Journals Day 1: For the first day of my internship, I started off by referring to my notes from my boss Jason. He had given me very general instructions. My internship is fully remote and there is no headquarters or physical location for Narrow Pathway Management. Since the nature of their business is relatively new so is a lot of what they are doing. I was instructed to contact brands to get NIL deals for their clients. Narrow Pathway Management or NPM is a full-time representation company that helps out mostly athletes in any way they can. For this internship, I have 2 supervisors, Sara who is in charge of all interns, and then the owner Jason. Since my instructions were relatively general I started off by doing a lot of research on their clients. I felt that it was important for me to know who I was trying to get these deals for. I put together a Google document that had the name of every client and their key numbers. This included all social media handles, amount of followers, and any other detail that seemed important. Some of the clients are very successful division 1 college athletes. A handful of them have thousands and thousands of followers so it was interesting to see how they each post and interact with everything. Day 2: After getting some quality background information on all of the athletes I was connected with Sara who would see over all of the interns. This included me, Sara, Jason, and then another intern named Brennan. Brennan and I immediately had a connection as he played in the GMAC the same conference as tiffin for a school in Kentucky. We had a zoom call where we discussed more of the details behind what we can and cannot do. Specifically for me I can not talk numbers or form any deals for athletes because I am an NCAA athlete myself. I am working as the middleman to connect these companies to Jason and Sara once they have expressed interest. After they talked to us for a handful of minutes they opened it up to questions. Brennan and I fired off a handful of questions we had written down and it ended up being a very informative meeting. Once the meeting was all finished Brennan and I stayed in contact. We decided it was a good idea to create a Google sheet to keep track of the companies we contacted. We did this so that we could keep track and refer to something and to make sure that we both didn’t reach out to the same company. This Google sheet included the company name, contact, interest level, and form of communication. This would allow us to see what method has worked the best and what isn’t working. It was great to have another intern and someone that I could essentially work with virtually. Day 3: Jason and Sara both were very supportive of my Google doc that I had put together and the Google sheet that Brennan and I both had been working on. After I did some more research I wanted to make sure I had the right idea before sending out emails. Jason gave me a few corrections on my information and wanted me to change the document to a pdf. This allowed the document to be computer and phone friendly. One of the best parts of this internship is that Jason is very understanding of me being a student-athlete. He gave me and Brennan the ability to make our own hours and just enter them in the timesheet on Google. With this freedom, I am able to work whenever is convenient for me. This is very helpful because of my football workouts all morning. My initial goals are to get as many companies as possible to contact Jason saying they talked to me and are very interested. Sara who has been working with Jason for a little while now had a much lower goal for Brennan and me. She said she just wanted us to each get one deal. She explained that since this is all still so new it is hard to get companies to buy in because they do not want to spend their money on the unknown. One of the instructions from Jason was to focus on getting cash deals and staying away from getting gear or merchandise for the clients. This made the job very challenging because companies are much stingier with their money than they are with their products. This internship is commission based and I can receive a percentage of any deal that was initiated by me. Because of this, I have been very motivated to get as many as possible to help make some money. Research has been my main focus because I believe that putting together key selling points for each client will help businesses see what they could benefit from. Day 4: During my interview with Jason and then the introduction zoom call with him and Sara, they were very suggestive in starting off with any connections that I may have. The first connection that I had was with a hydration company out of Cincinnati named Hoist. I had been a supporter and customer for them for about 5 years. Through my business with them, I have been in contact with a girl named Rachel who works for them many times. They were the first company I contacted and I emailed Rachel directly about any opportunities with hoist. My next connection was with Liquid IV. Since I myself am a liquid iv sponsored athlete I figured I could contact my person there to see if they had any interest. This was the second company that I contacted. Then my final connection was with Max Effort a supplement company out of Columbus. Similar to Hoist it was my support for them that landed me in contact with Jeremy. I hadn’t talked to Jeremy for about 3 years, but when I did he was from the northwest Ohio area and was very helpful. I contacted him next to see if they had any interest in working with NPM. My initial strategy was to send companies my document with key selling points for each client and introduce myself and explain what the company does. It was great to start contacting brands and really get the internship started finally. Day 5: After reaching out to my first three companies sadly I ended up only receiving 1 response and it was them saying they were not interested. My original thought was that they may not work with the company anymore so I did some more research and contacted the emails I could find on each of the company's websites. My next step was to develop a list of companies to contact. I took most of this day to research and find companies and