Last week, MD Manufacturing successfully completed its first-ever webinar training session: How to make an Awesome Sales Pitch! The excitement about this new training vehicle has been building among MD staff for quite some time. After months of research and planning about how to best conduct these online seminars in order to best educate our dealers, MD finally rolled out its very first webinar. We were able to connect with dozens of our dealers who were very pleased with this excellent new training vehicle. The session was an attractive accomplishment and we are very excited about the opportunity we will have in the future of hosting these webinars to train MD dealers on a regular basis, beginning in the early part of 2007.

Today’s session was loaded with important information in the sales arena, some excellent dealer interaction mixed with Grant’s jokes and just a lot of plain fun. It was an all-around enjoyable time for the MD leadership team, MD staff, and MD’s dealers. Grant’s enthusiasm and experience led the way during the presentation. He was accompanied the expert detail and precision of Mike Kretsinger (Vice President of Employment Development) along with the clarity and comprehensive data that Andrew Bransby (Web Designer and Director of E-Commerce) served to deliver. This amazing team of guys, along with our attendee dealers, made the entire event a remarkable time!

Since this was MD’s first-ever webinar, there was not enough time to go through all of the information for the complete “How to Make an Awesome Sales Pitch” presentation. The goal of last week’s webinar was mainly to experience the capabilities of the webinar software, connect with our dealers, and determine if this kind of communication is helpful for educating our dealers. After going through the webinar and receiving dealer feedback on the format, we are convinced that this is one of the best vehicles available for communicating with our dealers on a regular basis. We are currently looking for ways to improve this venue, and would love to receive as much dealer feedback as possible to ensure that this new format for training continues to be a great success. At the end of the session, we included a brief survey for our dealers to quantify the webinar’s usefulness. Every single participant expressed that they will likely be returning the next time we offer a similar session! And our dealers also indicated that the information was relevant and would be put to immediate use. .

If you are one of our dealers who attended our webinar, thank you so much for attending and making it a great success. We will be sure to let you know how we plan to organize and conduct this MD dealer webinar track at the beginning of 2007, which will allow us to compile a progressively growing library of webinar media content that will serve our dealers for years to come as we strive to give them the best tools possible to make them most successful in their businesses.