Practical advice on pricing, invoicing, getting clients, and growing your business.
Walk-up hail jobs dry up every winter. Here's how smart PDR operators fill the paintless dent repair slow season with fleet accounts, dealer work, and planned reconditioning pushes.
Cracked clear coat, a crease that won't release, a customer who says "that's not what I paid for." Here's the operator's playbook for making it right.
A single dealer recon account can replace months of chasing one-off jobs. Here's who to pitch, what to charge per panel, and how to keep the work coming.
Rods, then a glue-pull kit, then lighting. A buying order for paintless dent repair tools for beginners, ranked by what earns back fastest for a solo tech.
Word-for-word scripts operators can use to explain paintless dent repair on the phone, at drop-off, and when a customer asks why you're not just repainting the panel.
Most booked-solid PDR techs didn't buy ads — they built standing referral relationships. Here's how to set up dealer, detail-shop, and body-shop pipelines that feed you work.
Mobile PDR vs. a fixed shop: real numbers on startup costs, overhead, and daily profit to help solo operators choose the right setup.
A systematic inspection — panel by panel, dent by dent — is what separates profitable hail jobs from ones that quietly eat your time. Here's the full workflow for solo PDR techs.
Set PDR prices with confidence. This guide breaks down how to charge by dent size, panel location, and access difficulty — so you never undercharge a walk-in again.