It’s Friday again! Yaaaaahooooooo!
Anyway, for today’s post I thought I’d write about something that’s commonly talked about on college campuses everywhere: internships. And no, I’m not talking about the 2013 film starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. I’m talking about the positions that college students oftentimes apply for in order to gain exposure to a career field of interest.
When you think of the word “internship,” what comes to mind? Maybe you think about coffee runs and grunt work. Or maybe you think about great networking opportunities. If I had to sum up my experience so far as a RadiusOnline online marketing intern into one sentence, I would say something along the lines of: “Doing work that matters and Learning a ton along the way.”
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn”
-Benjamin Franklin
Here’s some of the stuff that Nick and I have been up to:
CarCareCONNECT Email Drip Campaign
This project included researching, planning and creating content for a drip campaign for one of our web development branches: CareCareCONNECT. Not only did we get to learn how to do all these things, but I think the best part about all of this is that our campaign has the ability to really impact the company’s monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and sales overall. MQLs!
Blogging
Every week, Nick and I are scheduled to write blog posts for the eDentalImage and CarCareCONNECT websites. Beginning with brainstorming, we get to create content that is relevant, helpful, and insightful to the website visitors. By doing all of this, we’re helping increase web traffic to our websites and increasing the google rankings and authority of our websites.
Intern Website
One thing I’ve been trying to do is customize and edit some of the design elements on this website (the one you’re reading this off of). I haven’t made any changes yet, but in the process of trying to do this, I started learning more and more about HTML and CSS. This got interested in computer science in general so now I’m trying to learn code on the side as well. Who knew this would happen? haha
Whether you’re interning at RadiusOnline or anywhere else, I guarantee that if you have the opportunity to get involved in real work and have an open mind you’ll learn so much more than if you hadn’t. As RadiusOnline interns, Nick and I get to be a part of projects that impact the company and learn from people who are spectacular at what they do.
UPDATE: Be on the lookout for our new food blog series: “What’s For Lunch?” First post will be on Monday!!