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Association Highlights Are You Using Your Key Member Benefits? A s FEDA's 80th Anniversary Year comes to a close, I hope you have enjoyed each issue of FEDA News & Views magazine. Our goal is to be exclusively focused on what matters most to foodservice equipment and supplies dealers. As you prepare for 2014, consider these FEDA membership benefits and how they can help your business. Ray Herrick Executive Vice President ray@feda.com The 2014 FEDA Convention It's the people you meet and the relationships you build that make the FEDA Convention a great investment. Plan to attend and network with fellow dealers and key manufacturers March 26 -30, 2014, at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, Calif. Check out pages 21-22 in this issue for more details. The AutoQuotes/FEDA Advantage Are you using all your special FEDA "Members Only" features for AutoQuotes? FEDA members can export AutoQuotes product data (total of 400,000 products) and use this data to update inventory prices or company web catalogs. The export includes model numbers, specifications, list prices, physical data (weights, dimensions), pack sizes and brand names. FEDA members can also export the entire database of color pictures. There are single shots and group shots for 321,000 products, a great addition for web catalogs and point of sale systems, plus 248,000 exportable spec sheets / cut sheets. FEDA supports AutoQuotes and deems this to be an important technological tool for the dealer community and the industry as a whole. 8 FEDA News & Views News & Views Digitial Edition If you are the key contact for your FEDA dealership, are you passing on the electronic version of FEDA News & Views magazine? Pass it along to your key staff, including sales managers, salespeople, and branch managers. It's a wealth of industry information for foodservice equipment professionals. Convenient Sales Training FEDA sales training webinars will be offered three times in 2014. Watch for dates, topics and other details in "FEDA First Thing" newsletter each week. Additionally, visit feda.com in the "Members Only" section for more sales training and product education for those new to the industry. Your Dealer Advocate for the Interior Design Issue We will keep you informed state by state on FEDA's fight to protect the rights of dealers from the threat of Interior design licensing. Please consider a voluntary contribution to support the Interior Designer Protection Council when you pay your 2014 FEDA membership dues. Need more information on how FEDA can help you? Contact me by phone at 800-677-9605 or email. A Powerful Thought on Persistence... "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." -Calvin Coolidge