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2008

Monthly Luncheons

Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Creating Miraculous Results: Doing Well by Doing Good
“Yo Pal” Hal Elrod, co-founder, Global Empowerment Coaching, international speaker and best-selling author

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Marketing Blueprints:
Replacing disconnected tactics with integrated campaigns

Mike Gospe, Marketing Strategist and Author, KickStart Alliance

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Strategic Partnerships:
Joining Forces to Extend Your Reach, Resources and Return

Bruce Gerth, Marketing Partnerships, Sacramento Municipal Utility District

Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Effective Online Marketing: Developing and Deploying Your e-Tools Arsenal
Stephanie Chandler, e-business owner, author and “infopreneur”

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Special Events

Wednesday, March 05, 2008
The Workplace in 2015: Trends that Shape the Corporate Future
AMASV's first CMO-only SIG (Chief Marketing Officer-only Special Interest Group)

Kevin Wheeler, Global Learning Resources

2007

Monthly Luncheons

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Enterprise Instant Messaging: The Next Best Thing Since Email
Jason Frankel, CEO, Coversant, Inc.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Is Your Business Inviting Identity Thieves to a Free Lunch?
Joanne McNabb, Chief, California Office of Privacy Protection

Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Branding in an Unbranded World
Dr. Kirthi Kalyanam, Author & Consultant

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Strategic Marketing Plan in 60 Minutes
John E. Johnson, CEO & Co-Author, 60 Minute Strategic Plan, Inc.
Anne Marie Smith, President & Co-Author, 60 Minute Strategic Plan, Inc.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Marketing to Sports Fans From Driveway to Driveway
Andy Dolich, President, Business Operations, Memphis Grizzlies

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Building a Powerful Prospecting Engine™:
Turning Inquiries Into Sales

Barry Lieberman, President, Advantage Plus Marketing Group

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Successful E-Mail Marketing: Producing Impact, Sales and ROI

Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Speed Marketing: Focusing on the Road Ahead

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Taking Credit for the Wealth We Create
James W. Obermayer, Principal, Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Marketing and Philanthropy: A Good Match
Charles Ansbach, President, Ansbach & Associates

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
“Follow the Money”
Measuring Your Way to Boardroom Respect

Gordon Hochhalter and Bob Goranson, Partners, Mobium Creative Group

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Flying High In the Wake of Brand Crisis: The JetBlue Story
Bonus: Win a free flight!

Jace Hieda, Western Region Sales Coordinator, JetBlue Airways

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Advanced Seminars

Thursday, April 26, 2007
Legal do's and don'ts for internet marketers

Friday, October 12, 2007
Brand and Get Rich: Strategies for Changing Perception Into Profits

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Special Events

Thursday, March 08, 2007
2007 Dottie Awards

Thursday, May 31, 2007
Night Out at Raley Field

2006

Monthly Luncheons

Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Effectiveness of Mixed Media vs. Single Media Advertising Campaigns
Sean Clark, Senior Vice President of National Marketing Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB)

Thursday, February 09, 2006
An AMASV Profile in Marketing Excellence
Secrets of a Serial Entrepreneur: How to Go from Idea to Reality

Trong Nguyen, Co-Founder of World of Good Tastes, Co-Founder of La Bou Bakeries & Cafés

Wednesday, March 08, 2006
The On-Demand Marketer's Guide to the True ROI of Interactive Media
Jim Bonfield, Founder, EyeballFarm Interactive Media
Jeff Tarbell, President, ATM Mortgage and Host of Talkin' Money on KHTK

Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Marketing Intangibles:
Service Marketing Challenges & Insights

Merilee Marsh, Marketing Consultant, Professional Speaker

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Behind the Scenes:
Reinventing the Corporate Identity of Sacramento’s Largest Law Firm

Joy Baltaxe, Marketing Director, Downey Brand

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Waiting for Your Cat to Bark:
Persuading Customers When They Don't Respond to Traditional Marketing

Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg, Co-Founders, Future Now, Inc.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006
New Internet? I'm Still Figuring Out How to Harness the Old One!
geof lambert, Chairman, California IPv6 Task Force (The New Internet)

Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Speed Marketing: A Catalyst of Synergy and Success
Facilitated by Merilee Marsh

Wednesday, September 13, 2006
The Ten Commandments of Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Gary Stein, Director of Strategy, AMMO Marketing

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The Risk Factor:
Nurturing On-Demand Creativity in the Midst of Change

Molly Stuart, Director, Greater Sacramento Small Business Development Center

Wednesday, November 08, 2006
2006 CEO Marketers’ Forum:
Innovations in Marketing

Moderated by Dan Kennedy, Author & Publisher, Sacramento Business Journal

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Are You Zagging or Lagging?
Marty Neumeier, President of Neutron

Author of ZAG: The #1 Discipline of High-Performance Brands

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Advanced Seminars

Tuesday, June 06, 2006
10 Success Factors that will Transform Your Company’s Email Strategy from Good to Great
Joel Book, Director of eMarketing Strategy, ExactTarget

2005

Monthly Luncheons

Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Perspectives on the Road to Recovery:
Trends in the Sacramento Region and Beyond

Ken Kuchman, Vice President, PKF Consulting

Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Focus on Focus Groups:
The Who, What, Why, Where and How

Hugh Miller, Opinions of Sacramento;
Ellen Schaefer, Group Works
Joyce Snell, Snell Associates
Jennifer Franz, JD Franz Research, Inc
Charlie Weiss, CPR, Moderator

Wednesday, March 09, 2005
The Marketing of Thomas Kinkade
Terry Sheppard, Owner Storyteller Productions; formerly VP of Media Arts

Wednesday, April 13, 2005
I Can't Get No (Customer) Satisfaction
Tom Jas, Research and Evaluation, SMUD

Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Draft 1: How to succeed in business without really trying.
Draft 2: How to succeed in marketing without really trying.

Perfect: How to succeed in marketing without really crying!
Scot Crocker, President, CEO, Crocker/Flanagan

Wednesday, June 08, 2005
If You Build It, They Will Come ... But Only If It Is Excellent!
Jane Hill, Executive Director, Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra;
Rod Gideons, Executive Director, Sacramento Opera
Kerri Warner, Executive Director, Sacramento Ballet
Buck Busfield, Producing Artistic Director, B Street Theatre
Moderated by Ruth Rosenberg, Arts Stabilization Consultant, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission

Wednesday, July 13, 2005
The Best Way to Increase Your Sales
Four Proven Steps to Develop the Most Compelling Answers to Why Your Prospects Should Buy Now!

Michael Cannon, Founder and CEO, Silver Bullet Group, Inc.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005
THE ART OF CONSULTATIVE COLD CALLING
AKA: I’d Rather Have a Root Canal Than Make a Cold Call

Shawn Greene, Author & Consultant, Savage and Greene

Wednesday, September 14, 2005
RELEVANCE BY DESIGN
Variable data personalization in print, email, and Web communications

Tom Conley, President, LectraMedia
Teri Paulus, Agency & Broker Liaison, LectraMedia

Wednesday, October 12, 2005
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COUNTS
Dramatically improve profits and perfect your product or service with CEM

Amy Fritz, Founder and Principal of Strategic Dialougues
Dianne Azevedo, Principal of On Value

Wednesday, November 09, 2005
WHAT'S MARKETING GOT TO DO WITH IT?
An AMASV Interactive Forum on When, Why and How Marketing Matters

Dan Kennedy, Author (“The Cooking School at Z”) and Publisher, Sacramento Business Journal
Don Sacco, former CEO, BlueCross/BlueShield of Oregon
Bill West, CFO, Dunmore Homes
Cynthia Sommer, VP Marketing, PRIDE Industries
Bob Wood, CTO Calnet Bank

Wednesday, December 14, 2005
MARKETING MASTERMIND:
A CATALYST FOR SYNERGY AND SUCCESS

An AMASV Interactive Forum. Marketers love sharing ideas and opinions and learning from the experience of others. Here’s your chance to do just that.

