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How, we were wondering, could we give back?

How can someone learn how to become an Internet Marketer?

Internet Marketing moves so fast it can’t be taught in a college classroom, dorm rooms maybe. Atlantic Business Technologies in Raleigh located in the Atlantic BT Center, 4509 Creedmoor, wants to help students or people who want to transition into Internet Marketing learn by doing.

2 (unpaid) Internet Marketing Internships to be filled immediately:

Social Media Marketing Intern
The Atlantic BT Social Media Marketing Intern is about understanding the rapidly evolving world of social media marketing and its cousin SEO (search engine optimization). Responsible for developing content strategy for the Atlantic BT blog, Facebook, Twitter and Mobile platforms. The Social Marketing Intern will evaluate new social media tools such as Scoop.it, Share.it, Hunch.com and Quora making recommendations for partnerships and working new tools into Atlantic BT’s social media marketing mix. Assist in the creation of marketing personas and archetypes to guide campaign creation, offers, site heuristics and taxonomy. Social Media Marketing Intern will also work with metrics to create social ROI reports and understand reporting tools such as Argyle Social, Spring Metrics and Google Analytics.

Requirements:
Strong writing, analysis and creativity skills. Knowledge of Photoshop and Dreamweaver a plus. Some knowledge or experience with analytics a definite plus.

Internet Marketing Campaign Coordinator Intern
The Atlantic BT Campaign Coordinator Internship is about bridging the gap between the art and science of Internet marketing. Starting with brainstorming, planning and then working with creative to produce Internet marketing campaigns, the Internet Marketing Campaign Coordinator will be knee deep in understanding client needs, translating needs into marketing campaigns, testing assumptions and reporting results. The Internet Marketing Campaign Coordinator Intern helps organize, champion and test macro and micro Internet marketing concepts around topics such as gamification, social capital and email marketing.

Requirements:
Knowledge of Photoshop and Dreamweaver required. Ability to think creativity. Some knowledge or experience with analytics a definite plus. Strong keyword writing skills a definite plus.

How to apply:

Email:
Send Resume and short essay (300 words or less) on why you should be one of the two Atlantic BT Internet Marketing Interns to…

Martin.Smith(at)AtlanticBT(dot)com

Twitter @Atlanticbt :
Tweet links to your online resume and blog with short essay on why you should be one of Atlantic BT’s Internet Marketing Interns using #ABTintern .

Wednesday Night November 30 Interviews
If you can turn around an application by attending our Raleigh Internet Marketing Meetup on Wednesday November 30th at 6:30 we will be interviewing from 4:30 to 6:30. Tweet the time you would like to interview to @atlanticbt using #ABTintern.

One part of this series that really caught my attention was that a lot of research indicates that the tech sector will be creating millions of jobs by the middle of the decade.

“The research and consulting firm IDC estimates that 1 million new technology-related jobs will be created over the next four or five years — an increase of about 10 percent.”

So what does this mean to employers?  The other big take away is that if your company is positioned for growth in the coming year you may want to think about hiring, purely based upon the fact that there is REAL talent out there now that may be unemployed.

The other message for employers is to prepare for the future by taking care of the talent you have now, because once the economy starts to turn around technical talent it will be tougher to find and tougher to retain.  This brings me back to a post that  now infamous software company owner, blogger Joel Spolsky wrote a couple years ago called “A Field Guide to Developers“.

Joel’s points from 2006 still ring true today for our creative, technical work force and how to retain and recruit great designers and software developers.

Every technical manager that hasn’t read this article should, because it is a great guide on how to prepare for the future when the economy turns around.