Digital Content Creation
We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. Nurture Growth Biofertilizer envisions a world where growers can help fight climate change and reduce GHG while growing sustainable foods. NGBio rescues and upcycles food waste that is destined for landfills and transforms it into an eco-friendly microbial fertilizer that improves soil and plant health. Just think of us as a probiotic for the soil. Ultimately, you will be working on content creation for our organization, for our blogs and newsletters and other collateral that we can use as go-to marketing tools. If you like the sound of our culture and are ready to tackle this challenge with us, then we'd love to hear from you.
Press Release Creation
We want to be recognized in our community and nationally for the work that we are doing. We have a great story to tell and we want it to be picked up by media outlets. We need students to create press releases for us. Students should be prepared to: Write up press releases around multiple news-worthy stories Identify media outlets that are most beneficial to us/most likely to pick the story up Send press releases and establish positive rapport with media contacts Secure media exposure for our organization
Virtual Internship Opportunity: Marketing
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: (please include a few examples of marketing projects you would like the student(s) to execute during the placement, as exemplified below.) 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: (please indicate the goal for this placement, or deliverable you expect the student(s) to complete, as exemplified below) Branding and Marketing Communications - For the student(s) to help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share. Market Research - For the student(s) to help us gain a better understanding of our target market and ensure we are optimally positioned and our product and pricing aligns with our target sector/customer. 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. SEO Strategy & Recommendations - For the student(s) to help us generate more traffic and revenue through search engines. 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 : (indicate other duties as exemplified below) Assist with outbound email marketing campaigns 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: MS Teams, What's App Primary contact : (Name, job title) =
Competitive Analysis
Number of individual students required: (Example: 5 students) OR Number of students required to work in team: (Example: 2 teams of 3 students) It’s important for us to have a better understanding of how our target audience perceives our brand and competitors. We want to develop clarity on our competitive advantages and optimize our marketing strategy. This project will include: An identification of our current competitors An identification of potential future competitors (eg. a large company in a similar industry who may enter the space) The creation of a matrix identifying features shared across the companies and those that are different. A summary of 2-4 paragraphs describing our competitive advantages and disadvantages relative to the competition identified. This could be done in the form of a SWOT analysis. We will give you access to organizational assets to support this project such as personnel, website analytics, sales and brand collateral, and more. We can suggest names of competitors to research. Objective We hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of the competitors in our space and how we can differentiate ourselves through our product/service offering, and our messaging.
Sales Internship
Looking for interns who would like to practice what they learned in class in the real world. The internship may include: Personal Selling Customer Relationship Management Sales Management Professional Sales
Marketing Internship
We are looking for marketing students who want to test their creative skills for a project that will have an everlasting environmental impact. Example projects to be completed during the internship. A whitepaper. A case study. A series of blog posts. A 15-second commercial script. Social media banner designs. An explainer video. Billboard advertisement designs. A press release.
New Cannabis Organic Fertilizer Product Branding & Graphics
Nurture Growth Bio is launching a cannabis specific bio-fertilizer in Spring 2020 and is looking for product branding and graphics for this new product line. This project will require: Create branding kit for new product line (typography, colors and style) Developing several logo variations for us to choose from Defining our brand voice and values to translate into product label Develop product label Researching our competitors to determine a unique, but correlated design. Researching our brand’s history and vision to develop a consistent visual representation. We want to have a new product brand that is a positive portrayal of our organization, which can be used consistently across a variety of media.
Strategic Marketing Plan
Promoting a new product/service launch. Increasing brand awareness Improving online communications (along with recommendations related to the product or service, packaging etc.) Increasing revenue or market share for an existing product/service. Improving customer acquisition/retention. Identifying new market segments and opportunities.
Market Research and Analysis
It’s important for us to have a better understanding of how our target audience perceives our brand and competitors. We want to develop clarity on our competitive advantages and optimize our marketing strategy. We believe this project will involve: A complete brand and competitor analysis, including identifying our current and future competitors and their market share. Building a competition portfolio of our competitors, their features, services, price, and logistics. Conducting empirical interviews and/or questionnaires for feedback on our brand compared to competitors. We will give you access to organizational assets to support this project such as personnel, website analytics, sales and brand collateral, and more. We hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of the competitors in our space and how we can differentiate.
Strategic Marketing Plan
Promoting a new product/service launch. Increasing brand awareness Improving online communications (along with recommendations related to the product or service, packaging etc.) Increasing revenue or market share for an existing product/service. Improving customer acquisition/retention. Identifying new market segments and opportunities.
Content Marketing Strategy Plan
We have experiencing challenges maintaining a consistent voice across our social media channels. We want students to assist us in coming up with a strategic social media marketing plan to increase the effectiveness and efficiency our digital marketing channels. For this project, students will need to: Understand our brand and mission. Conducting an audit of our current social media presence and an assess the effectiveness of our current channel(s). Defining the theme(s) and message(s) to be communicated and the most effective execution strategy. Developing strategies for improving our online presence by recommending programs, tools, methods of engagement, social channels, or communication pieces. Developing strategies for increasing engagement on your various public accounts, blogs, or other marketing assets. Identifying best practices to reach a new target audience. We want to increase our brand awareness through a mission-aligned marketing campaign that works within our budget and time constraints.
Competitive Analysis
It’s important for us to have a better understanding of how our target audience perceives our brand and competitors. We want to develop clarity on our competitive advantages and optimize our marketing strategy. This project will involve: A complete brand and competitor analysis, including identifying our current and future competitors and their market share. Building a competition portfolio of our competitors, their features, services, price, and logistics. Deliver a comprehensive competitive analysis report. identify market trends in our competitive space and develop actionable recommendations on how to capitalize on market trends. Assess the total addressable market We hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of the competitors in our space and how we can differentiate.