Our fall Conference is officially behind us and overall I believe it was a great success. We had over 200 people attend the Friday Trade Show and about 160 people at the Saturday morning SGI presentation. All of the sessions were recorded and will be made available to...

Roy Williams, known as the Wizard of Ads, does a weekly Monday Morning Memo that I subscribe to. Each “Memo” has a theme and then has a number of links that further explore his opening comments. The “Memo” below is from September 13th, 2021. I quite enjoyed how he...

Our 2021 Fall Conference is finally in the books and I believe it was a truly wonderful event for all in attendance thanks to our many sponsors who so generously support SAAR with a yearly sponsorship. This money helps offset the costs of events like our Fall...

Paintless Dent Repair Updates I have been working with several of the PDR shops to re-examine their industry and see how it stacks up to SGI’s Safe & Quality Auto Repair Program (SQARP). It is interesting that save for some adjustments to the Access Time for...

Did You Know? May 26th 2021 Social Media Webinar  We just finished a great half hour webinar with Song Rattananvong on Social Media Do’s and Don'ts where some great information was shared. You can watch the video replay here: ...

Did You Know? May 3rd, 2021 Your SAAR Executive took some time last week to meet in person for the first time since September of last year. It was great to actually meet in person even though only 5 of the 9 people were able to attend in the flesh, the rest joined by...

Did You Know? June 16th, 2021 Here is a business tip. I was driving down the street last week in Saskatoon and I noticed a car that was decked out with some flashy decals and a body shop logo amongst them. It made me think back to the 1980’s when I first worked at...

Did You Know? June 9th, 2021 CARSTAR is one of our corporate sponsors and I have encouraged them to share information that would be of benefit to the industry whether they are part of their network or not. Collin Welsh and Jennifer Paulino have stepped up with a...

Did You Know? August 9th 2021 Watch for SGI’s new Safe & Quality Auto Repair promotion program coming out in the next short while. They are very proud of the shops that met the new accreditation standards and they want to promote qualified shops as much as they...

Did You Know? August 3rd, 2021 PAINT BOOTH CLEANING AND SERVICING In the Regina Area Paint booth servicing for most shops is something that is usually done when something catastrophic happens. For many shops there isn’t really anyone assigned to the job of maintaining...