| Host: | Amy Mader |
| Speaker/Theme: | Wendy Trew (Marketing) |
| Location: |
Westin Hotel Austin, Texas |
| When: | Wednesday, April 7, 11:00AM CST Meeting Agenda Now Available |
| Sponsor: | Austin Wedding Jookbox |
COST:
$30.00 per person
$50.00 per non member (bring a guest - just add them to your RSVP)
RSVP POLICY:
You MUST RSVP to this meeting by E-mail to amy@nuptialessentials.com.
RSVP's due by Monday, April 5, 2010.
No shows will be billed.
If you show up at the meeting without sending your RSVP, the cost of the meeting will be $35.00 per current NEAWP member and $55.00 per non-NEAWP member.
Any changes in the reservation system after noon on Monday, April 5, 2010 at 12:00PM
will be billed assessed the full meeting fee.
If you show up to the meeting without a reservation confirmation, the cost will be $35.00 per current NEAWP member and $55.00 per non NEAWP member.
Checks should be made payable to NEAWP. NSF fees for checks is $50.00.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE:
Greetings to you all-
You are cordially invited to the April 2010 Nuptial Essentials Association of Wedding Professionals (NEAWP) Austin Chapter meeting, “Marketing”.
YOUR SPACE
After much anticipation, we are pleased to be at the Westin Austin Hotel in the Domain. Rene Rice, senior catering sales manager, has graciously offered the hotel in the midst of the grand opening. I encourage you to ask many questions and absorb this new fantastic facility in northwest Austin. You may reach her at rene.rice@whitelodging.com.
YOUR SPONSOR
I would like to thank Austin Wedding Jookbox for being our featured sponsor of the month. Beverly Turner Lee has been a forerunner in Austin wedding industry with regards to her passion, knowledge and dedication. To find out more about Beverly, go to www.austinweddingjookbox.com.
YOUR NOTES
The membership drive is almost over! There is still time for you to save half off your annual membership! Multiple business memberships available. This deal will end on April 5,2010. Full price membership will go into effect on April 6,2010.
The name tag sale is still on! If you would like a professional name tag for the meetings, bring $7.00 to the meeting. The next order will be placed on April 15,2010. All name tags must be paid for prior to being ordered. Look at a sample in our April newsletter.
YOUR SPEAKER
Wendy Covey of Trew Marketing www.trewmarketing.com.
Wendy is a passionate leader who leaves no stone uncovered. She believes that effective marketing begins by developing a thorough marketing strategy and clear objectives based on business goals. She has built her reputation on creating opportunities amid the chaos and leveraging each opportunity to achieve the highest possible result.
Wendy is talented at building comprehensive, custom marketing plans that integrate numerous activities together to support primary goals and messages. She employs industry best practices to ensure each activity is effectively executed. From company and product launches to web redesigns and large events, Wendy’s approach is collaborative, creative, and measured. She has worked with small, start-up businesses, industry associations, cause-organizations, and large B2B technology companies.
Prior to co-founding TREW Marketing, Wendy spent much of her 15-year career building and producing successful global marketing, events, and services programs at National Instruments (NI). As Senior Leader of the NI Global Software Services business, a $112 million business unit including customer training, certification, and software maintenance, Wendy developed a corporate vision for services; utilizing customer focus groups and extensive external research to create new service offerings and set global service policies.
As Senior Events Manager, Wendy oversaw NIWeek, an annual global user conference, in addition to the NI trade show and seminar programs. Wendy observed and researched an opportunity for new lead sources and founded the NI Webcast Program, which quickly became one of the most effective lead generation programs for NI. Wendy implemented and utilized functional dashboards and customer surveys for each area of events as means to monitor and manage program performance.
Raised in a family of educators, Wendy is passionate about education issues, particularly in the areas of STEM and early childhood development. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Journalism and Marketing from Texas A&M University.
AWARDS:National Instruments Executive Award, NI Marketing Excellence, NI Spirit Award
YOUR CHARITY
Our charity for the month is Safe Place. We are collecting personal items (shampoo, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes etc) to create bags for the members of safe place. Please help out this worthwhile cause. If you have any bags you can bring along, please do. If you have any questions, contact amanda@neawp.org.
For more information, please contact us!
I look forward to seeing you all at the meeting!
Amy Mader
President
NECI,LLC and NEAWP