Ryan Autry Audio Innovations of Fresno Fresno, Calif.
Time in the Mobile Electronics Industry: 20 years
Career Summary: “I started as an entry- level salesman. Five years later I became a store manager. Eight Years later, I opened my own store.”
Description of Duties: “As an owner, I wear all the hats. I sell, install, book keep, clean, and more.”
Proudest professional career moment: “When I opened Audio Innovations in Jan, 2007. I strived to make other people successful in my entire career. Now it was my turn to do it for myself.”
Biggest mistake ever made as a business owner or manager: “Trying to manage two stores at once and trying to keep them open for too many years when they couldn’t sustain themselves.”
Tree biggest loves, other than 12-volt: “I love to talk about phones, cook, and race cars. I’m an Automotive enthusiast to the core. It single-handedly takes up most of my time away from work.”
Biggest influence in terms of expertise, professionalism and work ethic: “My best friend, Don Olson. He has been a huge impact in my professional career. He has guided me to the success I am today. I also need to mention a few 12-volt owners across the country who are helping me grow my business each year. I receive daily advise from these gentleman. Bing Xu, Micah Williams, Eric M. Carter, Joey Knapp, Parish Tanner, Ryan Pepsin, Jess Hogan, Ben Larson, Jason Kranitz, TC Holliday,
John Schwartz, Christopher McNulty, Josh Gobble, Jeff Meece, Mitch Schaffer, Josh Landau, Tony Dehnke, Alex Garcia, Louis Gonzales, Spencer Richardson, Omar Jawad, Jon Kowanetz, Luke Filder, Ben Vollmerm, Dan Ungaro, Darren Fettik, Chris Rogers, Jeremy Lambertson, Mike Bartells, Kent Izuka, Matt Meisenbach, Sean David, Keith McCumber, Lou Norman, Mark Miller, Ken Ward, and Joe from Tunes-n-Tint.”
Vision for business in five years: “I’d love to see my business be more profitable year after year and in five years I’d like for us have our most profitable year ever.”
JT Torres Al and Ed’s Auto- sound Huntington Beach, Calif.
Time in the Mobile Electronics Industry: 16 years
Career Summary: “I started with simple radio installs and now I do it all. Custom installs, radar detectors, etc.”
Description of Duties: “I do it all: broom instructor, customer service, lead tech, window tint specialist; whatever it takes to get the job done.”
Proudest professional career moment: “When I see other shops copy our stuff. When shops call our store asking for help, we know we are leading the game.”
Biggest mistake ever made as a business owner or manager: “We make mistakes
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every day; the key thing is to learn from those mistakes so we don’t do them again.”
Tree biggest loves, other than 12-volt: “Going fast, two and four wheels.”
Biggest influence in terms of expertise, professionalism and work ethic: “Bryan Schmitt.”
Vision for business in five years: “We want to position ourselves and restructure the shop to take care of the high-end vehicles. Our business right now is safety. We want to cater to customers that want navigation
and safety products. We do a ton of safety, mobile eye, a lot of radar detectors.”
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