Good Morning,

Hopefully you all enjoyed your weekend! I want to talk about what started as an internship but now is a part-time job. I'm currently working at James Tower here in Mankato. I'm the Sales & Marketing support and James Tower is a full-service Internet Marketing Company that specializes in ecommerce, hosting, Strategy & Branding, web site development, email marketing, and search engine marketing. This is something I'm extremely interested in this focus in marketing and hopefully can continue on through graduation.

James Tower is located in North Mankato with almost 200 employees. The work environment is very impressive, including FREE pop, jungle in the lunchroom, and friendly atmosphere.

I organize direct customer contact for specific events including invitations, accommodation, travel itineraries, event planning, follow up, coordinate meetings including sales training, speaker events, tradeshows and education sessions, develop new sales and business initiatives for the higher education, internet marketing, and ecommerce line of business, and tradeshow marketing. Those are only a small fraction of the things I do at JT. One of the most important things I take part in is enter sales leads in a Customer Relationship Management System (CRM), the marketing department as a whole generates leads through email campaigning, web site, Monday Marketing Minutes, tradeshows, etc.

I want to talk about some potential job opportunities for seniors or event current students. They are currently hiring in the following departments: administrative, client services, project management, sales and marketing, technical services, and web hosting and database administration. If you have any questions about any of these or want contact information for any of the departments, let me know because I know mostly everyone! Contact me at danielle.imlay@mnsu.edu if you want any information. You can also go to their web site at www.jamestower.com. If you are in the market for a career, try an informational interview. Inviting a manager out for lunch for questions you might have and to form a relationship with them, would be a great move. One of our speakers, Jen Ringler, was here last semester; works at James Tower recommended this. I can hook you up with the names in change in any department!

To get more involved in the marketing industry, we offer a Monday Marketing Minute every Monday. It's sixty seconds of concise, pertinent advice to inspire your marketing efforts. The Monday Marketing Minute is the e-newsletter written specifically for you, providing up-to-date information and advice relevant to marketing. AND it's FREE!! What's really cool is that we also offer tons of resources on our web site. We offer online demos and events, news and information, white papers and articles about the company.

See everyone tomorrow at the meeting at 4:45 in AH 101. We are having Todd Kelzenberg from Ameriprise Financial. Free pizza and pop!