Virtual Internship:

Social Media Marketing and Content Creation

ABOUT COMPANY

Alternative-spaces Inc. is an International technology business solutions provider with a home office in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our unique blend of U.S. project management, combined with English-speaking Ukrainian project managers enables streamlined custom software development and significant project augmentation for U.S.-based development teams, providing day and night development. We have worked for large public companies, funded and growing startups, private equity, and non-profit institutions. We can augment any team and perform complete "one-off"​ applications or integrated web/mobile systems. We focus on quality first and offer the fairest and most competitive pricing for excellent around-the-clock development partners anywhere. Please allow us the opportunity to estimate the costs and timing for an outsourcing solution accurately.

PROJECT SCOPE

Our company is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity to multiple students studying marketing, advertisement, or management with graphic design skills.

The primary focus for the student will be:

• Market Research - Investigate our competitive landscape; perform market segmentation to identify opportunities for growth and awareness. Identify expansion opportunities and new ideas to pursue. We will be researching all our social media platforms and finding the best ways to gain awareness while converting followers into website users.
• Strategic Social Media Marketing - Develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts. Work together with the current marketing team to identify potential growth opportunities using different social media platforms and create content that aligns with our mission and service.

Our goal at the end of this experience is:

• Branding and Marketing Communications - For the students to help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share. For the students to help us effectively communicate our brand's story and mission to a broad audience.
• Market Research - For us and the student to gain a better understanding of social media marketing and ensure we are optimally positioning our service with our target sector/customer.
• Strategic Social Media Marketing - For the students 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:

• Measure and report on the performance of our social media campaigns using tools provided by our company.
• Content development, including social posts, blog posts, LinkedIn articles, and website copy.

Students will learn critical organizational and managerial skills along side working with marketing developers to better understand social media optimization and the usage of graphic design for advertisements. Students will meet with project manager 1-2 times a week to go over weekly assignments, goals, progress, etc.