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Advanced Seminars

Thursday, March 17, 2005
Creativity in the Crunch: Harnessing the Power of On-the-Fly Ingenuity
McNair Wilson, Emperor of Imaginuity and Former Disney Imagineer

Friday, May 20, 2005
Taming the Sales Beast Within: What Every Marketer Must Know
Ron Hubsher, Sales Optimization Group

Thursday, June 16, 2005
Search Engine Marketing: What's Next?
Jamie Low, Search Engine Marketing.com

Thursday, October 27, 2005
Getting Creative with Copyright and Trademark: What Every Marketer Must Know

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Special Events

Thursday, April 07, 2005
2005 Spring Wine Tasting

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Workshops

Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The Brand Gap Workshop with Marty Neumeier
April 27 or 28 (two dates available), presented by the AMASV Educational Foundation

2004

Monthly Luncheons

Wednesday, January 14, 2004
The New Rules for Faster Profit Growth
Bruce Onsager, Principal, The Cambridge Group

Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Marketing Tactics You Can Use to Increase Sales . . . Now
Mitchell Goozé, author of

Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Overcoming Obstacles to Building Closer Customer Relationships
Becky Carroll, Senior Consultant, Peppers and Rogers Group

Wednesday, April 14, 2004
How to Change Behavior:
Lessons from Social Marketers

Colleen Stevens, Chief, Media Campaign / Tobacco Control, CA Dept. of Health Services
Tim Hart, Director, Communications / No. California American Cancer Society
Darryl Young, Director, CA Dept of Conservation / CA Recycling Campaign
Moderated by Jean Wiley, Principal, Wiley Design, Inc., Past President, AMASV

Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Recreating Brand Lodi in the World of Wine
Stuart Spencer, Program Manager, Lodi-Woodbridge Winegrape Commission

Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Profile in Marketing Excellence
Richard Sweet, Senior Director, Marketing and Sales Southwest Airlines

Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Inside the Mind of the Customer
Rich Mironov, VP Marketing AirMagnet, Inc.

Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Revenue Rocket:
Partner Marketing Strategy

John Addison, President of OPTIMARK

Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Selling to the Old Brain™
Patrick Renvoisé, President, SalesBrain

Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Discover Gold
The Marketing of Sacramento

Leonard Hoops, President & Chief Marketing Officer, Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau

Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Life in The Slow Lane:
Dramatic Changes in Consumer Trends

Mary Beth Garber, President of the Southern California Broadcasters Association;
John Hegelmeyer, Western Manager, Advertiser/Agency Services Arbitron Inc.

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Advanced Seminars

Wednesday, January 28, 2004
CAN-SPAM… What CAN You Do? — Marketing and the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
Jeffrey S. Galvin, Lawyer, Downey Brand LLP

Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Competitive Intelligence for Market Advantage
Don Baul, Independent Consultant

Friday, April 30, 2004
Pricing Tactics for Strategic Marketing
Scott Davis, Strategic Marketing Decisions

Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Energize Your Communications with Sentence Aerobics!
Linda Vanderwold CSP, Founder of VanWrite

2003

Monthly Luncheons

Wednesday, January 08, 2003
Bring the World to your Web Site!
Jamie Low, SearchEngineMarketing.com

Wednesday, February 12, 2003
An AMASV Profile in Marketing Excellence
Dale Carlsen, Sleep Train Mattress Centers

Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Facing & Fixing the Revenue Crisis in Corporate America
Tom Osenton, CEO of Customer Share LLC, Author, Business Strategist

Wednesday, April 09, 2003
Marketing Within the Law
Jeff Galvin, Esq., Partner, Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer

Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Creativity and Innovation in Marketing:
Taking the Next Hurdle

C. McNair Wilson, Author, Founder, Imaginuity Unlimited; Former Walt Disney Imagineer

Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Maximizing Success for Your Direct Marketing Campaign:
Getting the Most Out of Direct Mailing Lists and the List Industry

Stephen G. Scruton, Senior Vice President ChoicePoint Precision Marketing, Inc

Wednesday, July 09, 2003
AMASV Profile in Marketing Excellence:
Vision Service Plan

Kate Renwick-Espinosa, VP of Marketing, Vision Service Plan

Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Top 10 Rules for Rolling Out New Products
Kathy Gogan, General Partner with Topline Strategy Group

Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Back to the Basics: Branding Differentials
Paul McClure, Glass McClure Advertising

Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Technology and Marketing Communications: Keeping the Human Touch in a High-Tech World
Alice Jacobs, Ed.D, MBA

Monday, December 01, 2003
Second Annual AMASV Networking Bash

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JavaTalk

Sunday, June 01, 2003
Beyond the Logo: Creating Branding Connections Through Integrated Design
Jean Wiley, Principal, Wiley Design

2002

Monthly Luncheons

Wednesday, January 09, 2002
A Profile in Marketing Excellence The Sweet Taste of National Success:
Shari's Berries

Chris Ewing, Co-Founder and VP of Corporate Development

Wednesday, February 13, 2002
Power & Politics:
What's Marketing Got to Do With It?

Julie Marengo, Political Marketing Consultant
Mike Madrid, Political Marketing Consultant
Robert Stutzman, Political Marketing Consultant
Carrol Wills, Political Marketing Consultant
John Davis, Moderator, AMASV Resident Marketing Experts

Wednesday, March 06, 2002
Demystifying ROI with the Web:
5 Key Components You Must Know to Make an Impact

Bill Schneider, Product Marketing Manager, WebTrends

Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Managing the Complex Sale
Chris McClain, Siebel Systems

Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Revolutionary Customer Care
Betsy Sanders, Sanders Partnership, Former VP and General Manager of Nordstrom

Wednesday, June 12, 2002
FAME in Marketing:
Gaining Ground with Guerrilla Publicity

Jill Lublin, author of Guerrilla Publicity

Thursday, July 25, 2002
How Media Spin Impacts Marketing and Communication Trends
Joint Event with IABC, PRSA and SPRA

Charles Wiley, veteran war correspondent, journalist, and media advocate

Wednesday, August 14, 2002
Profile in Marketing Excellence:
Saturn Corporation

Scott Roberts, Saturn Corporation

Thursday, September 12, 2002
366 Days Since 9-11:
A Year In Retrospect

Carroll Wills, California Professional Firefighters Association
James Whillock, Patterson Travel
Bill Baumann, Tower Records
Dr. Rebecca Cameron, CSUS Neil Curchin
Sutter EAP Program Moderator: David Cobia

Wednesday, October 09, 2002
AMASV Profile in Marketing Excellence - WellsFargo.com:
Harvesting Customer

Touchpoints to Drive Multichannel Marketing

Wednesday, December 11, 2002
The 1st Annual AMASV Holiday Networking & Member Benefits Bash!

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Advanced Seminars

Thursday, February 28, 2002
Creativty and Innovation in Marketing: Recapturing Your Creative Spirit
C. McNair Wilson, Founder of Imaginuity Unlimited, Former Disney Imagineer

Thursday, March 21, 2002
Perspectives in Market Leadership
John Davis, CEO, Brand New View

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Interactive Forums

Wednesday, February 13, 2002
Creativity in the Crunch: Harnessing the Power of On-the-Fly Ingenuity
McNair Wilson , Emperor of Imaginuity and Former Disney Imagineer

Wednesday, June 12, 2002
It's For A Good Cause: What's Marketing Got to Do With It?
Panelists and Moderator TBA AMASV Resident Marketing Experts

Thursday, September 12, 2002
366 Days Since 9/11: A Year In Retrospect
Carroll Wills, California Professional Firefighters Association
James Whillock, Patterson Travel
Bill Baumann, Tower Records
Dr. Rebecca Cameron, Psychology Department, CSUS
Neil Curchin, Sutter EAP Program David Cobia, Moderato

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Special Events

Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Live @ The Ziggurat!
Dan Kennedy, moderator MarketingScot Crocker Bill Gleeson Kate Renswick Espinosa CEOs Libby Alumbaugh Todd Wille Dick Zellner

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JavaTalk

Thursday, March 14, 2002
Behind the Scenes of Direct Mail: LIVE @ AdMail West
Kathy Pescetti, Owner/Partner

Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Demystifying Broadcast Media Strategy
Spencer Williams, Chief Broadcast Strategist, Advertising Department

Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Amplifying Your Brand with Email Marketing
Judy Mikalonis, Verbulant Creative


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