1 month left!

Hey guys just a quick update of where I'm at!

I am now promoting Mops, yes Mops, this week in a Sam's Club (smaller Costco). Last week I sold $1000 worth of Mops in 4 hours which set a close record for the marketing firm.

It may seem silly, and as a matter fact it kind of is, but it is one of the toughest things I have had to do. We set up a large booth in the Sam's Club. We then walk around the store handing out tickets telling people to come by our booth to receive a free gift. We then do a 10 minute show pitch that is very exact, precise, complicated  and demanding. We not only demo how it works but go through a specific order of explaining, comparing, showing, and "hyping" up this EZ Mop. This is all with a microphone on in front of 2-14 people (depending on how many show up). We do give a free gift away, as we promised, but that is just a way to bring people to our booth and watch our show. As I said earlier, we have morning meetings which we go over marketing techniques, closing/sale strategies, and discuss goals. I am close to being promoted to a leader/management position as an intern. I will do the mops this week and most likely be given opportunity to travel, learn a new campaign, develop a team and set up interviews.

I am looking at what I'm doing in a positive light. I'm not selling, currently, something I enjoy however I realized that besides learning promotional strategies, sales, public speaking, coming out of my comfort zone, showing my personality to get a sale, and understanding that if I do something like sell $1000 mops in 4 hours, I make 20% of that! Sales can be tough but I am looking at this cup half full and am going to set more goals as there is less than one month left!



Here is a link I use to memorize what is needed to be done (EXACTLY) when I am in the store by myself. Gives you a quick sneak peak into how the show is done.

http://youtu.be/c5Umtm4ASAM



That's all for now!

AJ

Just a Quick Update!

Man, these summer days really do fly by! I have been staying busy, I attended a beautiful event last week with Cork and Platter. I am really pleased with how our online presence has been growing - we recently were nominated as Best Caterers of San Diego! We are so excited. I am really focusing on social media to obviously spread the word about voting, and people are giving us great feedback about the weekly blogs I have been putting out! I pick a seasonal fruit or veggie each week from our partner produce seller called Specialty Produce. I check out the crops, pick one that seems exceptional, and write a blog with as much information, details, and recipes I can manage! It's been a really fun experience and seems to go over really well with our followers!

I have learned that coding and Wordpress don't go hand in hand. Sadly Wordpress hasn't been as user friendly as my boss had hoped, and so even though we have put a lot of hard work into creating our current website that we just unveiled we are starting over! Now we are using square, it's a really cool company that allows consumers to make their own website really easily! I will attach the link in case anyone wants to check it out so far...

That's all for now! Thanks!

https://maria-sparks.squarespace.com

I'm Back! Cork and Platter intern!

Hello Fellow Interns!

I somehow had gotten locked out of this blog group...but I'm happy to be back! Last time I checked in with you all I had just started my internship at Cork and Platter - San Diego's number one catering company. My boss, Chef Maria Sparks who is a well known food stylist and caterer/party planner has been absolute joy to work with. I couldn't be happier! Since the beginning of June I have been spending my weeks building a website, attending fabulous events, assisting in food photo shoots, and blogging nonstop! It's been an absolute blast. This internship has really opened my eyes to the culinary world, and definitely expanded my palette! My boss has been a great mentor throughout these past few weeks, she has understood my schedule of taking summer school courses and learning a new area - but she's certainly kept me busy! I spend four hours each day teaching myself how to code and build a website because my boss wanted to completely redo our website as ours was outdated and not very user friendly. I've also been running Cork and Platter's Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and online blog.

One of the most rewarding experiences of this internship thus far has been when a few of my blogs that I posted were re-tweeted and spread, even picked up by San Diego's Magazine! It has been such an honor to spread my blogs, and I am honestly working the dream job! I get to attend some fabulous events, take pictures, and blog about it! Talk about living the dream. I never knew that this area of work was possible, and I've realized that marketing is something I am actually really passionate about. I love drumming up business for Cork and Platter, and representing my boss in the best way possible.

