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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Planning My Future

This semester I held two internships, at the Philadelphia Zoo and Harcum College, that blessed me with the chance to see different facets of the event planning field. Though I am an aspiring wedding planner, it is crucial for me to experience all types of planning. I think it’s important because not only do I need to make sure wedding planning is what I want to do specifically but when I do get into my career, I want to use all that experience in whatever type of planning I do. I think this is relevant to all majors. For example,…

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Intern at The Pros

Since photography is such a huge part at The Pros for their advertising I was given the opportunity to view hundreds of beautiful photos. I have always liked photography but after working at The Pros I have really grown attracted to it. I would like to take a photography class to really educate myself more on my developing passion. Given many assignments to pick out certain styles of photos I have built confidence in my photography “eye”. This internship has helped expand my skills in decision making , meeting deadlines, and opening my eyes to photography. If not given this…

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Working for a Small Business

My internship was totally different than your typical internship. I worked for Sukkatash, a one man show who mostly focused in film to promote customers, along with working with HyLo boutiques as their creative director. This one man is Lendl Tellington, a really good friend of mine. He’s been my friend since he was my TA at UArts when I was 16. Last semester he sat me down and told me he wanted me to be his intern. Of course I said yes. I could fill my internship requirement, and work with my mentor. Usually when you have an internship,…

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Last days at Relapse Records

As the curtain closes on my 150th hour at Relapse Records; during the Spring of our 2,013th year, I cannot help but reflect on the experiences and lessons I will be taking along with me. Having stumbled upon this label just a few months after moving to Philadelphia in 2011, I was very pleased to learn that it not only did the music cater to my favorite genre; but that I was able to integrate it into my education at Temple. My eyes were opened to the inner workings of the music industry on a smaller, more independent scale, however…

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Sales in the big leagues

  Hi, my name is Matt Lynam. I am a senior in the advertising program on the management track.  For this past semester I have been interning at a large, privately owned, international paper distribution company called LindenMeyr.  At my internship I assisted the sales team throughout the sales process. As I said, I assisted the sales team with finding new leads.  I would do this by seeking out local businesses and printing/ publishing companies to see if they were happy with their current paper providers.  If not I would arrange a meeting with a sales associate because I was…

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Wrapping Up and Moving On.

I can’t believe I graduate this Thursday! This past semester, as well as the past 7, have taught me so much about myself and what it takes to be successful in college. In these past 4 years of my undergrad, I’ve held down countless jobs, activities, and internships, and I must say it was all worth it. The majority of my enlightenment has come from the countless days I’ve spent going from one thing to another, juggling far too much than I probably should have. But now, as I stand at the cusp of college and the real world, I…

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Last Event With Philly Mag!

Hey guys, I wanted to post and share about my closing experience of my very first internship! After a semester as an advertising sales intern at Philadelphia magazine, I have to say the most exciting part about the opportunity was being able to work the events. It gave me a different type of experience than your average office day. Yes tension and stress levels were always high on site the day of the event, but it was also exciting to see everyone’s hard work come together in a form that allowed us to physically see and enjoy the results.   With…

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Final Days at Philly Mag

With my last day at Philadelphia Magazine officially over, I am realizing how much I really learned from this experience. I am a junior in both research and account management tracks and this was my first internship. I feel that I learned so much just being in the office and seeing the way the business works. I am not only going to miss working at 1818 Market, but also working with everyone at Philadelphia Magazine. Working surrounded by all these professionals really gave me motivation to have a job there some day. Everyone is so focused and dedicated to there…

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A new experience at FPG

My name is Juna Kika. I’m a junior at Temple University studying Advertising! I am currently the Marketing Intern over at Focus Pointe Global in Center City. Focus Pointe Global is a national marketing research company that offers internship programs established with the purpose to expose students to the real working environment.  By bringing in new consumers our studies can be filled for our clients and in this way we can boost our database. My position is called the Grassroots Recruiting Task, in which I get to work outside the facility. My job is to build the database and recruit…

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I’m done with my internship… Now what?!

It’s a scary thought for a lot of seniors when the end of the school year finally approaches. All the credits are completed, the works handed in, the exams are graded, the internship comes to an end and now it’s time to enter the real world. A lot of graduating seniors still might not know exactly what they’re doing and it’s a scary thought. Being a transfer student my sophomore year and changing my major so late in the game, I actually will not graduate until December. So while I’m slightly sad I cannot graduate with most of friends I’m…

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