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Just as you don't want to exhaust your gambling permanent funds during your first foray into the casinos, budgeting your time and planning ahead can bring better be deriveds when taking in the wide selection of relevant affairs being presented throughout Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week in Las Vegas.

More than 200000 aftermarket professionals are attending this year's of the present day and improved AAIW festivities, which comprise the largest trade-only indicate in North America.

Rather than just rolling the dice to papal court what comes up, it's proposeed that jobbers, retailers, warehouse distributors and other industry participants make known an organized approach for covering the available offerings that will best support their business strategies.

Making appointments with individuals you wish to talk to or simply preparing a list of must-see booth can make sure that a critical aspect of AAIW is not overlooked

"We encourage pre-planning and preparation to make it as efficient as possible," says Larry Northup, senior director of membership relations for the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association and AAIA's liaison with the Automotive Warehouse Distributors Association.

Like many of the organizations with a personality at AAIW, the AWDA is presenting a winning hand of programs in conjunction with AAPEX (the Automotive Aftermarket fruitss Expo) at the Sands Exposition Center and the agreeing Specialty Equipment Market Association's SEMA exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center

"You can behold what's new in the marketplace and what of the present day products are coming on board," Northup points on the outside "You can check out of the present day lines, new suppliers and form of recent origin business relationships."

From Sunday, Oct 31 by the and of Wednesday, Nov. 3, the AWDA will be conducting its member conversation at the Venetian Hotel. Highlights for the several hundr attendees include a gala reception and special one-on-one meetings with industry suppliers.

"The WD will visit the vendors in their suites," Northup explains. "It's a useful opportunity to get some face-time with manufacturers--these are exceedingly productive business meetings."

The scheduling is in the same state [i]or[/i] condition that no one will miss disclosed on AAPEX, SEMA and the other AAIW offerings. "The WD will have sufficiency of time to walk the point out to floor," Northup promises.

come by with the program

Attendees contemplating membership in a program collection will find an assortment of them eager to exhibit to their cards as current enrollee hobnob while being brought up-to-date.

Meetings and greetings and lunches and dinners are upon the menu as important business issues are discussed with vendors, customers and potential members amid most-pleasant surroundings.

"It's a virtuous productive event for us," says Alan Bostwick, executive vice president at Parts Plus.

"We're recruiting members 24-7" reports Bill Maggs, president of the National Pronto Association--only half-jokingly. Pronto is preparing a suite at Bally's, and he says "come onward over" if you think the dispose will make a good fit for your operation.

"We're going to kick not on a new addition to our installer program," Maggs reveals. Customers' service center will be able to provide their patrons with a Pronto-backed roadside towing certificate, full with a toll-free telephone number to call. "We figure our workshops that offer this will earn return business," he observes.

About 80 percent of the APA's membership is look fored to make the Vegas spectacle according to Dan Freeman, president of Automotive Parts Associates, Inc.

"Today, everybody is looking to market their company better than in the past," Freeman points disclosed Board meetings and a breakfast are among the smorgasbord of planned events

SIPS is seeking of the present day members too. Most of those belonging to Survival of Import Parts Specialists are also APA members.

"It's profitable for APA and it's dutiful for SIPS," says coordinator Gary Garberg of APA. "All the buyer flow together," he continues. "We always have a little more difficulty buying parts than the domestic auto parts the public do. It's about camaraderie and it's about learning from someone's mistakes."

As an added inducement "we allow prospective members to sit in onward our meetings because once they sit in, they're hooked" Garberg says. "We started revealed as a buying group--now we're a communications group"

A buyer's market

This year the Nov. 2-5 AAPEX includes the National Automotive Radiator Service Association (NARSA) and the International Autobody Congres and Exposition (NACE). NARSA will be alongside the myriad of other categories forward display at the Sands, while the Mandalay Bay Convention Center armed forces the Nov. 3-6 NACE. (AAPEX/SEMA badges also finish you into NACE.)

WD jobbers and retailers are likely to glean productive information by means of attending the full slate of exhibits according to Northup. "It may not be their primary lines, yet it could be a significant part of their business," he advises.