How does a small business fit into the big city world? This is a question I asked myself for a while. Being from the suburbs, I have always been caught in between the corporate world and the small business world, and could never quite grasp what was in between. The other day at my internship with Chatterblast Media, a piece of my puzzle was discovered. While reading over a blog post my creative director Matthew Ray wrote, and after talking with him about it a bit, I found a whole new understanding to the meaning of small business. Matt wrote…

I have gained so much knowledge about how to go about selling with the Temple News. This experience is everything I thought it be would be, and more.  This experience helped me to put my pride to the side, get the job done, step out on faith, and go for the sell. My boss Zachary inspires me in so many different ways, because he speaks with such confidence, and knowledge of the business. It inspires me the most, because he started out as just an intern like me, and he grew within the Temple News. Zachary does a wonderful job,…

I had the pleasure of coming on to Temple News as an intern. I really enjoy what I do as a part of helping Temple News. My job is to find different clients who will be beneficial for temple students. My first client is Got Laundry. Got Laundry is a great service, that I think will be very helpful for students. Got Laundry is a dry cleaning service that picks up,  washes, folds and returns your clothes. It also has great package deals for students that are very affordable . I had the opportunity of setting up my first meeting with the company to help execute…

Before you get all on edge from the title, the reality of interning at an advertising agency is good – I even came back for a second semester! I am an account management intern at LevLane Advertising, and tend to work on research projects here. From the moment I came in for my interview last October to almost a year later, I have had so many expectations squashed…by even better realities. Here are a few of the things I have learned from interning at LevLane: Expectation: Interns are only good for making coffee and running errands. Reality: The first day of…

If you read my previous post about interning at Digitas Health I mentioned that I worked on a mock pitch that was presented to senior executives in NYC. During the last month of the internship the Philadelphia and NYC interns were put into groups and given the assignment which was for a fake type 2 diabetes medication. My group consisted of 4 other interns from 3 of the NYC offices. I was the media planner and the others were the creative, project manager, account planner and researcher. I thought this project would have been a breeze since I have done…

This summer I had the pleasure to be a media intern at Digitas Health in Philadelphia. Digitas Health is under the Publicis Groupe which is worldwide with over 1,000 agencies. Digitas Health is a full service advertising agency that specializes in healthcare. I have always wanted to intern at a full service advertising agency but I never imagined I would work in healthcare. During the 8 weeks I spent at Digitas Health I attended intern trainings, media trainings, SMEs (subject matter experts) events, assisted in media plans, managed media campaigns, attended vendor meetings, had lunch with the CEO in NYC…

When I first got my internship with Freedom Credit Union, I had no idea what to expect. I had never worked in an office before at all, and certainly never for a financial institution. So I wasn’t sure what to do when my boss’s boss, the VP of the company, told me to apply for an open position – Membership Development Representative. I had been out with the person currently in that position during my internship before. We visited a few employee orientations that were in our SEGs (select employee groups). I enjoyed talking to people and informing them on…

This summer I interned for two Philadelphia radio stations: Wired 96.5 (Philly’s Party Station) and 92.5 XTU (Philly’s Country Station). During my internship I worked in two different departments. On Wednesdays and other various days of the week I was an intern for both stations’ promotions department and on Tuesdays I interned in the studio on Buster’s show on Wired 96.5 in the afternoon. As kids we’re warned by countless family members never to talk to strangers but this summer I disregarded everything that rule has ever taught me. The first thing we were told during the interview process for this…

As the first month of my internship passed, I found myself working in numerous departments. I was often assigned to work in the direct response department. The DR department works with ads that feature a call-to-action. I found it interesting how these ads successes are determined by lead generation, or the amount of people calling the 1800 number or visiting a website. For one project, I helped in figuring out why a client’s leads were decreasing from the previous year. I made sure the correct 1800 numbers were running on the correct spots in the right markets. This is the…