My Experience at Cashman & Associates

Hello! My name is Mark Longacre, and I’m currently interning with Cashman & Associates, the public relations firm in Northern Liberties. Cashman & Associates is an incredibly fast paced public relations firm representing some of Philadelphia’s most well-known organizations.  We represent Stephen Starr’s restaurants and Catering division Starr Events, The Shake Shack, 1706 Rittenhouse, and the Hotel Palomar, to name a few. Because Cashman represents a number of high profile clients, I feel my internship has taught me how to work professionally in an office environment.  We are constantly working inside and outside of the office, representing clients; therefore, the…

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Be a good worker!

Hi! I am Hyeri interning in TAF JK Group which is a web design and branding company. I am an advertising intern, so I am working projects related to advertising and marketing. Because the company is small, workers are like family and the atmosphere is flexible and free. While I am working free work place, I realized that several tips to be a good worker.   FIRST: Don’t let your attention loose! In the free atmosphere, it is easy that our attention would be slackening about the schedule. People usually do not want to work on Monday. I also felt…

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Be connected!

Hello, everyone! I am Hyeri. Currently, I am doing an internship as an advertising intern in TAF JK Group which is a web design and branding company.   I am interested in marketing, so I wanted to experience it. On my first day of the internship, my boss asked me what I expect to learn. I talked about my interests and he allowed me to participate in a new project which is launching a website for the Philly Korean community. The website is offering yellow pages of Korean businesses in Philadelphia, Korean news, Korean restaurant ratings, and so on. On…

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The 9-5 office job dealing with pins- and no, not Pinterest.

My summer internship is with Hamilton Jewelers, however in the insignia and business gifts department.  Hamilton has retail stores throughout the US, a corporate office in New Jersey and an insignia department in Philly- right along Broad St.  The commute is great, and I love what I have been doing, however explaining to people what I do is very confusing.  Hamilton Insignia deals with a very niche market and makes all of the insignia (pins, medals, jewelry, sashes) for organizations like Daughters of the American Revolution and Daughters of Indian Wars.  In my interview my bosses compared these organizations to me as…

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A Paid Search Internship that Surely Paid Off

Today marks the last week of my internship, and I am happy to be able to say that I had an excellent time doing it. My coworkers at Harmelin happily welcomed me, and most importantly guided me through the process of paid search advertising—a form of online advertising hosted on search engine websites and providing relevant advertisement to user searches. While it took some time at first to grasp the entire task of developing a search campaign, after breaking it down and asking plenty of questions, the ‘campaign build’ was learned in a couple of weeks, and I was left…

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And the words just keep coming.

Good morning, afternoon, or evening (for whatever time you happen to be reading this!), I’m Austin Sabattis, the S3 Agency’s (former) copywriting intern. Besides my complete shock that it’s August, meaning school will soon be starting up again, I’m absolutely blown away at how fast the time went while interning at S3. It feels like yesterday I was shown my desk and handed my first brief. Since then I’ve not only grown as a copywriter, but developed a comfort with words and writing unlike ever before. Temple’s advertising department has prepared me for the agency world in every way imaginable,…

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Xfinity Comes to a Closing

Throughout the summer I had a great experience at Xfinity Live! doing a lot of the Audio/Visual work for the venue. This included being in charge of all the TV’s in the venue, and doing a little bit of DJing. As the summer comes to an end, so does my time at Xfinity, but not before some interesting things I’ve worked on!   At first I started working on Motion Graphics for the billboards at my supervisor’s other venue. I then started making things for Xfinity Live. This includes advertisements for upcoming events, and even event media, such as video…

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“Do You Know the Exact Address for Google’s Offices?” “No, Just Google It.”

About a month and a half into my paid search internship with Harmelin Media this summer, I was surprised with the exciting news that our team would be taking a trip to visit our Google reps in New York City. Two weeks later the dozen-or-so of us met up outside the office (at 6:30 am, the only downside of the trip) and headed up the interstate and into NYC’s Meat Packing District. For those unfamiliar with the term, ‘Paid Search’ is a form of online advertising hosted on search engines—primarily Google and Yahoo/Bing!—and intuitively displays all-copy ads relevant to a…

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Summer Internship in NYC ….. 3 months is nothing (1st half of the summer)

Hi Everyone, My first summer internship in New York City, the Mecca of advertising and marketing, is a dream come true for me.  I am extremely thrilled to have gotten this opportunity to learn, network, and build on the skills I have gained through two years of education at Temple Ad department.I feel so lucky to be one of them to work in the heart of city ‘Manhattan.’ Let me tell you more about this company. The company I am interning at is an Indian publication company, publishing a total of three newspapers publications – News India Times (national weekly…

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Summer Internship in NYC… (2nd half of the internship)

Hi Everyone, After I was successful in my first few tasks given to me, I made few recommendations to improve their brands on the basis of the feedbacks got from the customers. I brought those issues in front of my boss and he was shocked as well as impressed and gave me a very important task of building their online and social media presence. My hard work and patience were paid off. Right now, I am working on their social media platforms like Facebook, twitter and Pinterest including the logo. Excited!!! So at the end I will give you few…

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A little bit of everything

Let me offer you a few definitions of the word INTERN: n. A student or recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training.  (thefreedictionary.com) n. People who are hired to do menial monotonous work that you couldn’t pay people people to do long term because they would quit (urbandicitonary.com) Okay, so I think we all go into an internship hoping that it fits more closely to the first definition I provided. But, I think our experience ends up being a combination of the two. We still do not have enough knowledge to do the work of a paid employee, but we are there to…

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Are they speaking gibberish?

Spoiler Alert: They’re not! It’s just the crazy world of Pharmaceutical Advertising that may make you feel like you’re in a Charlie Brown classroom. Hello there! My name is Jackie McGrath. I am an intern at MediMedia Managed Markets, a pharmaceutical advertising agency in Yardley, PA. We all know that Temple adequately prepares us for the real world of advertising, so I was quite surprised when I couldn’t understand the majority of the terms used in my first client stat-meeting with MediMedia. I took the internship with a pharmaceutical company knowing that it would be slightly different than the business to…

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Fast Cars, Hot Coffee, and Writing at S3

  How much does a polar bear weigh? Enough to break the ice… Hi, I’m Austin. I’m currently tearing my way through a copywriting internship at S3, a smaller agency in northern New Jersey. While S3 isn’t pushing out media in every shape and size for Coke or Chevy, they end up doing a lot of interesting (and often diverse) work for a variety of clients including Eight O’Clock Coffee, BMW Motorcycles, Panda Licorice, and an array of brands you won’t encounter until you’re 50. S3 came to me as sort of a wild card. Being from New Jersey (and…

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Laid back.. Still productive

Hello all, Rob Sundry reporting from Vertex Inc. There is a lot to be said for a company that keeps its employees happy.  Often times you find that when a company has happy or content people working for them that they are effective more times than not.  You see it every day with companies such a Google and Yahoo. These companies place a huge emphasis on treating their staff with extra special care by doing such things as, granting people breaks during the day, or casual attire in the office.  It’s the little things like this that keep employees fresh…

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The Weston Finale

    Hi guys, I am back with my second and final blog! I chose to wait until the final week of my internship to complete my final blog for specific reasoning. The whole point of any internship is to help pave the way for future endeavors. We show up at our place of work early in the morning with the hopes of gaining as much insight and experience as possible. We act like sponges trying to absorb as much as we can…At least that is what I tried to do. I applied for an inside sales position at SHI…

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