Sadly, today is my last day at Walk West. This morning I started off working on some AdCopy’s. When you google something, at the top of the search results ads come up that have two headers and some text explaining it underneath. I was tasked with creating the two headers and explanations for three different areas of the Walk West company. First, I was able to do some research to see what other companies — who were advertising similar things — had done. It took me some time to think through everything, but I eventually finished that task and was on to the next. I then began to work on helping for clients’ monthly reports. I went through multiple spreadsheets to check to see how many videos they had posted for the client. Today, I was able to meet with different people to talk about their jobs and many other things. I sat down with Kevin, the head of the design department, to talk. We did talk a little about what he does and where he went to college, but we also talked about a lot about random things. Kevin seems to be one of the funny guys in the office and loves giving advice (some of which you should take and some of which you shouldn’t). I was then able to sit down with the founder of Walk West — Brian Onorio. I had been coordinating the internship through Laurie Onorio, who just so happens to be his wife and on a much more important scale the head of governmental affairs. I got a little bit of background on his life and how his childhood led him to where he is today. We ended up talking a lot about social media and he wanted to hear more about my experiences with it. Today for lunch Suki, Luke, and I tried out the food trucks on campus today. Suki’s drive to meet me was about 10 minutes and so, 20 minutes later Suki and Luke arrived. We ate at Queso Monster and it was great! Once I got back into the office, I finished up some things for Candace. Most of the team was in a meeting when I got back, so I had a little bit of down time as well.
This week I learned many things. I learned that there is so much more to social media than meets the eye. I learned that things might not always go to plan, but you roll with it anyways. I learned that communications is not just social media — there’s governmental affairs, design, marketing, client services, and many other areas that you can be involved in. However, I didn’t just learn about business. I also learned that it takes a team to get work done. So here are a few of the things I’ve learned about the people that are the face of this company: Andrew loves Tootsie Rolls — he’s eaten almost 400 in a week and a half. Kevin can talk about literally anything and his goal in life is to be able to buy a cup of $5 coffee every day. Candace went to ECU for college and didn’t apply anywhere but ECU (she didn’t like the writing for applications, but who can blame her). Jen actually went to college for fashion design and is now in marketing. Ann Marie loves apple pie (and yes she can have as much as she wants — pregnancy pass as she calls it). Those are just a few of the people I’ve met during my time at Walk West. Each individual contributes something special to a company, and whether that’s being really good at designing or marketing or simply just being able to eat a lot Tootsie Rolls, it all matters.