Manufacturing, Technology, Business Symposium
ITEC 2010 is all about content. Our manufacturing conference chairman, Harold Herzlich, has an extensive background in the technology side of the tire manufacturing business. He is in the process of developing a content-rich program and information for our attendees through a number of concurrent presentation tracks covering:
► Steel adhesion
► Manufacturing (unit operations)
► Forensic failure analysis
► Warranty policies
► New advertising technologies
► Tire law from a retailing standpoint
► Product liability avoidance for the retailer—mock trail insight with real trial lawyers
► Rolling resistance
► Tire reinforcement technology
► Curing and antioxidant chemistry
► Castable technology
► Run-flat belt reinforcement tire technology
► New field anti-aging technologies
► A growing lower tire carbon footprint rolling resistance opportunity
► Improved ways to conserve manufacturing energy
If you have a paper idea that offers strong application insight in tire manufacturing, technology, or the business of making tires, we invite you to participate. Click here
Tire Dealers, Aftermarket, Distribution Symposium
The aftermarket business is first and foremost a retailing business. Working with our tire dealer conference chairman, Ray Evans, our tire dealer conference vice chairman, Hank Inman, and our tire dealer advisory council, we are developing concurrent seminar and multiple track programs to include topics such as:
► Dealer issues involving sales and services:
- Selling and servicing high performance tires
- Selling and servicing super singles
- Winter tires
- Tire repair
- Selling tire protection warranties
- Selling new rolling resistance requirements
- Private brands
- Used tires
► Incorporating the internet into your business
strategy:
- E-marketing
- Web design, Facebook, Twitter
► Marketing your business more effectively:
- Marketing to women, seniors, Gen Y
- Market evaluations
► Legislative and legal issues:
- Impact of Federal and State regulations
- Dealing with overseas suppliers
- How to protect yourself
- What to do if you are named in a suit
► Training:
- Why it’s important
- How to protect yourself from law suits
► Green issues:
- Making the dealership green
- Manufacturers’ efforts to make tires green and how to sell them
- Dealing with sticker shock
► Associations:
- Importance of taking advantage of national and state organizations
- What’s the value?
► Successful dealers share their secrets:
- Panel discussion
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► Managing dealer resources outside the dealership:
- Running the family business
- Balancing work and life
► Business management:
- Financial planning
- Point of sales software
- Personnel management
- Fraud
- Ethics and standards
► Add-on profit opportunities:
- New profit centers
- National accounts, government business
► Service counter/point of sales:
- Dealing with tough customers
- How to effectively sell to customers
► Scrap tire disposal:
- Liability/litigation issues
- Scrap to profit
► Marketing groups:
- Pros and cons
► Automotive service:
- Technical topics
- Services and equipment
► Car dealers, mass merchandisers and
warehouse clubs:
- How to react to the competition
► The economy and its impact on the entire tire
industry:
- How to survive in tough economic times
- Market projections
► Managing dealer resources outside the
dealership:
- Running the family business
- Balancing work and life
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We will have a host of outside speakers covering these plus presentations on saving and making more money. If you have an idea for a paper with appeal to our audience of independent dealers, commercial dealers, wholesalers, distributors, retreaders and recyclers, OTR, farm and industrial tires and companies involved in aftermarket and equipment sales, we invite you to allow us to consider your presentation. Click here
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