I’m passionate about helping college students move from the classroom to the workforce. Throughout my collegiate life I was frequently turned down for internships because of my school schedule and for job opportunities because of my lack of experience, and I had experience. I had been doing website development since 1994, SEO since 1996, and had ran 2 tech startup companies. I know first hand how incredibly frustrating the process of getting a job during college or after is.

The field of marketing, especially digital marketing, has gotten incredibly competitive in the past several years. As has related fields such as public relations, advertising, and journalism. To stand out as a college graduate you’ll need a variety of skills that you’re unlikely to learn in the classroom.

We have spent years working on building a robust internship program to help students gain real-world work experience across disciplines and digital platforms. My past interns have gone on to work at places like Sony, Google, Hershey’s, and various marketing agencies.

Our internships are built to be flexible with your schedule, while still teaching you valuable real-world skills. With as little as 1 hour per week or as much as 4 days a week, our internship programs are built to work with you and make you the best job applicant when you graduate. We offer internships on Social Media Marketing, SEO, Journalism, and Public Relations out of our Dallas, TX office. Many of our internships come with certifications and paid online training from various providers.

Our internship programs are broken down into 3 different levels representing the amount of time and commitment and difficulty.

Level 1 – Introduction to core concepts, hands on experience with basic implementation

Level 2 – Expansion of core concepts, introduction to higher-level concepts, hands on experience with more advanced implementations

Level 3 – Expansion of higher-level concepts, managerial experience, work on actual client accounts, create and run marketing campaigns across platform and discipline, publish content (for marketing internships),

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One hour a week internships
3 days a week internships
Senior Internship

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Pre-requisite: A desire to learn and improve your skills.

One Hour a Week Internships

These internships are available to busy students who want to gain experience but feel like they don’t have the time. They require at least 1 hour per week of dedicated time coming to / video conferencing our office for training. Most often our interns in these programs commute to the office once every week (we have a set intern meeting at 1pm on Fridays), but some live in areas where physically commuting is impossible and telecommute instead for one hour of training and collaboration with their teams.

While this is called the ‘One hour a week’ internship, we expect each student will commit extra time to complete their tasks at home and in driving. On average interns in this program will spend between 6 and 10 hours per week training, working, and commuting.

Time commitment: 6 to 10 hours
Levels: Level 1 only

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Social Media Internship – This isn’t your mamma’s social media internship. You’ll be challenged with projects on various platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit. You’ll learn how to create a content calendar, how to collaborate to create content for that calendar, and how to use various tools to schedule out that content. You’ll also learn how to research competitors and your internship will be capped off with a project that has real-world, real money impact.

SEO Internship – SEO’s are responsible for the experiences hundreds of millions of people have online every day. You’ll learn the basics of this art form and how it impacts the world wide web. You’ll learn how to get a website or content indexed by Google and other search engines and you’ll learn how to get that website or content to rank highly enough to gain valuable traffic. You’ll learn how to read and understand analytics data and how to gather intelligence on competitors and use that to make your own website or content better. You’ll also learn basic HTML and how to use various CMSs.

Journalism Internship – So you want to be a paid journalist when you graduate? Our internship is designed to give you hands on experience writing news and stories that people want to read. You’ll leverage our audience of over 8,000,000 Texans / week. This internship will teach you how to use tools to be a more efficient journalist and how to research stories. You’ll get experience finding your own stories to write about, being a freelance journalist shopping story ideas, and having stories assigned to you to write. You’ll learn how to use popular CMS editors, how to craft a byline, and how to push your stories via social media. You’ll end your internship with published articles on various websites to help build your portfolio.

Public Relations Internship – PR is a growing need for online companies. This internship will give you real-world experience with reaching out to journalists and publications and getting interviews for clients, having journalists mention content, etc… Your internship will teach you how to use creativity to promote a positive brand image and how this impacts all other marketing channels. You will end your internship working on a project that has local or community impact somewhere in the world.

Total Internships

These internships require the intern to be in the office at least 3 days a week for at least 4 hours per day. They are designed to give in-office working experience and to help interns gain as much hands on experience as possible. Hours are flexible around college schedules.

Time commitment: 12 to 20 hours
Levels: Level 1 & 2

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Social Media Internship – You’ll move quickly through our Level 1 Social Media Internship (defined above). This will give you hands-on experience with a variety of tools and platforms and acquaint you with social media terminology. By the middle of your internship you will be working on actual client accounts participating as part of the team helping build and run campaigns. You’ll end your internship as a project lead for a client project.

SEO Internship – In this internship you’ll quickly learn the SEO basics, HTML 5, and become Google Analytics certified. By the middle of your internship you’ll be completing daily SEO tasks for actual clients and conducting SEO research. Your internship will end with measuring the amount of impact your SEO work had on a project.

Journalism Internship – You’ll quickly get acquainted with online tools to make being a journalist easier. You’ll work with credentialed media organizations and by the middle of your internship you’ll be producing a steady flow of stories that are published across a variety of publications. You’ll end your internship working as a Digital Managing Editor for one publication assigning story projects to writers, editing their work, posting content live, and engaging with your audience.

Public Relations Internship – In this internship you’ll sharpen your PR skills fast using online tools to be more efficient. You’ll learn how to engage online influencers to push your messaging and get stories placed in top online publications. By the middle of your internship you’ll also be learning how to apply Social Media and SEO tactics to your work to further enhance the value of your PR. You’ll end your internship building a PR campaign pitch for a client’s brand.

Senior Intern

To be eligible for this internship you must have completed Levels 1 & 2 of any other internship and been an intern for Joe Youngblood SEO & Digital Marketing Consulting, Winner Winner Chicken Dinner, Blockchain 37, Explore Media, Doing Business For Good, or Your Mission Control for at least 1 year.

The Senior Intern is responsible for managing and coordinating other interns and is required to spend at least 2 hours per day at the office 5 days per week, with at least one of those days being at least 6 hours. Senior interns learn more advanced tactics with a sharper focus on the work you want to do after graduation.

As a Senior Intern you’ll gain vital managerial skills in the work force, you’ll work side by side with our team on all applicable client accounts, you’ll be in all applicable client meetings, and you’ll hold your own meetings. You’ll also get 1 on 1 training time to hone the skills you’d like and get access to online education tools we’ll pay for and provide.

Time commitment: 14 to 24 hours
Levels: Level 3

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