RVDA Convention/Expo Committee Seeks Workshop Submissions for 2025

March 13, 2025

Submission Deadline: April 18, 2025

(Fairfax, VA) /OUTDOOR SPORTSWIRE/ – RVDA’s Convention/Expo Committee is seeking workshop proposals for the 2025 RV Dealers Convention/Expo, Nov. 10-14 at Paris Las Vegas. The committee-selected workshops will be held Tuesday, Nov. 11 through Thursday, Nov. 13. 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:

Dealer/GM

•  Successful management structures for multi-location dealerships
•  Using artificial intelligence (AI) effectively in the dealership
•  Developing managers and future leaders
•  Understanding and acting on key dealership performance indicators
•  Finding and keeping top performers
•  Staying on top of government regulations, e.g., FTC, OSHA, etc.
•  Culture: Business conduct and ethics
•  Succession planning (passing the torch)
•  Sourcing preowned units
•  Cybersecurity and preventing fraud

Fixed Operations (Parts, Warranty and Service)

o What are the strategies and tactics top performing service departments employ to improve RECT?

•  Best practices to elevate service to industry-leading standards
•  Parts & accessories – winning strategies for competing with Internet-based companies
•  Innovative training practices: what top performing companies do differently to retain talent
•  Enhancing customer experience

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
•  Back to basics selling
•  Selling to and managing expectations of first-time buyers
•  Setting up and running a business development center (BDC)

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 2025 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 18, 2025.

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.