Good Summer Internships

Work at Home Summer Internships

Our work-at-home summer internships are perfect for those of you who are looking for journalism internships, venture capital internships, or general summer internships for Summer 2008. This is win-win-win for you, us and entrepreneurs all over the world!

If you are looking for venture capital internships, journalism internships or just great summer internship opportunities in general, you're in luck.

We now offer:

• work-at-home internships for high school students
• work-at-home internships for college students
• work-at-home internships for MBA students

In an effort to populate the Resources for Entrepreneurs section of our website we are looking for talented individuals who have a passion for entrepreneurship coupled with strong research and writing skills.

Our goal for Summer 2008 is to add over 5,000 new pages of content to our site, with each page containing good, original content that will help entrepreneurs around the world to be successful.

Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to write 101 articles over the course of the summer. You will be one of 50 summer interns working on this project.

Writing 101 articles requires that you be a prolific writer with a high level of empathy for what entrepreneurs would like to read. If you don't have a passion for subjects like entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, business strategy, franchising, business plans and the like, this isn't the job for you.

At the end of the day, you will be able to add these bullet points to your resume:

• Assisted with the development of a comprehensive resource site for entrepreneurs.
• Researched and wrote over 100 published articles on topics of interest to entrepreneurs.
• Provided strategic advice and recommendations on web site strategy and content development.

Managing Your Work

What does it take to write 101 articles over the course of a summer? We operate on a 12-week schedule for work-at-home interns. Your "quota" for articles for each of the twelve weeks will be: wk1: 6 articles, wk2: 6 articles, wk3: 7 articles, wk4: 7 articles, wk5: 8 articles, wk6: 8 articles, wk7: 9 articles, wk8: 9 articles, wk9: 9 articles, wk10: 10 articles, wk11: 10 articles, and wk12: 12 articles.

Another way to look at it is in hours per article. Over 12 weeks you can spend up to 480 hours working on this summer internship. That means you can spend as much as 4.75 hours on each article on average and complete the task. Based on our experience, extremely talented writers with subject matter knowledge can complete good 500-word articles in as little as half an hour. That's the guys who are on the right side of the bell curve. More realistically, solid writers like you might take 2-3 hours to write an article. If you can write your 101 articles in, say, 250 hours, that means you've freed up 130 hours of your work week to go to the beach or do something else.

How Much Do We Pay?

If you are familiar with entrepreneurship, you are perhaps familiar with the concept of bootstrapping. That's when you try to get a lot done with very limited resources. That's what we are trying to do. As such, we are able to pay you up to $1,515 for the summer. That's $15 per article. On our part, it's a total investment of $75,750 (50 interns at $1,515 each).

We will pay you via PayPal whenever we receive and approve a batch of five or more articles. We reserve the right to ask for revisions to articles or to reject articles that we do not feel are of sufficient quality. If poor quality is an ongoing issue, we reserve the right to terminate.

Note that you will be working as an independent contractor, managing yourself and your time. We've got a short contractor agreement we will send over to you. At the end of the year, you will receive a 1099-form from us.

Will You Assign Article Topics to Me?

Our preference is that you develop your own article ideas based on your interests. However, we would like to approve all article topics before you start on an article. This ensures that two interns will not be writing on the exact same article topic. The protocol will be that we define your article assignments with you at the beginning of each week.

Will I Get a Byline?

Yes, your name will be included in every article you write, giving you credit as the author. If you have a website, we will also happily link to your website.

Do I Keep the Rights to My Articles?

No. We are contracting you to write the articles exclusively for our entrepreneurial resources site. As such, you cannot reprint the articles elsewhere and you surrender all rights in the content to us.

It's essential that your articles are original content. We use a service to detect plagiarism. If you plagiarize from other articles, we won't accept the article and you will not be paid.

How Do I Apply?

Here's how to apply for our work-at-home summer internships:

• Write a Sample Article. Write a sample article and submit it to us. If it's of good quality, that will be your first article and we will pay you $15 for the article. Payments will be made via Paypal. You can write on whatever topic you like, as long as it's of interest to entrepreneurs and small business owners.
• Send Us Your Resume and a Cover Letter. We'd like to know who you are and what your background is. Please include an explanation of why you are interested in this internship and what articles you think you'd like to write.

Send the above information to us at work-at-home-interns@gaebler.com with the subject WORK AT HOME SUMMER INTERNSHIP APPLICANT in all capital letters. We will try to get back to you within a few days to let you know whether you will be granted a work-at-home internship.

WORK-AT-HOME INTERNSHIPS REMAINING: 49 (as of April 10, 2008).

ACCEPTED APPLICANTS: Scott Scheper

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