When I heard that the Equity Trust intern program exposes you to a wide range of careers, projects, and tasks I never thought it could pave a way to a modeling career. KT had some shirt samples come in from a vendor for our employees to wear at the upcoming Networking Conference in Orlando, Florida. We were deciding if we liked the look of the royal blue, button-down shirts and I was asked to try one on. Naturally gifted model and all, I struck a few poses so KT could send a picture to Jeanette to hear her thoughts while she is out of town. We then compared how it looked with the khaki pants Wes was wearing and the black pants I was wearing. Needless to say I won the competition! Now before anyone tries to scoop me up for their modeling agency let it be known that I only won because I happened to be wearing the black pants that looked better with the blue shirt. It was no indictment of Wes's own modeling skills. Like I keep telling you, interning at ETC keeps you on your toes!
On a more serious note, I continued plugging away at the competitor analysis I have been working on. I looked at the first fee comparison and brainstormed another scenario that would delve deeper into how the fees actually work through multiple years and differentiate us even more. I then set up the second scenario and scripted another portion of my analysis. I drafted my hypothetical profile that I will use when I call each competitor's sales team and act like I am interested in opening an account with them. I also thought of some questions that I will ask each sales team that will give a more complete profile of each company. We continued posting for our Olympic Facebook campaign. We have not been getting that many entrants to the Equity Trust Games contest we are promoting so we used a different method with our most recent post. Rather than explaining how to enter, we focused on what one could win from the contest. We decided people aren't as interested in what they are guessing and what the contest is for as they are for what they can get from it (and rightfully so). I'll let you know if it worked in my next blog. Kent needed a letter mailed to our Gold Level Service clients and asked if I could help him out. He sent me over an excel spreadsheet with the information of all the GLS clients in Florida. I then created a mail merge and printed the mailing labels and copies of the materials that would be included in the mailing. Also this week, Jaime Acosta in the IT department was a great help with my Evergreen project. I sent him some questions that had arisen regarding the coding and programming aspects of the program. I asked him what it would take to host the program on our own server as opposed to the one provided by Evergreen. After he took the time to analyze my situation he provided his answer and we concluded that it would not be practical to try to host it on our server. It was decided that, as of now, we would push forward with the current settings of EBS so we can get a live program out there to analyze. Finally, Alicia, Tyler, and I went to lunch again this Wednesday. One of the many benefits of ETC's internship is the relationships you can form with your other interns. We are all in the same situation as college interns so it is great to be able to hang and work with some of your peers.
I'll catch you all next week! Unless I leave ETC for a modeling career that is...
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