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BADGER NAMA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Sharing Experiences for Successful Solutions 2007-2008

Attention Badger NAMA Members mark your calendars!
You’re Invited! Badger NAMA to Host World Dairy Expo Reception

Make plans to join fellow agri-marketers and NAMA members from around the country at the NAMA World Dairy Expo Reception, hosted by Badger NAMA.

Thursday, October 2nd from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Exhibitors’ Lounge, Alliant Energy Center — Madison, WI

Enjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres, wine and soda, as well as Kentucky Ale courtesy of Alltech.

Join Badger NAMA on October 2nd at the World Dairy Expo for an evening of networking and fun and mark your calendars for a year of exciting learning opportunities with Badger NAMA!

Upcoming Badger NAMA Events for 2008-2009

• January 15, 2009 Wisconsin Agriculture Outlook Forum
• January 2009 Region IV Best of NAMA Awards Banquet
• May 2009 NAMA Golf Outing

For more information, contact Tom Thieding at 608-828-5709 or tthieding@ruralins.com

Badger NAMA Members Garnered Fresh Ideas on Tradeshow Exhibits
Nearly 35 Badger NAMA Members gained fresh ideas for their company’s tradeshow exhibit at the Badger NAMA’s Tradeshow Workshop on May 7th in Delafield. Attendees learned the latest tips and techniques for successful tradeshow displays, plus garnered ideas from the tradeshow experts of GE Healthcare, Cygnus Farm Shows and Exhibitor Source.

Information from the seminar is now available to download at the links below. What you'll find:

• Laurie Rebholz and Doug Hay, The Exhibitor Source: Building a Successful Team featuring training tips and industry trends. Click here to download presentation. Click here to download presentation on Training Tips.
• Don Schmid, GE Healthcare: GEHC Tradeshow Success featuring tradeshow exhibit elements, event marketing, branding and a helpful scorecard to qualify your company’s ROI on a tradeshow. Click here to download presentation.
• Bob Olsen, Cygnus Farm Shows: www.farmshows.com.

Best of NAMA
Entry Deadline ~ October 10, 2008

Have you served up some hot ideas and sizzling solutions in the past year? If so, submit your most choice work for consideration for a Best of NAMA award!

If you’re a NAMA member you’re eligible to serve up your company’s sauciest communications materials, prepared for first use in 2008. (If entered in 2007, the EXACT SAME entry will not be eligible in 2008.) Additions or modifications to an ongoing campaign will not be eligible year after year. Entries are open to agricultural, ornamentals, turf, livestock veterinarians and any other ag-related products or services whose primary audience is farmers, ranchers and growers (except as otherwise noted). Please submit translations where necessary. Each entry should be submitted through one region only.

Remember, your local chapter receives $25 per regional entry. So, enter your work in Best of NAMA and nourish your local chapter at the same time.

The deadline for submitting entries into the Best of NAMA competition is Friday, October 10.

For more information on Best of NAMA or to download an entry form visit http://www.nama.org/amc/bon/index.htm.

Special thanks to High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal for sponsoring the Best of NAMA Call for Entries and thanks to Nicholson Kovac for the logo design.

2008 Region IV Best of NAMA Award Winners

The best of the best in ads, PR kits and integrated marketing campaigns went head-to-head at the Region IV Best of NAMA Awards ceremony on January 17, 2008 in Lake Geneva. Congratulations to this year’s first place and merit award winners! Click to view First place and merit award winners. A big thank you to the Region IV Best of NAMA committee and Badger chapter Best of NAMA Chair Nicole Wagner for organizing this event.

The Badger Chapter welcomes the following new members:

Job Postings
If you have any industry news or job openings you would like to share with other members, feel free to submit the information to Christine Lepple with ANIMART at christinel@animart.com.

Bader Rutter & Associates is currently seeking a Team Leader on the account service team for Dow AgroSciences working on the Seeds and Trait business managing the overall account team. Ideally seeking an individual with an agriculture background or advertising agency experience.