arkansas
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About Us
SMEI Arkansas is a group of members who are top executives dedicated to sales and marketing excellence. SMEI Arkansas Professional Members include CEOs, Marketing Managers, Sales Managers, Training Managers, Sales Consultants, Entrepreneurs and Educators who contribute to the advancement of sales and marketing management. Associate Members include anyone in the sales and marketing profession who is not currently in an executive/management position, but has a strong interest in the values of SMEI and SMEI Arkansas and their own professional development as sales and marketing practitioners. We are a professional group of top managers and associate members who meet to share leading edge strategies and marketing tactics.
What are the Objectives of SMEI Arkansas?
- To promote and maintain salesmanship at its highest possible level through a continuing interchange of ideas.
- To foster high ethical standards between buyer and seller, employer and employee – maintaining at all times the dignity and high standards that properly attach to the sales and marketing profession.
- To provide a meeting place where acquaintances and friendships may be developed among people engaged in the sales and marketing field – affording an opportunity to meet and relax together socially and professionally.
- To stimulate and encourage the interest of students contemplating professional careers in sales and marketing.
- To conduct meetings, seminars and other educational projects that will assist members of SMEI Arkansas and their associates in their professional development and advancement.
- To inform the public that production and sales are closely tied together – each dependent on the other in business enterprise.
- To promote the free enterprise system, increase business awareness, and increase political awareness by providing a forum for worthy programs, speakers, and activities.
Five Founding Principles™ of SMEI:
- Professional Identification and Standards. The improvement of the standards for professional selling, sales management and marketing, in order to establish sales and marketing as a recognized profession.
- Continuing Education. The planning and implementation of monthly meetings of the membership to enable members to keep up-to-date with changes in the marketplace and to grow as professionals. The planning and implementation of organized training programs for professional selling, sales management, and marketing.
- Sharing Knowledge. The establishment of discussion forums, for example, shirt sleeve seminars, and roundtable meetings which enable members to share sales and marketing experiences and knowledge.
- Assist Students. The establishment of programs to work with students at the high school and college levels to enable them to understand the excellent career opportunities in the sales and marketing profession. This objective ultimately led to the current SMEI sponsored programs with Junior Achievement, Distributive Education (DECA), and Pi Sigma Epsilon (PSE).
- Support the Free Enterprise System. In recognizing that sales and marketing is the energizing force that drives the competitive marketplace, SMEI and SMEI Arkansas has always been committed to supporting the free enterprise concept.
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