Maddie Hawes

Thanksgiving break was very nice! Back to the internship though! Again I have just been doing work on my computer by importing Bios and Social Media Stats for Artists that are potentially going to be used for SXWS 2018.  I can’t really show anymore than this since it is not my place. I will be continuing to do this for the next few weeks, so unfortunately my posts won't be too exciting.  I have enjoyed researching all these new artists and I have learned how important social media stats are for people in this industry!

So for the past two weeks I have been working on a future event.  I have been researching up and coming artists and making google sheets with all the information as well as adding all the info and pictures to a google slide presentation.    I haven't really had anything to take photos of since everything has been on my laptop so screenshots will have to do for now I guess.  I won't be at work next week because of thanksgiving break so this will be most recent update until we are back from break!

Sorry no update last week! There was really nothing to update on as I was extremely busy with school so I couldn't attend class.  This week though I have busy on google docs as well as google sheets!  I have just been keeping track and sorting all kinds of information for my supervisor! I also typed up a paragraph outlining a company we are using to promote one of our clients.  Lots of time has been spent on my lap top this week, but it wasn’t all that bad.

Well this week I was only at the office once due to a stressful school week.  This week I continued helping with power points as well as researching color mapping vendors. I also stopped by at FedEx and UPS again.  Pretty much the same things this week as last week!

This week I was pretty busy with helping my supervisor work on a presentation to recap our Hollywood Bowl events with Dove last week.  I worked on the powerpoint pretty much all of Monday and had a lot of fun finding pictures and being creative with the powerpoint.  On Wednesday I went into the office and helped with taking boxes and boxes that needed to be shipped out.  Overall it wasn't a super exciting week, but I was definitely kept busy!

Pretty amazing day at the Hollywood Bowl for my official second day at my internship with Collide.  Collide was marketing for Dove Chocolate at the Chance the Rapper concert at the Hollywood Bowl.  I was a brand ambassador for the night with the task of cleaning before people came, handing out free Dove Chocolate, and notifying concert goers of our tent and free Dove tote bags outside of it.  Inside the tent you could grab even more chocolate, take GIFs with your friends, and last but not least, you could visit Paris, New York, and Iceland through virtual reality.  I had an amazing time working with other Dove ambassadors and can’t wait to see what else this internship brings. 

This week was pretty exciting with my first day at my internship.  I went on Wednesday and was there for a few hours.  My supervisor had me work on a powerpoint for the previous weeks event at the Life is Beautiful festival.  I also helped another team in finding locations for a potential event the company will be holding next year.  Throughout the week I have been continuing to work on these in my spare time.  Can’t wait to see how this next week goes.

For post #2 I unfortunately don't have too much to share.  Since accepting the internship not too much has happened besides learning my start date which will be this Wednesday (9/27).  I am super excited to  begin expanding my knowledge in the world of Marketing with such a cool company.  I have been looking though the booklets featured in the picture during this past week that the company gave me when I was given the internship. 2 days until the first day!!

Today was such a whirlwind of a day.  I had my interview for my potential internship!  The morning consisted of a quick breakfast, quickly printing out copies of my resume, getting a little dressed up and then driving to the interview.  I parked and went inside this beautiful old Wilshire Blvd. building and headed up to the company’s floor level.  I felt maybe a little underprepared for my interview due to lack of experience with not having an actual marketing job in the past.  I felt confident though and really loved how my interviewers were describing their company.  I am really excited to share I did get the internship and am really excited to start working in a field I have so much interest for.  I know it will be a challenge learning how to do many of the tasks I will have to do, but I am extremely ready to take them on as well as learn as I go. I will be setting up my schedule in the next few days to confirm when I am working and when I will start! The company is quite incredible and unique and I am so ready to be a small part and learn what and how they do things.