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THE SALES & MARKETING INSTITUTE IS LINKED TO PROFESSIONAL SALES ASSOCIATIONS IN SEVERAL OVERSEAS COUNTRIES - PARTICULARLY IN THE ASIAN REGION. THE INSTITUTE, OCCASIONALLY CONTROVERSIAL, STRIVES FOR CHAOTIC DISRUPTION AND STRATEGIC THINKING TO CHALLENGE, DISCUSS, DEBATE WHILE ENCOURAGING INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE IDEAS & APPLICATION TO CONSUMER-ADVANTAGED BUSINESS PRACTICES.
YOUR ONGOING INTEREST & SUPPORT IS MUCH VALUED.
ENVIRONMENTAL WRAP....
SINGLE-SERVE DRINK MIXES AND INDIVIDUAL WRAPPED FOODS ARE A BOON FOR LANDFILL ENTHUSIASTS. DISSOVABLE-PACKAGING MAKER MONOSOL HAS THE SOLUTION NO-ONE KNEW THEY NEEDED. THE COMPANY'S WATER SOLUBLE WRAPPERS CAN BE FOUND ENCASING EVERYTHING FROM CLOTHING TO PESTICIDES TO DETERGENT. THEIR EDIBLE FILMS ARE COMING TO YOUR KITCHEN OR LAUNDRY. CHECK OUT www.monosol.com
LATEST HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW GLOBALISATION REPORT - 2012
 MOST COMPANIES ASSUME THE EASIEST WAY TO GROW IS BY INVESTING THEIR BUSINESSES OVERSEAS. HOWEVER RESEARCH SHOWS ONLY HALF THE OVERSEAS VENTURES IN GROCERY SUCCEED..THE OTHER HALF SUFFER SEVERE BRAND DAMAGE AND EMBARRASSMENT. EXAMPLE - WAL-MART IN KOREA...AND OTHERS... (Read HBR April 2012)
 APPLY NOW - CORPORATE MBA 'INTERNSHIPS'
The Institute invites interested companies - particularly fmcg/cpg based companies - to contact with regard to discuss an internship - a part-time arrangement - with MBA students at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. The MBS students in MBA have an average of over five years of industry experience ranging from finance, marketing, operations, strategy, project management and more, and can readily step into a specific project or to a more general role within your company. The Institute will ensure you get to meet one or more relevant MBA students to discuss the opportunity.
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or telephone Graeme Orr on (03) 98071054
COMING SALES & MARKETING INSTITUTE EVENTS... 2012 EVENT PROGRAM
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RITCHIES LUNCHEON
(7 places left)
Melbourne :: Friday, 1st June 2012
Proudly sponsored by INCENTIVE HOUSE & FOODBANK AUSTRALIA
Fred Harrison CEO, RITCHIES and senior management 'Where Now - Where Next' for Ritchies RACV Club, 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne Join 190 management colleagues from 110 companies.... FURTHER DETAILS: http://www.gosalesmarketing.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=11&Itemid=59* *  RECYCLING WITH SUPPLIERS -
A NEW PROCESS with COLES
The retailer/supplier recycling process... Join Majella Allen, Manager Sustainability, Coles Melbourne :: Tuesday, 19th June 2012 *
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"SUSTAINABILITY COUNTS" Seminar
As retailers strive to achieve increased level of sustainability
- what about suppliers/manufacturers/importers etc?
Kane Hardingham, Woolworths Sustainability, will reveal aspects
of the process to sustainability - by example and with support
from two additional speakers.
MGSM North Ryde :: 17th July 2012
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* COLLECTIVE | STRENGTH
Metcash Food & Grocery
-with Peter Love, Sales & Merchandise GM, Metcash Food & Grocery
& IMI International latest research in Independents sector...
Macquarie Graduate School of Management | Tuesday, 7th August 2012 * *  
Melbourne :: Tuesday 21st August 2012
Morning seminar including Julie Laycock, Marketing Chief at 7Eleven
Melbourne Business School (Uni of Melbourne) * * WOOLWORTHS Drinks Marketing
- with David Hicks, Marketing Mgr along with the Drinks Merchandise Mgr
Sydney :: TBA August # # MORE EVENT DETAILS
http://www.gosalesmarketing.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=1&Itemid=29 -
or on 'SMI EVENTS' at top of screen for MORE event details
SALES STUFF | NEWS | VIEWS | TWEETS | LINKS | THOUGHTS | COMMENTS | THEY SAID WHAT..!!
SALES STUFF | NEWS | VIEWS | TWEETS | LINKS | THOUGHTS | COMMENTS | THEY SAID WHAT..!!
SALES STUFF | NEWS | VIEWS | TWEETS | LINKS | THOUGHTS | COMMENTS | THEY SAID WHAT..!!
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2004 - 757 million; total number of Internet users. Facebook launches.
2011 - 800 million; number of Facebook users
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"147 - the number of companies that control nearly 40% of global wealth..."
-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology researchers
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"Greatness is not defined in moments of victory; it is defined in the moments after a defeat"
-Darren Hardy, Publisher, SUCCESS magazine
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"...5,127 prototypes of the bagless vacuum cleaner before success...get the message, don't give up!"
-James Dyson, Dyson
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“Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink...and never put it in email”
-Eliott Spitzer, New York Attorney
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives...It is the one that is the most adaptable to change"
-Charles Darwin
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"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so"
-Mahatma Gandi
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Most of us would like our eulogy to read "She followed her bliss", but instead we live a life of "She never missed a meeting, no matter how wasteful it was."
-Bill Jensen, in End Malaria
SPAM WARNING | SPAM WARNING | SPAM WARNING
The Institute warns members to exercise extreme caution in any dealings with 1Form.com.au. This entity took many weeks to cease spam emails to the Institute - and now, a few weeks later, is 'at it' again.
THE INSTITUTE ACKNOWLEDGES A SOCIETY THAT IS STRONG ON GIVING - AND REQUESTS YOU/YOUR COMPANY CONSIDER GIVING BACK TO THE WIDER COMMUNITY. THE INSTITUTE SUPPORTS 'GOOD CAUSES' (see below) ; AND REQUESTS MEMBERS & COMPANIES TO CONSIDER SUPPORTING THESE OR ANY OTHER VALUED CAUSES RESPECTED BY YOU/YOUR COMPANY...
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FOODBANK AUSTRALIA - www.foodbank.com.au
Delete Food Waste. Eradicate Hunger across Australia. Start here... * *  YALARI INDIGENOUS EDUCATION
Educating Indigenous Youth. Uplifting Minds - www.yalari.org*
* Funding & supporting the indigenous food fund - http://www.coles.com.au/About-Coles/Community/Coles-Indigenous-Food-Fund.aspx# |
