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(Underpaid) Online Marketing & Sales Internship - Tidal Interactive (tidal.ca) - Vancouver (BC)
| Company: | Tidal Interactive (tidal.ca) |
| Contact Name: | Alex |
| Contact Email: | |
| Job Location: | Vancouver (BC) Canada |
Tidal Interactive is a team of like-minded individuals working with companies from all over North America to deliver superior websites and create long lasting, measurable value for their websites.
In addition to the great websites that we produce, Tidal Interactive has a very fun working environment with a friendly staff and numerous fun days throughout the year.
We have an internship opportunity for a current student working on a Marketing or Communication degree, or a recent graduate intending to pursue a career in communications, marketing or public relations. The successful candidate will be working directly with our Marketing Manager. This role is perfect for an ambitious and creative team player to gain major experience with one of Canada’s top website agencies. This is a 3 days a week, 20-25 hours per week position for three months (opportunity for more hours based on experience) which will pay an honorarium of $750 for the three months worked. (That is $2.20 per hour!)
In addition to your own working responsibilities, you will also receive great professional development from the senior managers of our company. They will provide mentorship opportunities in areas such as SEO, Social Media, Networking, and Interactive Design.
Responsibilities:
* Contact prospective clients and provide product info/demos
* Writing for e-newsletters, website and blog to support marketing strategy
* Coordinate and execute social media tactics to support marketing strategy
* Assist in designing marketing collaterals for clients and merchants
* Assist in communications projects
* Assist in media event research, planning and coordination
* Prepare daily and weekly status reports
Requirements:
* Must be working on a Marketing or Communication degree, or a recent graduate intending to pursue a career in communications, marketing or public relations.
* 0-3 years work experience (co-op terms, internships) in a B2B environment
* Must have excellent computer skills (CRM, Social Media experience preferred)
* Must be fluent in English, written and verbal
How to apply:
Please send resume, cover letter and one reference letter to alex@tidal.ca with ‘Online Marketing and Sales Internship’ in the subject line. Your cover letter should include what experience you have, what you hope to gain from the internship, how you heard about the internship and your career goals. Successful applicants will be short listed for a phone interview and an in-person interview. Thank you for your interest in the Tidal Interactives’ Internship program.
Compensation: $750 Honorarium for 3 month period. (Alex: that is $2.20 per hour!)
(Unpaid) eMarketing Internship - North Vancouver (BC) Canada
| Company: | International contemporary artist |
| Contact Email: | |
| Job Location: | North Vancouver (BC) Canada |
International contemporary artist, based in North Vancouver, seeks current college business student or recent graduate for eMarketing and social network development internship. This artist has a business background and needs a dependable person proficient in e-marketing who also likes to have fun. Able to create a high impact web site from template and knowledge of web design.
Start Date: November 2, 2010
Closing Date for applications: October 24, 2010
Duration: 6 weeks, commitment to 10 hours per week. Virtual work after initial face to face visit and strategy session. Weekly progress monitoring and interaction to ensure weekly objectives and targets are met.
Work Description:
The objective is to increase awareness of a contemporary art portfolio and increase online sales of limited edition prints and posters as well as driving more traffic to the artist’s web site for purchase of the original artwork, by creating and delivering an e-marketing program, by increasing distribution and leveraging existing contacts - over 1,000 in Facebook and on Fan page.
Duties: Formulate an eMarketing campaign and budget. Input contacts into a database and leverage over 1,000 names in FACEBOOK account and Fan page through your knowledge of SEO and media relations. Develop articles and Twitter campaign. Repurpose and rebuild artist’s web site. To generate local and international media attention.
Creative thinking, campaign design, and project planning is required, plus a willingness to do the grunt work like physical mailings. This internship is best suited to someone with interest in e-marketing.
Benefits:
* An opportunity to lead a range of marketing initiatives and create highly visible portfolio results
* Get training and build resume experience and practical skills in:
o Search engine optimization
o Web analytics
o Facebook and Twitter marketing
o Database marketing
o Blogging and article marketing
* Career development and advancement opportunities in a growing online art industry
* Perks and commissions
* Opportunity for contract work after completion of internship
A great reference will also be provided based on satisfactory completion of internship.
Requirements:
* Business and design focus in new media, and e-marketing
* Sense of humour and innovative
* Great writing skills
* Understanding and user of social media
* Creative and able to develop high impact campaign design
o Internet marketing
* Professional attitude
Please tell me about yourself including an overview of related experience, with resume if appropriate, including college projects and a link to samples. Thank you for your interest.
