{"id":710,"date":"2008-04-17T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=710"},"modified":"2008-04-17T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T18:04:14","slug":"nama-students-market-blue-ridge-apple-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"NAMA Students Market Blue Ridge Apple Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\"vspace=\"5\"border=\"1\"src=\"http:\/\/www.zimmcomm.biz\/images\/nama\/nama08-student-semi-08a.jpg\" alt=\"NAMA student competitors\" \/>A big part of the NAMA Agrimarketing Conference is the student chapter marketing competitions. For this year&#8217;s &#8220;Leading the Charge&#8221; event, students from Virginia Tech have chosen to promote Blue Ridge Apple Chips for a company based out of Western Virginia. Team member Josh Stephens (pictured shaking hands far right) touts the apple chips as a healthy, on-the-go snack for busy-bodies living in the fast track&#8230; like us bloggers.<\/p>\n<p><img align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"vspace=\"5\"border=\"1\"src=\"http:\/\/www.zimmcomm.biz\/images\/nama\/nama08-student-semi-02a.jpg\" alt=\"NAMA student competitors\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nYou can listen to Laura McNamara&#8217;s interview with Josh here, where he explains why his team chose Blue Ridge Apple Chips. He also comments on what he&#8217;s learning through the NAMA experience&#8230; and he&#8217;ll tell you, marketing isn&#8217;t easy. <\/p>\n<p>But then, that&#8217;s why we are all here at the NAMA Agrimarketing Conference isn&#8217;t it&#8230;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zimmcomm.biz\/audio.gif\" alt=\"Listen to MP3\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimmcomm.biz\/nama\/nama08-stu-josh-stephens.mp3\">Interview with Josh Stephens<\/a>  (2 min MP3)<\/p>\n<p>The NAMA Blog is sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriculture.com\/\">Successful Farming<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big part of the NAMA Agrimarketing Conference is the student chapter marketing competitions. For this year&#8217;s &#8220;Leading the Charge&#8221; event, students from Virginia Tech have chosen to promote Blue Ridge Apple Chips for a company based out of Western Virginia. Team member Josh Stephens (pictured shaking hands far right) touts the apple chips as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agri-marketing-conf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}