Last week marks my sixth week of my internship, means it is already halfway for me! :)
There are more of fun and learning for me rather than any pains that most of my friends bragged about during their internship. As all of you can read from my earlier post, A Quick Glance About the Author, currently I am doing my internship at SGEntrepreneurs.
Well, basically what I do during internships are quite interesting in my opinions, coz such experiences are the things that I never experienced before in serious manner.
1. Writing
I like to write, but not about news and such. For the past 6 weeks, I have posted more than 20 news articles. Among those 20 news articles, we have 1 new section of article that we plan to publish it periodically: Key Indonesia Startup News (9th Jun edition and 23rd Jun edition). Well, it has nothing to do with I am Indonesian, it just a coincidence. :)
2. Running A Contest
Indeed running a contest is not as easy as it looks. Although you have great idea how it will work, yet executions of your idea are the crucial part here. We had one contest before that I was mainly in charge: Echelon 2011 SGE Ticket Giveaway. The responses that we had during the contest wasnt that bad in my opinion. During the contest, I see the power of social media whereby twitter is more useful than facebook in term of spreading the words about the contest to attract the traffic.
3. E-Newsletter
Well, it is true that I should know about basic html coding when doing wordpress blogging, but preparing E-Newsletter is more challenging. It is really challenge your eyes, but after you get used to with it, then it will be like a piece of cake for you. Initially it took me like half day to prepare it, now if I know all of the content inside the newsletter, it will only take me about 2 hours. :)
4. Networking With Others
This is what I like most during my internship. I have no idea why I like networking, maybe it is my basic nature loves to socialize with others. But as an intern, you will feel like a small fish in ocean (yeah I am the Nemo maybe..haha). But well, I did manage to know some other amazing people, some are written in my previous post: Have You Ever Heard About Echelon?
5. Other Marketing Tools
Well, as I told my employer earlier before I get into the internships, I want to get to know more about marketing stuffs. Well, she is really open and frank about it to me, and she shared to me quite much about the condition and environment at this industry. Gaining a trust results in access of few stuffs where I learn a lot from that. I can say that all of my suggestions regarding marketing strategy is more of by looking though statistics that we have and looks at how the market plays and twisted a bit here and there to differentiate it. Well, I think thats the basic thing we learn from school, but I just experienced it from the past 6 weeks during my internship and I am really enjoy it so much. So far I knew that bit.ly is really useful, then I know also about mailchimp. LOL I am not a tech-savvy, so pardon me if I sound like an old generation. =.=
Well, thats the major things that I've done for the past 6 weeks, not much maybe as other people experiences, but I am really looking forward to the next 6 weeks that I have. And actually I am considering to work part time during school term, since I only have 9AUs for next sem. Meaning I only have 2-4 hours of school from Monday-Thursday, and I am free every Friday for next semester!
If you are aware of the title of this post, it is true that I always wear tees to office, either with jeans, pants or short, depends on my mood and events after office hours. :)
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