The BodyShop Business Conference : Succeeding Through Change
September 17-18 — Hilton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites — Indianapolis, Ind.
Registration is NOW OPEN.
As rapidly as the industry is changing, you need the tools and education to surge ahead or else get left behind.
The BodyShop Business Conference is the event you must attend this year to define yourself as a leader dedicated to evolving into a sophisticated profit machine that produces quality repairs and happy customers.
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“Succeeding Through Change” is the theme of the 2010 BodyShop
Business Conference, and a wide variety of experts will gather in
Indianapolis Sept. 17 & 18 to discuss how to deal with changes in
the marketplace and in the law, and how these changes affect the
operational, marketing, and ownership issues you face on a daily basis.
The BSB Conference 2010 will present a lively exhibit floor featuring
the latest in leading products and company personnel, plus a variety of
interactive, practical presentations all designed to increase your
profitability. Lean manufacturing processes, and really protecting your
shop’s and customer's private data, will be the general session topics.
George Avery, State Farm Claim Consultant - P&C Claims, will be the
keynote speaker. His talk will cover the evolving collision repair
industry and insurer-repairer relations.
Here is the agenda:
Friday, September 17
Breakfast 8:30-9:00
Keynote
9:00-9:45 - George Avery, State Farm Claim Consultant, P & C
Claims - The Evolving Collision Repair Industry and Insurer-Repairer
Relations.
Panel Discussion: Protecting Your Private Data 9:45-10:45
Break 10:45-11:00
Breakout Session 1* 11:00-11:45
Getting on a DRP
Search Engine Optimization
Understanding Your Financials
Lunch/Trade Show 12:00-2:00
Breakout Session 2* 2:00-2:45
EPA 6H Rule
Social Media
Succession Planning
Breakout Session 3* 3:00-3:45
Advanced Metals
Marketing to Women
Getting on a DRP
Breakout Session 4* 4:00-4:45
Profit Centers
EPA 6H Rule
Succession Planning
Marketing to Women
Reception/Trade Show 5:00-7:00
Saturday, September 18
Breakfast/Trade Show 8:00-9:00
Panel Discussion: Lean Manufacturing Processes 9:00-10:00
Break 10:00-10:15
Breakout Session 5* 10:15-11:00
Hybrid Repairs
Advanced Metals
Profit Centers
Social Media
Breakout Session 6* 11:15-noon
Waterborne/Low-VOC Basecoats
Hybrid Repairs
Understanding Your Financials
Search Engine Optimization
The cost is only $99, and includes meals. To register, click on the link above, or call the number below. See you there!
*Breakout session decriptions (in alphabetical order by title)
- EPA 6H Rule –
Attorney Andrew Rodenhouse answers body shop owners’ questions about
the EPA’s 6H Rule, which all body shops are required to be in compliance
with by Jan. 10, 2011.
- Advanced metals –
Many different types of metals are now being used in the construction
of vehicles to reduce vehicle mass and improve crash performance.
Experts discuss how to identify them and the repair methods they
require.
- Getting on a DRP –
The industry is contracting and making business more competitive. This
session will provide tips on how to make yourself attractive to an
insurance company if your goal is to boost your insurance work.
- Hybrid repair –
More and more hybrid vehicles are being introduced into the market.
Repairers need to become intimately familiar with them in order to
properly repair them, not to mention keep themselves safe. This session
will ensure you can handle these vehicles at your shop,
- Marketing to women –
Women are increasingly becoming the decision-makers when it comes to
fixing the family car. Jeanne Silver of CARSTAR Mundelein will discuss
how to maximize your appeal to the female customer.
- Profit centers –
Sprayed-on bedliners, detailing, glass repair, rental vehicles – are
these add-on businesses worth looking at to shore up your bottom line?
This session offers the keys to making these profit centers successful.
- Search engine optimization (SEO) –
When people want to find a body shop today, they look online. Does your
shop come up first in their search, or are you buried under mounds of
other shops? Mark Claypool, owner of Optima Worldwide – which provides
website design, development, SEO services and social media marketing
management – will show you how to make sure your shop’s name is front
and center in Internet searches and that you’re getting the most out of
your website.
- Social media
– Social media expert Nicki Lock will teach you how to maximize the
free marketing opportunities that exist on Facebook, Twitter and other
social networking sites.
- Succession planning –
Is it time for you to exit the industry? Perhaps you’re still a few
years off, but it’s never too early to plan. This talk focuses on how to
ready yourself and your employees for the sale of your shop.
- Understanding your financials –
Breakeven point. Gross profit. Close ratio. Net sales. Do you know your
numbers? Consultant Hank Nunn helps you understand the digits on your
dashboard that will drive your business to profitability.
- Waterborne/low-VOC basecoats –
Mark Clark, owner of Professional PBE Systems, will tell you all you
need to know about waterborne basecoats and how you can use them as a
marketing advantage.
Visit our CONFERENCE REGISTRATION site to register for this exciting event!