The 6th Annual American Marketing Association’s Western Regional Conference is Here!
Hello AMA’ers! Please join us for the 6th Annual American Marketing Association’s Western Regional Conference sponsored by the UNLV AMA Chapter, Friday - January 25th and Saturday - January 26th, 2019
Total number of spots is limited, so sign up today.
4 Big Benefits for your AMA Chapter:
1. This conference is a perfect warm up for the upcoming American Marketing Association’s International Collegiate Conference.
2. It is a value-added team building interactive event that you can offer to your members.
3. It is one more event for you to include on your Annual Report.
4. This is great chance to learn form and compete against some of the American Marketing Association’s most successful chapters
5. And it’s free for AMA Chapters.
Market Ambitiously!
Eight Great networking opportunities – Your chapter can sign up for any or all of the activities
Friday – Optional
The UNLV Western Regional AMA Conference Sales Competition - Sales Competition offers the opportunity for students to sharpen their sales skills in a highly competitive environment and provides a venue to network with business professionals, peers and, sales faculty. The sales completion is held as a two round event. Below is a description of the two rounds. To be held, January 25th FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Saturday
The UNLV AMA Marketing Chapter Feud. A fun competition designed after the popular game show, Family Feud. Your team of 1-4 members will be asked a series of marketing related question for which your team will need to determine the most popular answers.
The UNLV AMA Marketing Strategy Competition (similar format as the Marketing Strategy competition held at the AMA International Collegiate Conference), using digital technology. It is a great warm up for teams headed to the conference, and great opportunity to participate for those students not in the national competition.
The UNLV AMA Marketing Analytics/Math Competition designed to test your team’s skills to analyze marketing data.
Branding Competition - A Strategy based competition that is designed to allow students to combine their Marketing, analytic, and creative skills to reposition a current brand or create a new brand for an existing company. Your team of 4-6 members will be required to use existing marketing and competitive data to identify and design the best branding strategy for a company.
Perfect Pitch (similar format as the Perfect Pitch competition held at the AMA International Collegiate Conference), using digital technology. It is a great warm up for teams headed to the conference, and great opportunity to participate for those students not in the national competition.
Forecasting Competition – you will be given the data on a local company that needs your help in forecasting ridership and sales.
AMA Trivia Quiz – This is a fun marketing and business trivia contest for students. The skills are similar to those needed for “Trivial Pursuit” and “Jeopardy.” This competition is always great fun.
For more information, contact UNLV AMA President Demetri Philippou at philippo@unlv.nevada.edu or Faculty advisor - Jack Schibrowsky at John.schibrowsky@unlv.edu 702.769.4476 (cell). We hope to see you all there!
General Meeting w/ Guest Speaker
Hello,
Join us at our next general meeting! All students and majors are welcome to join. We will be accepting new member applications. If you cannot make the meeting, please let us know and we will let you know what we covered.
Our guest speaker for this week is Mark Sundermeier. Mark is an experienced analyst who is the Senior Marketing Analyst for the Measurement and Insights Department at R&R Partners. While at R&R, Mark has worked to provide measurement insights to a wide variety of clients, including the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority, Western Digital, the Arizona Public Service Company, the State of Utah’s anti-tobacco campaign, Intermountain Healthcare, and many more.
When: Wednesday, April 11th at 5:30pm
Where: BEH 124
General Meeting With Guest Speaker!
Hello AMAers,
Join us at our next general meeting of the semester! Please note that our meeting will not be held in the SU, but instead we will be holding our meeting in BEH.
We will be hosting Darrel Evans, from Yokel Local, as our guest speaker. As an entrepreneur for over 20 years, Darrell has a background of success in multiple industries in sales and marketing. He now leads digital strategy for the company and its clients in the areas of online lead generation and conversion. Yokel Local is a rising inbound marketing agency focused in turning data into valuable business insights.
When: Monday, February 5th at 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Where: BEH 127