How to Salvage More! Millions from Your Small Business - Softcover

Ron Sturgeon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971703140 ISBN 13: 9780971703148

Publisher: Mike French Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

A book by two highly success auto salvage operators. Both men recently sold their businesses to a Fortune Five Hundred auto manufacturer. The book shares their secrets to achieving significant success in an industry not often considered for such accomplishment. The original book has been updated with lots of powerful new information Ron has learned since his first book about being an effective leader while building and running a business for maximum profits! Author Ron Sturgeon says,This book is not theory or a high brow thesis by an educator. It is a practical how-to guide by men who have actually done it and want to tell other business owners how they can do it too.Co-author D.L. Fitzpatrick joins Sturgeon by sharing his insights and experience learned from three generations of a family-run business that he also sold to the automotive giant. The book will help any small business person learn the fundamentals required to achieve financial rewards. Twelve chapters cover topics ranging from gathering metrics, bench-marking against internal operations and competitors, how to use networking and personal electronic organizers to improve productivity, and how to work with bankers. Especially valuable are 160 practical tips, plus an action item section prodding readers into action. The book brings a fresh first-hand insight to those small business owners who want a down-to-earth, easy-to-read book packed with simple to implement ideas!

About this title

About the Author:

Ron Sturgeon Over the past 20 years, since he founded AAA Small Car World, an auto recycling business, Ron acquired and opened five other recycling facilities throughout Texas, building one of the largest auto recycling businesses in the United States, In 1999, Ford Motor Company, through its subsidiary Green Leaf LLC, acquired Ron's auto recycling business. Previously, Ron owned an import repair shop and collision repair center. Ron attended Tarrant County Junior College, majoring in finance and marketing. Ron and his wife Kathi have been married 22 years and have three grown boys. Ron is founding member of United Recyclers Group, and active member of the Auto Recyclers Association, a member of the BMW Club of North American, past President of the local Mercedes Benz Club, a member of the Texas Auto and Dismantlers and Recyclers Association, and serves on the boards of two technology companies. D.L. Fitzpatrick D.L. Fitzpatrick is a fourth generation business owner of Fitz Auto Parts Inc. Growing up in the business, DL worked many vacations, summer breaks and weekends at Fitz. He started at the bottom sweeping floors as a pre-teen, ultimately progressing to the role of Vice President of operations. Prior to the successful negotiation and sale to a Fortune 5 company in the Fall of 1999, DL held overall responsibility for operations. Sales exceeded $7 million annually, with an employee count of over 60. The company had grown and diversified in many ways throughout this time; modern warehouse facilities, new trucks and equipment, mobile phones, faxes and communication tools, as well as a benefit package for staff members that impressed those well beyond the automotive recycling industry. DL received his undergraduate degree from Seattle University in Business in 1992, and his MBA in 1999. He and his wife, and two sons reside in Woodinville, Washington where he and his father continue to manage a portfolio of commercial property and development projects.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mike French Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0971703140
• ISBN 13: 9780971703148
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 284