Trying to Survive...
Quit a well paying job to start my own company.
Took the plunge to put my startup ideas to the test.
Making into something huge!
Friday, February 24, 2006
Starting a Marketing Internship
I've been considering bringing on an intern lately. Balancing technical design and development, sales, marketing and customer services leaves less and less time for each. The pay would have to be either at a minimum level or nothing, depending on my legal and tax requirements. Can you even have someone work for free? I know there are unpaid internships abound, but I also know you can't get around minimum wage laws either. Maybe it's like firing someone. If you fire someone for a reason, it better be a good one that can stand up in court if necessary, but if you fire someone for no reason, then that's ok.
I think it could really help me out, and since work for marketing majors is tough to find, the experience would be tremendous for whoever gets the position. Giving a sophomore or junior marketing major the ability to design marketing strategies and influence decisions is something that I think would be valuable experience. And since I've got websites catering directly to the college market, getting the word out about the position should be extremely easy.




