NADA Is Almost Here. Here’s What You Need To Know

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The National Automobile Dealer Convention is early this year and it should prove to be just as exciting and informative as always. Whether this is your first time attending or you’re a convention veteran, here’s what you need to know about this year’s show.

​Dates
NADA 2019 takes place from January 24-27 in San Francisco. You can still register to secure your spot, but space is limited and it’s shaping up to be a big year so don’t hesitate!

A Selection Of Topics
There’s a long list of member-selected exchange session topics this year including:

  • Attracting and Hiring Technicians
  • Digital Campaigns That Work
  • Increasing Used-vehicle Sales
  • Used-car Strategies, from Acquisition to Increased Turn Rates

You can find a full list of topics for this year’s show here.

Workshops
In addition to the exciting exchange sessions, there will also be a number of educational workshops hosted by leaders of industry. Of particular interest in the workshop “Leadership Skills and Used-Car Strategies for Champions”. Tommy Gibbs, an expert on the topics of leadership and used-car sales, will be hosting this workshop. You can expect him to share his expertise in both subjects, so you’re really getting a two-for-one workshop here! Between the lengthy list of exchange session topics and all of these workshops, you won’t have time to do everything, but this is something that every dealership selling used cars will want to attend. You can find a full list of the workshops here.

Planning Your Trip
Judging from the list of topics, this year’s NADA is going to be big. You’ll need to decide early what talks and events you want to attend to make sure you don’t miss anything. As always, they have provided some handy tools to help you plan out your trip. You can find an itinerary planner here once you’ve created an account and registered for the show. This allows you to plan out your schedule, view an interactive floor plan, send messages to other attendees, and even request meetings with exhibitors.

NADA is also has a useful mobile app that you can sync with your itinerary to make sure have access to all of your plans and messages during the event itself. It’s not available quite yet, but be sure to keep an eye out for it in the coming weeks.

Don’t Forget To Check Out Green Cloud’s Booth
Green Cloud will have a booth (#6763W) at NADA this year and we have a lot of exciting information to share with you. You can visit us here to schedule a private demonstration of our tools at the event. Personally, we’re looking forward to the exchange sessions on increasing used vehicle sales and used car strategies. We’re always looking out for opportunities to further refine our software to meet the demands of the used car industry. We hope to see you there, and we hope you get as much out of this year’s NADA as we surely will.

How do you give your used car dealership the tools to be successful? With our ReconTRAC program, we believe we’ve found something that works. Our low-cost tracking and real-time reporting remove the mystery from your used car reconditioning process, allowing you to move more used cars through in a shorter time and maximizing the profitability of your used vehicles. Please, contact us at Green Cloud today to find out what ReconTRAC can do for your business.