TAC / 001 / Automotive business community
A free community for automotive business owners and the people on their teams. Real conversations about hiring, software, quoting, pricing, freight, and what's actually working.
Owners, operators, and the people who work for them. If you make a living around cars, you belong here. The common thread isn't liking cars. It's building a real business in this industry.
Owners and the people on their teams asking questions, sharing what's working, and trading notes. TAC adds lessons, prompts, and member features to keep the conversation moving.
Examples shown. The real conversations are members-only.
Owner / Independent repair
Anyone switch from paper ROs to a shop management system mid-year? How bad was it, honestly?
Service advisor / 3-bay shop
We did it in March. Two rough weeks. Run both side by side for the first few days.
Most shops treat quoting as admin. The customer reads it as proof of how you'll handle their car.
Automotive business communityTech / Performance shop
Techs in here: what's the one thing your shop does that makes you want to stay?
Lead tech / Diesel
Owner who backs you when a customer is wrong. Pay matters, but that's the one.
Tell us what it is, what it costs you, and what it still gets wrong.
Automotive business communityFounder / Aftermarket parts brand
Freight went up again. Anyone found a carrier setup that works for heavy, oversized parts?
Ops / Wheel & tire distributor
Worth asking for a dimensional-weight review. Ours was billing us on the wrong class.
How the business works and what the owner learned building it.
Automotive business communityRJ Hinken / TAC
Automotive business community
I'm RJ Hinken. I came up in the trade on the detail and body shop side, then moved to the business side: more than ten years in automotive ecommerce, Google Shopping, Amazon, social, and brand, including running digital for Titan Wheel Accessories and BSB USA. I also built Our Speedways, a short-track racing page with over 100,000 followers.
Today I run Speedyellow, where I build websites and the systems behind them for automotive businesses. Working inside other people's businesses, the same problems keep coming up: leads that go quiet, quotes nobody follows up on, good shops that are hard to find. And usually someone else in the industry has already figured it out.
That's why TAC exists: to put that knowledge in one room, with the people actually doing the work. Speedyellow stays out of the way here. The group is worth being in whether you ever work with me or not.