their emails or any form of contact. This was frustrating at times as many websites just had contact forms to fill out and I did not want to resort to just sending direct messages on social media because I felt that those would most likely be ignored. Eventually, I was able to get together about 15-20 companies and their contact information. After doing this I went to the Google sheet that Brennan and I put together. I analyzed some of the work he had been doing and then inputted all the updates for the information that I needed to. He and I both had been having similar problems and it was good to know that I wasn’t the only one struggling to find good contacts for the companies. My hope is to reach out to each brand and then be directed to the right person where I can give them more information and then hopefully connect them with Jason. The great thing about NPM is that there are about 5-6 total employees so Jason was very responsive and easy to get ahold of. Sara as well had been amazing so far and was willing to help me with anything I needed. Day 6: I started off day 6 by choosing a few companies from the list I created and reaching out to them. I sent them the pdf of all the clients that I created and explained who we are and what we do. Jason has a good mission statement and other values that they go by all over the website. He reviewed these with me a little bit, but I took the initiative to study them some more. Being a part of a lot of sports teams in my life I have realized how important culture can be. I believe in the culture that Jason has created and I think it will help him see the success he wants to see one day. For each email, I send to any company I have to cc the company email. This is so that Jason can keep track of what the interns are sending and how much we are doing. This is actually very helpful for me because Jason has reached out to me twice about things I’ve sent. Both times he has been giving suggestions on things to fix and how to know if the email you are contacting will be effective or not. Focusing on finding emails for real people that work for the company is the most effective way. Customer service emails and ones of that nature can typically get ignored or not be very helpful. Day 7: The list I created of companies still had about 10 companies on it. I started the day by making a few corrections that Jason had suggested to me. The Google document that I had created had the number of followers for every client on every social media. I made the correction of taking off the numbers of anyone who doesn’t have an impressive amount of followers. This was something that sounds so obvious but was something I missed. A brand isn’t going to be interested in someone who has 480 followers on Twitter and 700 on Instagram. I found the best way to correct this was to do more research on each client and find 3-5 of their best selling points specific to them. This would be followers for many, but more so accomplishments for others. For example, there is a women’s basketball player that was a client and she had many accomplishments, but not many followers. For her, the best selling points would be conference player of the year, stats, and other items such as that. Once these corrections were made I got back to emailing and ended up contacting 3 companies today and updating the Google sheet. Brennan and I were starting to get a pretty good foundation on this sheet. There were over 30 total brands contacted on there at this point. Both of us had decent success in getting responses so far, but no success in getting any interest at all. Most companies were just thanking us for the opportunity but they were not interested. Day 8: I started today by reaching out to 5 companies from my list. So far I have liked the strategy of doing research and finding contacts before reaching out so that I can more efficiently reach out to multiple at a time. The alternative would be to do my research and construct my message for each brand one by one which takes much longer. Although with this method that I do I cannot reach out to companies every day I can reach out to more on certain days and then dedicate other days to updated information and doing research. My supervisor Sara has been really helpful and I had a call with her today to just talk about how everything has been going. She is not an intern but works in a relatively similar role in the company. She contacts companies but has more freedom in what she is able to do. She has given me a lot of good advice and good things to learn from. She and Jason both give slightly different suggestions, but I think it is good because it is so new. No one has the topic of NIL figured out quite yet. Trying different techniques and strategies is very important in seeing what gives you the best response rate and then the best responses. At this point in the internship, I would say I am getting responses about 30 percent of the time. With this being the case I think getting more quality contacts and trying to assure a response is very important. Day 9: I started this day by reaching out to a couple of the companies from the list that I created. The companies that I have been contacting so far have been of a pretty wide variety. I want to start off by just getting a feel for what gets a response and what I can do to improve my message toward the brand. These brands so far have been some of my favorite companies and the first handful of places to come to my mind. Unfortunately, most of the contacts that I have been finding haven’t been exactly what I wanted. I have been having to reach out to a lot of customer service emails and fill out contact forms. Luckily I have got a few responses, but so far it has just been people letting me know that they are not interested. I have been trying to Google these brands and look up their marketing or sales departments. I have also been on LinkedIn looking up people who work for these companies to see if I can message them there or get a contact through the app or online somewhere. So far it has only been a handful or more brands so I am still optimistic about what I can do. Once I finish up this list I plan on working on another and making it longer. Day 10: For my tenth