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German Auto Werke: ‘This is my definition of Success’
October 4, 2022 @ 7:00 am - 8:30 am
Free
Each week there is a Business Referrers meeting which provides a friendly and productive meeting opportunity for local small business owners to share referrals and grow their businesses using the membership as a platform for new ideas, products and services. We have a guest presenter each week who provides information from their areas of expertise.
This week’s presenter Rod Berkelmans will share his definition of success, turning his passion for cars, particularly older German vehicles, into a specialist automotive business.
About the Presenter
Rod Berkelmans, German Auto Werke
Rod has been a mechanic, technician, apprentice, foreman, workshop controller, contractor, consultant, store manager, boss and business owner over 15 years in the automotive industry.
Having always been passionate about cars, he fell into his career by accident when he purchased his first car, a 1960 Morris Mini and experienced many challenges being misguided by mechanics, poor workmanship and was even told “why bother even fixing it” by so called ‘Mini Specialists’, resulting in alot of stress and nasty surprises with cost blow outs. Knowing first hand the pain and fear customers experience when taking their car to a mechanic, Rod has embraced these experiences and lessons to now helping others cut through the mechanical jargon when fixing cars.
Rod has built up a successful business with the mindset to back himself and take risks, even when others may discourage this, and is proud to have owned some of his dream cars along the way including an Audi A4 Turbo and a classic 1962 Beetle.