(Underpaid) Internet Marketing Internship - Vancouver (BC) Canada
| Company: | Prefer not to know |
| Contact Email: | |
| Job Location: | Vancouver (BC) Canada |
Start Date: Oct 18
Duration: 12 weeks, commitment to 4 days a week
We are a web-based company in the consumer internet space, with a growing user-base and currently in the pre-revenue phase (AB: I love that one!). We are a young, (AB: ie. no money, but yet try to find staff for free) flexible, and dynamic team, endorsing creativity, efficiency, and delivering value.
Work Description:
The objective is to increase user-base and web traffic using internet marketing, SEO, and media relations. Approximately 20% of the work will concentrate around creative thinking, campaign design, and project planning, and the other 80% on delivering. There is established methodology, training, performance metrics, and regular guidance in place; best suited for an intern with interest in this industry. (AB: What makes you think this work can be performed by an intern?)
Benefits:
* An opportunity to lead a range of marketing initiatives and create highly visible portfolio results
* Get training and build resume experience and practical skills in:
o Search engine optimization
o Web analytics
o Facebook and Twitter marketing
o Database marketing
o Blogging and article marketing
* Career development and advancement opportunities in a growing industry
* Perks and bonuses
* Opportunity to get a contract after completion of internship
Requirements:
* Journalism, literature, new media, or marketing background is a bonus
* Great sense of humour
* Great writing skills
* Good user of social media
* Experience in or the ability to learn:
o Creative and high impact campaign design
o Internet marketing
* Professional attitude
If this describes you, please send us an overview of related experiences, ideally with a link to or sample of writing, with “Internet Marketing Intern” in the subject line. Thank you for your interest.
Online Advertising Agency Hiring Summer Social Media Marketing Intern - Vancouver (BC)
| Contact Email: | |
| Job Location: | Vancouver (BC) Canada |
If you love spending time on social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Yelp and Foursquare, but also have an interest in how these tools are used for sales and marketing, we want to hear from you.
We are looking to hire a summer intern to help develop and implement our social media campaigns.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about social media but also has an interest in sales and marketing and how businesses leverage these new platforms.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities/Requirements
* Passion for learning about online business, including SEO, Social Media Marketing,
* Social media fanatic. Previous experience using social media for business and marketing purposes a definite asset
* Excellent writing, spelling and grammar, including strong command of English language.
* Experience in using Twitter, Hootsuite, Foursquare, Yelp and Facebook...etc for marketing purposes.
Photoshop experience desired.
* Basic knowledge of HTML desired.
Ideally You Are...
* Analytical thinker. Solutions driven. Problem solver. Creative.
* Quick learner. Self-motivated and able to multi-task on multiple projects simultaneously with minimal supervision.
* Work well under pressure and deadlines.
* Prior SEO or Social media marketing experience desired
Most importantly you must have a huge passion for the internet in general and have the willingness to learn new technologies and how they apply to business, sales and marketing.
This is a great opportunity to gain valuable industry experience in the dynamic world of internet marketing.
If this opportunity sounds interesting to you please send your resume and a brief cover letter telling us about yourself, why you’re interested in the position and what makes you the perfect candidate.
Online Advertising Agency Looking for Summer Internet Marketing Intern - Vancouver (BC)
| Contact Email: | |
| Job Location: | Vancouver (BC) Canada |
If you love spending time on social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Yelp and Foursquare, but also have an interest in how these tools are used for sales and marketing, we want to hear from you.
We are looking to hire a summer intern to help develop and implement our social media campaigns.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about social media but also has an interest in sales and marketing and how businesses leverage these new platforms.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities/Requirements
* Passion for learning about online business, including SEO, Social Media Marketing,
* Social media fanatic. Previous experience using social media for business and marketing purposes a definite asset
* Excellent writing, spelling and grammar, including strong command of English language.
* Experience in using Twitter, Hootsuite, Foursquare, Yelp and Facebook...etc for marketing purposes.
Photoshop experience desired.
* Basic knowledge of HTML desired.
Ideally You Are...
* Analytical thinker. Solutions driven. Problem solver. Creative.
* Quick learner. Self-motivated and able to multi-task on multiple projects simultaneously with minimal supervision.
* Work well under pressure and deadlines.
* Prior SEO or Social media marketing experience desired
Most importantly you must have a huge passion for the internet in general and have the willingness to learn new technologies and how they apply to business, sales and marketing.
This is a great opportunity to gain valuable industry experience in the dynamic world of internet marketing.
