Owners' Information Request or the New Shop Start Up Information Request.

1. Comprehensive business plan creation for pre and post-opening direction and submission to bankers, investors and/or lenders for funding or financing (if you need funding or financing)
2. Site analysis and selection 
3. Site demographic surveys
4. Site documents and/or lease overview

Operation and Training Manuals

1. Marketing and Sales manual - includes training and assistance in advertising and promotion - also includes press release packets based on My Favorite Mechanic's name recognition
2. Daily Systems and Procedures manual - includes training and assistance based on My Favorite Mechanic's proven system of operation and quality control.
3. Professional Service Writing manual - includes training and assistance based on My Favorite Mechanic's service writing techniques and exemplary quality control program and stellar customer information, support and communication success
4. Personnel Manual - includes training and assistance with personnel policies, job descriptions, hiring and training procedures, renumeration and benefits, terminations policies and all the other areas of this increasingly complex area of operations.
5. Shop Housekeeping manual - includes training and assistance with shop set up, housekeeping efficiency, 'good neighbor' and 'earth friendly' methods

Assistance in the analysis, selection and implementation of the following:

1. Computerized book keeping program
2. Computerized garage keeper program covering the broad spectrum of estimates, parts and labor markups,profit tracking, minimal but effective paper trail, customer follow-up etc.
3. Equipment,parts, inventory and supply purchasing and stocking level determinations
4. License,insurance and permit compliance

BE IN BUSINESS FOR YOURSELF--NOT BY YOURSELF! 

Step number 1 (one): 

Present shop owners fill out and submit the brief request for more information form. You can go to that form by clicking Here.

New shop start ups fill out and submit the brief request for more information form found by clicking Here.

These forms will allow you to pose any questions to My Favorite Mechanic that you may have. The information that you share will prepare both you and My Favorite Mechanic to move to step 2 (two).

Step number 2 (two):

As a reminder, My Favorite Mechanic is commited to working toward your needs, your goals and your objectives! You'd be hard pressed to find someone who cares about those things more!

My Favorite Mechanic will call you to discuss time frames and the feasibility of a licensing agreement for the use of the My Favorite Mechanic name and/or a consulting agreement that will be tailored to your venture,your vision and your needs. Additionally, both you and My Favorite Mechanic may pose any additional questions or concerns at that time. This is your opportunity to discuss in detail your needs and expectations for My Favorite Mechanic.

Step number 3 (three):

Upon acceptance of you, the candidate, My Favorite Mechanic will provide a detailed proposal and an acceptance agreement that specifically list and define the following:

• the services that My Favorite Mechanic will deliver to the project
• the steps that My Favorite Mechanic will take to satisfy those deliverables
• the time  frame required for the project from beginning to end 
• the costs and fees involved for My Favorite Mechanic to deliver them
• payment agreements and expectations 

My Favorite Mechanic's participation can be great or it can be small. Ultimately, the cost will depend upon the level of involvement that you require from My Favorite Mechanic and will be itemized in the consulting agreement and contract.

Whenever a customer was called in order to give them a 'status' report on their vehicle and it was necessary to leave a message, the message was, "Tell them it's their Favorite Mechanic". That invariably brought a smile. That person would make inquiries about My Favorite Mechanic from their friend or co-worker and soon, they too, were bringing in their car! If you can make people smile or laugh, they will remember your business name...that is good marketing!

Speaking of marketing, if the brilliance of the name is not enough to convince you that My Favorite Mechanic is the best choice, one visit to the incredible press releases and national exposure garnished from having a woman mechanic at the helm should be your deciding factor! (click walk of fame to view just a sampling of the press from which you may benefit when My Favorite Mechanic lends its name to your endeavor) 

My Favorite Mechanic's operating method is unlike any that you have ever seen or experienced, whether as a customer or a technician!

My Favorite Mechanic's founder spent the first 15 years of her career learning how not to run a shop and the second 15 years perfecting a radical and yet extremely logical and simple method of operation. (see  Resume)

The following is a brief list of those things that are pervasive and accepted practices within the repair and service industry. My Favorite Mechanic  has found them inheriently counterproductive to and exclusive of creating maximum profits and stellar customer service:

• appointments
• quick repairs
• telephone estimates
• free estimates
• free anything (except coffee)
• coupons
• cheap parts
• discount pricing
• customer supplied parts
• unrealistic promises to customers
• technicians kept 'hungry' and on the 'bottom' 

Wait! You cannot simply throw those things out the door and not fill the void with something...that something is where My Favorite Mechanic's method truly shines!

Further, those antiquated practices undermine any effort to perform preventive maintenance for the customer to any effective degree!

My Favorite Mechanic stopped 'spinning its wheels' trying to improve a broken system. Shop management and methods as most people know it today were abandoned and My Favorite Mechanic started from scratch! It worked and it worked big! ( see the Testimonials page

My Favorite Mechanic does not work on 'suppositions' or 'theories'. It has already been proven that this method of running a shop works. Remember, My Favorite Mechanic in Atlanta is still there and is still going strong!

Don't give up on:

• National,State and Local press promotion and exposure
• Customers placing their names on waiting lists to get in
• A near 0% comeback ratio
• Customers served well and who are doggedly loyal to your shop
• Using only the best parts, regardless of cost
• Happy workers and technicians working around their Snap-On tool chests treated with the respect which they deserve (they are your gold!)
• Customers that gladly refer you to their friends
• Looking in the mirror knowing that you not only did the best that you could but that your best was extraordinary
• Conservation measures that are earth and neighborhood friendly

My Favorite Mechanic's method of success draws a bead on the 'profit spillage' and builds a system concentrated on superior product, repair and customer service.

The founder of My Favorite Mechanic retired from her first shop at the age of 45 years old and has been a full time RV'er since January of 2000.

Home is where she parks it! Devoting the time required in order to serve you well is not a problem!

Step number 1 (one): 

Present shop owners fill out and submit the brief request for more information form. You can go to that form by clicking Here.

New shop start ups fill out and submit the brief request for more information form found by clicking Here.

These forms will allow you to pose any questions to My Favorite Mechanic that you may have. The information that you share will prepare both you and My Favorite Mechanic to move to step 2 (two).

Step number 2 (two):

As a reminder, My Favorite Mechanic is commited to working toward your needs, your goals and your objectives! You'd be hard pressed to find someone who cares about those things more!

My Favorite Mechanic will call you to discuss time frames and the feasibility of a licensing agreement for the use of the My Favorite Mechanic name and/or a consulting agreement that will be tailored to your venture,your vision and your needs. Additionally, both you and My Favorite Mechanic may pose any additional questions or concerns at that time. This is your opportunity to discuss in detail your needs and expectations for My Favorite Mechanic.

Step number 3 (three):

Upon acceptance of you, the candidate, My Favorite Mechanic will provide a detailed proposal and an acceptance agreement that specifically list and define the following:

• the services that My Favorite Mechanic will deliver to the project
• the steps that My Favorite Mechanic will take to satisfy those deliverables
• the time  frame required for the project from beginning to end 
• the costs and fees involved for My Favorite Mechanic to deliver them
• payment agreements and expectations 

My Favorite Mechanic's participation can be great or it can be small. Ultimately, the cost will depend upon the level of involvement that you require from My Favorite Mechanic and will be itemized in the consulting agreement and contract.