Busy is Better

There is a world of difference between my previous shiternship and my current internship.

And the current one is so much better.  Which is a huge relief.  I would have been super pissed if it was anything similar to that last experience.  But it isn't.  I'm busy doing relevant things to their business.  So far I've gone through their entire website to make sure all the links work, and I've revised the copy and made design suggestions.  They are going to revamp it soon according to some of my suggestions.

I've also come up with the Google Analytics and Wordtracker numbers on a (super long - like 1000) list of keywords. This info will be used to determine which keywords should be added to the clients website based on the competition for the word, how much it's searched for, and how relevant it is.  Which I think is kind of cool.  I want to do something similar for my website, so that it's search engine optimized as well, but they haven't gone over with me the formula used to rank the keywords.  (I asked but the girl I was working with didn't really know since another lady does all that math stuff.)

And I also worked on link building.  So for the particular client, I searched this list of websites they gave me and I researched the contact info for each site and where we would ask them to place a link to the client's website.  This apparently also helps optimize the client's website for search engines as well.

Then, (I know this is getting boring - only one more!) I searched a list of directories to see if they listed some of our clients.  If they didn't I submitted them to be included in the directory.

Next week I'll be coming up with their plan for a direct mail campaign.  (I took a class in this, so I'm excited to work those skills and actually complete a direct mail campaign.  I've designed some, but they were never really used.)

So I've been super busy.  But it's good.  I like being this kind of busy, where I'm learning things and accomplishing a lot of work.

I have two craft shows this weekend, so hopefully those go well.  And then next weekend I'm going to Memphis to sell my jewelry at my aunt's home show.  She makes candles, and has some other people that make other stuff, and then invites a ton of people over to shop.  There's wine and hopefully people buying my jewelry, so I'm excited.

I'll keep y'all posted on how everything goes!

Perennial Intern

I decided to try it again.  I interviewed the other day for an internship position at one of the places I interviewed at during May.  They wanted me to come intern with them then, but I chose that other place.

I emailed them last week, kind of on a whim, to see if they had any positions open.  And they did.  Anther internship.  I met with them yesterday, and the internship is marketing for the company itself, which is a small online marketing company.  I'd be oing website updates/ redesign, a direct mail campaign, and learning Google analytics, SEO, paid search, and social media.

This was right up my ally because I want to learn how to do some of that stuff for Snapdragon Designs.

I'm going in on Thursday and then beginning 9-4 on Monday.  They seem really nice.  And I'm excited to learn about this stuff.  And they said it could lead to a job.  My dad was worried because they are super small (3 people here and 1 in Portland) and their ability to grow enough to hire me on.  I'll still be job searching.  But now it doesn't have to be my absolute focus.

Anyway, we'll see how this goes.  I am excited, because I think this will be a better experience, but I'm still a little wary because of what happened before.  I'm glad I'm actually be doing something now, though.