WSO Online-Marketing/Finance Intern Needed (Remote)

Wall Street Oasis is looking for an intern to assist the marketing and business-development manager with online-marketing and finance related tasks.

The internship is unpaid, but tangible/intangible benefits you will receive are listed below. You will be working remotely, and communicating with me via phone/skype at least once per week. Ideal candidate is a business student with interest in finance/marketing looking for that internship to get your foot in the door and fill your resume with some real-world experience.

Responsibilities:

1. Online-marketing Building our online relationships and growing traffic into wallstreetoasis.com -Posting intelligent & non-spam comments/links on finance-related sites to "pull" traffic to our site -Answer finance questions (on yahoo, quora etc) and link back to WSO -Engaging personally with the online community and our target authors via twitter/facebook -Assistance with building online-partnerships (affiliates, author-syndication, and link-building) -Helping track the success of our social-media & linking efforts via Google Analytics

2. Finance-related: Partnership building with our target authors/sites -Monitor posts/tweets by our target authors -Post short responses/your opinion in our forum re articles by our target authors.
-Assist me in growing our relationship with them by helping contact them via twitter/email

Timeline/hours: -Start date: ASAP -Completion date: Would like a candidate that can commit to work until the end of your spring term (Mid May) -Hours per week: 15-20

Skills/requirements: -Basic knowledge/interest with finance -Basic knowledge of marketing / social media -Knowledge of what WSO is all about (ie study our About us page) -Great communication skills (fluency in English a must) -Solid work-ethic and able meet deadlines -Can commit to 15-20 hours per week availability. -Current university student or recent graduate -Able to commit to weekly phone calls with me -Able to respond to emails promptly during weekdays (unless you give me advanced notice)

Tangible Benefits for you: -Free access to all WSO Guides (1 immediately, 5 more after 6 weeks, and the addt'l 5 after completion of internship) -Free access to WSO job board for one-year (after full-completion of internship) -I will make myself available to you for any online-marketing questions you have. My -background is not in finance so I cannot help with this, but I do know people who I can refer you to. -I am happy to assist you with your career in the future - i.e. give recommendations / referrals etc.

Intangible benefits: - i.e. what you will learn -Finance: You will have a ton of exposure to online finance blogs/articles/news/authors/contacts etc.
-Online-marketing: you will see first hand how a successful online forum/blog is run.
-I've had several internships in the past, so I know how it is - I am trying to design this internship to be as beneficial for you as possible.

To apply: please email me (with email subject title: "WSO Internship") at Andy at wallstreetoasis.com your resume and the answers to the following questions: -A brief rundown of your experience with finance and online-marketing -Current student status -A confirmation that you meet the aforementioned skills/requirements -Your current availability (hours per week you can commit to, vacation time (spring break) needed) & until what date you can commit to. -A link to any online projects you have done (twitter page, blog, facebook biz page)
-Yes or no if you are also interested in being a campus rep at your school (not necessary, but a plus - see: //www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/wso-campus-represe… )

After you apply I will respond to you asap with an example of a project you would be working on. If you feel like it is something you are definitely interested in doing we will set up a skype interview.

Thanks,

Andy