Links
Industry Association Links
Below please find a list of useful Sales and Marketing Industry links:
American Marketing Association (AMA)
Association for Investment Management Sales Executives (AIMSE)
Association of Sales Administration Managers (ASAM)
Business Marketing Association
Direct Marketing Association (DMA)
Direct Selling Association (DSA)
National Association of Sales Professionals (NASP)
National Field Selling Association (NFSA)
Professional Sales Association (PSA)
Professional Society for Sales and Marketing Training (SMT)
Sales and Marketing Executives (SMEI)
Sales Professionals USA (SWAP)
Society of Sales Marketing (SSM)
American Marketing Association (AMA)
Mailing Address:
311 South Wacker Drive
Suite 5800
Chicago, IL 60606 USA
Phone: (312) 542-9000
Fax: (312) 542-9001
Toll-Free: (800) AMA-1150
Email: Info@ama.org
Website URL: www.ama.org
Website URL: www.marketingpower.com
Year Founded: 1937
Number of Members: 38,000+
Description/Objective – The American Marketing Association, one of the largest professional associations for marketers, has 38,000 members worldwide in every area of marketing. For over six decades the AMA has been an essential resource providing relevant marketing information that experienced marketers turn to everyday.
Association for Investment Management Sales Executives (AIMSE)
Mailing Address:
12100 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 130
Reston, Virginia 20190
Telephone: 703-234-4098
Fax: 703-435-4390
Website URL: www.aimse.org
Year Founded: 1977
Number of Members: 1,400+
Description / Objective: The Association of Investment Management Sales Executives (AIMSE) is the only professional organization dedicated to serving the needs of investment management sales and marketing professionals. The Association’s objective is to foster professionalism of the investment management sales industry
Association of Sales Administration Managers (ASAM)
Mailing Address:
C/O Bill Martin
Box 1356
Laurence Harbor, NJ 08879 USA
Phone: (732) 264-7722
Email: asamnet@aol.com
Year Founded: 1981
Number of Members: 100+
Description / Objective: Independent consultants providing sales and marketing services, including establishing broker and rep sales networks, field sales management, marketing and branch office administrative services. Primary expertise is in the consumer packaged goods field, both private label and branded. ASAM also offers consulting services.
Business Marketing Association
Mailing Address:
1601 Bond Street, Suite 101
Naperville IL 60563
Tel: 630-544-5054
Fax: 630-544-5055
E-Mail: info@marketing.org
Web site: www.marketing.org
Year Founded: 1922
Description / Objective: Business Marketing Association represents a lifetime of expertise in business-to-business marketing and communications. For more than 80 years, BMA has been the pre-eminent service organization for professionals in this vital industry.
Direct Marketing Association (DMA)
Mailing Address:
1120 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 768-7277
Fax: (212) 302-6714
Membership: membership@the-dma.org
Website URL: www.the-dma.org
Year Founded: 1917
Number of Members: 5,200+
Description / Objective: The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is today the largest trade association for businesses interested in direct, database, and interactive global marketing, with about 5,200 member companies from the United States and 44 foreign nations on six continents. The DMA shapes the way that organizations apply direct/interactive-marketing methods to all marketing, sales and customer service activity. Our mission is to encourage the education, growth and profitability of our members and their adherence to high ethical standards.
National Association of Sales Professionals (NASP)
Mailing Address:
37557 Newburgh Park Circle
Livonia, MI 48152
Toll Free : 866.684.5221
Office : 248.230.4303
Fax: 248.256.0173
Website URL: www.nasp.com
Founded: 1991
Number of Members: 3,000+
Description / Objective: Professional salespeople. Serves the training, educational and developmental needs of men and women in sales to earn designation as a Certified Professional Sales Person (CPSP).
National Field Selling Association (NFSA)
Mailing Address:
100 North 20th Street, 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103 USA
Phone: (215) 564-1627
Fax: (215) 564-2175
Email: nfsa@fernley.com
Website URL: www.nfsa.com
Founded: 1987
Description / Objective: Individuals and businesses engaged in direct sales. Promotes direct sales as a profession and a method of doing business; seeks to improve the public image of direct sales. NFSA formulates standards of ethics and practice for direct sales personnel.
Professional Sales Association
Mailing Address:
c/o Miller Puthuff
819 Lochmoor Blvd.
Grosse Pointe Woods , MI 48236
Founded: 1975
Number of Members: 30+
Description / Objective: Manufacturer representatives who sell goods to retail chains and stores.
Professional Society for Sales and Marketing Training (SMT)
Mailing Address:
245 W. Roosevelt Road
West Chicago, IL 60185 USA
800-219-0096 ext. 2
Fax: (312) 551-0815
Website URL: www.smt.org
Founded: 1940
Number of Members: 150+
Description / Objective: Directors of training. SMT seeks to improve sales, marketing, and customer relations through training. SMT conducts educational conferences and sales training clinics.
Sales and Marketing Executives (SMEI)
Mailing Address:
PO Box 1390
Sumas, WA 98295 USA
Phone: (312) 893-0751
Fax: (604) 855-0165
Toll-Free: (800) 999-1414
E-Mail: smei@smei.org
Website URL: www.smei.org
Year Founded: 1935
Number of Members: 10,000+
Description / Objective: Executives concerned with sales and marketing management, research, training, and other managerial aspects of distribution. Members control activities of 3,000,000 salespersons. Undertakes studies in the field of selling and sales management; sponsors sales workshops, rallies, clinics, and seminars. Conducts career education programs, working with teachers, establishing sales clubs and fraternities, and cooperating with Junior Achievement and Distributive Education Clubs of America (see separate entries) to interest young people in sales careers. SMEI offers a Graduate School of Sales Management and Marketing at Syracuse University, NY. Seeks to make overseas markets more accessible by interchange of selling information and marketing techniques with executives in other countries; affiliated associations are located in 49 countries. Maintains hall of fame and speakers’ bureau; sponsors competitions
Sales Professionals USA (SWAP)
Mailing Address:
PO Box 149
Arvada, CO 80001 USA
Phone: (303) 489-2427
E-Mail: info@salespros-usa.com
Website URL: www.salesprofessionals-usa.com
Year Founded: 1955
Description / Objective: Salespersons, owners of small businesses, and those interested in free enterprise from Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, and the United States. SWAP endeavors to increase individual’s effectiveness and earning power in any field of salesmanship, in particular creative salesmanship. Fosters the interchange of ideas, techniques, philosophies, and concepts relative to salesmanship; encourages high standards and ethical behavior for those in selling; maintains good relations between business and the buying public; educates and increases the abilities of those currently engaged in selling; promotes the profession to youth. SWAP conducts in-class sales training for high school and college students; sponsors symposia and workshops, and maintains speakers’ bureau.