I have quite a bit of blogging to make up for, so I will be back to blogging soon!

Thanks for reading!

It's Already The End!

Hey Everyone!

So this week I am wrapping up my internship at Head Start and let me say that it was such an AWESOME experience! The teachers were so willing to answer questions that I had and even let me run some activities throughout the day like circle and story time! Since this was a kindergarten readiness class for the summer, the kids were taught zoo phonics and important information about their bodies. I even learned things like how to say the body parts in Hawaiian and what each part does. For example, "head" in Hawaiian is "Po'o", and "fingers" is "manamanalima". We also had the kids do a body outline where we get a really long piece of paper and trace their bodies and then they take it home and work with their parents in decorating and dressing them up! I loved the fact that the teachers really invest in each student and cares about their successes in school. I don't know if a lot of you know about Head Start, but it is a preschool that provides for the lower income families. A lot of the children that are taught in these specific classrooms are kids that maybe only eat one or two meals a day and that is what they receive at school. I was so truly blessed to be able to work with these kids, because they are so smart, always have a positive attitude, wants to learn and I know that one day they will make a huge difference in the world. Well, I will tell you guys more about my experience next week! Have a great week everyone!

Chelsea

Internship with the Controller of Linfield College

Hey all!
Joining the bandwagon kind of late here, but I am excited to join this summer internship group with others that are doing the same thing I am!

This 2013 summer I am interning with the Accounting office at Linfield College. I had previously worked in the Accounts Payable office last summer and even before that, but took a step up and am now interning with the Controller of the college.
This position is great because before, I was doing more accounting bookkeeping like work, but now I am learning actual accounting procedures. This summer I am helping the Controller close out the fiscal year and all the journal entries, filing, and spreadsheet making that goes along with it. Every year the college also does an external audit. So once they start to do that more in depth I will be working with them, making sure they have all the tools, paperwork, and reports they need to be able to do their job successfully.
My goals for this internship are pretty simple. I want to gain a better understanding of how an accounting office works, what the procedures are for different areas of the office, and to experience what closing out a fiscal year looks like. I think working under the controller, and along side auditors along with other members of the office will help me to do just that.
I am excited to go through  this new journey on the way to my career. I just hope I do a great enough job, and have the desired experience where I am able to profit from it once I have graduated and start looking for a permanent full time job!

Until next time!
~Wesley Allegre

Halfway There

I can't believe my internship is already halfway done. It has flown by! Not much has changed since the beginning besides becoming quicker inputting reports and knowing where to locate the information. Although two weeks ago I did start working for the Victim Services Program in South San Francisco because they needed a lot of help. I do the same things (inputting information into the database, making facesheets, filing, the usual..) but they have a whole lot more for me to do here so the day goes by a lot quicker and they don't need to make projects for me to do if they run out of stuff for me to do, because they never do!

Yesterday, I actually helped Patty (one of the ladies I'm working under) look over applications of victims who have applied to the program. It was pretty interesting to see the process of how one is accepted into the program and the flow of it after they are accepted. I'm still trying to mull over if I want to start making phone calls to victims but I have to admit that's kind of intimidating. So we will see where I am at in maybe in a few weeks.

I'm very excited for the next upcoming two weeks. Next week I actually get to attend a pre-trial for one of the victims and see how everything works there so that should be pretty interesting. I'll try and give you as much detail as possible but again the whole confidentiality thing so no promises. I'm also going to a monthly meeting they have and we get to take a tour of a forensics lab (where they process evidence, the morgue, etc.) so I'm definitely looking forward to that. Probably won't be like an episode of CSI but still very cool. I never thought that I would get to go to events like that so it was a nice surprise that I was invited to attend.

That is how my internship has been progressing. More to come in the next few weeks!

Summer Internship at Accounts Payable

Hello everyone!

My name is Amanda Lindsey and I will be a Junior this Fall. I was interested in doing an internship this summer because my major is still somewhat "undecided" - I'm torn between Accounting and Finance. I wanted to gain some kind of business-related job experience as well as the opportunity to see what it would be like to work full-time in an office in my field of study. Luckily for me, the Accounts Payable office at Linfield hired me as their summer intern!