day of this internship, I started off by reaching out to the rest of the companies on my list. I have not heard from either of my supervisors in a few days and I have been sending emails and everything so I believe it is a good thing. As I finish up this list of brands that I’m reaching out to I also took the time to call the other intern Brennan. Brennan and I took the time to discuss our experiences so far and talk about how we felt things have been going. I told him that it is still early but so far I have had no success and am struggling to find valuable contacts. He is going through the exact same troubles as me so it made me feel better to know that. After we talked I took some time to update the client's Google sheet that he and I had created. After updating the whole sheet and putting in all of the details of what I had done the results did not look as bad as I had thought. We were getting around a 50% response rate in general and everyone was just either at their budget limit or did not trust the NIL stuff yet. I believe that these brands need proof of the NIL deals being effective for the benefit of these companies. Everyone is seeing the big deals being made on the division 1 level, but how the more minor athletes can play a role in the new NIL trend will be a key to finding out. Day 11: To start this day I had a call with Sara who is in charge of the interns. After talking with her I decided that the best strategy next would be to reach out to companies more so for specific athletes. For this, I started by taking the time to do research on every athlete. Personally, I would have really liked to reach out to each client myself and talk for like 5-10 minutes to find out what specific deals they want, but Jason told me not to do that. So instead I went through each of their social media and took notes on what it seems that their interests are. This took me a little while and then next I found 5 companies for each client. This research took me a long time because there are around 10-15 people that I was looking for. I compiled quite a good list and then did a little more research on how I could connect each client to that brand that they would be interested it. If I could find something on their social media that proved that they were fans of that company then I would attach it to the document so that it could help me prove to each brand that this could be very beneficial for them and that it is something this person is passionate about. Although I did not contact any companies directly this day I felt like it was a very productive day where I was able to learn a lot and prepare for the future. Day 12: Now that I have a good list prepared with a focus on individual athletes I can work to contact companies directly for them. I did not want to focus solely on one person per company because it could be a waste of a brand that may have interest in someone outside of who I am trying to sell to them. Because of this, I tried to leave a call to action for the company I was reaching out to. I did this by giving the brand information about the athlete that I felt was interested in their company. For example, Levi who plays football seems to be very bought into football. Almost all of his social media is about football and his girlfriend. For him, I focused on sports brands that are like gear he would wear and something that I have seen him support. Once I get the part about him typed up I would end the email or message with something like “Levi is just one of the many great athletes we represent here at NPM, please get back to me for more information if you are interested”. Then if there was an interest from the brand I could share my pdf document of all the clients to them. Day 13-20: For the next 8 days, I then did pretty much the exact same thing. As explained in my previous journal I picked an athlete and the brands that I fit up with them and reached out to those companies. For each one, I tried to make small improvements and took any coaching that was given to me by my supervisors. This part of the internship was pretty quiet. I did not really hear from my supervisors at NPM and I felt like this was because they were busy and I felt like I was getting the hang of everything. This was a pretty fun part of the internship though because I felt like I was being effective and reaching out to each company with a specific purpose and a well-designed strategy. To reach more places I never repeated a company or tried to get the same company for more than one person. I really want a lot of people more than anything to just learn more about NIL and hear about NPM so that they can build an image in their minds and gain trust for the topic. During this time I also worked with Brennan to continue to update the client sheet and talked to him on the phone twice during this time. Nothing very new came of any of this, but the same struggles and just staying on track with the sheet. We have a new intern joining us soon so we are getting ready for another call soon and should hopefully get some more information and be able to share our experiences. Day 21: After finishing up all of those contacts for the individual clients I felt like it was a good time to reflect and look back at the list of everyone I had contacted. Doing this allowed me to look at my response rate again and look at what kind of contacts got more responses than others. There really was no certain trend that stood out to me. Whether it was a contact form, email, or dm it was getting a response of around the 40-60%. The next step after reviewing all of this was to start doing follow-ups with anyone who had not responded. For this, I used the same contact that I had last time and used it to just check in with each company. These follow-ups were a suggestion from Sara my supervisor. She had made this suggestion at the beginning of the internship and I took note of it and picked a day then to start doing these. I felt like this was the perfect time to check in with the companies and see if maybe they just missed the first contact or if maybe it went straight to spam. Day 22: I started this day by doing a few more follow-ups and then I talked to Sara and received some more advice. She said in addition