Our Internship Program Design: Talent Accelerator

We pride ourselves on taking young people from lower yield to higher yield.

Phase 1: Digital Marketing Bootcamp (Two Weeks)

Learn digital marketing tech skills and what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur

Week 1 - Learn all digital marketing areas of practice.

Week 2 - Turn an idea into a reality and launch your own online business.

Traditional higher education cannot keep up with the accelerated pace of the online world.  We spend the first two week's of your internship educating you on all of our digital marketing areas of practice, as well as other topics, such as, lean startup methodology and social entrepreneurship.  Technical areas of learning include but are not limited to: website design and development, persona development, conversion design, search engine optimization, paid online advertising, social media marketing, and email marketing.

Phase 2: Leadership Labs & the Executive Challenge (One Week) - 

Now that you have learned the tech skills, its time to sharpen your soft skills.

Leadership Labs - Role play out tough business case scenarios with your teammates.

Executive Challenge - The final step in your inititial training, sit across the negotiation table with some of Southern California's top CXO's

Based on a class curriculum developed by Stanford GSB, the final week of our intern training is where you will develop and grow your soft skills, such as, negotiation, persuasion and pitchology.

Phase 3: Execute & Grow (5 Months) - 

Help grow and market great causes and become apart of the San Diego startup subculture.

After training, it's time to buckle up.  Over the next 5 months you will work alongside inspiring individuals and some of San Diego's top marketers and business leaders to promote and grow amazing social causes and nonprofit organizations.

You will develop and learn:

• Project Management: Lead and coordinate several large projects.
• Customer Management: Learn to manage and deal with multiple clients.
• Digital Marketing: Apply digital marketing methodologies to scale great clients and causes.
• Networking: Become active and a key component in the San Diego startup scene.
• Entrepreneurship: Learn how to operate a successful social startup.
• Yourself: On our grafitti wall it reads, "Create Your Own Tomorrow". By the end of this program, you will feel like anything is possible.