The ACE Marketing Award is a progress-based program designed to give every participant hands-on experience and recognition for their efforts. A big part of being a member of the Marketing Association is earning this award. Every activity that we do will bring you one step closer to completion and to becoming a marketing ACE!
We know that school is busy and life is crazy, so we want to make this as straight-forward and manageable as possible. At the end of the school year, all participants will provide a brief summary of their efforts and all qualifying recipients will be awarded at a special recognition ceremony. Below you will find the requirements for the three sections of the award.
| Earn 4 points to complete this section | you may do one activity more than once to fulfill this requirement | Value |
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| Read a book from the approved list | 2 |
| Participate in BYUMA Creative Design Workshop | 2 |
| Attend an Information Technology Creative Class | 1 |
| Execute the Marketing Consulting Project | 4 |
| Networking Program Steps | complete these steps and build your personal, professional network |
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| 1. Attend networking program kick-off seminar |
| 2. Select and research your companies |
| 3. Begin relevant contacts |
| Engage Requirements | complete these basic requirements to be actively involved in the association |
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| 1. Join the Marketing Association |
| 2. Attend BYUMA events |
| 3. Participate in a case competition |
We've asked numerous professors and professionals for their favorite business/marketing books and have come up with this list for your convenience. If you have another idea for a book please contact James Harper at james.harper8@gmail.com
Simpleslice, a local web development company, will be hosting a series of technology-based marketing workshops. They will provide hands-on creative training in subjects such as Social Media Marketing, effective blogging, business uses of Photoshop, and other online marketing basics. The first round of these workshops is scheduled to take place in November, 2009.
The Office of IT at BYU offers free technology classes for programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Access, Excel, etc. Click on the link following link to learn more and register for a class: http://it.byu.edu/index.cfm?child_id=139
There are numerous non-profit organizations and small businesses in the area that are looking for marketing assistance. If you would like to do this project to fulfill your achieve requirement, please contact Sarah Godfrey at sarahgodfrey8@gmail.com so she can help set you up with a company and explain more details. This is a great opportunity to get some relevant marketing experience on your resume!
This portion of the ACE Award will help you build and nurture your own network of professionals that are relevant to your career goals. These days getting a job requires a lot more than a beefy resume. You need to know the right people and they need to be impressed by what you do. Following the three steps below will guide you to your networking success.
Complete these basic requirements to be actively involved in the association