This summer I had the opportunity to be an Intern at Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide, in their Speciality Marketing department. Specialty Marketing specializes in Oncology and Hep C related drugs. I am one of 13 interns! Working at Ogilvy CommonHealth has been such an amazing experience. Everyone is very friendly and willing to help. I’ve attended status meetings, finance meetings, and concept meetings. Having the opportunities to go to these meetings makes it really helpful in learning how an agency runs. You can only really see how different departments like creative, traffic, copy, and account work together by seeing it first hand.…

I’ve been waiting patiently for the perfect blog entry. I wanted something interesting and motivational for my fellow peers to read. Not just a day-to-day post about ‘what I did at my internship today’ kind of post. And last week my idea came walking in, ready to tell a story. I am currently an intern at Bradford Media Company, in the lovely town of West Chester, PA. They are a small company that works specifically with social, reach and production, I was hired as a social media intern. I won’t bore you with the in’s and out’s of my daily…

        Good afternoon,   My name is Matt Crawford and I am currently the marketing and advertising intern at Weston Fitness. Weston is located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia and is known as one of the premier fitness centers in the area. I was happy to receive the opportunity to do advertising for a company that provides a service that I enjoy part taking in. So far this experience has taught me a lot. I have definitely brushed up on my Photoshop skills, learned how to identify a more concrete target audience, the inter-relationship between…

After working heavily with Lessonsmith in the company Defined Clarity, I was asked to do sales with Defined Clarity. The task I was asked to do was still involving research, but it was a different type. Defined Clarity’s main seller was designing websites and finding companies that lacked good website navigation and design. Bruce, the boss of Defined Clarity, gave me a book of all companies in the greater Philadelphia area with their contact information, location, website, and company names. I was asked to search through a selected number of company websites and contact their CEO’s and marketing directors to…

Starting at the end of May, I’ve gotten an internship at Defined Clarity. In the beginning of my internship at Defined Clarity, I was working as a researcher. I loved the atmosphere of the business, and everyone I was working with was very friendly. My job was to search for teachers’ emails and information so our head department leaders could contact them and inform them about the product we were trying to sell, which is Lessonsmith. Lessonsmith and Defined Clarity are two companies combined in one, but Defined Clarity dealt more with sales and marketing, while Lessonsmith was the specific…

Hello, I’m Tom McCann, and I am currently an intern for the clothing company John Varvatos. It is a high fashion company that tries to inject a rock and roll feel into all its looks. This is perhaps what attracted me most to the company. As an advertising major, I tend to analyze and critique most ads I see. John Varvatos campaigns always take famous rockers and dress them in beautiful clothing, then take pictures in exotic locales. The end result is quite alluring, and gets the purpose of the brand across quite well. Unfortunately, the offices of John Varvatos…

For my internship at Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide, the interns are put into groups to put together a project. Our project this year was to bring awareness of a pro bono client to the employees of Ogilvy CommonHealth. The client we had was a charity. My group held a gallery event where employees could come down and view our pieces (advertisements) to learn about direct relief and what they do to help make the world a better place. We also had a slide show of images playing along with a small animation to help demonstrate through pictures how they help! After…

Good afternoon everyone, this is Rob, Marketing Intern at Vertex, Inc.   Over the course of this internship there are many things I have learned about myself, the business/corporate world, as well as grasping in depth marketing concepts.   However, none of these things to me outweigh what I have learned about setting myself up properly for my future life ahead of me.  The biggest contributing factor to this is familiarizing myself with the power of investing at a young age and building a money making portfolio before I ever hit the working world.   The person that introduced this lesson to me…

This is my final week interning at Skai Blue Media. Over the last couple of months I have found myself growing as a graphic designer and as a person. There have been many challenges following this internships, deadlines, edits, etc. It has taught me a lot about being in a busy business setting where things need to be done and close to perfect in a snap. That is something that you need to be thrown into in order to learn. Sure we have deadlines at school but they are not as harsh as in the business industry. Sometimes things will…

I recently received the opportunity to intern at Xfinity Live!, a new and upcoming sports entertainment venue. Inside, there are 5 different restaurants, a shop, ice cream, and even a few bars! Inside, an enormous television overlooks the venue, with many other TV’s that surround it. Xfinity Live! has an incredible atmosphere, and I work in the center of it all, a DJ booth. Even though I do not DJ, my station consists of a mac with two monitors. I usually work in the mornings, and my daily duties consist of lowering the lights (to make it more club-esque), making sure all…

Hello again, as promised I will give you a little insight into what being an Art Director entails (or at least what I have been able to assist Rusty the Art Director with). My boss, Dawn, gave the opportunity to work with the creative team during a photo shoot for Stoneberry. They are  a catalogue-based company that sells and/or rents everything from home goods to jewelry. The shoot I was involved with was one for bedding and drapes that they will be offering for the holiday season. Rusty’s job (and mine) is to make sure that the composition in the shot…

I have recently started an internship with Wired 96.5. I work under the on-air DJ Casey. I assist and help organize on-air activities, contribute to social media communications, keep up with general office duties as required, and even attend and operate special events. My favorite part so far was working at Wired Fest. It was very interesting seeing from an outside perspective how those watching the show act, rather than being one of them. It gave me a lot of laughs. While I am at the station, I remain in the studio as Casey runs her on-air show. Being behind…