Virtual Internship Opportunity: Prospecting Marketing

Closed
Startup Peel
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Melloney Campbell
Founder & Community Leader
(8)
3
Preferred learners
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
Categories
Communications Sales strategy Marketing strategy Media
Skills
slack (software) hubspot crm communication target market google sheets branding press releases value propositions market segmentation sales prospecting
Project scope
What is the main goal for this project?

Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for (1 | 2 | 3) marketing students or teams.

The primary focus for the student will be:

  • Branding - Conduct a full competitive landscape assessment; define our organization's brand and core value proposition; identify opportunities and threats facing our brand; assess where and how to improve our brand's presence and differentiate from our competitors.
  • Marketing Communications - Recommend changes to advertising and PR materials; create an integrated marketing campaign; create a rebranding campaign.
  • Market Research - Investigate our competitive landscape; perform market segmentation to identify the ideal target market for (new or existing product or service); conduct customer surveys or focus groups to gain insights into the perceptions and behaviours of our target customers; develop a pricing strategy; identify expansion opportunities; identify key messaging for (new product or service).
  • Public Relations - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories.
  • Prospecting Strategy - Evaluate our current customer base and make recommendations for further market penetration; assess our current outreach process and develop and implement targeted prospecting; review our prospect messaging, make improvement recommendations, and create new outreach content.
  • SEO Strategy & Recommendations - Develop and implement an SEO strategy; provide content suggestions and recommendations to increase search visibility; increase our inbound traffic and optimize the customer journey; increase inbound leads.
  • Strategic Social Media Marketing - Conduct an audit of our current social media presence and/or other current communication channel(s); develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts.


Our goal at the end of this experience is:

  • Branding and Marketing Communications - For the student(s) to help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share.
  • Public Relations - For the student(s) to help us effectively communicate our brand's story and mission to a broad audience.
  • Prospecting Strategy - For the student(s) to help us implement better prospecting that increases conversion rates and boost our sales team's performance.
  • Strategic Social Media Marketing - For the student(s) to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling content.


Other duties the student may complete could include:

  • Assist with outbound email marketing campaigns or other prospecting strategy as needed; measure and report on performance of these campaigns using tools such as (indicate tools used, eg. Hubspot, Google Sheets, Excel)
  • Content development, including social posts, blog posts, LinkedIn articles, and website copy.

We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern(s) using these communication tools: Riipen messaging, company slack, and email

Primary contact: Melloney Campbell, Startup Peel Community Leader

Secondary contact: (Name, job title)

About the company

Startup Peel Community is a is a grassroots driven movement in Peel, Ontario bringing together people passionate about collaboration, innovation and learning. Our mission is to get people together to support one another (in both success and failures) as we create fantastic new companies in Peel. We are made up of entrepreneurs, technologist, designers and intrapreneurs who work for other organizations. Organizations, mentors and SMEs are also a big part of the support of this community.