Showing posts with label Alberto Aviles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alberto Aviles. Show all posts

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Operation NYC

It was a long time a coming but I finally had time to go and visit a friend (Katie) in the city. We had been trying to get together since she invited me to her home warming party. Not having matching schedules and with me be out of town/country/state, or just incapacitated because of sickness, we finally found a time that worked. As luck should have it, it was supposed to rain that day and here I was wanting to go in and take some pictures. Just my luck right? Everything went according to plan though, and I got to say hi to another friend (Amanda) in the process. I have 2 people I know in NYC. That's exciting!

I was mildly wet from walking around though, which may have had something to do with the reason why I was some what sick a little longer. I am not sure as to whether you have felt this way about anything, but as I walked the 45+ blocks down to canal street, I was overcome by the urge to writing something that was going through my head. A lot has been on my mind these couple of weeks, and I had an urge to just stop and write down everything. I found a Starbucks, and got to writing. I think, the the app. I have used the most on my Black Berry has been the memo app. that was pre-installed. Let's just say, I have gotten a lot faster at texting.

I was meeting Amanda down by Canal street. Which, turns out has a small little park. But, when I say park, I mean a couple of trees and lots of benches. Maybe some grass? There was also a board walk that I found, so here are some pictures from that area.

1.The starting point.


2.Just one of many lights down the boardwalk.


3.Signs of the night before.


4.Mind it.


5.I wasn't looking for it, but I found it.


6.The park... and it's benches.


7.In order to get to the boardwalk, you needed to walk through a path that had this pattern. For some reason, I really enjoyed it. I don't know why. Maybe it reminded me of simpler times.


8.The Boardwalk


9.A little walk way off the board walk.


10.Soar


11. New Jersey


12. I don't know what this building is but it had a nice little path leading to it.


13. Lower part of the city skyline.


14. 8 hours later, 7 miles of walking later, and I was on my way back home. As I walked the streets back to Grand Central Station, Something caught my eye. Here is the picture of what stopped me from my brisk walk back.


The Chrysler building looks rediculous with the fog around it. It seemed unreal.

Well that is all for New York City.

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.