with: Doug Hillius, Dent Solutions (Bellevue, Washington USA) Doug Hillius is a competitive guy. He’s played soccer at a high level for 35 years, races motorcycles, and crushes the PDR competition in his local market of Seattle, Washington. He started his paintless dent repair career in 1998 with Dent Wizard. After training at corporate headquarters [...]
In order to gain perspective on the collision industry as a whole and learn how paintless dent repair fits into the picture, PDRtalk had a conversation with industry expert, Mike Anderson of Collision Advice.com, Mike and his team travel all over the US helping collision repair facilities become more efficient and profitable. They offer seminars, [...]
with: Eric Garves, Five Star PDR (Austin, Texas USA) It has been about 4 months since veteran PDR techs Eric Garves and Daimen Simmons released their PDR management/estimating app, Mobile Tech Books. PDRtalk wrote an earlier article all about the inception of the software and key features of the app. Since then, the Five Star [...]
with: Richard Routson, Dentmasters (Virginia, USA) If your website looks and functions poorly on a cell phone, you are losing potential customers and search result rankings. The mobile revolution is here. Internet searches on cell phones and tablets now eclipse searches on desktop computers in the United States. Plus, Google recently released an update to [...]
with: Paul Kordon, Dentmasters (Virginia, USA) If you’re a PDR technician and don’t utilize Instagram as a marketing tool yet then this article is for you! I can’t claim that I have mastered the art of maximizing Instagram’s potential as a marketing tool for the PDR business but I can tell you how I use it [...]
with: Jake Durfee, Certified Hail and Dent Inc Creating a proper estimate is an extremely important step in the automotive hail damage repair cycle. Insurance carriers have given technicians a guideline on how to price varying levels of damage. It is up to us to take the guidelines they have provided and create an accurate [...]
with: Gavin Reherman, AcuDent - Paintless Dent Repair (Kentucky, USA) Workers’ compensation is important to employees in many industries and provides wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured at work. It is also important to employers because they are protected from being sued by employees for those injuries. But do paintless dent repair companies, which often [...]
Dent Trainer Radio is having a special fundraiser edition this Thursday (3/26/15) at 8:00 pm! There will be great deals on your favorite PDR tools. All proceeds will go to fellow dent technician, Jennifer Lehl and her family. Join Myke Toledo, John Highley and other prominent figures in the paintless dent repair industry on a mission [...]
with: Brice Kelly, Central Florida Dent Repair Brice Kelly has been making some noise on industry insider Facebook pages lately. The videos he has posted of his PDR work are simply amazing. He is repairing complex, nasty dents to a very high quality. I'm guessing 80% of the dent guys out there would not even [...]
with: Paul Kordon, Dentmasters There’ s no doubt that if you own and operate a vehicle you are going to experience a ding, dent, or even collision damage. Ever since the creation of the automobile there has been a need to repair body damage after an accident. Up until the refinement of Paintless Dent Removal [...]