From Survival to Strength: Owner & Manager-Level Education at KnowledgeFest 2026
These workshops are not about tactics in isolation.
It is about building a business that works without constant crisis management—one that is profitable, solvent, scalable, and valuable over time.
Every workshop addresses a different pressure point that holds retailers back: cash flow, inventory drag, weak systems, inconsistent leadership, poor hiring, unfocused marketing, and growth without discipline.
Taken together, these workshops form a complete operating framework for modern mobile electronics retailers.
At KnowledgeFest Las Vegas you’ll gain real, actionable strategies from industry experts to help you scale, streamline, and succeed.
Top Reasons to Attend the Owner & Manager Workshops:
🔥 What You’ll Learn (Click on the title for more information):
✅ Profit-First Buying: A Blueprint for Smarter Inventory and Bigger Margins – Learn from Kimberly Trainer from Car-Tunes, Inc. how to Maximize your profit before the sale even happens.
✅ The Real Road to the Top: Lessons from the 2025 Mobile Electronics Retailer of the Year – Traffic Jams Motorsports of Buford, GA—your 2025 Mobile Electronics Retailer of the Year—pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to reach the top tier of the 12-volt industry.
✅ Financial Solvency: Preparing Your Business for a Real-Value Sale – Keith McCumber – Soundsgood Auto presents financial solvency as the backbone of long-term stability and the key to building a business that holds real, measurable value.
✅ From Posts to Profits: How to Turn Everyday Shop Moments into Storytelling That Sells – Kaitlyn Young of Social Media Doctor will help you learn how to turn daily installs, customer hand-offs, and behind-the-scenes moments into stories that attract high-value clients and build long-term trust.
✅ The Business Growth Blueprint: From Solo Operator to Sustainable Enterprise – Join Conrad Leduc of Sudbury Car Audio and Keith McCumber of SoundsGood Audio as they share their journeys from one-man operations to thriving, self-sustaining businesses.
✅ 13 Reasons Why (Business) Failure Occurs – Kevin Hallinan of WINNING, Inc. will help you will learn why people and business owners fail, and what it takes to be a winner!
✅ Building the Dream Team: Hiring and Leading a High-Performance Car Audio Crew – John Mueller, Owner & CEO and Angel Rivera, Partner & Installation Manager of Laketown Speed and Sound will let you walk away with actionable strategies you can start using immediately to recruit better, lead better, and build the kind of shop culture that drives performance—and profit!
This track takes a hard look at the real drivers of success in today’s mobile electronics retail environment—how profit is created before the sale, how elite retailers actually operate day to day, why solvency matters more than revenue, and how leadership and culture quietly determine everything else. It replaces guesswork with discipline and short-term thinking with long-term value creation.
You’ll hear directly from retailers who have earned top industry recognition, operators who scaled from one-man shops to sustainable enterprises, and leaders who understand that people, process, and financial control are inseparable. The goal is not motivation—it’s clarity. Clearer decisions. Clearer systems. Clearer paths to growth.
If you want a business that is resilient, sellable, and capable of supporting both your team and your future, this track delivers the frameworks to get there.
Experience a Focused Three-day Event with Free Member Lunches, Top-level Education Workshops, Great Vendor Trainings, and the Best Deals from some of Your Favorite Suppliers.
