Nominations Sought for DMA Business to Business Council Marketer of the Year Award; Deadline for Submissions July 30

July 9, 2010 — The DMA Business to Business Council is calling for nominations for its Marketer of the Year Award. Nominations must be submitted by July 30. Established in 2003, the Business to Business Council Marketer of the Year Award honors the achievement, innovation, and leadership of an individual whose work represents the very best in B-to-B marketing.

Business professionals can help recognize these groundbreaking B-to-B success stories by nominating the person, agency, or company they believe is an innovative, provocative and creative force in their industry.

Nominating Criteria

The individual must meet the following criteria:

Recognized achievement in business-to-business marketing activities
Leadership and contribution to the growth of the discipline
Innovative approaches to delivering successful results
Ethics
Education
Recognition from peers with leadership qualities

Business to Business Council Awards Breakfast

The award will be presented at the Business to Business Council Awards Breakfast at DMA 2010 in San Francisco, on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Presenting the keynote will be Jeanette Gibson, director of social media marketing at Cisco Systems, Inc.

Gibson leads the Social Media Marketing Group at Cisco. Her organization provides social strategy, services, and consulting across the company in order to expand brand presence and increase customer connections through the power of social media. Gibson and her team set Cisco’s social marketing strategy, measure its success metrics, drive alignment, governance and the sharing of best practices globally across the company.

To download a nomination form, please click here.

To learn more about the Business to Business Council Marketer of the Year Award, please click here.

About Direct Marketing Association (DMA)

The Direct Marketing Association (www.the-dma.org) is the leading global trade association of businesses and nonprofit organizations using and supporting multichannel direct marketing tools and techniques. DMA advocates standards for responsible marketing, promotes relevance as the key to reaching consumers with desirable offers, and provides cutting-edge research, education, and networking opportunities to improve results throughout the end-to-end direct marketing process. Founded in 1917, DMA today represents companies from dozens of vertical industries in the US and 48 other nations, including nearly half of the Fortune 100 companies, as well as nonprofit organizations.

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