The Campaigns Are Already Written. All You Do Is Hit Send.

Kris Turner

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July 21, 2026

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Read time: 3 min

Introducing Recommended Campaigns

Tekmetric Marketing now builds ready-to-send campaigns. The message is written and the audience is selected. All that's left is to review, personalize, and send.

Most shop owners know the fastest way to fill this week’s bays is by bringing back customers who already trust them — the ones whose vehicles you serviced months ago but haven’t seen since. Re-engaging existing customers is one of the most effective ways to generate new repair orders.

The problem is finding the time to do it. Figuring out what to send, who to send it to, and when to send it almost always loses out to the car on the lift or the customer standing at the front counter

That's where Tekmetric Marketing's Recommended Campaigns come in.

Instead of starting with a blank page, Tekmetric Marketing does the heavy lifting for you. It analyzes your shop’s data and recommends campaigns that are ready to go. The audience is selected, the message is drafted, and all that’s left is for you to review it, make any changes you’d like, and send.

No blank screen. No guesswork.

Just a campaign ready to help bring customers back.

How It Works

Recommended Campaigns automatically surfaces ready-to-send campaigns tailored to your shop using the information Tekmetric already knows — your customers, previous campaigns, location, and seasonality.

You’re always in control.

Review the recommendation, personalize the message so it sounds like your shop, adjust the audience if you’d like, choose when to send it, and you’re done.

What used to take an hour staring at a blank screen can now be done in just a few clicks.

How Fox River Tire & Auto Uses Recommended Campaigns

Like most shops, Fox River Tire & Auto in St. Charles, Illinois, wants to stay connected with customers and bring them back when the time is right. But deciding what campaign to send, then building it from scratch, takes time most shops don't have.

Recommended Campaigns gives Tammi and her team a starting point instead of a blank page. They review the recommendations, edit the suggested content to fit their brand, and send with confidence.

"Recommended Campaigns provide an excellent launchpad for re-engaging with our customers. Instead of starting from scratch, we refine the suggested content to fit our brand and send it with confidence. The process is straightforward, time-saving, and always delivers."

— Tammi Vest, Business Manager, Fox River Tire & Auto

From Reports to Results

Recommended Campaigns is part of a much bigger shift in where Tekmetric Marketing is headed.

For years, marketing platforms have been good at showing you what already happened: campaign reports, open rates, clicks, and dashboards. That’s valuable, but it still leaves the work on you.

Tekmetric Marketing is evolving beyond reporting. Increasingly, it’s helping you decide what to do next, and doing more of the work for you.

You’ve already seen this with Recommended Review Responses. When a customer leaves a Google review, Tekmetric drafts a thoughtful response for you to review and approve.

Recommended Campaigns is the next step.

Instead of simply telling you that you should market to your customers more often, Tekmetric Marketing puts a campaign directly in front of you — already drafted, targeted, and ready to send.

Your marketing should keep working even while you’re heads-down under a hood.

One Year of Continuous Innovation

Since launching Tekmetric Marketing in the fall of 2025, thousands of shops have made it part of how they attract new customers and bring existing ones back.

We’ve also continued investing in the platform based on feedback from shops like yours.

Recent additions include:

Rich text and custom links in every email so you can create more engaging emails and link directly to booking pages, review sites, and promotions. Bold a headline, organize services into a list, and drop in links to your booking page, review site, or a promotion, in both campaigns and automated emails like review requests and service reminders.

Recurring blocks for your calendar for lunch breaks, holidays, staff meetings, and other recurring events. Easily add recurring lunch blocks, staff meetings or holidays to your calendar with a few clicks. No more appointments booked over your team events without you knowing. 

Smarter marketing-source tracking on appointments and ROs: Automatically associate appointments and repair orders with the latest marketing campaign or automation that reached the customer. When a customer books after getting a message, the marketing source pre-fills with the most recent campaign or automation sent to them, so attribution is accurate without the guesswork.

Recommended Review Responses, helping you respond to Google reviews in just a few clicks.

Every one of these improvements started with feedback from shop owners looking for simpler, smarter ways to grow their business.

Keep it coming.

Already using Tekmetric Marketing?

Head to Marketing → Campaigns to see what's recommended for your shop and send your first campaign in just a few clicks.


New to Tekmetric Marketing?

See how Tekmetric Marketing helps shops bring customers back with online booking, automated reminders, review generation, and Recommended Campaigns.

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When you started your auto repair business, you probably had to make some big investments, including property, equipment, and employees. Now, to take your shop even further, you might be considering investing in a shop management system.

A shop management system can quickly transform your shop. An ideal system helps you create more efficient workflows and keep track of critical metrics so you can make savvier business decisions.

However, the idea of transformation can cause some doubts. You might be worried that your team might not even like using the shop management system, that adjusting to change will take too long, and that the software ultimately won’t end up paying for itself.

To eliminate doubts, it’s important to find the shop management system that will:

  • Transform your shop with little hassle, as quickly as possible
  • Inspire your team to work more efficiently
  • Grow your business’ profitability so that the investment is more than worthwhile
  • Free up your time

So, what’s the best software for auto repair shop owners? And what features should you look for? Here’s what you should be considering as a shop owner.

From what we see, there’s a lot that shop owners get right. They understand how to lead their teams, grow their shops, and bring trust and transparency to their customers. But as a former trainer and franchise performance specialist, I do notice a lot of little inefficiencies that add up. 

Tekmetric touches every part of running your shop -- from managing customer information and measuring business metrics to facilitating digital vehicle inspections, repair order workflows, and even payment processing.

Because we have so much information available, we've collected and analyzed all that data at our fingertips to bring shop owners and general managers unique industry insights on how your shop can make the most money out of the work you already do.

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Hello Shop Owners, Sunil Patel, Co-Founder of Tekmetric here.

I’m writing this blog because I believe it’s both an honor and a duty to be a leader in business.

Recently, I was awarded by Houston Business Journal as a Most Admired CEO of 2020, and this got me thinking about the leadership principles that have helped me along the way and made Tekmetric what it is today.

Not only do I lead a team of great talent, but I also speak with and have the pleasure of doing business with many strong leaders, whether it be shop owners, other entrepreneurs, or even other leaders within the company.

The fact of the matter is that I wouldn’t have been able to build a robust shop management software without my team. Watching them succeed and set each other up for success is hands down the most rewarding part of my job.

It’s a privilege to work with talented and innovative individuals that make me proud each and every day.

Playing a part in helping them grow and flourish makes me feel like I have served a purpose larger than simply building a product or making money.

Inspired by the HBJ honor, I took the time to sit down and outline a few of the leadership principles that I have always relied on.

They focus on listening, learning, and recognizing everyone as an individual. I hope they help you and your team grow as people and as a unit.

1. Listen to Your Team

Good leadership relies on a strong feedback process.

Listen to your team, whether it’s an idea or how they’re feeling so that they know you care not only about their contributions but also about them as people.

Once a week, I sit down with the leaders of different departments and simply listen to how things are going. What are the current challenges they’re facing? What are some successes they’re proud of?

What do they feel they could use more support with? Giving them the room to voice their concerns, their desires, and their victories provide them with a model for being the best leader they can for the people they lead.

Even when we’re hiring new team members, we like to get input from our current team to make sure we’re considering all voices in the process.

No idea is a bad idea. Even the ideas that you never end up using still have value because they can spark other ideas, show your team a new perspective, or simply show the person who voiced them that they were included as part of the team or project.

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