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The Shop Marketing Guys vs Autoshop Solutions: Auto Repair Marketing Compared

More pages, more calls, more cars in your bays — for the same money.

Is your marketing actually putting more cars in your bays?

Autoshop Solutions

Pros

  • 27 years of auto aftermarket experience
  • Google Premier Partner
  • Broad coverage across aftermarket verticals — tire, collision, general repair
  • RPM (Repair Process Management) program bundled with marketing

Cons

  • Basic website with limited pages — former employees say "no client truly got a customized website, even though that is what Autoshop Solutions preaches"
  • 4-6 months before your site launches — that's half a year with no new leads from it
  • No Google Business Profile management — missing the #1 way customers find local shops
  • Ads run with a separate management fee on top of monthly cost
  • High employee turnover — Glassdoor reviews describe underpaid staff, leadership issues, and clients treated as "more money on the bottom-line"
  • PE-owned — leadership and priorities shifted post-acquisition

Best For

Stay with Autoshop Solutions if you're mid-contract and satisfied with results, or you prefer a fully hands-off agency model and don't need visibility into your marketing data.

The Shop Marketing Guys

Pros

  • 2,000-4,000+ page website — rank for thousands of local searches and get found by more customers
  • Live in 2-3 weeks — start generating leads while competitors are still waiting on their site
  • GBP management included — show up on Google Maps where customers actually look
  • Every call tracked and recorded — know exactly which marketing is driving revenue
  • No contracts — cancel with 30 days notice, we earn your business every month
  • 90-day results guarantee — if your phone isn't ringing more, we've failed

Cons

  • Smaller team — we're selective about who we work with
  • The Shop Marketing Guys is a new brand (though our team has a decade of auto repair marketing experience)
  • Not a Google Premier Partner (yet)

Best For

Auto repair shops that want more calls, more cars in bays, and marketing they can actually measure.

Your marketing should make your phone ring. Is it?

Autoshop Solutions knows the aftermarket — 27 years of experience is real. But experience doesn't matter if your phone isn't ringing. A 4-7 page website won't rank for the hundreds of searches your customers are making. No GBP management means you're invisible on Google Maps. A 4-6 month launch means half a year of paying before a single new customer finds you. The Shop Marketing Guys builds a 2,000-4,000+ page website that ranks, manages your Google Business Profile so you show up on Maps, tracks every call so you know what's working, and goes live in weeks — not months. If your phone isn't ringing more in 90 days, we've failed.

4-7 pages can't rank for the hundreds of searches your customers make — 2,000-4,000+ pages can
4-6 months to launch means half a year of paying before a single new lead comes in
No GBP management means you're not showing up on Google Maps — where most customers look first
No call tracking means you have no idea which marketing is actually bringing in jobs

Common questions

That's the whole point. A 2,000-4,000+ page website ranks for thousands of local searches — "brake repair near me," "oil change [your city]," "check engine light [your zip code]." More pages means more ways for customers to find you. Add GBP management so you show up on Google Maps, and call tracking so you can see exactly how many new calls are coming in. We guarantee results in 90 days or we've failed.

Traditional agency workflows — rounds of revisions, content delays, limited capacity. That's 4-6 months of paying before a single new customer finds you through your site. We launch in 2-3 weeks because we've built a platform purpose-built for auto repair shops. You start generating leads in weeks, not next year.

The things that actually drive calls: a 2,000-4,000+ page website that ranks on Google, Google Business Profile management so you show up on Maps, call tracking so you know what's working, online booking so customers can schedule 24/7, and a CRM that follows up automatically so leads don't slip through. Autoshop Solutions charges extra for ads and doesn't include GBP management or scheduling.

It's how most customers find local auto repair shops. When someone searches "auto repair near me," the Google Maps results show up first — above every website. If your GBP isn't optimized and actively managed, you're invisible to those customers. Autoshop Solutions doesn't include this. We do, at every tier.

Like many PE-backed service companies, priorities shifted post-acquisition toward margins and scale. Former employees on Glassdoor describe high turnover, underpaid staff, and a culture where "each client was looked at as more money on the bottom-line." One recent reviewer gave the company "1-year max before the plug gets pulled." When a company's own employees are raising these flags, it's worth paying attention.

Ask yourself: is your phone ringing more than it was before you hired them? A 4-7 page website can only rank for a handful of searches. No GBP management means you're not showing up on Maps. No call tracking means you can't tell what's working. If you want marketing you can actually measure — more calls, more booked jobs, more cars in your bays — that's what we built.

Schedule a free strategy call and we'll audit your current setup — website, ads, GBP, the works. We build everything in parallel so nothing goes dark. When your new site is ready, we coordinate the domain transfer and campaign handoff for zero downtime. Most shops are live on our platform in 2-3 weeks and seeing new leads immediately.

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Let's talk about what makes sense for your specific situation. No pressure, just honest advice.

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