Podcast: Taking Care of Your Business Starts With Your Employees

Danny Smith of Same Day Tire and Auto Repair changed his approach with his workers more than a decade ago, and he is still reaping the rewards for that decision. We talk with him on this week's Modern Tire Dealer Show.
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March 17, 2022
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Tire dealers, like many small business owners, know setting the right approach with your business requires a lot of assistance from your employees.

Danny Smith of Same Day Tire and Auto Repair near Tulsa, Okla., changed his approach with his workers more than a decade ago, and he is still reaping the rewards for that decision.

His business is in a great place, his employees are in a great place and so is he. We talk with Danny about setting that culture in this edition of the Modern Tire Dealer Show.

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Joy Kopcha
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Joy Kopcha

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Joy Kopcha joined Modern Tire Dealer and Auto Service Professional as senior editor in 2014 after working as a newspaper reporter for a dozen years in Kansas, Indiana and Pennsylvania. She was named managing editor of MTD and ASP in 2022, and took on that same role with Motor Age in 2024.

She is an award-winning journalist, including in 2023 when she was named a Jesse H. Neal Awards Finalist.

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Mike Manges
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Mike Manges is Modern Tire Dealer’s editor. A 28-year tire industry veteran, he is a three-time International Automotive Media Association Award winner, holds a Gold Award from the Association of Automotive Publication Editors and was named a finalist for the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award, the Pulitzer Prize of business-to-business media, in 2024. He also was named Endeavor Business Media's Editor of the Year in 2024. Mike has traveled the world in pursuit of stories that will help independent tire dealers move their businesses forward. Before rejoining MTD in 2019, he held corporate communications positions at two Fortune 500 companies and served as MTD’s senior editor from 2000 to 2010. 

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