DCTC AMA Club Minutes and Upcoming Events – DCTC Marketing & Sales Training

Today’s News: Meeting today, Mon., Jan 23rd at 11 a.m. in room 2-511.

We’ll discuss the following:

– AMA Meeting Minutes from 1/12/17

– Announcements for AMA Twin Cities (MN) Chapter:

Event 1:

The Future of Marketing: Automation –Date: Tuesday, Jan 24, 2017 Time: 7:30AM – 9:30AM Location James J. Hill Center, Reading Room 80 West Fourth Street, St. Paul, MN 55102. See http://www.mnama.org/events/the-future-of-marketing-automation.html for more details. ($5 for student members)

Event 2: Make Your Current or Future Job Search Work for You – Date and Time Date: Tuesday, Jan 31, 2017 – Time: 5:45PM – 8:30PM – –Location: Mozza Mia, 3910 W 50th St., Edina, MN 55424 (FREE TO STUDENT MEMBERS) http://www.mnama.org/events/make-your-job-search-work-for-you.html

Event 3: 5th Annual Ad Bowl – Date and Time – Date: Monday, Feb 6, 2017 – Time: 5:30PM – 8:00PM – Location: Carmichael Lynch 110 North Fifth Street, Minneapolis, MN 55403 (FREE FOR STUDENT MEBMERS)

1.Free Pizza Webinar: Monday, February 6th at 11:30 a.m. Room TBA

2. Collegiate Conference (New Orleans). We received notification on Wed., January 11, 2017 that we will not be able to attend the conference in March but Student Senate is willing to look at more local conferences. Possibilities discussed:

3. Alternative

a. Social Media Marketing Conference in Bloomington on March 8^th.

4. Feed My Starving Children – See possible dates this month or next. Let me know which dates work best for your schedule.

5. Fundraising – Need officer

6. Need officers for following positions:

– Fundraising

– Communications

– Treasurer

– Civic Engagement

Let me know if you would like to nominate yourself or another person for a DCTC AMA officer position: Carie Statz, DCTC AMA Club Advisor – carie.statz@dctc.edu

Carie Statz

Carie Statz is a marketing and sales instructor. She began teaching at DCTC in 1998. Carie is pursuing her doctorate in business administration (DBA), has a master's degree in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has a bachelor's degree in from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where she minored in Spanish and majored in mass communications with an emphasis on advertising and public relations. At the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico, she pursued general studies in Spanish and anthropology. She also attended the Grantsmanship Training Program at Marquette University. Carie continues her education through software upgrades and Web applications. She also attends seminars, courses, and conferences covering new trends in marketing and graphic design. Her nonprofit marketing experience includes supervisory positions at DCTC, UWM, and the Community Action Program of Janesville, Wisconsin. Her for-profit experience includes work for Walt Disney World, Oscar Mayer Foods, and TCF Bank of Wisconsin. Carie published "How the News Media Affects the Public's Perception of Crime" as her thesis. In 2003 and 2007, Carie was nominated as "DCTC Instructor of the Year." As DCTC's marketing director, she won several awards for marketing materials, including radio and television commercials as well as viewbooks and catalogs. In 2003, she won the Silver IABC Award for designing the college's 2002-2003 viewbook. Regarding her teaching philosophy, Carie strives to "bring the real world into the classroom as much as possible so students are prepared for work upon graduation." The best part of her job as a DCTC instructor is hearing from internship supervisors about how they would rather hire a prepared student from DCTC than another student from a four-year college. Carie is a member of the American Marketing Association and does volunteer work for Treasurers of the Heart and Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity.

Carie Statz

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