Nashville American Marketing Association

We’ve all said this at some point in our lives. Not that we live in regret, but rather that we wish we had know life wasn’t as hard as we dramatized it to be. While, unfortunately, we can’t hop in a time machine and coach our younger selves for the future, we can make a difference in the lives of today’s youth and give back to the young marketing community. In comes NAMA.

The NAMA Collegiate Relations Committee has gotten some fresh new faces and some fresh new ideas as well to add numbers to our organization by creating a foundation to grow from in future years. In order to increase the present value of NAMA membership, the Collegiate Relations Team has devised a couple ways to help our college friends.

1. Internships
We are looking to connect our members to intelligent, capable, and willing interns. As always the hope is to create a mutually beneficial relationship in which an intern can take a few things off someone’s plate while be rewarded with invaluable experience.
Those members accepting interns please contact Megan Hershey at mhershey@countrymusichalloffame.org

2. Speaking opportunities
Each of our members have a strong skill set that has made them successful. Whether it be branding, SEM, web design, PR, etc….all these topics are covered in college classes every semester. We want to give people the opportunity share real world insights on classroom subject matter providing students a firmer grasp on what’s current in today’s marketing environment.
Members open to interacting with students in the classroom setting by lecturing on topics that touch their skill sets please contact Adam Thompson at athompson@nashvillewire.com

Help them to help us!

Almost every day, I hear about how people and companies in Middle Tennessee are approaching marketing in an interesting way that needs to be shared — whether that’s organizing a TweetUp to boost awareness of colon cancer (Parthenon Publishing), seeing stats that video increases the length of time people spend on a website by 5-10 times (Gamma Blast) and a company that increased a client’s web traffic 700% in 4 months (Alphanumeric) — the list goes on and on.

To help, we’re creating a blog that will live on the NAMA site, so NAMA members and prospective members can get a shot of creative knowledge and share what they know.  If you or your company is making a project smarter, better, faster in a creative way, we’d like to hear it.  E-mail your ideas to lizdenning@gammablast.com and we’ll get you scheduled with a blog post.