I've been interning at Accounts Payable for about a month now, doing basic clerical work, reconciling statements, vouchering invoices, processing check requests, etc. I think that these responsibilities have been helping me to gain a better understanding of what a basic, entry-level accounting position might be like and a better idea of what accounting is by being able to apply things I've learned in the classroom to an actual "real world" scenario. Although I've been doing similar things working in Accounts Payable during the school year, I've still got a lot of learning to do. I find myself learning more and more of less and less each and every day.

More info about my actual Internship!

Alright so my Marketing and Management internship is with Core Enterprises Inc. They are a small marketing firm in Kent, WA that help build brand awareness for their several clients around the nation in larger corporations. They basically are a middle man for small, lesser known businesses. Clients include small, creative boom-boxes, special knives, New York Pierogies, specialized makeup, EZ Mops, and much more! We will set up large booths in a Costco or Sams Club, for example, and promote the brand  to members in those larger corporations. That is the main field work we participate in.


Here is what my schedule for them would typically look like:

Every day I work I am required to attend the morning meeting in Kent from 9-10. The meeting involves a classroom learning of marketing tools and techniques. These are very crucial and important techniques that we are required to learn, teach back, and actively use in the field. Once we learn it, the next day we are in the office, we are to teach it back to be able to move on to the next one. Once we learn and teach them all, open/close in the field by ourselves, reach our short term goals, we as interns can be promoted into a leader/management position. So the morning meetings have those, any other important news or tips for the field, and all goals we each have for the day. From there I will go into the field and promote which campaign/client that I am working with. We stress the techniques we learned, benefits of the product, and how little time we will be where the members are. Since we are a road show marketing firm we travel a lot with whatever campaign we are with, at that time.

So that is morning meetings, field work examples, and we also have conference calls twice a week. These calls are a come together of all offices on one phone line to where a leader will talk about the campaign, discuss problems and how to find resolution in the field, specific issues, or something he/she wants to teach us all to help us better succeed.

This is a paid internship and I am paid a flat rate unless the commission of what I sell is higher, to which then I would be paid the higher amount. I am just a few weeks in but have learned and taught several marketing tools, worked an entire campaign, traveled around, and look to only advance my learning and be promoted shortly!


This was a quick but very real rundown of my internship! I look forward to moving on in the summer with this internship and to posting anything else I experience!


AJ

My Marketing/Promotions/Management Internship

Hey guys my name is AJ Taylor and will be a returning senior this Fall at Linfield. I am studying Marketing and Management and play on the golf team. I am interning to gain valuable insight and information into these areas of Marketing and Management and get some necessary credits to graduate. Two birds with one stone! I am doing this internship about 4 days a week and have two others jobs that supplement the other 3 days. Busy, busy! My goals for this internship are to advance into a leadership and management position as I learn more marketing tools and sale techniques. Also to travel to different parts of the Northwest and beyond to learn new client campaigns, meet new people, discover how others develop their teams and anything else I can about Core Enterprises!

My Summer Internship 2013

Aloha Everyone!

My name is Chelsea and I am going to be a Junior at Linfield this coming fall. I am from Kaua'i, Hawai'i and am an Elementary Education Major. For the past month, I have been interning in two different classrooms for the Kaua'i Head Start Program. I chose to do an internship this summer because I wanted to experience teaching in a Head Start Classroom, and to see if that may be an option of where I wanted to teach after college. I absolutely LOVE it because I get to help these kids get ready for kindergarten as well as being able to lead certain activities throughout the day. The teachers there are so willing to let me get the full  experience with the kids and I am learning so much by doing this hands on work rather than just listening about it in the classroom. Don't get me wrong, I love learning in the classroom, but there are things that are easier learned when done yourself. My goals for this internship is to be able to get a better perspective on why I want to teach children, as well as gaining the experience of being in this specific type of classroom. Every teacher has their own styles of teaching, and I am so blessed to be able to gain knowledge from all of them.