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MEA Member Exhibitors
Instructor(s): Kimberly Trainer and Dalton Trainer from Car-Tunes, Inc.
Track: Owner - Manager
Location: 103 A
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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 Close Rate while Validating a Higher Labor Rate.
Who should attend: Owners, Sales Professionals, Installers/Fabricators looking to streamline an effective presentation to upscale clientele & increase profitability for all positions on your team.
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:13
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Instructor(s): Tomas Keenan from Step It Up Academy
Track: Owner - Manager
Location: Cortez D
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Description: Building on the foundational strategies covered in Part 1, this interactive workshop is designed for car audio shop owners and managers ready to take their businesses to the next level. Dive deeper into practical implementation with real-world examples and hands-on exercises. Topics include refining target-setting techniques, optimizing organizational structures for scalability, and mastering ethical decision-making in competitive markets. Equip yourself with proven tactics to overcome industry challenges and drive sustained growth.
Top Take-aways: Gain hands-on experience in applying advanced business strategies tailored for the car audio industry.
Who should attend: Owners and managers seeking actionable insights to enhance operational efficiency, profitability, and ethical leadership within their car audio businesses.
Tuesday, 06 August 2024 22:27
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Instructor(s): Tomas Keenan from Step It Up Academy
Track: Owner - Manager
Location: Cortez D
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Description: Join us for a dynamic two-part 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.
Top Take-aways: Walk away with actionable insights and the tools to propel your business forward with integrity and efficiency.
Who should attend: Owners and manager looking to enhance their abilities to run a highly productive and profitable business.
Friday, 01 December 2023 16:47
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Instructor(s): Dave Wall from Freeman's Car Stereo & John Schwartz from Perfectionist Auto Sound & Security
Track: Owner - Manager
Location: Avalon 10
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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.
Top Take-aways: You will come away from this class with an inventory management plan you can follow to help you master this important area of your business.
Who should attend: Owners and manager looking to enhance their abilities to run a highly productive and profitable business.
Friday, 01 December 2023 19:08
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Instructor(s): Kaitlyn Young – Social Media Doctor LLC
Track: Sales - Marketing
Location: Cortez A
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Description: Gear up for success online with our workshop, 'Drive Engagement: Mastering Organic Social Media for the automotive industry.' Learn how to navigate the fast lane of social media marketing tailored specifically to help you grow and expand your business online! From crafting compelling content to leveraging platforms effectively, this class will equip you with the tools and strategies to revitalize your online presence, connect with your audience, and accelerate your business growth.
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.
Tuesday, 20 February 2024 19:58
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Instructor(s): Kaitlyn Young – Social Media Doctor LLC
Track: Sales - Marketing
Location: Cortez A
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Track: Owner - Manager
Location: Cortez D
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Description: Gear up for success online with our workshop, 'Drive Engagement: Mastering Organic Social Media for the automotive industry.' Learn how to navigate the fast lane of social media marketing tailored specifically to help you grow and expand your business online! From crafting compelling content to leveraging platforms effectively, this class will equip you with the tools and strategies to revitalize your online presence, connect with your audience, and accelerate your business growth.
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.
Friday, 01 December 2023 18:08
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Instructor(s): Jon Kowanetz from Pathways Coaching & Consulting
Track: Owner - Manager
Location: Cortez D
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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.
Friday, 01 December 2023 18:11
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Instructor(s): Jon Kowanetz from Pathways Coaching & Consulting
Track: Owner - Manager
Location: Cortez D
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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.
Friday, 01 December 2023 18:14
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Instructor(s): Philip Lindsley from Titan Motoring
Track: Owner - Manager
Location: Cortez D
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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.
Friday, 01 December 2023 18:19
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Instructor(s): John Schwartz – Perfectionist Auto Sound & Security and SoundShield
Track: Owner - Manager
Location: Avalon 10
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Description: Is your business a place where top talent wants to work? Are you successfully nurturing talent from within once sales professionals and technicians are hired? Would you consider working for your own business if you were in the employee's shoes? These are all crucial questions to contemplate when assessing whether you have the winning formula to cultivate and sustain a team of dedicated, content, and motivated employees. Join us to acquire proven strategies and policies that will empower you to effectively recruit, train, and retain the crème de la crème of talent, propelling your business to the next level of income and profitability.
Top Take-aways: Where to find TEAM members - Hiring Tips: Discover the best sources and techniques for recruiting top-tier talent to enhance your workforce.
Who should attend: Any business owner looking at building a winning team for their business.
Friday, 10 May 2024 22:37
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