Survey Says!

  It is known that surveying and focus groups can give you valuable insight into consumer brand perceptions. They can also be used to test potential ad campaigns and positioning before they are fully developed to make sure they are in line with the targets interest. Surveys and focus groups can also be tricky as the way questions are asked can corrupt the thought process that would give you the most accurate information. You must also think about what type of information will be the most valuable to you. Are you looking for quantitative numbers to determine your plan of…

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When you assume…

Before I even my internship at D4 Creative Group I had preconceived notions about what my tasks would entail. Coming from another internship at Red Tettemer + Partners I assumed that every agency runs under the same set of blue prints and just tweaks them a little to fit their needs. Well I was seriously mistaken. While over at Red Tettemer + Partners job jackets ruled the world. It was the very first thing that you learned how to do when starting an internship with them. By the end of your first week you were able to properly label them,…

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Wouldn’t it be nice?

Hey! It’s Amber Volponi, and it’s my last week at Temple University, College of Health Professions and Social Work (CHPSW) in the Communications and Marketing department. So all summer, I’ve been working on the College’s office monthly newsletter. I was also given the task to update information on the website, and create new photoshopped banners for the Nursing Department and the Kinesiology department. Because the new website was being launched, I was also given the task to write some copy (and if you know me, I’m not that great with writing copy. I usually leave that up to my best…

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Smile, It’s a photo shoot!

Hi Guys, This is Jasmine coming to you from Teen Vogue. So you guys have have already heard about my tips from an intern’s point of view. Now I wanted to share with you some fun things that I have been able to do during my time here! Photo- shoots are a really big part of any magazine no matter the theme of the magazine. My second day at Teen Vogue I was invited to work on the set of an amazing photo shoot. When my boss asked me I was beyond ecstatic. I couldn’t believe this was happening on…

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MAKING my MARK

  As my internship with Chestnut Hill LOCAL newspaper winds down I reflect on my experiences and find that I am very satisfied with my work here. Though it was a fairly smaller scale internship I got a chance to work on projects that bigger companies would not have so easily given out. Writing web pages, making ads, and designing banners for the new website has surely spoiled me for my next internship. As of now I am wrapping up the work I have left for the New Mt. Airy LOCAL website that CHL will be coming out within the…

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Learning something new about new business

When I started my internship at D4 Creative Group I was under the impression that I would be taking on the position as an Account Management intern. However, as things progressed my title soon morphed into New Business intern and I am very glad that it did. In the account management track we briefly touch on the subject of new business within an agency. We grasp an understanding of what a request for proposal is and what to do once we have obtained one, in fact many project that we do throughout the program are based on this outline. But,…

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The Power of Pigs #1

I have an internship with Hatfield Quality Meats in their customer solutions department. Customer Solutions is split into three separate parts, Marketing, Sales, and customer service. I am the only intern in the whole department and I mostly help out the salesmen for the fresh pork team and help out with marketing for the entire company. Hatfield is the company that does the Philadelphia Phillies Dollar Dog Night. Hatfield is owned by the Clemens Food Group which is a branch of the Clemens Family Corporation. The Clemens Family Corporation owns many different businesses including pork production, real estate, transportation, cold…

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Office Politics

Interning at At Media revealed to me a role of advertising agencies that I had yet to associate with it. I had the opportunity to assist with the campaign for a candidate running for City Council in Philadelphia’s 2nd District (the area around Point Breeze in South Philadelphia). This was an election close to the owners of At Media as they are residents of Point Breeze and even have their own non-profit organization called Point Breeze Pioneers that aims to help the community.  I have never considered myself a political person and realized there are a lot of advertising campaigns…

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The Power of Pigs #2

The past 3 weeks have been very exciting. Three weeks ago, I was asked to help with Hatfield Meat’s Christmas holiday ham promotions. I was moved from the sales department to the marketing and promotional department. Along with helping them with their Ham promotions, I was asked to help the marketing people with different projects. Throughout the past couple weeks, we have had a few meetings as far as brainstorming and figuring out what the cost would be to implement any type of promotion. Once we decided that we were going with a certain plan, we had to go over…

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The next “Big thing”

Working at Ogilvy and Mather has opened my eyes to major trends emerging in the industry. I believe the next “Big Thing” in advertising is complicated given the array of pieces that are needed to create any great cohesive campaign over a number of mediums.  However, if I had to pick what I believed to be the next “big thing” I would say it would have to do with the production of creative content for the application of digital and mobile media along with the development of the web platforms and technologies that will be used to deliver them.  Over…

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Wrapping up my Internship

Interning at a television station has taught me a  lot this summer. Long drives into New Jersey, hours of co-editing, close captioning, that is, repeating everything being said on screen into a microphone, and blogging has added up to an exhausting, but very rewarding couple of months. Being able to observe and be a part of real-world, professional production and business is truly exciting and has given me a much more realistic outlook on future career goals, more so than working with peers in a college environment. While I have gotten to meet people who have inspired me, and some who have…

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Long interesting meeting.

Hi again, Today I sat in on my first meeting on the top floor. This meeting was about the new stance FHB has on one of their long term clients, ABC fine wines and liquors. FHB has been the ad agency for them for more than 15 years now and have had some limitations on what they could and could not do especially considering the online aspect of the campaign. The major problem with the website, that we found out, was the problem with the key words coming up with the search engines. It wasnt that the web page didnt…

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Lasting Impressions at At Media

My time interning at At Media flew by. I feel like I am more prepared to enter my senior year at Temple because this experience has reinforced how important this final semester is. I was intrigued by the inner workings of such a small company and how they are able to rely on a network of freelancers to complete their understated workload.  The team at At Media, mainly Antoinette Johnson and Tyler Westnedge, introduced me to several organizations, namely Old City Creative Corridor and recently, Skillshare. They have shown me how to reach out to people either through cold calling,…

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Dolce Caffè Font

This week, I was sent in a post from the artists who designed this font! Inspired by the café culture that forms such an integral part of everyday life in Europe, Dolce Caffè is a sweet & stylish handwritten font that is very legible, simple, and useful. It was designed in 2011 after the many cool handwritten chalkboards I saw on the streets of Berlin, a city that I love. All the glyphs were designed by hand first, and than vectorized with Illustrator CS5. Use this typeface when you need a neatly handwritten style for your projects. The letters are…

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Miles High Productions – The final week

This is the final week for my internship with Miles High Productions. With only one final report to submit to the marketing manager, the only other task that I need to get accomplished is my phone conference with the president and founder of the company, Chip Shultzman. In this upcoming phone conference, Chip will be interviewing me on the internship, finding out my thoughts on the company and the work that was assigned to me. Another main component of this phone conference will be regarding next summer and the opportunities that exist for my potential employment with Miles High. Based on…

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