Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Laborfair.com - Marketing Summer Internship



Laborfair.com, http://www.laborfair.com, is seeking a high energy,smart, sassy, stylish marketing intern who can help create cool campaigns on and offline and build word of mouth awareness for Laborfair.com. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a great environment with a small, early stage startup in the consumer online space. Get in at the ground level and help us continue to build our amazing company. You might even land a job with us after school!

Who we are:
Laborfair, http://www.laborfair.com, is a person-to-person hiring marketplace for U.S. household labor (childcare, housecleaners,handymen, skilled tradesmen etc.) operating in the Bay Area, LosAngeles, Sacramento, and soon NYC. Homeowners find and connect with localservice providers who have prior professional references, ratings and community reviews and get fair prices set in a competitive market.Members of the temporary labor pool get highly efficient, mobile,cost-effective advertising and a personal "brand" on the web.

Launched by award-winning social entrepreneurs, we are a fun, multicultural team of successful, internet executives, international entrepreneurs andpromising, young talent working to revolutionize the temporary labormarket with innovations in web and mobile, advertising and communications services. It's a cool place to work!

Laborfair's Marketing Intern will be responsible for:
-Market Research
-Newsletter improvement research
-Research speaking engagement opportunities and requirements
-Research prospective and current clients' websites and theircompetitors for insights
-Promote Laborfair at fun summer events

Analysis
-Develop, implement and track performance of campaigns
-Extract insights on which to evolve existing programs and base newprograms and strategies
-Work to optimize PPC, display & email campaigns
-Support search optimization with keyword research and link development

Creative
-Use creativity to create stylish, fun offline materials for distribution-help develop new consumer facing features on laborfair

Required Skills/Traits
• Highly organized with excellent written and verbal communication
• Microsoft Office, some knowledge of Photoshop and basic HTML
• Ability to think creatively and implement online/offline marketingprojects from the idea phase
• Able to multi-task and drive team deliverables in a dynamic environment
• Knowledge of popular websites and social networks (web junkie)
• Great knowledge or online environments and how to communicate in them
• Strong sense of product ownership and pride in work
• Preference for working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, start-up environment

Internship details:
• Length: flexible (Approximately June - Sept)
• Hours: 14-28 hours/week (Mon – Fri) (flexibility on hours)
• Start Date: June 2008 (some flexibility on start date)
• Location: SOMA, San Francisco

Contact:
Please contact Jenna Raby, CEO, jenna.raby@laborfair.com and forward your CV.