This week’s key takeaway:

Winning award and winning work go hand in hand, with Dan Maher

 

Episode intro:  

It’s always great to speak to an award-winning innovator. Dan Maher is the owner/manager of L & M Smash Repair in Sydney, who cleaned up at last year’s Paint & Panel Awards. L & M won Best Medium Shop and the Digital Excellence Award, so it’s no surprise that we pick Dan’s brains for the secret sauce that made his shop such a worthy winner in 2021.

 

Among lots of great insight, Dan tells us how 'digital excellence’ has enabled L & M to diversify and find work that’s more profitable than the usual work from insurers, and even better... it’s much easier work too!

 

In this week’s episode you will learn:

-The challenges of going from floor to management

-How Covid taught Dan to run his business lean

-What ‘digital excellence’ really means

-The type of business that comes in off the back of online marketing

-Why a facebook page is essential

-Great ideas for how to diversify

-The importance of finding different work providers

-How to upsell to your existing customers

-Dan’s take on the new awards for Paint & Panel 2022

-Why you have to be in it to win it

 

Show links:

** L & M Smash Repairs website: https://lmsmash.com.au/

** Dan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-maher-3a5948ab/?originalSubdomain=au

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