Webinars

ASA’s Webinar Wednesdays is a year-long series of free, hour-long webinars for members and nonmembers that will air on the third Wednesday of each month.

Each one hour webinar in the series will take place at noon Central time with a 50-minute training session followed by a 10-minute Q&A session. The live versions of the webinars will be free to all ASA members, registered collision shops and mechanical repair shops. The recorded versions of the webinars will only be available to ASA members.

Each webinar will be held in the following time zones:
10-11 a.m. PT / 11 a.m.-Noon MT / 12-1 p.m. CT / 1-2 p.m. ET

Future Webinars

2024

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Vince Manship

Nov. 20 - Controller Area Network Operation and Testing

Presenter: Vince Manship, AVI Technical Instructor, The Group Training Academy

This course will cover networking high and low-speed circuits, nodes, sub-nodes, data bus circuitry, star vs. loop configurations, and vehicles using these newer systems. A heavy emphasis will be placed on scan tool diagnostics and wiring schematics interpretation to diagnose these systems. Topics include but are not limited to:

Automotive Networking Systems
Isolate Individual Modules for Diagnostics
Use of a Scan Tool for Networking Diagnostics
What Individual Vehicle Components All Connect to a Common Communications Network
Safety procedures
Data bus circuitry and wiring schematics
Difference between high-speed and low-speed networks
Advantages and disadvantages of a common communications network

Robert Redding Jr.

Dec. 11 - A Look at the Elections' Impact on Independent Automotive Repair Shops

2025

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Paul Donahue

Jan. 15 - Your 2025 Internet Marketing Plan Workshop

Presenter: Paul Donahue, Advanced Digital Media Services

This workshop is going to be all about building your 2025 internet marketing plan and setting yourself up to accomplish your goals and knock your objectives out of the park.

For example, if you want to create another 500k in gross revenues this year, then how many more leads do you need to receive each month based on your current cost per lead to accomplish your goal?

We will be presenting a free worksheet we created where you can plug in your own numbers and the sheet will automatically do the math and give you your answers.

We will also go over how to MAXIMIZE your lead-flow via the internet for your shop going into the New Year.

Discover the latest trends - The Internet marketing space is constantly changing. We will outline the most important trends and what you need to do to stay ahead of the curve.
Increase your inbound calls - We will uncover the proven methods to maximize your call count from customers looking online for your services.
Dominate your local market - We will show you how to dominate your local market for auto repair related services in your area.

Rick White

Feb. 12 - Grow Your Business with Confidence

Presenter: Rick White, President & Coach, 180BIZ

Do you ever feel like you’re taking one step forward and two steps back running your shop? In this webinar you’ll learn:

What’s causing you to feel the way you do
The components that make up the equation for success and which you need to work on
Specific actions you can take that will accelerate your business growth

After this webinar, you’ll find your business growing faster than you thought was possible.

Michael Smith

Feb. 19 - The Secrets of Championship Winners

Presenter: Michael Smith, Chief Strategy Officer, The Institute for Automotive Business Excellence

How to Become the #1 Best Company in Your Marketplace, Year After Year

Think of the best-known companies in any industry, or the repeat championship teams in any league... each are the very best in their space, and they manage to stay at the top year after year.

What are their secrets? Is it luck, or is there a secret sauce that they understand and quietly deliver?

This high-level Mastery session will present a tried-and-proven approach to consistent winning that works in every meaningful human endeavor.

Participants will learn:

Three crucial organizational foundations of championship performance
Vital key of the championship mindset, and how to develop it
How to raise championship leaders within your organization
Importance of mastery in championship team development
Leveraging your brand, culture & reputation as you increasingly dominate your marketplace

Join us for this fascinating and challenging session. You won't want to miss this!

ASA offers free webinars to keep you updated on the following issues:

Importance of Periodic Motor Vehicle Inspections

The Even Better I-CAR with Nick Notte

Held on Jan. 30, 2019, this webinar for collision repairers, Nick Notte, vice president of sales, addressed refinements to I-CAR’s Professional Development Program (PDP), made at the request of the industry. The refined PDP will be implemented in Q2 of 2019. It will review the industry’s involvement in these refinements, discuss the reasons for the changes, detail the changes to the PDP to include subscription and pricing and outline the transition from current state to the new program. Notte addressed questions about the changes discussed and what it means for repair shops.

Access Online Webinar

Vehicle Safety Inspections and Safety Technologies

Held on Sept. 27, 2016, this webinar addressed the current status of motor vehicle inspection programs in states across the nation and new safety technologies that are and will be impacting these programs. During the webinar, participants heard from leaders in automotive safety inspection programs; U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, (PA-153) on federal legislation affecting safety inspections; and an independent shop manager and vehicle inspection specialist.

Access Online Webinar

Access Online the Demonstration of a Texas Vehicle State Inspection

Telematics Policy for Shop Owners

Federal Overtime Law Compliance Regulations