so far so good!

My name is Megan and I am a Graphic Design Intern at Skai Blue Media and so far everything is going really well. Everyone I work with is really friendly and makes you feel at home right away. I feel like I am really learning a lot and keeping up well with all the work that I have been given considering this is my first internship. Its crazy the amount of work I have done thus far and its even more crazy how its out there for people to see on websites, blogs, and invitations for events. It’s honestly a…

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Interning for a Month

My name is Karly O’Toole, I have been interning for Vizion Group in Berwyn PA working with two non-profit organizations.  I also have two other jobs so I have been spreading my time out trying to get everything in.  The experience thus far has been interesting!  Working for a nonprofit organization causes a lot of stress and a lot of work.  So far I have learned many different things, one being that you cannot fall behind in work!  Since there are so many different events that go into this organization there are a million different letters, phone calls, organizing, excel…

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The rewriting process

Luke Sullivan, veteran copywriter and author of Hey Whipple Squeeze This: The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads, states on his blog, “100% of everything you create in this business will be second-guessed and 95% of it will die.” Well, I recently took part in meetings where a first piece of copy in a campaign written by a team of copywriters from an affiliated insurance company took that same exact route: the piece was second-guessed, and completely died. This didn’t happen throughout a typical series of agency/client meetings either. This happened during a series of new partnership meetings between two…

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What’s a media kit?

In the beginning of my work week I was asked to do a media kit for one of the employees at Skai Blue Media. I didn’t know much when it came to making a media kit and really what it entailed but after a few searches and talking one on one with my supervisor I became a media kit pro. Basically this kit was a visual way to show her clients who she is working with under Skai Blue Show. I had to showcase four different clients where on each individual page I put about them, their press mentions, social…

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An Internship Soon Ending but Never to be Forgotten

Unforunately, my internship at Townsquare Media-AC is coming to an end. I enjoyed my sales internship for the five radio stations and am sad say goodbye to my cubicle and my fun friends. It was fantastic to be surrounded by fun and intelligent people here at Townsquare Media. I had the opportunity to work on a successful team and add valuable contributions. I worked on things like excel spreadsheets, proofreading, binding presentations together, and researching clients. I even got to ride around with the Sales Manager making sales! I feel like I got a real glimpse into the way the…

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My First Internship Experience

I love my internship so much!  I’m a current intern at college living magazine.  It’s a great opportunity for me being an advertising major because I’m doing so many hands on things.  I’ve basically been put in charge for the art direction portion of the business.  This includes designing business cards, editing contracts and media kits, designing and posting various coupons to the main website, and a bunch of other things too!  This internship has given me the chance to learn about the work of a real art director versus just being an intern, and I think that it’s awesome.…

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It’s an Exciting Time Here at PrimePay

As the title states, it is an exciting time to be an employee at PrimePay, especially in its marketing department. My name is Courtney Dolan and I am currently a summer intern at the company known as PrimePay. Now, I’m sure most of you who read the title perhaps wondered, “What is PrimePay?”. PrimePay is a provider of business outsourcing solutions specifically targeting small businesses. For example, they offer computing services as well as management plans for payroll, human resources, insurance, and benefit options to small businesses using one, single source. They began in 1986 by founder and CEO Bill Pellicano and…

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Doing Great Work at an Internship

Everyone wants to impress his or her boss by doing outstanding work at an internship. But how do you know when the opportunity is there? I work as a Web Design Intern at a company called ASTM International. My main task at my internship is to reorganize and redesign the company’s intranet site, currently over 400 pages in a confusing and cluttered navigation. On my first day, my boss gave me a useful book to read, Don’t Make Me Think, by Steve Krug. This book has great advice and information about web interaction and usability. He lent it to me…

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Lessons I’ve Already Learned At My Internship

I am currently working as an intern at Townsquare Media-AC as an Advertising/Business intern in the sales department. Their five radio stations are Cat Country 107.3 FM, Lite Rock 96.9 FM, SoJO 104.9 FM, ESPN 97.3 FM and WPG 1450AM.  I’ve learned a few valuable lessons just in my first few weeks at Townsquare Media-AC. The things I have learned I will remember for the rest of my working life, such as: 1. Save all your work… in more than one place. I learned to back up my work after losing everything I had done in my first 15 hours spent at…

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From a Philly Campus to Campus Philly

 I love going to college in Philadelphia so what better place to intern than at Campus Philly? Campus Philly is a non-profit organization that encourages college students to study, explore, live and work in the Greater Philadelphia tri-state region. (Check out their website here!). You can learn about Philly events, find out about internships and jobs, and much more. As the design intern I have been working closely with the creative manager on all sorts of projects. I helped redesign and update the style guide, designed new info graphics, and worked in Dreamweaver to edit code for the website. It…

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SquashSmarts: Giving Kids Their Best Shot.

Hello everyone! This is Jay reporting from SquashSmarts. To begin, I started interning here about two weeks ago and I have learned a lot already! SquashSmarts an after-school program that recruits students from Philadelphia’s public schools to help them with academics and sports and keep them in track for graduation. This program started in 2001, and was specifically designed to keep students in school. Since Philadelphia has one of the highest high-school dropout rates, SquashSmarts became an antidote for that. This program is free, and recruits students based on their commitment, effort and attitude. SquashSmarts recruits 5th and 6th graders, and…

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My Experience with Campus Night Out

Alexander Azar Blog Post 2 As an aspiring musician, I remember lunging at the opportunity of working with an event-planning group in hopes of gaining a better understanding of the inner workings of the music industry. More specifically, I was most curious as to how artists were being judged by the people who may or may not pay them a large sum of money. Additionally, I was fascinated by the qualities promotion companies look for in prospective artists as well as the “red flags” that they considered possible liabilities for an event’s success. Four months later, I feel as though…

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Juelz Santana Live at The Blockley

Alexander Azar Blog Post 1 Nearing the end of January, I began my internship with Campus Night Out LLC, a small yet successful company that specializes in  event planning and promotion. More specifically, the majority of Campus Night Out’s revenue is created through “booking” artists or DJ’s to play at a given location, then ultimately profiting off of ticket sales and or drink purchases made throughout the night. This formula has proven to be lucrative for Campus Night Out as the up-start company has quickly gained notoriety throughout the city for their consistent rate of success in terms of ticket-sales…

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So, it turns out, work CAN be fun

I think most of us in advertising can agree that we have to do a lot of challenging work. But I bet most of have also realized that some, if not a lot, of the work we do is pretty fun. After all, we’re in a field of communication- conveying a message to an audience is our purpose, and sometimes it’s a message of FUN we’re working to sell. For example, the company I’ve been interning for, The Drink Nation, is dedicated to showing you the “best drinks and bars in your location,” (the company’s tagline)- clearly this is a…

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A Learning Experience

As the semester is coming to an end, and my time at Focus Point Global is coming to a close, I’m confident in moving on to new opportunities and taking with me everything that the company has taught me. As my Grassroots Recruiting Task required working mostly outside the facility, in order to effectively work as a recruiter, I had to be in touch with different groups of people. This was the first and very important task that I had to undertake because it helped me connect too well with the outside world. I have to say that this internship…

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