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My name is Art and I joined this community for my son also named Art. He has just opened his own garage called Pro-wrench and I do what I can to help. He has twenty years experience working for others and finally decided to step out on his own a couple months ago. He is in an older building with just two bays on a back street. He brought some customers with him and with very little advertising is already on his way to a solid customer base. He spends a large portion of his day just talking with his customers, some business and some just visiting, he is a very likeable guy. Sometimes he has to work late to keep up with the schedule because of the visiting. I am sure he will iron it out over time.

We are happy to be members here.

Art Szabo

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Welcome to the forum! If I may make a suggestion: make sure that you and your son get started on getting your shop name out onto Google and the internet. The internet is my number one in terms of revenue it brings in. I just happened to search your shop and nothing really came up.

 

1. Make sure your claim your Google page, free.

2. Make a yelp page, it's also free.

3. You may also want to place your business in the free online directories. Make sure the name, address and phone number match the one on your Google and Yelp pages.

4. Budget permitting, get a website made, or make it yourself. (you can get started extremely cheap through GoDaddy or Vistaprint if you're internet and SEO savvy)

 

Just a few things to help you get started!

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