5. Sales and Events
Deb Tewell
Sales/Events Manager


3/14/06 – 4/14/06

NIW.
• Met on-site with committee, hotel, CVB and Albuquerque Convention Center staff
 o Took photos of potential meeting rooms
• Refined list of off-site sessions and special events venues NIW ‘06
• Sent out information to numerous members requesting costs for registration and hotels for budgeting purposes
• Proofed NIW post card for printer
• Worked with decorator to re-design exhibit hall to newer, smaller hall
• Organized off-site sessions with local providers

Certification Planning/Logistics.
• Completed logistics planning for certification workshops
• Am working on three certifications to firm up details of hotels/meeting rooms
Training Room.
• Training Room Use:
 o RMBO x16
 o NPCA x1
 o NAI Staff Meetings x5
 o Norco Collaborative x2
• Set room for various meetings

Ad Sales.
• Contacted those with expiring ad contracts and wrote new ad contracts
• Contacted commercial members to verify listings and ads in the Green Pages
• Proofed Green Pages and cross checked current memberships against those listed
• Put commercial members onto 3-month in advance of expiration notification with email reminders
• Revised renewal letters and developed emails for before and after renewal letters
• Contacted 29 advertisers who had not returned ad contracts

Legacy Sales.
• Contacted expired commercial members about subscriptions

Commercial Members.
• Sent membership renewal letters
• Contacted prospective members with ad packets and followed up on ad packets sent in past two weeks
• Sent special follow-up letters and ad cut sheets to APPL contacts from March meeting in Little Rock (three commercial members joined as a result of NAI’s presence at APPL)

Library & Archives.
• Oversaw student working on library database input and assigning Dewey numbers
• Oversaw student to assign media competition archive numbers to media award materials

Media Awards.
• Participated in conference call with MAC committee
• Began work with judging coordinator to transfer judging sheets to Excel spreadsheet

Other Things.
• Made initial some contacts for lodging, meeting room and travel arrangements for Definitions Projects attendees for June and August meetings
• Initiated or participated in conference calls for:
 o NIW ‘07
 o Region 9
 o Region 2
 o NIW ‘06