How to Navigate the Online Jungle

NOTE: NEW LOCATION (Atlantis), NEW RSVP CUT-OFF DATE (Friday) and SPECIAL SUMMER PRICING ($20 with RSVP).

Connect with me on LinkedIn, Find me on Facebook, Follow me on Twitter! Everyone is talking about new media and social media. Even President Obama has a LinkedIn page. But how do we use social media to form profitable business connections?

Professor Felts will explore tactics for building a new media network that really works for developing your brand and online presence. Find out how to increase your online visibility through keywords, optimization and links to expand your network of customers, clients and referral sources. Learn how to navigate what appears to be a jungle, by creating a new media marketing strategy that works for YOU.

Todd Felts, MALS, is an assistant professor of integrated marketing communications in the Reynolds School of Journalism at UNR, Reno. Felts also consults with businesses across the U.S. on traditional and online public relations and advertising strategy. A much sought after speaker on issues involving social marketing, Felts authors marketing articles published in national trade publications.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Atlantis
Networking: 11:30 AM - Noon
Lunch: Noon - 1:00 PM
RSVP by 12pm on Friday,  July 11, 2009

Cost
$20 - People with RSVP
$40 - Everyone Without RSVP (Seating is on a space-available, first-come, first-serve basis)
$10 - Students with RSVP

A Slammin’ Summer Price
The AMA has made some positive changes in the past few months, and we’re passing the savings onto you!
Now introducing this summer’s new pricing for our “How to” Marketing Series:

Join us for our next luncheon:

The Recession Tool Kit for Marketers:
It’s Time to Get Your Hands Dirty… in a Very Smart Way

You’ve heard all the comments about marketing in a recession…

And you probably went…

Your “How To” Recession Tool Kit.
In this session, you’ll hear, experience and walk away with tools that you can use immediately to assess, re-tool and amp up your marketing efforts (notice we didn’t say ramp up).  Find out how to stay calm, think smart – what to do and “How To” market like crazy without going crazy.

Stephanie Kruse of KPS|3 Marketing, a marketing and communications strategist with 25 years of experience, will lead the audience through a hands-on, interactive session that will provide participants with a few ah-hah moments.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Harrah’s Convention Center
Networking: 11:30 AM - Noon
Lunch: Noon - 1:00 PM

RSVP by 12pm on Monday, June 15, 2009
* The AMA bills RSVP’d no-shows unless you cancel at least 48 hours before the event, so we have time to cancel your meal.

Marketer of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement Award

The 2009 ACE Awards Gala will be here soon, and the Reno-Tahoe American Marketing Association is seeking nominations for Marketer of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement Award. To nominate someone, please email the following information to David Zybert at dzybert(at)gmail(dot)com.

Marketer of the Year
1. Name
2. Title
3. Organization
4. Three significant contributions to the advancement of the marketing profession

Lifetime Achievement Award
1. Name
2. Title
3. Organization
4. A brief description of this person’s body of work and why they deserve this award