By: Bradley Spencer

As a recent startup, our company iCouponBlog.com was looking for young talent who wanted to learn about marketing on the internet. We considered hiring but had no real way to test the candidates out before hiring them on.  That’s where ColumbusInterships.com came in.

We put our internship opportunity up and within a few weeks have had three applicants.  We’ve accepted two of the three applicants and have had a great experience with both so far.  Both of the interns have been very proactive and easy to work with.  Both have also been very qualified.  One is graduated from Franklin University, and the other is getting his Master’s at OSU.

I think the main concern that any company offering an internship should consider is how the experience is going to benefit the intern.  We’ve worked hard to give the interns a variety of tasks so they’ll get a taste of multiple projects and positions.  We are also going to try to put the interns in front of clients and our vendors so the interns will get a chance to practice business communications. 

All and all, our experience with ColumbusInternships.com has been a very good one.  If you have the time to train an intern and give them a great experience, you should consider it for your company.

Bradley Spencer (http://www.bradleyspencer.com) is a Columbus-Based web designer and Search Engine Optimizer who is one of three founders of iCouponBlog.com (http://icouponblog.com).  Bradley writes on improving websites, getting more traffic to your website, and making websites easier to use.

iCouponBlog.com is a Columbus-Based and is accepting interns to help build the largest and most reliable coupon and rebate site online. With almost 3,000 coupons online after being online five months, iCouponBlog.com is poised to be a major hub for coupon searchers in the near future.