On Wednesday, July 27, 2011, President and Dealer, John Miller, of Ellicott City dealership, Miller Brothers Chevrolet Cadillac, Inc., presented a check for $12,000 to Mayur Narayan, MD, MPH, MBA, Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Medical Director of the Center for Injury Prevention & Policy at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center. Maryland Automobile Dealers Association President, John P. Kitzmiller, attended on behalf of all of Maryland's franchised new car and truck dealers. Also in attendance to represent the Center for Injury Prevention and Policy were Tara Reed Carlson, RN, MSN; Alyson Schuster, RN; Joshua Ayres; and Cynthia Rivers.  

Representatives from MADA and Shock Trauma met for the official donation.

Maryland's franchised new car and truck dealers have a long history of supporting the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center. Over the last 10 years, the Association has donated over $400,000 on behalf of its members. The funds donated today will sponsor the mission of the Center, which is to provide education and awareness of high risk behaviors that often lead to traumatic injuries. The primary goal of the Center is to decrease preventable injury and death. The Shock Trauma Center is a multidisciplinary clinical, educational and research institution dedicated to world class standards in the prevention and management of critical injury and illness and its consequences.

The University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center treats 8,000 of the region's most severely injured and critically ill people each year, 97 percent of whom survive. It's where the concept of the Golden Hour originated, and where the U.S. military sends its doctors, nurses and special operations medics to be trained before they deploy.

Coming next week - August 11, 2011 at 1 p.m.

Selling More Cars on eBay Motors - The Advanced Course

Presenter: Clayton Stanfield, Manager of Dealer Training - eBay Motors

Find out how experienced & successful eBay-savvy dealers are leveraging their eBay know-how to achieve even greater success.

This DealersEdge Webinar Workshop is designed for dealers and managers who want to improve their performance on the eBay Motors online sales channel. If you are ready to find out how very successful dealers are becoming "Top Sellers" on eBay Motors, then register now for Thursday, August 11.

Even if you are new to eBay Motors marketing, there is much you can learn by spending 60+ minutes with Clayton Stanfield.

Partial list of topics included...

•  Tips for increasing your closing percentages
•  How to create world-class online listings that result in detailed page-views and more inquiries
• What phone skills you should learn and teach to maximize the results from your eBay listings and leads.
• How some advanced pricing techniques can help you position your vehicles for the best gross while still increasing your inventory turns.
• Common best practices from the best sellers on eBay Motors

To register and create your DealersEdge account, please visit MADA's personal website .

MADA will host our annual Golf Outing and Crab Feast at Queenstown Harbor on the Eastern Shore on Wednesday, September 14, 2011.  

Registration forms were sent out last week and can also be downloaded from our website. Please send in yours today to reserve your spot on the course! We'll see you in September!

NADA recently confirmed that MADA Member, Tamara Darvish of DARCARS, was elected to a second three year term on its Board of Directors to commence in February, 2012 at the NADA Convention in Las Vegas. She has represented dealers in the Metropolitan Washington Director District for NADA since 2009, a turbulent time in the automobile industry by any measure.

Metropolitan Washington is one of the 58 "state" seats on the national dealer board that are supplemented by four at-large seats and a seat for truck dealers resulting in a 63 member governing body at NADA. By design, the Metropolitan Washington director works closely with the dealer directors representing Maryland and Virginia, which are, respectively, David Williams of Anchor Buick-GMC, in Cecil County and Mike Martin of Dudley Martin Chevrolet in Manassas.

Congratulations are due to Tammy on this distinctive honor and we thank her for her continued support of our industry. 

Registration for the 2012 NADA and ATD Convention and Expo, Feb. 3-6 in Las Vegas, is now open online. The 2012 convention will mark the first time the NADA and ATD conventions will be held together. Dealers are urged to register early to take advantage of discounted pricing and reduced hotel rates. Please Click Here to register.

In our last issue of On the Move, we thanked Clear Channel Radio in Baltimore for their generous support of our dealer members. In the coming weeks, Clear Channel will air free commercials with the tagline, ''Did you know that it's a great time to purchase a new car'', the goal of which is to educate potential buyers by opening their eyes to previously unrealized advantages of purchasing a new vehicle. We mistakenly reported that the spots will run only on WQSR. In actuality, the free spots will air on WPOC, WQSR (JACK-FM), WZFT (Z104.3) & WCAO (Heaven 600).