When most people first learn paintless dent repair, they gravitate towards wholesale dealership and auction work, because it's quick and easy. Plus, the large volume of cars and not so picky customers allow a new technician to practice and improve his skills while learning the tricks of the trade. The next step for highly skilled [...]
with: James Lee, Elim A Dent Tools (Georgtown, Texas USA) written by: Richard Routson, Dentmasters (Arlington, Virginia USA) Having a reliable and effective PDR light is essential in producing high quality paintless dent repair results. For a dent guy a fog/line board or PDR light is the number one tool in our arsenal. Without a [...]
with: Brad Hodgson, Dentmasters (McLean, Virginia USA) Over 75% of small businesses in the United States are non employers. This trend is similar in the paintless dent repair world. Most PDR companies in the US are 1-3 man operations. Running a self employed PDR business with just yourself as the sole technician, salesman, CEO, marketer, [...]
with: Derek Reed, Dent Wizard (Atlanta, Georgia USA) How do you determine a price when selling paintless dent repair to individual retail customers? A lot of PDR guys will say, "Every dent is different, and I know how much to charge from experience." There is some truth to that statement. Dents in cars are caused [...]
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 [...]
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: 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: Sal Contreras, Dent Expert Sal Contreras has been repairing dents in the San Francisco Bay Area, since 1991. If you haven’t seen his amazing work on complex large dents, take a minute and check out his Facebook page. Sal is not the the typical dent guy. He marches to the beat of his own [...]
with: Richard Routson, Dentmasters (Virginia, USA) PDR techs can be classified into two categories. Those who have broken a window while working on a door ding and those who will break a window. Breaking the window of a luxury vehicle will instantly put a damper on your day and wallet. The parts + labor cost of replacing [...]
Every local route PDR tech has heard the stories about hail chasers making a killing in 100 working days and then taking the rest of the year off. In the right situation a hail tech can take home $2-3k a day. The income potential sounds amazing. However, there are several uncontrollable factors that can make [...]