Last week was all about firsts for new Miami Dolphins starting quarterback Jay Cutler. Cameron Wake Jerseys The formerly semi-retired Cutler played his first preseason game, completed his first passes and even took his first big hit on his surgically repaired shoulder after a botched screen play against the Baltimore Ravens. "I was kind of glad to get that one out of the way," Cutler said. Now that the training wheels are off, the Dolphins enter a crucial week to get Cutler ready for the regular season.
Miami travels to Philadelphia several days early to hold joint practices with the Eagles on Monday and Tuesday. Jarvis Landry Jerseys After a day off Wednesday, the Dolphins will play their third -- and most critical -- preseason game, against the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on Thursday. These are all important opportunities for Cutler to speed up his progression. Cutler signed a one-year, $10 million contract with Miami just two weeks ago after a season-ending knee injury to quarterback Ryan Tannehill. The expectation is Cutler will be prepared to take over the offense by Miami’s Sept. 10 regular-season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
"I feel really good with where we’re at right now,” Dolphins coach Adam Gase said of Cutler and the offense. Jay Ajayi Jerseys “This next week will be really good for us, because [we're] going against another team and playing that third preseason game. We’ll just keep trying to improve and get in that game flow. I liked what I saw [this past Thursday]. Mario Williams Jerseys I’m ready to get this going [this] week.” Cutler played two series last week in his Dolphins debut and went 3-of-6 for 24 yards. Look for Cutler to see significantly more playing time Thursday in what might be his final action of the preseason. Veteran starting quarterbacks often skip the fourth preseason game, but much of that will depend on how sharp Cutler is this week.
According to the 12-year veteran, the biggest challenge at this stage is getting to know the nuances of his skill players, such as Pro Bowl receiver Jarvis Landry, tight end Julius Thomas, running back Jay Ajayi and receivers Kenny Stills and DeVante Parker. Ndamukong Suh Jerseys “You have to immerse yourself as best you can, be around these guys constantly, ask a lot of questions, see what they like, what they dislike,” Cutler said. “It takes a little bit of time, but I think with this group, they make it a little easier, because it is a younger team. But they’re really good guys that want to win, and they’re good football players.”
RUSSIAN LOYALTY MARKET: BEAR HAS WOKEN UP
The history of Russian loyalty market started not so long ago. In 1998 it consisted of just three programs – 2 air companies (Transaero and Aeroflot) and a restaurant chain Rosinter with its “Honored guest” program. Today no one knows exactly how many loyalty programs exist in Russia, but the right answer is “many”.
Unfortunately, voices of foreign experts are still seldom heard in the Russian market. Even more rarely do players (members) of foreign markets share their views on the processes running in our country, usually confining themselves to relating stories about their own practices.
According to the research conducted by the British Finaccord company in 2011, 14,5 percent of the world’s population - an estimated 650 million people - are participating in at least one loyalty program and these figures are constantly growing.
10th -11th of October 2012, Kiev, VIII International Forum ‘Loyal Customer: Where is His Button?’
VIII International Forum ‘Loyal Customer: Where is His Button?’ is an annual event attracting more than 200 delegates from Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and Kazakhstan. Experts, having wide practical experience, will discuss implementation of loyalty programs and customer experience management, present innovative technologies used to develop profitable customer loyalty programs and establish strategies to increase the value of customers.
The aim of the event is to acquaint CIS companies with new practices, trends and technologies in the spheres of customer relationship marketing, customer experience management and CRM decisions.
Agenda is as follows:
For more information http://www.loyaltyforum.info/program
IX Customer Management Forum 2012. 23-24 October, Moscow.
Loyalty School (mini-MBA), 24th -25th of May 2012, Kiev
Elena Naumchik, ‘We are living in times of rapid changes. New products with unique qualities are created, new stars of business corporations appear, while business pillars are lying in ruins. Stocks and rates may depreciate at any moment of time. Economic instability is becoming a new long-term ‘quality’ of modern business environment.
Loyalty Programs as a key to efficient businesses, conference, RBC Agency, 14th of June 2012, Moscow
About the event: the conference involved representatives of a wide range of offline and online retail companies including FMCG, fashion industry, electronics, IT technologies, air carriers, restaurant business and others, which have relevant experience of developing strategies and successful implementing of loyalty programs in different business sectors.
Loyalty World Russia 2012, 15th -16th of May 2012, Moscow
About the event: Loyalty World Russia, CIS & Baltics 2012 is a conference designed to assist businesses in understanding the complexity that lies behind running a successful customer loyalty campaign. The conference brought together business leaders from a wide range of countries including Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania.