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	<description>KPI and Best Practice ideas for improving profitability in cars, trucks and bikes, KPI measurment and Customer Satisfaction</description>
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		<title>Cheap Service For Cars, Bikes and Trucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Satisfaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motor Industry Discussion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Jeff, I have a question for you, but don&#8217;t really expect you to comment on it as it&#8217;s probably too sensitive. A lot of dealers are putting forward a second-level of service aimed at capturing cars over 3 years old. They seem OK with charging customers £400 for a scheduled service on a 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Definition of Recovery Rate for Automotive Service Department</title>
		<link>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/definition-of-recovery-rate-for-automotive-service-department/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motor Industry Discussion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Understanding KPI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Jeff, I contacted you a while back regarding Productivity / Efficiency ‘’terminology’’ versus calculations, and you kindly responded. I have another point of contention (albeit I don’t believe it is). I was at a recent franchise conference here in NZ, and the discussion point came around to Service Department (Workshop) Recovery Rate. The conversation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tribute To The Life RAB Lee</title>
		<link>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/a-tribute-to-rab-lee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Motor Industry News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAB Lee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RAB, lost his life in the early hours of  Thursday 3 June 2010 at just 52 years of age.
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		<title>The Ashtray</title>
		<link>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/the-ashtray/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/the-ashtray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Satisfaction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jeff-smith.com/?p=210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter, a friend of mine, sent this story to me because he knows I work in the Motor Industry. For one company in the story, it’s great news but for the other company it’s a real nightmare and the sad part is they don’t even know about it! You have to read this one to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Way of Thinking</title>
		<link>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/a-new-way-of-thinking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/a-new-way-of-thinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Interest]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jeff-smith.com/?p=200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exactly 400 years ago, on 25 August 1609, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new creation, a telescope – the instrument that was to bring him both scientific immortality and, more immediately, a whole lot of trouble. Reconstruction of Galileo&#8217;s telescope by Jim Sugar/Corbis A refinement of models first devised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Shop exercise looking for a new car</title>
		<link>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/mystery-shop-exercise-looking-for-a-new-car/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/mystery-shop-exercise-looking-for-a-new-car/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Satisfaction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jeff-smith.com/?p=195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mystery Shop Nightmare! &#8211; by Mat Everitt I wanted to share with you my findings from a recent series of mystery shop visits I completed during the peak month of March. The objective of the visits was to obtain a price guide, but I decided to approach each dealer as a normal customer after a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Service Department Labour Rates</title>
		<link>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/service-department-labour-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/service-department-labour-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 10:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Service Department]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To call or not to call &#8211; that is the question?  - submitted by Amina Claasen I currently find myself in a Call Centre, doing Service follow up calls and Service and Mot reminders. The cost of Servicing and in particular, labour rates, is a main reason to be ‘Completely Dissatisfied&#8217; with the service received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close, but no cigar!</title>
		<link>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/close-but-no-cigar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/close-but-no-cigar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 07:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The best insurance scam of the year, but then what happened&#8230; The event took place in Charlotte, North Carolina.  A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then  insured them against, among other things, fire.    Within  a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars, the lawyer filed a claim against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are used bikes being sold on the cheap?</title>
		<link>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/are-used-bikes-being-sold-on-the-cheap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/are-used-bikes-being-sold-on-the-cheap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 08:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motor Industry Discussion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Used Bikes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bikes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motorcyles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jeff-smith.com/?p=176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Short-term profits are funding a long-term famine &#8211; Submitted by David MacPherson   Despite the recession, the motorcycle industry is currently doing very well. Volumes and profits are up, but the worrying thing is that one of the contributory factors to this upturn is actually a situation that may cause the industry to struggle in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budgets and business plans</title>
		<link>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/budgets-and-business-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jeff-smith.com/blog/budgets-and-business-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motor Industry Discussion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jeff-smith.com/?p=170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s possibly fair to say that 2008 has not been the easiest year for the motor trade and prospects for 2009 remain, at best, worryingly uncertain. Many dealerships are now approaching their year end and more than a few have no doubt been wondering what their annual accounts will look like. The temptation may be [...]]]></description>
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