Success Blog

Daily Activities can Teach us a Lot If you drive around in Billings, you probably notice a lot of really bad drivers.  It seems that every city around the country wants to claim that their residents have the worst!  The truth is, we have it pretty nice here in Montana.  A low population means little traffic. But there are times when things don’t go our way.  Times when we are frustrated with other drivers.  It can be irritating, but take...

How to Cope When Collision Repairs are Necessary In our modern age, with technology to help us through the necessary chores of life, we have all become busier.  You would think that modern luxuries like a furnace negating the need to chop wood, and washing machines negating a trip to the river to scrub clothing, and phones with email on them negating the need to pen a letter, that we would have more time in our days.  Instead, it’s the...

A Quick Checklist to Ensure Safe Travels Road trip season is almost upon us.  Just one more month until the unofficial start of summer, and that means many of us will be loading up the station wagon for a trip to Wally World!  Well, maybe not station wagon, and probably not Wally World. Do you just wing it when traveling?  Or do you make sure that your vehicle is properly prepared for the trip?  To ensure safe travels, and to...

We See a Lot of the Same Repairs When you think of auto body repair, or collision repair, you probably think of being in a big wreck.  Afterward you take in your vehicle, all smashed and mangled, and magically a few days (or a week or two) it is transformed to looking like new.  Here at Big Sky Collision Center we do some of those big jobs, but a lot of our work is the smaller issues. We have put...

Become the Fearless Leader Fear is often a completely made up concept.  It’s our thoughts overreacting to certain stimuli.  Sure, in some situations there is real danger (fear of walking through grizzly country in the dark), but when it comes to leadership, the fears are generally our own irrational thoughts working overtime. As you progress in your leadership abilities, you have to be able to overcome these 5 fears.  Keep in mind that overcoming fears doesn’t mean that you are...

6 Easy Ways to Get Top Dollar When it comes time to sell your vehicle, you have a few options.  You can trade it in for something else, you can sell it to the dealer, or you can sell it on your own.  Going the dealer route is going to save you the most time and effort, but you won’t get quite as much for it.  Selling it on your own will net you the most money, but you will...

Is it Fraud to Not Have Auto Body Repairs Done? Here’s a question that comes up quite often.  People wonder if they absolutely must do the repairs on their vehicle, or can they collect the insurance money and drive the banged up rig.  There are a few factors that we have to go over before you can say yes or no. Naturally, we want you to come to our collision repair shop in Billings.  But in the end, the choice...

You’re Aware and Safe… Right? You’ve heard about the people that have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time.  They’re not able to do two things at once, and so one ends up taking priority.  But that doesn’t describe you, does it?  You’re a multi-tasking expert, and you have a keen sense of awareness that helps to keep you safe while you’re on the road. Because you pay extra attention to your surroundings, you know that while most...

Avoid These to Prolong the Beauty of Your Vehicle Sometimes we get caught up in thinking that natural is better.  In some cases, that’s true.  Natural cleaners are better for our health than those such as bleach.  Natural foods are better for our bodies that overly processed foods.  Natural wood is often more beautiful than synthetic wood.  But there are natural products that are just no good for your car. The good news: nobody is intentionally putting these things on...

Driving Defensively Prevents Accidents Remember when you were a kid, and you played the what-if game?  It may have gone something like, “What if you were 11 feet tall and could jump over houses?”  Or “What if the floor was lava and you had to make it from the couch to the kitchen?”  They were whimsical fun ways to exercise our imagination and help to pass the hours. Those games can still come in handy today.  They’re not quite the...