AMA Ferris

AMA Ferris would like to wish their adviser, Dr. Laura Dix, a very happy birthday today!

AMA members traveled with advisor Laura Dix to Lansing on Friday, January 20 for a two-hour private session with Jim Reed and a keynote event on personal branding.  Jim Reed has 20 years experience consulting for IBM and continues to be a corporate consultant for various companies including DuPont. Students from the University of Michigan, [...]

  AMA collegiate members are preparing for the 34th Annual International Collegiate Conference.         The conference runs from March 22 to 24 in New Orleans, LA.  Last year, twelve students attended as AMA Ferris had its finest year for awards.  Currently, members have been meeting regularly to purchase plane tickets, prepare a [...]

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  The Ferris State AMA Collegiate Case Competition team turned in their submission on Wednesday, December 14.  The team has worked diligently all semester long and have hopes of becoming a finalist and in turn presenting in New Orleans.  One of the group leaders said, “We started off slow, but as the deadline approached, we [...]

  On October 1st, over 1500 people came out to attend the FSU Guiness world record attempt at Top Taggart Field.  The record would be for the most flying discs (frisbee is copyrighted) in the air at one time.  AMA Ferris was responsible for promoting and executing the event that kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness [...]

Ferris is now at 72 organ donors registered in Fall 2011, well behind last years success.  Please view our videos and keep posting on the AMA Saves Lives facebook for FSU!  We are hoping to win again this year in donors registered, social media posts, videos uploaded, and video views! Check out this video:  

Students at AMA Ferris went down to Chicago to visit Wunderman3 and Answers Media.  FSU Marketing Alumni currently work at both agencies. The next day, all 15 students that went to Chicago traveled to Whitewater, WI to attend an AMA Regional Conference that featured speakers from Apple, AT&T, the Green Bay Packers, the Milwaukee Bucks, [...]

Need a strong, cutting-edge elective for Spring 2012? Would an online class help you juggle your schedule? Take ECOM 383 (Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce Marketing) – Online! The class will provide you with a theoretical and conceptual framework for e-commerce marketing, with hands-on projects that will familiarize you with the most frequently used Social Media and E-Commerce [...]

On October 7, AMA Ferris Kicks Off its Regional Conference. The conference will include a SABRE competition that will help prepare students for the national AMA collegiate SABRE competition in New Orleans. Also a speaker from a top national retailer (Meijer), and others will provide students with more insight. The theme is “Creating Your Digital [...]