RVDA Convention/Expo Committee Seeks Workshop Submissions for 2024
Submission Deadline: April 17, 2024
(Fairfax, VA) – RVDA’s Convention/Expo Committee is seeking workshop proposals for the
2024 RV Dealers Convention/Expo, Nov. 11-15 at Paris Las Vegas. The committee-selected workshops will be held Tuesday, Nov. 12 through Friday, Nov. 15. Review the
request for proposal document on the convention website for this year’s in-demand topics, submission guidelines, and link to the
submission portal.
As the premier networking and education-focused event for North American RV dealers and dealership professionals, the event will feature 45 and 60-minute concurrent “tracked” non-promotional workshops for dealership principals, general managers, and top-performers in parts, service, F&I, sales, digital marketing, and business development centers.
In-demand topics for the committee-selected workshops include:
- Talent management: how to retain top employees
- An overview of successful management structures for multi-location dealerships
- Effective communication and collaboration: department to department, location to location
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): Practical applications/strategies for RV dealers
- Legislation, and Compliance
- Marketing and advertising compliance issues: what do recent FTC enforcement actions mean for RV dealers? (i.e., junk fees and illegal discrimination)
- Labor Law - overtime, injury, and illness rules, plus worker classification
- Dealer data and digital issues (issues when consumer order vehicles online, safeguards rule, state privacy laws, OEM data sharing principles, ransomware)
- Fixed Operations (Parts, Warranty and Service)
- What are the strategies and tactics top performing service departments employ to improve RECT?
- Best practices to elevate service to industry-leading standards
- Management strategies to expand service facilities/capacity
- Parts & accessories – winning strategies for competing with Internet-based companies
- Innovative training practices: what top performing companies do differently to retain talent
- Digital Marketing/BDC/Social Media
- Working with social media influencers
- Content marketing: what is it, why it is so useful, how to create the content – quickly and cost effectively!
- Reputation management
- Business Innovation (Sales & F&I)
- Closing the sale in the age of well-informed customers (appropriate for sales & F&I personnel)
- Set yourself apart: creating your dealership’s competitive advantage
- Building relationships with your customers
- Seamless integration: sales & F&I
The committee welcomes submissions from “in-the-trenches” training professionals, consultants, dealership professionals, vendors, and others who support the RV industry.
The convention is sponsored by RVDA - the National RV Dealers Association, RVDA of Canada, and the Mike Molino RV Learning Center.
Follow these steps to submit your proposal
- Review the 2024 RVDA Convention/Expo Call for Workshop Proposals website and submission guide.
- Identify topics that (a) would benefit RV dealers and their key employees and (b) can be effectively presented in 45 or 60 minutes.
- Gather and enter the information in the portal by April 17, 2024.
Direct questions about the call for workshop proposals to Karin Van Duyse by email at kvanduyse@rvda.org.
Companies interested in exhibiting, Vendor Training +Plus, or partnership and sponsorship opportunities can contact Julie Newhouse at (703) 364-5518 or send an email to jnewhouse@rvda.org.