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Rent-to-own News - TRIB Group 'Meeting of the Minds' concludes day two, show floor opens
Day two of the popular TRIB Group 'Meeting of the Minds' wrapped Tuesday with a focus on leadership, training and recruiting followed by a full blown buying show co-located with retail buying group BrandSource at Bally's Las Vegas.
This year's 'Meeting of the Minds' was TRIB's largest ever, attracting some 200 attendees representing 73 rental companies -- a 60 percent member company increase and a 90 percent attendee increase over last year's attendance figures.
Dealers flooded the buying show floor and 62 TRIB approved vendors later in the afternoon and TRIB Group President Lyn Leach said the buy show brought the "Meeting of the Minds' event to a new level of visibility to its members.
"The timing of this show is absolutely perfect because people are coming in with strong needs," Leach said. "Vendors are reporting excellent sales traffic. There are no tire kickers here; people are buying. The show has exposed a lot of people to the 'Meeting of the Minds' who haven't made it before."
Prior to the opening of the buying show, Trent Agin, David Keen and Mark Williams of Rent One led a provocative discussion of leadership, training, mentorship and recruiting with a special emphasis on managerial assessments.
"You hire someone for their skills, experience and aptitude, but you fire someone for their behaviors," said Rent One President Trent Agin. "So it really counts to take behavioral assessments into account."
The TRIB Group Hotshow, Monday, tallied upwards of $5 million in under two hours.
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2012 APRO Convention and Trade Show July 24-26, Memphis, TN
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RTOHQ: The Magazine
RTOHQ: The Magazine is the Association of Progressive Rental Organizations' award-winning rent-to-own industry magazine, and it's available here. | |||
 CLICK HERE FOR OUR DIGITAL RTOHQ: THE MAGAZINE
RTOHQ: The Magazine’s upgraded digital format APRO's new, mobile-ready magazine is now available in addition to our print edition. The digital format provides the same informative content as our printed magazine, but also offers tools to make the reading experience more enriching. Access the table of contents page with one click or tap. Get additional information from advertisers by clicking on the links in their ads. The interface is easy to navigate and requires no special app—read our magazine on your computer, digital table or smartphone. Click here to access the digital version of RTOHQ: The Magazine March-April 2012.
A New Rent-to-Own Experience by Neil Ferguson Here’s the lowdown on APRO’s 2012 Convention and Trade Show, July 24-26 in Memphis. The RTO industry’s big event will offer many valuable experiences, including insights on how to turn your stores into “experiences”–the good kind for consumers
Who Is Your Competition? by Bill Keese In order to expand your customer base, you can learn a lot by observing your competitors. But first, you need to figure out just who they are. If you think your only competition is the rent-to-own store down the street, you’re not considering the bigger picture. APRO’s executive director offers a big-picture perspective.
A Review of Online Customer Complaints by Ed Winn III While rent-to-own companies have not cornered the market on negative reviews posted on consumer complaint websites, it’s no surprise that there are cyberspace beefs against RTO. APRO’s general counsel reviews some of them in search of a pattern and he considers appropriate response to online complaints.
Rent-to-Own Families, Part VIII by Kristen Card Our series of family-run rent-to-own businesses continues with profiles of the Homeiers in Kansas and two Texas-based sets of kindred colleagues, the Spangles and the Weisblatts.
Future issues of APRO's magazine will be available in this same new format. Click here to access past issues that are not yet archived in the new interface.
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