Guess who I ran into yesterday during my quick trip to Denver? It was our August leaderboard champ David Laird! We had a delicious breakfast and talked about all of the new ways shops are increasing car counts and keeping productive technicians happy and fed with work. Stay tuned for my upcoming interview with David where he will share the cutting edge strategies that are working right now to keep shops busy with high-quality work. Big congrats to our other community rockstars Rob Morrison and Craig Zale who rounded out the top three last month by contributing their deep industry knowledge and wisdom to the community. As usual, I'd like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed to making the Technician Find Community more valuable and useful to our members by posting in August. Here's how the top 9 finished up: 1️⃣ @David Laird 2️⃣ @Rob Morrison 3️⃣ @Craig Zale 4️⃣ @Brian Nerger 5️⃣ @Eric Beachy 6️⃣ @Stephanie Walsh 7️⃣ @Randy Pickering 8️⃣ @Heather Williams 9️⃣ @Patrick Hynes

You’ve heard the buzz about AI, but is it just hype—or could it actually help you hire better techs, attract more customers, and make your life easier? 👉 Find out this Wednesday at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET! The Shop Management Alliance invited me to give an exclusive live demo showing exactly how we’re using AI to help auto repair shops: ✅ Fill open positions faster with high-quality ads for techs ✅ Get more customers without wasting money on marketing that doesn’t work ✅ Automate time-sucking marketing and social media tasks so you can focus on running your shop ✅ Create an ideal client profile custom GPT that will create all of your marketing and customer communications for you from the perspective of your best customers This is NOT theory. We’ve been using AI for nearly a year, and I’ll show you real-world examples of what’s working. If you’re serious about growing your shop (without working more hours), don’t miss this. Seats are limited— reply in the comments to grab your spot now and I'll send you the access details.