to follow-ups it is effective to reach out on multiple platforms. After sending an email or filling out a contact form she suggested reaching out to them via direct messages as well. If you can know that you emailed a company and reached out to them on at least two forms of social media and then did a follow up then it is safe to say that they are not interested at all. At first, I had a little bit of doubt about this strategy because it is a little out of my comfort zone. I did not want to seem annoying, but I felt that it was important for me to step out of my comfort zone and give it a shot. This is what I did for the rest of the day. Reaching out on different platforms and doing follow-ups took me a while. My only worry about some of the contacts I was having to do was that my boss would never see them. I had to cc him in emails, but a lot of times I could never find an email and had to do direct messages and contact forms on the company websites. If any concerns were brought up then I planned on just explaining myself in our next zoom meeting. Day 23: I started off this day by doing some research and updating the google sheet that needed to be done. Today we had a call with everyone to introduce a new intern Jojo. This call was good and was mostly used to introduce her and explain to her what the company is all about. After the introduction for her was done we went on to open the call up to Brennan and me to talk to her about our experience so far. I went on to talk about the success and the struggles that we have had. I told her the strategies that Sara and Jason had taught us and anything that I have learned during my time so far in the internship. I felt like this was very helpful because I know I could have used some information from another intern right when I started. After I talked and then Brennan said a little bit more Jason went back to a couple of other discussions. Then at the very end when it was open to questions or anything I asked if there were any reviews or feedback that the company has ever received after a deal was done. Jason said that there was and then I suggested that we could get reviews from previous deals to show a positive review of the benefits of a NIL deal. I think this would help a ton because of the doubt a lot of companies have about NIL. Some of the places we reached out to were hardly even aware of this act passing at all. Jason and Sara loved the idea and he said that he would get on it to see what he can do. I thought this meeting was very successful and got me excited about the possibility of trying a new technique. Day 24-28: During this time I was feeling a little discouraged. I kept up on the google sheet and reached out to brands. I finished all follow-ups that were possible and doubled up on all contacts with multiple platforms. I reached out to Jason about any testimonials and he had not been able to get one yet. I was very anxious about this opportunity because all of my methods seemed to be getting stale and I felt like I needed a new way to prove the legitimacy of what we at NPM were doing. I took the time to stay in contact with Brennan and now Jojo and we all were pretty much experiencing the same things. Brennan at this time was starting to slow down the work he was doing because he said he just started a second internship. Since this internship has a lot of freedom and no strict schedule I think he just lost motivation and started to pursue the other job more because of the pay and schedule that it demanded. I talked with Sara during this time and read a lot of articles and did a lot of research about NIL and just deals in general. Most of what I could find to study deals with professional athletes since these have been going on for years and years. There are athletes out there that make much more money on endorsements than they do playing the sport that they get paid for. This gave me some valuable information, but not much really that I could specifically apply to what I am doing. Day 29: On this day I focused on selling numbers and focusing strictly on the clients that have a large following. This was an interesting strategy because some of the athletes have a ton of followers and some of them are great at their sport but do not have a large number of followers. A lot of times these businesses want to see how many people are going to be reached by this deal. Selling strictly on the number of followers can definitely show these places that thousands of people will see their brand in a positive light. You would think that this would be very intriguing to these companies, but as I continued to reach out and do this I realized that the biggest problem is the lack of trust for the benefits of signing a NIL deal. I still have not heard anything from Jason about getting any testimonials from previous deals. I would reach out again, but I have already followed up once and do not want to be annoying. This week I learned that there are thousands of ways you can reach out to a company. There are a ton of variables on what you can say and what you can sell. At the end of the day, a big part of it is the need of the company and who sees your message. A strategy that I may have used for one business maybe should have been sent to another company. A company may have been given the perfect opportunity and message from me, but they just do not have any interest or trust. I believe that the only option in a case like this is to just keep going. Day 30: For this next strategy, I decided to sell accomplishments and awards. NPM represents a lot of athletes that have had great successful careers. They have a wrestler on there at Oklahoma State that has won a ton of awards, a few gymnasts from Oregon that are super talented, and a couple of others that are highly decorated athletes. This is something that I talked about a lot in the emails and contacts that I sent out. After getting all of these sent out I updated the google sheet and made sure everything was right. While studying my internship so far and connecting it with my course work I can see that my undergraduate marketing classes helped me out a lot for this internship. Understanding how to communicate with people and being professional are a couple of