MANA Manufacturer Seminar October 11-12, 2018

Best Practices With Reps, Planning With Intent

Your company’s decision to outsource field sales by teaming with manufacturers’ representatives has created many benefits such as cost savings and local market access. However, is this partnership maximizing the benefits for your company, you and all your manufacturers’ representatives? By developing a better understanding of your field sales force, how it functions, and techniques for better management, your sales team will become much more productive.

You’ll Learn:

• Sales and Marketing Tactics with Reps
• Leveraging Synergistic Products
• Selecting, Recruiting & Hiring the Rep
• Partnerships & Expectations
• Motivating Representatives
• Good Communication with Reps
• Planning, Pioneering & Performance
• Multi-line Conflicts

Who Should Attend?

• Small manufacturing businesses starting a rep sales force
• Manufacturers moving from a direct sales force to a rep sales force
• International manufacturers interested in developing a North American sales force
• Manufacturers needing to restructure their rep sales force
• Manufacturers who want quick access to new markets through reps

Online registration has closed.

To inquire about last-minute registrations, please contact:

Susan Strouse
Secretary/Treasurer, Accounting Manager
MANA
E-mail: sstrouse@manaonline.org
Direct line: (949) 600-6453

Schedule:

• Day 1 
  

  8:00		Breakfast
  8:30-12 noon		Seminar Program
  12:00-1:00 p.m.		Lunch
  1:00-4:00 p.m.		Seminar Program

• Day 2
  

  8:00		Breakfast
  8:30-12 noon		Seminar Program

Cost:

• MANA & Sister Association Members: $1,149
• Non-Members: $1,399

Location:

• Holiday Inn & Suites Chicago O’Hare – Rosemont, 10233 West Higgins Road Rosemont, Illinois 60018
• Sleeping room rates are discounted through 9/19/18 , but are subject to availability.
  Hotels sometimes sell out all their rooms. Even if you have not yet registered for the MANA seminar, we strongly recommend that you book your hotel room now and cancel if needed according to the hotel’s cancellation policy.
• Single King $159.00 + tax
• Guests should use one of the following two methods to book their guest rooms:
  1. Direct Link:
     Discount code will appear when you select:
     Arrival 10/10/18 or 10/11/18 and
     Departure 10/11/18 or 10/12/18
  2. Toll Free Reservation Line:
     Call 1-888-551-3843 and reference group code HBA

Seminar Instructors:

Henry P. Bergson has a 40 year career in the Electrical Industry as both a manufacturer and as the CEO of the National Electrical Manufacturers Representative Association (NEMRA). Hank currently works as a consultant, helping manufacturers enter the market place utilizing manufacturers’ representatives, providing expert witness testimony on rep matters and speaking about the value provided by going to market with manufacturers’ representatives. He was also one of the founders of Manufacturers’ Representatives Education Research Foundation (MRERF) and was honored by them for his contributions in 2008.

Kris Hefley has over 25 years of consulting experience working with manufacturers’ reps and manufacturers that utilize reps to go to market. He has worked with and taught seminars for the following rep associations: National Electrical Manufacturers Representative Association (NEMRA), Electronic Representatives Association (ERA), Manufacturers’ Agents for the Food Service Industry (MAFSI), Power-Motion Technology Representatives Association (PTRA) and the Manufacturers’ Representatives Education Research Foundation (MRERF). Kris is also an Associate Professor of Marketing at Johnson & Wales University in Denver where he specializes in B2B marketing and sales management.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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