How did YouTube RUIN The Car Wizard's shop?

Most mechanics would have given the middle finger and said get the you-know-what out of my

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, so one of the craziest questions I get is actually a very constant question I get now: Has YouTube changed the How do you run your work

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? buy especially from some friends I have who are also store owners and the answer is

youtube

has

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ed my store now when I say

ruin

my store I don't mean it's a bad thing, what I mean by that is the fact that the way that a A normal person thinks about how a machine shop works from day-to-day activities compared to how my shop works from day-to-day activities.

It's a difference between day and night. My workshop originally started as an average daily workshop there. there were no cameras involved, you just brought your car, you fixed it, you paid and you left and what it is today and I have joked with several people and other YouTubers is that it has almost become a production studio, it is probably between 20 and 30 percent a mechanic. buy the rest as far as income, the way money works, it's really a production studio, how did that happen? How did it come to be like this? You've already seen a video here on vinwiki about how YouTube started or how I was introduced. to

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in my life, but how the store changed is a completely different story, it's not necessarily how it changed me as a person, but really the store where it all started stopped at this, the medium sized store I had in Halstead. where Tyler had started his YouTube channel, this was before the first season of Car Issues, it was just Tyler and his YouTube channel back then was very small at the time and as anyone who has ever owned a shop or is a mechanic in a shop could imagine having a camera in your face when you're trying to work really pisses you off, it can make you really angry because anyone who's run a shop for 15, 20, 30 years has a mentality trained for phone calls, esteem, makes the cars , we have to pay the bills, let's get these cars out of here that don't work in my shop, it did originally, that was the original way I drove it, but that's not the way it works today.

There were times when I really thought I don't know if this is going to work I still want to have a shop I still want to fix cars I really enjoy it but I don't know about this whole camera thing this is crazy being told to take my key, get it put it back, have him remove it Wait, you did it wrong, put it back, let's try a different angle, stop what we're doing, go back, start from the beginning, put the pieces back, let's try this again, most mechanics they would have raised the middle finger and said: get it.

You know what, outside my tent, but again there is divine intervention. I thought I felt a feeling inside of me that said, you have to endure this, you need to, you need to work with this and make it work and find a way to integrate it. in your store, don't give the middle finger up, you need to make this work, it takes time, it requires a lot of patience, but I found a way to balance it and make everything work, so changes were made. As for the conventional way of running a store, it has completely ruined it, but the advantages that have come along the way and then the net positive result that is the result of it all is worth it.

Eventually, Tyler's channel started to grow a little. more there was more videos more cameras I'm in the middle of three or four cars for your conventional client every day and I'm trying to figure out how to fix these cars and then my phone rings and I answer and it's Tyler. I have this car, the engine won't start. I want to film this. I need to have it ready by the end of the week, blah blah blah. What do I do here? How do I make this work? I need to keep my day. Today the customers are happy.

I don't want them to run away. You can't call a client and tell them your car isn't going to be ready today because we had to film, so we stopped working on your car, it's not going to run. You'll get yelled at very quickly, so some of the ways I've found to balance is to call the customer and say, "Hey, can we have another day or two to work on your car?" Some things came up that I don't know. I don't tell them exactly what we're filming or anything if you need the car right away. We're happy to continue or keep working on it, but something came up.

Would it be okay if I gave you ten percent off and so you can squeeze in an extra day or two of this and nine times out of ten it's no problem, then call Tyler and say, "hey, I have some extra time," bring the car, let's do this, let's finish filming, I'll start the car, you can film. your video and before you know it it would work he would put out his video the game I got from this is once the video came out that is the best publicity a store could have it reaches hundreds of thousands of people across the country they see me working in the store, they see the name of the store and they associate my store with a budding YouTube star at the time and just when I figured it out and started making everything work, I got a phone call from Tyler Hoover saying we're going to film a show professional that will be called Car Problems and there is a company Bright Bay Creative that will produce this.

Do you want your workshop to participate? Do you think you can make this work? I could find another mechanic shop. It's a great business, I would really like to work here with you and I told him how is this one day a week or how is it going to work. He said, "Oh no, it'll be 24 cars and there's really no schedule, it's just kind of." When the cars show up, we need to film right now and do this and it may take all day, so there was more training on my part. I give up? Do I throw this under the bus or figure out how to do this? work, how can I integrate this?

It's really, it was very stressful at first. Now I totally understand it, but at the time it was very stressful, so I started telling clients that now we are filming, doing professional filming, we are happy to work. in your car your car may appear in the back of the video. The only downside is that it may take a little longer to finish your car, but we will work with you to determine the price and be happy to help. It's just not going to be done with the snap of a finger and I found that when customers found out that their car could be in a video, their stress completely disappeared and they think, wow, this is cool in my mind, I'm thinking.

I'm going to lose so much business. This is going to cost me my store. Film a video for Tyler. That would be the average thought of the conventional store owner. This is going to make me lose my store, but the opposite happened. It exploded. Word spread around the shop and have you ever heard of Omega Auto Clinic? I was there doing work on my car and they were shooting professional level studio quality videos in the shop. It's going to be on television. This guy is like the big ticket here. the area or you know things like that, pretty soon I started getting phone calls over and over again and that's when the time came that I needed to hire another mechanic, there goes the growth, that's how it works, more money is coming in, I'm learning to deal with it. the stress of filming i'm learning to deal with balancing the schedule keeping the film crew happy keeping tyler's youtube channel fueled with content i'm starting to figure this all out i hired another mechanic so i can say here's this car i'm working on that's in the background while I'm filming, so progress is still being made on the mechanical side of the equation and progress is also being made on the film side of the equation and we got the car issues done and we got it all done, and I thought it was cool. . so now i have pushed a lot of these people away, now it may slow down a lot but the opposite happened again once word got out, car problems were filmed there, there was also a news article, the local paper did an article and they showed pictures of the film crew filming there and the huvi garage was also being filmed there with those videos coming out, it wasn't long before the phone rang, that's when I knew I had to hire an employee office, that's when I hired my friend Dave, who's been with me since that day for several years, he's been a very, very loyal employee, but I don't think he realized at the time he started that the original bargaining chip was that he could sell cards for me and he could answer questions. phones and over time became my publicist, I don't think he ever realized I don't even think I realized at the time if you fast forward to today between 50 and 60 percent of phone calls and contacts . with the audience he deals with is strictly based on the fan base, there are people driving from out of state who want to visit the magician and say they have seen the outside of the store, we have people who call and want to tell me about I constantly have questions about the car.

I received this and if it wasn't for Dave in the office it wouldn't be possible and I don't think I could hire someone today to be a receptionist and even understand how. all of this works or to be able to merge it all, he is able to do it because over time, slowly, he has developed his methods to make everything work when the phone rings and he picks up the phone, it could be a fan or it could be a customer or both, you don't really know and he doesn't really know, so you have to check it every time the phone rings.

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