Growth Proposal // Prepared for Kevin Liu, Economy Auto

Double the business in two years.
We build the engine that gets you there.

A growth partner aligned to your definition of success: more customers, far more value from each one, and a best-in-class experience, all on the platform you already run.

We heard you

Your goals, front and center.

From our conversation, this is the business you are building. Every recommendation in this proposal is aimed here, and nowhere else.

Goal 01 // Revenue
2x

Double the business

Roughly two times the revenue in about two years, without burning yourself out running it.

Today~2 years
Goal 02 // Space
4-5k

Double the space

A 4,000 to 5,000 sq ft shop with new equipment, so capacity stops being the ceiling.

~2,300 sq ft today4-5k target
Goal 03 // Team
7→14

Double the team

Grow from seven to fourteen, with systems that keep service consistent as you scale.

7 today14 target
Goal 04 // Quality
#1

Best-in-class, for high-margin work

The shop people trust and recommend for tires, brakes, and tune-ups; the quality you already deliver, made visible.

Word of mouthMarket leader

These are not four projects. They are one growth engine. The rest of this proposal is how the pieces fit, and how we build it with you.

How growth actually works

The bowtie: how a stranger becomes a regular.

Picture the whole customer journey as a bowtie. The left side pulls strangers in. The knot is the first service, where trust is won. The right side, the wide and profitable side, keeps them, grows them, and turns them into advocates. Getting new customers matters. Keeping and growing them is where the doubling comes from.

Acquire: win the visit
First service
Keep and grow: the wealth
1
Aware
"My brakes feel off."
They notice a need.
2
Research
"Who do I trust?"
Search, social, reviews, a friend.
3
Compare
"Dealer or local?"
They weigh price and trust.
4
First visit
"Let's try them."
Booking, inspection, honest estimate.
5
Profile
"They know my car."
History and what is due, captured.
6
Return
"Time for my service."
Reminders, upsell, deferred work.
7
Advocate
"You should go here."
Reviews and referrals.

Get them in the door

The content web and seasonal ads make Economy Auto the shop they already trust before they call.

A great first experience

One transparent, well-run visit turns a stranger into a regular. This is where your quality earns the relationship.

The most important part: keep and upsell

Reminders, profile-based recommendations, reviews, and referrals turn one visit into ten and one customer into three more.

Today versus what's next

A great shop, with leaks. Then: one loop.

Your work already earns loyalty. Today, value escapes at every step that is not yet systematized. We connect those steps into one loop where nothing leaks, with your shop at the center.

Today: value leaks out

  • One channel in (word of mouth and Instagram); little to find when someone researches you.
  • No profile kept; every relationship starts from zero.
  • Declined and future work remembered by no one.
  • No reminder, no review captured, no referral asked at the happiest moment.
  • Retention left to chance; lifetime value capped at what they happen to remember.

Next: the unified loop

  • The content web builds trust and social proof before the call.
  • The first service builds a profile in Tekmetric; the relationship gains a memory.
  • Mileage and manufacturer-schedule recommendations drive the upsell.
  • A review request and a refer-a-friend offer, every visit.
  • Those reviews and referrals feed the content web, and the loop compounds.
The content web

Every piece feeds the shop.

Not scattered posts. An interconnected system: we produce content, amplify it across channels, and build the trust signals that make you findable and credible, all pointing to one place, a booked visit. Each tier lights up more of the web.

Produce

Daily tips and tricksThe everyday educational habit, like we built for Bowen
InfographicsSnackable, shareable, save-worthy
Short-form videoReels, Shorts, TikTok, highest organic reach
Animated mascot seriesYour dragon and samurai, the brand's face
Shop tours and live videoReal footage, a team member from the front
Long-form explainersThe deeper how-to library on YouTube

Amplify

Social media managementScheduling and automated calls-to-action
Newsletter and emailStay top of mind between visits
Paid searchCapture high-intent "near me" demand
Paid socialSeasonal pulses plus retargeting your list

Trust and findability

Local SEORank for the searches that book jobs
Listings management15-plus directories, accurate everywhere
Multi-platform reviewsGoogle, Facebook, Yelp and more, requested and managed
Book a visit at Economy AutoEvery piece of the web points here, and every happy visit feeds reviews and referrals back into it.
Tier 1: content and findability Tier 2: adds amplify and retention Tier 3: adds paid pulses on top
The content web in motion: every channel feeding the booking hub. A sample motion graphic, generated for this proposal.
Make the quality visible

Personalize every touchpoint.