If this opportunity sounds interesting to you please send your resume and a brief cover letter telling us about yourself, why you’re interested in the position and what makes you the perfect candidate.
Online Marketing Intern - Gravit-e Technologies (gravit-e.ca) - Vancouver (BC) Canada
| Company: | Gravit-e Technologies (gravit-e.ca) |
| Contact Email: | |
| Job Location: | Vancouver (BC) Canada |
Gravit-e Technologies is currently looking to fill an Online Marketing Internship position. You will be involved with a wide range of online marketing activities, including expanding our use of social media, copywriting, performing search engine optimization, and monitoring the effectiveness of online marketing efforts. While you do not need experience in doing these things, you must be excited by the idea of learning more about websites, social marketing, online advertising and technology.
This internship is being offered through Industry Canada’s Small Business Internship Program. To be eligible for this internship you must be a registered student at an accredited post-secondary institution, be below the age of 30, and you must have the intention of returning to your studies after the internship is complete.
Specific duties and responsibilities will include:
* Setting up and expanding our company profile on various social networking sites
* Authoring blog posts on specified topics, and performing research to support the posts
* Updating website content to ensure keywords are appropriately targeted
* Identifying additional keywords which should be targeted for SEO and PPC purposes
* Generating inbound links to the website and blog
* Performing a/b tests on key pages of the website
* Monitoring effectiveness of online marketing efforts in increasing website traffic
* Supporting and monitoring results from hybrid online/offline marketing activities
Required qualifications:
* Comfortable and interested in working with the internet
* Strong written and oral communication skills,
* Strong research and analysis skills
* Familiarity with basic SEO practices
* The ability to work independently and proactively
The ideal candidate would have:
* Familiarity with more advanced SEO practices
* Familiarity with software development practices
* Basic HTML skills.
This is a full time, 12 week internship. After the 12 weeks are complete there is potential for ongoing part-time employment in a more general Sales & Marketing Assistant role.
To be eligible for this internship you must currently be a student at an accredited post-secondary institution, below the age of 30, and you must have the intention of returning to your studies after the internship is complete.
Gravit-e Technologies is a small Vancouver-based company which specializes in the development of custom software to help growing companies scale their operations and automate inefficient business processes.
Website & Marketing Assistant - Summer Student Position - Vancouver (BC)
| Contact Email: | |
| Job Location: | Vancouver (BC) Canada |
Competition SS2-022410
Position Title: Web Site and Marketing Assistant (subject to funding)
Job Site: 100-7900 Alderbridge Way Richmond BC
Qualifications: Student must have attended school full time last year and intend to return to full time studies in September 2010 as per Service Canada’s Canada Summer Jobs program. Student must complete and pass a Criminal Record Check.
General Skills:
Well developed computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe CS3 Design Software (Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign), HTML, PHP & Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Proven abilities to design and develop marketing materials, newsletters, posters and manage/update a website.
SEO/SEM skills and knowledge are an asset
Familiarity with social media is an asset
Well developed interpersonal skills
Well developed oral and written communication skills
Ability to work as a team member or independently
Detail and process-oriented
Ability to take direction and ideas and create/design marketing materials
Creative and enthusiastic
Knowledge of RYSA and other local organizations is an asset
Second language is an asset
Full class 5 driver’s license is an asset (own automobile not required)
Duties: The selected candidate will assist the administration staff by maintaining the agency’s websites, e-newsletter and computer systems.
They will also perform other computer related tasks such as:
-Producing marketing materials and participating in their distribution
-Leading youth volunteers in desk top publishing the youth newsletter
-Mentoring children, youth and seniors on computer skills
-Updating anti-virus programs, checking for and removing spyware,
-Troubleshooting computer problems for staff members
-Defragging hard disks, updating Windows components, downloading and installing Service Packs
-Assisting in the promotion of RYSA, the Youth Centre and its programs through community events and
-Completing various office and administrative tasks as required
Term: Approx. 16 weeks between May 17, 2010 & September 3, 2010
Exact schedule TBD
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm
Will be required to work some evenings and weekends
Thirty-five hours per week for 16 weeks
Wage: $12.12 per hour (As per CBA Grid Level 2)
4% Vacation Pay paid in lieu of time off
Mandatory employment related costs are deducted
Pay is distributed on the 15th and final day of each month
Reports to: Manager of Resource Development
Please send your resume via email to employment@rysa.bc.ca or fax to 604-271-7626.
Closing Date: April 26, 2010.
Quote Competition SS2-022410 in your correspondence and the subject line of your email.
For more information on our programs and services, please visit http://www.rysa.bc.ca






