promotions | Experiences of a tall male PR major

My task for friday was to do some on campus promotion for Pepsi through some more giveaways. When I went in, I talked to my supervisor, Kasey, briefly and she told me what she wanted me to do for the day. Basically, I had a box of giveaways from Pepsi which consisted of frisbees, pens, mini footballs, and chap stick. Along with the giveaways, she said that I should set up a beanbag toss game to try to get students to play. It was a hot and sunny day on friday, so I was allowed to set up outside. The place I ended up choosing was in the sun but it was a higher traffic area which I thought was more important. Throughout the day I got pretty many people to play at least one round; it’s not easy to get people to play games on campus when they’re understandably more worried about getting to class or going to get food. Nonetheless, I made the most of it and talked to students as they passed by, tossing footballs to people and asking anyone who took one of the prizes on the table to tell others that I was out there with free stuff. I was out there for about 2 and a half hours when I finally ran out of almost all of my prizes to give away, all I had left was some of the chap sticks. Before I decided to fully clean up for the day, I went to take the table I had set up back to the office and planned on relocating to a shady area with the bean bag toss game to try to get a few more people to play while there was still the lunch rush around the dining halls. After I was done trying to get people to play the game for the day, I went back to the office and talked to my supervisor about some of the ideas that I have for this semester. She seemed pleased with most of them and we are actually going to be doing one of them this coming week! It will be a social media campaign to try to attract followers to the campus dining Instagram account by doing some great giveaways each day of the week leading to a pretty big prize giveaway on friday! I couldn’t feel more blessed to have this internship that let’s me work on all of these promotions and projects!

**Note: I thought it would be cool to title my internship posts with a quote of something anyone said while I was at my internship taken out of context.**

So today was the first real day of my internship with PepsiCo. I went there right after my feature writing class ended at 10am. My internship is on the offices in the back of our main dining hall, offices I didn’t know existed until I got the internship. I went back and my supervisor, Kasey was stuck on a lengthy phone call. Once Kasey was able to get off the phone we sat down and talked about what the expectations of me are for this semester. She explained to me more about what her job is, what my hours will be like, and how busy I will really be this semester– I could not be more excited!!! She asked at the end of all of this if I had any questions, which I didn’t because she explained everything very clearly and I have already taken the opportunity to grill the previous intern– but instead of not asking a question at all I just asked her if there was a dress code, I’ll basically be fine as long as I don’t show up in sweats. After that she sent me over to res-life to pick up some packages that were waiting there for me. The packages turned out to be some awesome prizes that will be used for give-away promotions on campus. After that, Kasey let me go at around 11:15 for the day asking me to come up with some ideas for things I would like to do with them this semester (I already have some solid ideas) that I will share with her on friday! Kasey seems like she is going to be an amazing supervisor! She is really nice, has a lot of ideas and a calming presence. Overall, it was a laid back first day in a very very busy environment.