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2009 AMA Symposium Call for Papers

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 The American Marketing Association Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education  features over 30 general lecture sessions and practitioners from a variety of higher education disciplines are invited to submit speaking/paper proposals.

 

The 2009 AMA Symposium is looking for proposals/papers that report on new and innovative strategies and tactics in higher education marketing. Popular topics include including image and brand building, buzz/viral marketing, marketing research, internal marketing, electronic marketing, new marketing channels, emerging markets and trends, marketing organizational structure, marketing budgeting, web metrics, and marketing ROI. We are not looking for "case studies," per se. Paper proposals should focus on specific successes and strive to provide detailed how-to content that Symposium participants can apply at their own institutions.

Proposals/papers are welcome from two-year colleges, four-year colleges and universities, and graduate, professional, and specialized schools. Final selected authors will have their works published in an AMA professional proceedings journal and are required to present their best work at the conference, whether applied or methodological in orientation.  If accepted, one presenter per session will receive a complimentary registration to the conference.

An electronic copy of the submission form and abstract must be emailed to AMA by Friday, April 3, 2009.

Find out more about the 2009 AMA Symposium and how to submit speaking/paper proposals.

AMA Blog: Millennials Go to College

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Everyone was buzzing after Neil Howe's presentation on Tuesday about Millennials... he was a wonderful speaker and gave great insight into a grouping as vast as my co-workers, incoming freshmen, and my 7-year-old.

Here are the personality traits he attributed to Millennials:
  • Special
  • Sheltered
  • Confident
  • Team-oriented
  • Conventional
  • Pressured
  • Achieving
Don't forget to "prepare for students who expect to be treated as VIPs; exploit and leverage those expectations."  As for dealing with their Gen X parents... he suggests "channel[ing] the energy of their parents, don't block it."  

AMA Blog: Monday Highlights

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Okay, okay.  I know it is Wednesday and I'm just now posting about Monday's AMA sessions, but anyone who has attended the AMA knows that you run from session to session and then collapse.  Sooo... I'm finally going to piggy-back on Elizabeth's comments from Monday.

Elizabeth mentioned Karen Breen Vogel's talk entitled, "Continuously Improve Business Results from the Web." She gave a couple of comments that I feel you need to hear:

  • Marketing people talk about activities and how busy they are--financial people don't care.  Instead talk their language to them-- use ROI.
  • Definitions are absolutely critical--don't call results things that they aren't.  Everyone needs to have the same definition.
  • Purpose and function of a website:
    • It's not about driving traffic, it's about driving the right traffic, engaging your visitors, achieving business value for you and your customers. 
    •  It's about relationships.  Its like a consultative sales call triggered and controlled by the buyer.
Sage advice, huh??

--Teresa

Blogging from AMA

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Elizabeth, Tom, Dana, Meredith, Emily and I are attending the American Marketing Association's Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education today (November 17th) through Wednesday.  We will be blogging from Chicago to tell you about speakers, friends we see, and gold medal winners in the SimpsonScarborough Wii Olympics!!

Stay tuned!

AMA Symposium Planning in High Gear

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The 2008 AMA Symposium Steering Committee met last Friday in Chicago to work on the content for the program. (Shout out to my fellow committee members!)  We have three of our five keynoter sessions filled. On Monday morning, we will hear from Larry Weber, founder of the world's largest PR firm, Weber Shandwick. Larry ultimately left to become a pioneer in the digital world. And, his second book Marketing to the Social Web, is currently on the Amazon.com bestseller list. On Tuesday morning, we'll get an earful from Neil Howe, author of Millennials Go to College, the 2nd edition. It contains tons of new data and some scary messages.  (Did you know that helicopter parents are turning into stealth fighters?) Andy Goodman, founder of the American Comedy Network and author of Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes will talk with us on Wednesday morning about "Storytelling as Best Practice." We are working with our targets for the other two keynotes.  I'll update you when we have them confirmed.

--Elizabeth Scarborough