Thank You to our 2024
MEA Member Exhibitors
Description: Join us for a dynamic session tailored for small business owners and managers, where we'll delve into crucial aspects of business growth. Learn the art of setting and tracking targets, building future-proof organizational charts, and crafting effective hiring and onboarding processes. Navigate the delicate balance of business ethics by establishing core values and addressing challenges like poaching clients and employees.
Who should attend: Owners and manager looking to enhance their abilities to run a highly productive and profitable business.
Instructor(s): Dave Wall from Freeman's Car Stereo & John Schwartz from Perfectionist Auto Sound & Security
Description: In this class You will learn from two Retailer of the Year winners, on how to manage your inventory in a more efficient and effective way, to maximize profit dollars. From how to choose vendor partners, selecting product mix and assortments, and tracking sales to make projections. Learning how to identify and liquidate dead inventory and how to keep emotion in check when determining what inventory is best for your business. Lastly, learn what inventory turns are and how it has tremendous benefits on cash flow for your business.
Who should attend: Owners and manager looking to enhance their abilities to run a highly productive and profitable business.
Top Take-aways: How to create content that attracts and how to sell online without ads and without sounding spammy.
Who should attend: Business Owners, Sales Professionals, and anyone looking to grow their online presence.
Top Take-aways: How to create content that attracts and how to sell online without ads and without sounding spammy.
Who should attend: Business Owners, Sales Professionals, and anyone looking to grow their online presence.
Instructor(s): Jon Kowanetz from Pathways Coaching & Consulting
Description: This presentation focuses on the many, all too common and socially acceptable habits and behaviors that we as human beings develop, which can be destructive to our personal and our professional lives. As the presenter shares his own experiences of overcoming these challenges and how doing so improved both aspects of his life, attendees recognize that they are not alone in their own challenges, that no challenge is too small and that they can change any chosen part of their life, in every new moment.
Top Take-aways: Learn the psychology behind destructive habits and behaviors. Understand how these habits and behaviors can be destructive to both your personal and professional life. Learn about the many ways that overcoming them can improve both areas of your life.
Who should attend: Anyone that wants to overcome challenges and improve all aspects of their life.
Instructor(s): Jon Kowanetz from Pathways Coaching & Consulting
Description: In this workshop, which builds upon what was presented in Part 1, you will have the opportunity to identify what is holding you back in your own personal and professional life, so you can affect real change. Together, we will use a 9 step process that will help you to get real with yourself about why you formed this destructive habit or behavior in the first place, why you want to improve in this area of your life and how you can stay on your chosen path when things get hard, as they most certainly will.
Top Take-aways: Get clear on what is holding you back in your personal and professional lives. Leave with a well thought out game plan for how to improve in this area. Connect with like-minded colleagues to support each other's growth.
Who should attend: Anyone that wants to overcome challenges and improve all aspects of their life.
Instructor(s): Kimberly Trainer and Dalton Trainer from Car-Tunes, Inc.
Description: From the showroom to the fab room, you must impress your clients with a polished appearance! Your language, physical appearance, facility cleanliness, and project presentations MUST represent your professionalism in an efficient manner to gain trust and overcome any client objections. From the business owner and sales professional’s perspective to the installer/fabricator’s point of view. This presentation will show proven methods for all positions to correct the silent mistakes affecting your closing rate and start a line of new clients knocking on your door?
Top Take-aways: Gain efficient communication & presentation techniques that will unify a common polished presentation from sales professionals, installers & fabricators alike. Achieve a higher closing rate while validating a higher labor rate.
Who should attend: Owners and managers looking to close sales quicker with inviting sales floor experience.
Instructor(s): Philip Lindsley from Titan Motoring
Description:You’re going to get a roadmap on how to create value, structure and systematic revenue. It includes how to go about choosing, managing and empowering a team to work the system that you create, so you can focus on growing and building your business.
Top Take-aways: Learn the structure and processes used by top retail owners. Be able to step away from your business and not affect revenue or daily operations and ultimately one....sell it!
Who should attend: Any business owner looking for profitable diversification methods for their business.
Instructor(s): Philip Lindsley & Dan Bowman from Titan Motoring
Top Take-aways: A solid understanding of how to increase revenue and prosperity by adding and diversifying your income through categories outside of traditional 12V products. How to use these new categories to invite your core clients back and attract new clients that you can introduce to your passion.
Thank You to our 2024
MEA Member Exhibitors