J.M.E. Marketing, Inc. Corporate Office Cares for Chicago

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Chicago, Illinois
July 10, 2013

The corporate office team members at J.M.E. Marketing, Inc. participated in the 20th annual Chicago Cares Serve-A-Thon on Saturday, June 15th which kicked off at Daley Plaza with a rousing speech by Chelsea Clinton. They were among 5,000 other volunteers who came together to work on projects aimed at improving Chicago’s most under-served communities.

The J.M.E. Marketing, Inc. volunteers were assigned to paint various rooms within the Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy. They spent the day refacing the school’s hallways and kitchen in an effort to update the PK-8th grade Brighton Park school.

In addition to their volunteer work, the J.M.E. Marketing, Inc. team also raised $2,750.00 to go towards the Chicago Cares charity. The entire team was excited to give back to the city that is home to the corporate office of their growing national direct sales and marketing company.

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A Highly Effective Way to Avoid Wasting Your Time

Here’s a simple way to potentially save hours of your time each week, by investing a total of about five minutes.

First thing one morning, take a piece of paper and write a column of numbers representing each hour from the time you wake up until you go to sleep. For me, the list would start 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1 and go all the way back to 12. (So far, you have invested about fifteen seconds.)

For this single day, at the top of every hour stop for 20 seconds and consider how happy you are with the way you spent your time. Did you invest it wisely? If the answer is yes, don’t write anything.

But if you wouldn’t repeat the way you spent the last hour, next to the number representing that hour write a few words that describes what you did. On one of my lists, for example, at 3 o’clock I wrote “pointless to talk with Ralph; doesn’t listen,” meaning that it was a waste of my time to meet with him.

Stick with this exercise all day; it takes very little time, just the discipline to stop every hour for a few seconds. But at the end of the day, you’ll have a list of activities you wish you avoided. If the list has more than one or two items, you might want to continue the practice for a while.

If you make this a habit, you’ll soon start to spot patterns. It will be easier to recognize ways in which you are wasting time and effort, and you’ll do a better job of avoiding these.

Save time for everyone

You can also use this technique across an entire department to help all involved make better use of their time. To avoid offending people, I wouldn’t suggest pooling the results. You can simply introduce the test and allow people to draw their own conclusions.

Encourage people to not only list the problems that wasted their time, but to also write down solutions for using their time more wisely. For example, at the end of a long meeting, you might realize that while your initial strategy of barking out orders did not work, that once you took the time to listen to others, they became more willing to listen to you.

You might then write, “Listen first, talk second.”

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J.M.E. Marketing Inc in Chicago: Personalized Communication Increases Sales Figures

In an increasingly competitive and vibrant business environment, good communication skills have become a crucial requirement. Jamie Davis, CEO of J.M.E. Marketing in Chicago is certain that one of the most effective communication methods is to approach consumers on a face-to-face basis.

Reviews show that workers send and receive an average of 1,798 messages every day via telephone, email, fax, papers or face-to-face communication (emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu). But in fact, people only remember less than 20% of the information exchanged. “This is why it is so important to make in impact when communicating to the target audience,” says Jamie Davis, CEO J.M.E. Marketing, Inc., an outsourced sales and marketing company based in the River North-Chicago. In order to communicate effectively, Harvard Business Review recommends three elements of great communication: credibility, emotional connection and logic (hbr.org). Jamie Davis is certain that effective communication can considerably increase sales.

According to Harvard Business Review it is crucial to demonstrate technical expertise. “It is essential that people believe what you tell them,” insists Jamie Davis. When J.M.E. Marketing sales representatives talk to potential customers, they shine with excellent product knowledge and can respond to any concerns or questions consumers may have. Furthermore, they are building a personal connection with people. “Our face-to-face approach is very personal and our customers really enjoy the interaction with our representatives. This helps to develop trust, not just between the consumer and our representative or the product or service they promote, but also to our clients’ brands,” explains the J.M.E. Marketing CEO. Finally, the communication between two people can only be effective if the message sent is logical. Consumers are more willing to make a purchase if they clearly understand the product or service and what the company selling it represents.

J.M.E. Marketing CEO Jamie Davis is certain that with the right communication skills, a direct face-to-face approach to the consumers increases sales and enhances business growth. “Talking to the customer directly builds trust and personalizes the shopping experience. Our sales representatives actually take time to review and answer every single question that might pop up.” J.M.E. Marketing’s success speaks for itself. In a short span, the direct sales and marketing firm has experienced growth of over 6000% in quarter four of 2013 alone. “We have high ambitions at J.M.E. Marketing,” says Jamie Davis. “The company is planning to expand into further markets and have 30 branches by 2015.”

J.M.E. Marketing, Inc. is Travelling to New York City!

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J.M.E. Marketing, Inc. is sending the top performing representatives on an all expenses paid trip to New York City! During this time they will have the opportunity to learn from our business partners and friends on the east coast as well as enjoy all of the finer things “the city that never sleeps” has to offer.

This provides a great opportunity to truly reward those who are putting forth their greatest efforts to rise above the pack and earn a trip to New York City. “We are very excited to reward some very deserving individuals. New York is one of my favorite cities (next to Chicago of course). The people who go on this trip will not only learn but have an opportunity to network with some of our most successful business partners,” says Jamie Davis, CEO of J.M.E. Marketing, Inc.

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J.M.E. Marketing, Inc. travels to Atlantic City for Leadership Conference

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J.M.E. Marketing, Inc. in Chicago, IL attended a Leadership conference in Atlantic City, NJ on April 5, 2013. Representing the company was company CEO Jamie Davis.

This conference provided an opportunity to network with business owners from around the country as well as share best practices to implement into different markets and marketing and sales campaigns.

The conference took place at the beautifully modern Revel Resort equipped with top of the line accommodations, facilities, and A/V systems.

“I enjoy being surrounded by fellow industry leaders because I am inspired by the accomplishments of my peers. It also awakens my competitive spirit to drive J.M.E. Marketing, Inc. to the very top. We have a lot of new talent on the team and going to Atlantic City allowed us the time to begin talks about our expansion plans into new domestic markets (Los Angeles, New Orleans, Atlanta) as well as our goals to expand into other countries within the next couple of years.”

In the next couple of months J.M.E. Marketing, Inc. will be traveling and gathering market research in New York City, Miami, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, and overseas in Dublin. “Our focus is to pick up the pace and accelerate our growth so we are able to expand into at least 3 new markets before 2014,” said CEO Davis.

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