Your front counter is the real differentiator. We make the quality you already deliver visible and consistent at every step, using the customer data Tekmetric already holds. The single highest-impact move: a digital inspection with photos on every car, before the price conversation.

Touchpoint
The personalized move
Why it pays
Before they arrive
Pull the vehicle history; the advisor greets them knowing the car and what is due.
"They know my vehicle" is the top reason customers return.
At the inspection
Digital inspection with photos and video, sent by text, before any estimate.
+24% approval, +21% average repair order.
The recommendation
Mileage and manufacturer-schedule recs, with the dealer price next to yours.
Anchors your value, protects the longevity promise.
After the visit
A review request and a refer-a-friend offer, by text, within the day.
Reminders and follow-ups convert 12 to 30%.
Between visits
Personalized reminders by name and mileage; safety-led follow-up on declined work.
Recovers 15 to 30% of previously declined revenue.

"Hi [Customer First Name], your Lexus GS350 just passed 175,000 km. Here is what Lexus recommends at this interval, and here is what the dealer charges. Here is our price. You just saved $900 as a loyal Economy Auto customer. When can we book you in? And refer a friend, get a free oil change."

One automated message from Tekmetric. The bracketed name is a live merge field; every customer gets their own. Profiling, proactive upsell, dealer price-anchoring, loyalty, booking, and a referral, all at once.

The production style we would bring to your shop. A sample cinematic clip, generated for this proposal.
Why now

The customers are already moving your way.

#1
Independents are now the most-preferred service provider, ahead of dealerships.
Cox Automotive, CDK
72→54%
Dealer service retention has fallen sharply in two years. Those drivers need a shop they trust.
Cox / CDK
~80%
Of drivers rank transparency above price. Trust is the category's scarce good.
Industry CX surveys
41%
Of vehicles are overdue for a major service. The demand is parked and waiting.
CARFAX
The name, aimed

"Economy" is not cheap. It is smart.

In a category where most drivers fear being sold things they do not need, your name is an asset once we aim it. Economy means smart stewardship: keeping a good car on the road for less than the dealer, and never selling work that is not needed. That promise, which you already live, becomes the brand.

Reframe, do not rename

The name carries equity and word of mouth. We reframe what it means rather than throw that away. Any rename waits for the new location, and only if customers tell us it is holding you back.

The trust stack

Digital inspections, photos, transparent estimates, and a written longevity promise turn "trust me" into "see for yourself." Trust drives roughly double the return rate.

The cosmetic line, its own badge

The tint and protection brand gets its own identity under the Economy Auto family, so premium cosmetic work reads premium without confusing the core shop.

The animated dragon-and-samurai mascot, brought to life. A sample of the brand in motion, generated for this proposal.
Where best-in-class is going

The next two years, mapped.

The leading shops are turning AI into a customer-experience and efficiency advantage across the whole journey. Here is the opportunity landscape, plotted by impact and timing, with where Tekmetric already does the heavy lifting.

Impact: foundational to transformational
Now // High impact
AI digital-inspection notesAI review responsesPersonalized remindersAI phone answeringSmart declined-work recovery
Next 2 years // High impact
Predictive maintenance from vehicle dataADAS calibration workflowAI service advisor assistDynamic capacity scheduling
Now // Incremental
AI content and tips generationAd creative and bidding optimizationAuto-tagging customer segments
Next 2 years // Incremental
AI parts and inventory forecastingVoice-of-customer review miningLoyalty and membership automation
Timing: now  →  next two years
Journey stage
AI or innovation opportunity
Tekmetric's role
Find and choose
AI-managed reviews and listings; answer-engine visibility.
Native reviews and segments; partners fill multi-platform.
First service
AI inspection notes and photo-based recommendations.
Digital inspection is native.
Keep and grow
Predictive, mileage-based recommendations and reminders.
Reminders, declined-work recovery, segments, all native.
Operate
AI scheduling, phones, and parts forecasting.
Phones and Digital Ads modules emerging; verify in Canada.