things that I have learned and applied to a lot of this internship. Also from marketing the NIEPP buyer formula. This thing stands for need, information search, evaluation, purchase, and post-purchase behavior. Studying this and looking at each response that I have got allows me to be in the mind of the consumer and analyze what I sent. Day 31: For my next strategy, I decided to focus on local companies around certain athletes. This is something that Sara recommended to me. I think this strategy could very well work and would get me a much higher response rate. I started off in the Eugene, Oregon area because Oregon is the school with the most clients that we represent. As I started researching I found a handful of businesses that I thought would be good opportunities. Next, I reached out to them and was excited to see how it would all play out. In my message, I sold the athletes using a little bit of everything that I thought was positive about them. The process that I think could use improvement is just how much time it takes to find each contact. Sometimes I will look for about 20 to 30 minutes just trying to find the best way to contact a company. This is something that has frustrated me for about the whole internship. Day 32: I did not get as many responses from the local businesses as I had hoped, and the few I did get were not good. I did get about a 60% response rate, but they were not interested in a deal. The two most common answers that I was getting to this date were that the budget was full and that they just were not interested. After I did my follow-up emails I decided to update everything again and made a couple of updates to my pdf of the clients. Jason had reached out to me about two athletes that we were no longer representing because one had graduated and one they parted ways with. So far in this internship, I have experienced a decent amount of success in receiving responses and seeing a lot of positive feedback about how I was doing things. Some businesses would reach out to me and thank me and everything, but there just was always something in the way. I would say the star of the organization is really just Jason. Everyone else is doing a great job and Sara has been a great help, but she is more focused on a different job that she works. Jason takes trips to watch his clients and takes a lot of pride in the company. Day 33: For this day I continued to reach out to any sort of contacts that I had left in my notes. I did a couple of follow-ups and spent a little time researching and updating spreadsheets. So far my favorite part of this experience has been the freedom that I have been given, because of the situation that I am in this summer it fits perfectly for me. If I had an internship that required me to do a 9 to 5 every day or something like that then I would miss a lot of football and not be able to be there for my mom. After my dad passed last fall my mom has had a tough time and I have been doing everything I can to be there for her and help her move into the new house. It has been super hard, but once I can finish it all it will be worth it. My least favorite part has been the staleness at times of what I am doing and the lack of success. Sara has reassured me and Brennan that we should not expect to make a ton of deals, but it is just frustrating because I have spent a lot of time and effort and it hasn’t seemed to pay off a ton. I am gaining valuable experience though and that is a positive. Day 34-44: While working another job for a local business in Tiffin I received a call from Jason. He was really excited about an idea that he had and thought that I would be great for it. He explained to me the opportunity of getting NPM an official graphic sponsor. This would be a brand that was shown on every graphic that the company posted. This deal would be anywhere around a few hundred dollars for a year. Jason and I both were not exactly sure about the perfect price for this opportunity so we decided to keep it within a range and lower it slowly if there is no success early. I was very happy and excited to get this call because it was something different that I was getting to do. Right, when I was able to get to work I started researching. Jason wanted me to put together a list of brands that I thought would be a good fit for the company's official graphic sponsor. I got a list together and sent it over to Jason. He approved the list and then told me about this new platform that he just bought. He has something that can get him really reliable contacts. He took the list I gave him and sent me back emails for real people at each company. This was a great opportunity and most of the emails were from people who would directly deal with these deals. Next, I constructed an email to send to these companies and sent it to Jason to get it approved before finally reaching out to each company. After I got it all approved I started sending out emails and ended up getting about 25-30 sent out pretty quickly. Being able to have the contacts right there and readily helped out a lot. Once I finished the list I sent Jason another list and got more contacts. On top of the ones he was sending me I found some of my own and was reaching out to a lot of places. During this time I got a good amount of responses and had a lot of hope. Unfortunately, no one wanted to sign as the official graphic sponsor although they did tend to respond a lot more. I believe this was mostly because of the good contacts that Jason got me. Day 45: On day 45 I continued to reach out to brands looking for an official graphic sponsor. I had to take the time to update the google sheet and did a couple of follow-ups. If I could restructure the company from the ground up to improve it I think I would hire people for different positions. The culture and a lot of what he has built I think are amazing and have a strong foundation. I would hire people for research roles and then for contact roles. I think this would be more efficient because then you would have people who just found really solid contacts and shared them with people who just focused on selling the clients. Instead, a couple of us are doing both and are learning on the fly. This way we have wasted some contacts