Category: GDL Auto Blog

Often small business owners gather at network meetings, or seminars of one sort or another and without fail every time someone gripes to us at these things. “Marketing is a waste of time and money” or “Markeing does not work”. Shortly after our move to Warriewood the results of our marketing kept the business afloat.

It was apparent we had discovered a magic formula with the pickup service we offered, as with very little marketing clients were coming in hard and fast. The issue then arose that we did not have the means to cater to all of our clients within a realistic time frame due to the lack of

The story behind the move to the new workshop when told comes across as a very straight forward process. We looked, we applied and we moved. The reality is this is not the case and it was somewhat stressful. As I mentioned in a previous blog post a particular tow truck driver had me wound up

The next and possibly the greatest step to date in the growth and building of our little enterprise is the move to a workshop independent of another business. Our relationship with the team at Narrabeen Towing still stood strong, however there were many small factors in place that on their own were manageable but it

A while back we blogged about the glory days for us when we were administrating and hosting “No Limits Performance”. No Limits was a modified car club which saw thousands of young people come through the club in the seven years it operated. Years on it was very cool to discover that club was the

What keeps the team ticking at GDL? Writing this post has caused me to pause and reflect a little as I can easily identify what it is that keeps me personally striving for our latest goal but I have never asked the other team members what it is for them. At this point its important

In four years of business there have been five incidents with clients where the client never came back to us. Of those five, four of them I am quite happy to never see again as I feel I was more then fair to them and some people are just beyond reason, however this story is

The culture that the “Fast and Furious” franchise depicts surrounding the modified car world is real, most people probably know that. What they may not know is in a very similar way to the clothing industry styles of vehicle modification come in and out of fashion as often as the sun rises. Now we are

After pouring countless hours of blood, sweat and tears into building a car you anticipate your reaction should someone damage that car intentionally or otherwise. You always hope it never happens, but in your mind you run through your outburst of rage when someone undoes all that hard work. The reality for me was that