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Category Archives: garage services
Female motoring stress levels
Women know they try to do too much – juggling careers, homes, families and, if there’s any time left, trying to organise a social life. Multi-tasking is what we are encouraged to do it seems but this all comes at … Continue reading
Posted in female friendly garages, garage services
Tagged Daily Telegraph, FOXY Choice, FOXY Lady Drivers Club, University of Pittsburg
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One of the best garages in Stoke on Trent
If you are driving a Citroen, Peugeot or Fiat and live or work in Stoke on Trent you should know that there is a female friendly garage that specialises in these makes and where all the mechanics have been awarded … Continue reading
Posted in female friendly garages, garage services
Tagged female friendly garage, Simon Dean Motor Services, Stoke on Trent
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Well done Crowhill Motors
I’ve just written to a Mr Richard Cox to say thank you on behalf of a charming Scottish lady called Anne Campbell who asked for our help when she’d clearly dealt with one dodgy garage too many and was at … Continue reading
Posted in female friendly garages, garage services, women
Tagged Falkirk, good garages, MTH Autoservices
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Women and garage evenings
I’ve been involved in several well intentioned garage evenings for women and have reached several conclusions. Firstly that they are time consuming to organise and often disappointingly attended. Secondly that it is the best and female friendly garages that do … Continue reading
Posted in female friendly garages, garage services, women
Tagged FOXY Promise, garage evenings for women, garages for women
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Be different; be female friendly in 2011
It makes compelling business sense to be different, especially in an industry like the UK’s garage one where it’s hard to single out measurable quality with so many competing codes and trade acronyms. So why not use genuine customer service … Continue reading
Posted in female friendly garages, garage services, women drivers
Tagged Carolie Baxter, SB Motors, UK motor industry
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How to attract the right female talent
The motor industry needs more of the right females at the top of the UK motor industry but how do we get them there? I spoke about ‘marketing used cars to women’ at the AM conference’s Used Car Market trade … Continue reading
Posted in female friendly garages, garage services
Tagged AM Used Car Market Conference 2010, Female Business Ambassador, female friendly garages, FOXY Choice, franchise dealerships, garages
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Could a luscious garage catch on here?
Spotted at Technorati, Carolyn Coquillette owns and runs a clean, green and highly female friendly garage that caters for hybrid and electric cars in particular. This is Luscious Garage in San Francisco and it is far removed from the more … Continue reading
Posted in female friendly garages, garage services, green motoring
Tagged Delphi Automotive, FOXY Lady Drivers Club, Luscious Garage, WiTricity
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Servicing Stop left Deborah first
Following on from a previous blog posting here I received a response from Oly Richmond of Servicing Stop which caused me to review this entry and reply as follows… Please don’t think we have singled your company out here. FOXY … Continue reading
Do women DIY car maintenance?
Female car drivers don’t DIY car maintenance as often as men according to research by Autoquake.com. Which could be because the research is carried out by men (only having a laugh guys…), women are more honest in our survey responses … Continue reading
Posted in garage services, women drivers
Tagged Autoquake, Britannia Rescue, car maintenance, car tyres, female friendly garage, FOXY Lady Drivers Club
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