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Top 10 Reasons to Attend Your HARDI Regional Meeting
- Not too far! Most distributors drive to Regional Meetings but at most it would usually be a very short flight.
- Less hectic! The Fall Conference is great for learning and listening, but it's impossible to get to know everyone there. The Regional Meetings are much more intimate where you can really meet people who wrestle with the same struggles as you in your market everyday.
- Regionally focused! Seems obvious, but it's important nonetheless. Distributors in the New England market have different issues than distributors in California. Come together with others in your Region to see what's happening and where your market is going.
- It's not all about you! Actually it is, but Regional Meetings offers value to others in your business too. Sales, purchasing, and often technical staffs come away with valuable training and education.
- Supplier relations and discovery! Regional Meetings are an excellent opportunity to see regional representatives (and many national representatives too). Regional Meetings are also an easy place to sit down with a supplier you don't know and learn about your next top-selling product.
- We call it "formal" and "informal" networking! While educational sessions and supplier mini-meetings are the backbone of Regional Meetings, there's also plenty of less-formal networking. Receptions, coffee breaks, sports outings, and dinners add valuable opportunities to exchange ideas with others in your region.
- You might be married to your best networker! Regional Meetings are extremely family-friendly. Spouses often kick off great business partnerships and friendships by meeting one another. For them, it may be a mini-vacation while for you it could be the most profitable excursion you'll ever take with your family.
- "Competitors" and "Congenial" CAN be in the same sentence! Just because you may battle for the same customers doesn't mean you don't have shared interests. Regional Meetings have provided competitors with great resources on local credit risks, local market trends, HR issues, and local contacts as friendships emerge to turn bitter rivals into two wholesale distributors fighting the good fight in the same market.
- It's all about getting better! Throughout the year you attend suppliers' distributor meetings that are focused on marketing strategies and new products or purchasing group meetings focused on, you guessed it, purchasing however there are precious few opportunities to focus solely on being a better distributor. Regional Meetings are two days out of your schedule that can pay dividends for your business for years.
- Wouldn't you rather know? OK, so all of your competitors and many of your suppliers are getting together in your back yard to focus on making distributors better. Can your business afford to be left out?
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