What Bodyshop Magazine do you like the best?

word of mouth is the very best. car shows make all kind of promises they cant keep. usual y they are just looking for the money. exposure on the net and tshirts would be my best guess. i'm not big on ads. 9 out of 10 times they are bs. i've desalt with 1-800 streetrod for 30 years and dont believe one word in an ad anymore .
 
Barry;32312 said:
I have some expierence with these shows and maybe can give some good advice.
I have had booths with local jobbers before at all kinds of these car show and basically have found from a manufacturers point of view, zero bang for the buck.
Watching the jobber, not so sure he is getting any bang for his dollar either. I can recall one new customer for one jobber with all the shows over the years I have done.
The problem is, 99% of the people at these car shows don't paint and just want to ask a 1000 questions.

For a body shop! Some of these shows if local or something like the GTO nationals can be a gold mine. I have had a booth and did classes at two GTO nationals and really other then enjoying the cars not worth the time BUT both of those times there was a restoration shop with an inside booth and he cleaned up both times with potential customers and this last show I would guess he got at least 7-8 and know this only, because I was close to his booth.

Even for the body shop, I think the "type of show" would be critical, the local drive in of 300-350 car show we have the 3rd week of month, would be a waste of time but good-guys and major chevy or gto type shows could be a money maker for a body shop, from what i see.
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Couldn't agree more,, If you have a car that's built to the right caliber and can clean up at one of the big events like good guys show or Autorama which is fairly local to me, you can gain all kinds of benefits from it.. but if you blend in with all the other cars it can be a waist of time.. I took 6 Vehicles to Autorama last year, It was a very interesting and unique experience because we had cars in there from all spectrums.. Stock restoration, Tv show car, customs.. The General lee got the most attention by far but it was mostly by kids and people that have no clue about cars, The customs got a good variety of attention but the Packard got the most attention by people I would want to do business with.. So despite the fact that they had the same quality built into them all and the fact that we did them all each one had it's own focal point. SO like barry said,, car shows can be key for body shops but you have to be showing the right product for the individual show..

For selling products.. I tried to promote SPI there and talked to a lot of people about the products but it seemed like most people were just interested in the free catalog to throw in their bag and stickers.
 
I wouldn't call it a windfall, however, I do receive some customers (not body shop customers) from the car shows I attend. I stay local and don't venture to far away from my routes. I am starting to get the "hey, I talked to you at so and so show". I do shows in two different ways, one is as a vendor and bring the company van and show products. I don't sell too many things at the show but talk up SPI to anyone that listens. If a local painter can come, then that's all the better. The other way is when I bring my vehicles and throw some SPI flyers on a portable table, set up a shade tent and hang one of my banners. I find this gets more attention than having an actual booth. I sometimes hand out flyers, cost is for my printer and time only. I know where most of those go, but they look at the SPI and Mill Industries logo for a split moment, who knows?
 
Chad,
What is the website for you paint company? I remember seeing it somewhere here, but I can't remember where.
Thanks,
JH
 
chadspaintandaudio.com

Or autorodtechnologies.com either way same site.. I haven't updated it in a LONG time.. It's probably 5 years out of date.. can't find time for everything.
 
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