The Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) business is a labor-intensive business. No matter how good your PDR tools & processes are, you have to have good employees to grow. EZ Dent is a PDR business based in Athens, GA, founded by Matt Moore. They offer multiple automotive appearance services in their retail shop, along with mobile dent [...]
interviewed and written by Richard Routson Ryan Hampton has been repairing hail damaged cars for 14 years. Similar to other guys in the industry, Ryan’s paintless dent repair journey has been a long winding road of personal and professional growth. Those that know the talkative PDR networker now, would hardly recognize the timid quiet painter [...]
Two paintless dent repair industry trade groups (PDR Nation & NAPDRT) have joined forces to create a document aimed at helping technicians determine what procedures are relevant and necessary when performing PDR on damaged vehicles. When a vehicle is dented, dinged, or damaged during a collision or hail storm, technicians want to perform the cleanest [...]
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 [...]
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 Paintless Dent Repair has entered the new era of digital invoicing and estimating. Companies that are on the edge of innovation have welcomed the new technologies with open arms and used them to help better run their businesses. There are some really good generic invoicing systems out there that [...]
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 [...]
This is a PDR blog. We talk about paintless dent repair. Articles, videos, and audio. PDRtalk has four goals: Spread expert knowledge amongst PDR technicians all over the world in a clean and easy format, thus improving the quality, professionalism, and credibility of the industry. Inform the public about the benefits and possibilities of paintless [...]