Sunday, June 14, 2009

Temporary Tempness

So I have a job. It's not a job I want, but a job I need. With loans starting soon, I needed to find something that would cover the costs I am the new employee of public golf course here in town. I am one of the maintenance guys that takes care of the yard work that needs to be done. It pays well, but not something I want to do be doing for long. In the mean time, I will be looking for more opportunities should they come my way.

On another hand, my desktop computer has died on me. I am on my laptop but with minimal power I am unable to take advantage of Photoshop and other such programs. Hopefully I can upgrade soon.

I have started to build my mini studio and will be showing what I done soon.

Stay tuned.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Graduation #2

I know this is pretty late notice to anyone who reads this but I have graduated from Champlain College. It was a nice ceremony, nothing long or over the top, just a classical to the point graduation ceremony.

A week before the graduation ceremony is something referred to as senior week. Senior week was full of activities that allow us to say "Good Bye" to Champlain College in the "Funnest" way possible. I didn't do all the events, but I did do a few. Here are pictures from the Cruise:
Foggy/Rainy Date:










B-town:


My Friend Meli:


My Friend Megan:




Here are pictures from the Graduation Ceremony. (Pictures brought to you by Megan Crilly and My father)

The Famous in front of the Champlain College sign pictures:


The Bag pipes lead us in, here is one of the guys:


It's me!


Close up of Vanessa:


Alicia:


The Martial followed by the Profs.:


Our President David Finney:


Me Again:


The Pops and I:


Mom and I:


Meli And I:


Miss Vermont:


Vanessa:


Best Teacher Ever! Elaine Young:


Allison:


Jay Mckee and I:


Parents and I:


Mom and I:


Elaine Young and I: As you can see she has removed her Wizards Cloak


Mom and I:


Silly Parents and I:



Pictures I took on a last walk down to the waterfront while living in Burlington, VT.


Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Know Your Source Internship

Internship Talk:

During my last semester at Champlain College I had an internship at Know Your Source. Know Your Source was a Supplier of Quality, Green and Conventional Supplies to Spas, Massage Therapists, Skin Care Professionals, and others in Integrative Medicine. After 16 weeks of going business they were forced to shutdown due to the economic situation.

While there I was the marketing intern. At first it was data entry and management. Everything on the website that would be looked at by potential customers. I would be in charge of entering the information such as product name/description/keywords for organic search and meta description of the product. After having completed the input of the product information, I was then able to be introduced to Google Adwords. Having been familiar with Google Analytics, and being savvy with internet programs, I was able to catch on real quick. From this point on I was in charge of keeping up to date the CEO and Founder Douglas "Las" Wengell on our adwords campaigns. While doing some research on what other people have done to get better target marketing click through rates and conversions I found a lot of information that would help get more potentials. I monitored the campaigns everyday, even when I wasn't at the internship. Overall I learned a lot of useful internet marketing techniques and tools to get better search results. I have incorporated everything I have learned into my website(www.aceduo.com) and the organic search of my name-- try it Google my name (Alberto Aviles).

Here are some pictures that I took while there to visually illustrate the business.

The Free Table: Gardener Supplies had a table which people from the company brought in items they didn't want and thought other people might get some use out of and placed it on this table. Anyone could go and take what they liked.


Founder/CEO Douglas "Las" Wengell:



Meg: My second supervisor.



The finance guy:


Marianne: She was my supervisor and a pleasure to work with.


The entrance to our section of the building. Because we were within the same building of gardener supplies.


The boxes of catalogs which were printed on 100% recycled materials.



Shortly after going live, the economic went downhill and they had to let someone go. This is the empty spot. Sad but true.


My Cubie Space:


The Office


The Office:


The Products:







While there I was asked to use my photographic ability to take some pictures for them of products that they didn't have pictures for. Here are those pictures:
























Here is the entire company:



If you are interested in the company stay in contact with them by filling out the form at knowyoursource.com.