This is the difference between an agency and a partner. We are not here to hand you pretty pictures.

You define what success looks like. We build the plan to get you there, across marketing, advertising, content, growth planning, and the analytics and go-to-market to execute it. Your goals are the brief, and the work is measured against them.

The numbers

Why the loop pays.

Conservative, benchmark-based, and calibrated to your real Tekmetric data at the first monthly review.

$450
A one-time visitor (single repair order).
$4,500
A loyal customer, over time. About 10x the one-timer.
14/mo
Extra repair orders to cover the entire all-in tier. Fewer than one a working day.
3:1+
Even on cautious acquisition costs, lifetime value sits far above the ratio that signals a healthy program.
Bays,
not leads

The honest part: at this ad budget, paid search could send you more new customers than five bays can serve. So the real constraint is capacity, not demand. We pace acquisition to your bays and load the retention loop now, so every existing customer is worth more while you expand toward the bigger space. Marketing and your growth plan move together.

Assumptions: average repair order $450; 2.5 visits per year for an active customer; 55% gross margin; about 4-year retained tenure. Validated against Cox, J.D. Power, AAA, and PartsTech data; planning estimates, not guarantees, recalibrated to your books at the first review.

The investment

Three tiers. One checkpoint.

Monthly. No long lock-in. Start where it fits and step up as the engine proves itself.

Content Engine
$1,500/mo
Light the fire. Build the brand, the content habit, and findability.
  • Daily tips, infographics, and short-form video
  • Animated dragon-and-samurai series
  • Local SEO, listings, and review setup
  • Light Tekmetric reminder activation
Recommended
Content + Engine
$2,500/mo
The full loop on owned media. Where the compounding starts.
  • Everything in Content Engine
  • Social management with automated CTAs, newsletter, and email
  • Referral program and multi-platform review management
  • Tekmetric campaigns, declined-work and reminder automation
  • Digital-inspection and profile-upsell scripts
  • Monthly strategy and numbers review
Growth, All-In
$3,500/mo
Add paid fuel to the loop, sized to your capacity.
Includes about $1,100/mo of working ad media, deployed as always-on retargeting plus two seasonal tire-season pulses. Fully disclosed, never marked up.
  • Everything in Content + Engine
  • Paid search and paid social management
  • Seasonal tire-season pulses with offers
  • Landing pages built to convert
  • Priority production cadence

The one checkpoint: a monthly review of your numbers. What we spent, what it returned, what is the plan for next month. That review is how you know dollars in equal a known return.

The path to double

How it unfolds.

Now
First 90 days

Turn the engine on

Activate Tekmetric reminders and declined-work recovery; put digital inspections on every car; fix listings and reviews across the directories; launch the mascot series and daily tips; run the first tire-season pulse; stand up the refer-a-friend ask. Instrument the numbers you do not yet track.

Short
30 to 90 days

Unify and calibrate

Content web live with your site as the hub; social management and newsletter running; reviews and referrals compounding; first monthly review on your real margins.

Medium
6 to 18 months

Compound it

Launch a care plan on the tire-swap anchor; mature the profile-driven upsell; scale the seasonal pulses; adopt the near-term AI moves that lift experience and efficiency.

Long
2 years and beyond

Double the business

Support the move to 4,000 to 5,000 sq ft and 7 to 14 staff, with demand and capacity growing together toward the goals you set.

Let's build the engine.

We recommend starting with Content plus Engine, and adding the Growth tier when you are ready to put paid fuel behind tire season. Pick a tier, or let us walk you through it.