This past year, our association has been transmitting some important messages about how it is changing and how that will affect the members and the industry we serve. We want to get the message perfect so everyone can share the vision, understand the direction or take the action critical to the success of the mission.
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If AAIA’s and the Coalition for Automotive Repair Equality’s (CARE) real motives in Right to Repair (R2R) advocacy was to assist us “little guys” in our daily struggle to repair cars, the face of the automotive service industry would look totally different.
Are you full of good intentions when it comes to education and training, whether it’s for yourself or your employees? It’s easy to do, I know. Like me, do you – absolutely – plan to address the situation tomorrow? Hey, it’s not a lecture, it’s more of a confession.
Ron looks at how entrepreneurs are heralded as the backbone of the U.S. economy without any incentive to continue what they do best: take risks to create more opportunities in the marketplace. Recently someone asked me why ASA was ‘anti-Right to Repair,’” says Ron. “I went back through the history with him and pointed out for the umpteenth time that ASA has always been adamantly ‘pro-Right to Repair,’ but favors a voluntary solution as opposed to a legislative one.” Ron asks: “Do we really believe that the federal government can solve our problems better than we can?”
Repeat this over and over until it becomes second nature, and encourage your friends and family to do the same. |
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ASRW was designed to bring automotive service and repair professionals of all disciplines together for networking, education and training along with opportunities to be exposed to new products and ideas. It logically follows that associations that serve this industry be afforded the same opportunities.
“Build it, and they will come” only works if you understand what your audience wants. The 2010 ASRW events have been developed to deliver what you, the automotive professional, have told us you need to be successful in your day-to-day business.
Over the years, I’ve met thousands of wonderful people, and I am very thankful to have had the opportunity to introduce some of them to one another, thus creating even more value to my relationships. I recently got the chance again to introduce two friends to each other. How cool is that?
If you are an automotive repair professional, you will feel welcomed and important at ASRW because it is your event. It is designed for you, by you, and it will continue to evolve as your needs change.
This week’s guest blogger, Rusty Savignac, owner/technician, Paxton Garage Inc., Paxton, Mass., discusses the upcoming vote in the Massachusetts House on Right to Repair legislation:
Angie Wilson, this week’s guest blogger asks:
Don’t we want a competent government, capable of using the tax revenues they collect in a responsible way to “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” … no more, no less?”
Note to self: Don’t ever take your freedom for granted and never trade true freedom for entitlement. Always remember to thank those who made your freedom possible.
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