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I'm burned out running my repair shop. What do I change first?

You love the work. You're just tired of carrying everything. Here's how Nolavi works through it, the same way a good mechanic works on a car: find the concern, the cause, the correction, then verify the fix.

1

The concern

Nate was at the shop 62 hours a week, and 19 of those were office work he hated: bills, ads, payroll and chasing numbers.

Bar chart of hours an auto repair shop owner spends on office work each week
19 hours a week, gone to the office.
2

The cause

Nolavi tracked where his time went for two weeks. Bills and vendor calls took 6 hours, payroll 3, ads and marketing 5, and figuring out the numbers another 5.

Nolavi dashboard showing bills handled automatically and payroll ready for one tap approval
What used to take hours now takes a tap.
3

The correction

We took those four jobs off his plate. Bills are checked automatically, payroll is ready to approve, marketing is run for him, and the numbers come in a one page report.

4

The verification

His office time dropped from 19 hours to about 2 a week, and the shop's numbers held steady while he was back on the floor and home for dinner.

Auto repair owner burnout results: office hours cut from 19 to 2 a week
The shop kept running. He got his life back.

How we work. We make changes like this for shops all the time, using each shop's own data. The numbers shown are examples.

Questions

Quick answers.

What causes burnout for shop owners?

Doing the technical work and the office work at the same time, with no break and no clear numbers.

What should a burned out owner hand off first?

The jobs that take the most time and need the least of your skill, usually bills, payroll prep and marketing.

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