and definitely could have been more efficient. I talked to Sara and Jason about the same amount. There have been times when we were pretty out of touch for a week or two at a time, but overall we talked decently often and both of them helped me out for the most part. Day 46: I started this day with a phone call with Jason. I reached out to him to just let him know that the official graphic sponsor is not going as well as we have both hoped. We talked for a little while reviewing each strategy and trying to see if there is anything I hadn’t tried and we both were a little disappointed. Both of us were on the same page and thought that everything was heading in the right direction, but unfortunately, no one showed true interest. As my internship is coming closer to the end I can honestly say that my initial expectations were not met and that I have grown and achieved things in a much different way than I initially had thought. I thought that making money and getting deals was going to happen a lot more and that I could do a lot more. Since the NIL is still so new the big struggle was just getting companies to commit money to something that they are not confident in. Day 47: Jason's final task for me was to try and get a deal for Levi and Tatum who are a couple that both play sports for Utah State. Tatum plays basketball and Levi plays football. They are both also very successful. They have a dog together and they requested Jason that they want a deal with a pet store. It was nice to get another task to do and I enjoyed the ability to work on something new. For this, I looked local first focusing on any pet stores in the area within about 30 miles of their campus. There was not a ton in that area so after I found them all I looked into the top pet stores in the nation. I then found all the contacts for them and Jason could not help me because he reached his limit on contacts he could get through his platform. Day 48: I started this day by drafting up an email for this task and sent it over to Jason to get it approved. This is something that I always did with my previous internship at JT’s Bagel Bar and is something that I think is important. It is better to maybe be slightly annoying at times and make sure you get it right as opposed to doing it on your own and doing it wrong and then having to do it all over again a different way. Once I got my email ready and finalized all of my contacts I was ready to start reaching out to them. I finished up this day by updating the google sheet and studying it to see everything that I had done up to this point. Day 49-54: At this point in time, I have really stopped talking with Brennan because the last time I talked to him he said he was done working and was not sending out any more emails. I talked to Sara about what I was doing and she and I talked over it a little more. Then I started reaching out to try and get Levi and Tatum a deal with a pet store. I felt like this was easy to sell because their social media clearly show that they are a couple, play sports, and have a dog together. On both of their Instagram pages, they have a highlight dedicated to their dog. As I continued to reach out to these places for them I was not seeing the success that I thought I would at all. I was not certain about any deals or leads, but I was confident that it would appeal to the emotions of someone at these places and that they would see some sort of opportunity out of this. I got one response out of 15 contacts that I reached out to and I do not know why. Day 55-60: My final days for this internship were spent trying to get a deal for Levi and Tatum. I did more research on companies to reach out to. I ended up contacting a handful more places and then really started focusing on finishing up the timesheet and google spreadsheet that Brennan and I started. I think it is hard to pinpoint one aspect of the internship that added to my personal development. The main aspects that have added to my personal development are communication, marketing, and sales. I ended up developing a lot more sales knowledge and skills than I expected. The whole internship ended up being based on selling these clients. The marketing aspect came through looking up data analytics and looking at target markets. I tried many different marketing strategies and just about every target market possible. Communication played a large role in this internship because I had to learn how to talk professionally and I had to communicate with businesses every day. My first experience that related to my academic studies was right off the bat when I started creating a spreadsheet and a google document. I did a lot of research on each athlete and then used a lot of skills that I learned in CST on how to use these programs. Then I utilized my skills from sports management classes, in general, the whole time. There were many times a term was used that I remembered from class and a lot of times what I was doing related directly back to a project that I had done before. My quality of supervision was pretty good I would say. I definitely think it could have been better in some ways. It definitely could have been more often and was more specific instructions to help out for the times I felt stagnant. Sara’s supervision was good, but also not as constant as I thought it would be. I understand though that she worked another job and told me to reach out with any questions. I do appreciate her way of giving me freedom though. The influence of this internship on my career was definitely strong. I would not pursue a career in something of this nature, but I am glad that I did it. I would like to be more so working directly with a team. More specifically as I have gone through this internship and more life experiences I would like to work in the sport of golf. I love being around the sport and I think it would be great to work in marketing in the golf industry. I would give advice to others to just not get discouraged and keep working. I would tell them to work to find good contacts and take the time to study and prep before reaching out. Lastly, I would say this internship was a great experience and although it was not exactly what I expected it to be I still took a lot from it.