The bases are loaded. Here comes the pitch.
It’s the biggest thing to happen to downtown Reno since Bill Harrah opened his bingo parlor. Last September, the Reno City Council inked a deal with SK Baseball and Nevada Land LLC to build a 10,000-seat AAA baseball stadium and move the Tucson Sidewinders to Northern Nevada in 2009.
The new stadium will be located along the Truckee River at the historic Freight House site, right in the heart of Downtown Reno. They’re building it – but how will they draw the fans to fill those seats?
In this month’s fast-paced pitch from SK Baseball, you’ll hear about:

* The ins and outs of a successful product launch.
* Scoring a brand home run.
* Hitting it out of the park with today’s fickle fans
* Using promotions to load up the bases.

Our Speaker
Brett McGinness heads up marketing for SK Baseball LLC, the organization bringing Triple-A baseball to downtown Reno.

Brett spent seven years with the San Francisco Giants in consumer marketing research, sponsorship and promotions.  He planned the Giants’ 10,000th franchise victory celebration, developed single-game attendance prediction metrics and created the team’s first partial-season ticket packages.  As an intern in 2001, he served coffee to Willie Mays, and has the partially-chewed swizzle stick to prove it.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Harrah’s Convention Center
Networking: 11:30 AM - Noon
Lunch: Noon - 1:00 PM

Cost
$20 - AMA Members with RSVP
$30 - Non-Members with RSVP
$40 - Without RSVP (Seating is on a space-available, first-come, first-serve basis)
$10 - Students with RSVP

RSVP online by Monday, June 16 at 2:00pm

Rise from the ashes of the hum-drum workload and express your creativity in Art Slaves 2008.

It is an “anything goes” kind of show — painting, sculpture, mixed medium, ceramics, photography, music, audio/video, written word, performance art — traditional, experimental and the unheard of.

Art Slaves Show and Sale will be hosted by our friends at The Montage Sales Gallery for the entire month of July during Artown.

Deadline for entries is June 27 and the entry fee is $25.00.

Art Slaves is an official Artown event.

COMING IN JULY!

As a marketing executive, you play a crucial role in enabling sales success! Sales 2.0 will give you both the practical tips and strategic insights you need to help your sales & marketing organization work faster and smarter.

What is Sales 2.0? It’s integrating the power of Web 2.0 technologies and customer-community focus with proven sales techniques to grow your business.

This program demonstrates how to combine next-generation Web technologies such as web conferencing, social networking, prospect databases and web site monitoring with innovative sales processes to dramatically improve sales results.

Attendees will learn how  to:

·         Choose a suite of success tools for Sales & Marketing 2.0

·         Integrate sales & marketing on-line and relationship selling

·         Use social networks – newest concepts in online lead sourcing and nurturing

About Our Speaker

Dana VanDen Heuvel is a consultant focused on creating cost-effective breakthrough digital marketing strategies that engage customers and increase sales. Prior to forming VanDen Heuvel Executives, Dana was the Director of Business Development at Pheedo, Inc., an RSS and weblog marketing solutions provider, producing successful integrated RSS marketing campaigns.

Dana is a widely recognized expert on blogging, podcasting, RSS, Internet communities and interactive marketing trends and best practices and speaks regularly on these topics at industry events. Dana’s ruminations on Internet marketing and a wide range of other topics can be found on his blog at www.danavan.net.