John Mayer kind-of-day

     Today has been a pretty average day at Esente. I have been listening to John Mayer all morning, which always puts me in a good mood. I have also been collecting leads for both West Bridgewater and Fall River. When Manta decided to stop working (which happens quite frequently), I started collecting leads for Fall River using Merchant Circle. I prefer Manta over Merchant Circle, mostly because Manta alphabetizes all of its businesses, which makes things a lot easier. Merchant Circle is also annoying because it constantly lists businesses more than once in each list, and that is frustrating because I can never remember if I have already looked up that business or not. Other than the fact that Manta decided to stop working, I had a pretty average day. I ended up collecting 60 leads which is about average for me.
     After lunch I am most likely going to be designing CD covers for the 50 Project as well as continue working on my CD cover for the San Francisco Rockers Against Bullying campaign. Since I had not worked with Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for a while before interning here at Esente, I have definitely refreshed my memory and learned a lot about each program. It's fun to play around with each program and discover new things you can do with it that you didn't already know about. Every day I am learning something new, which is really exciting because I love learning new things.

Hearbreak Warfare - John Mayer

Hollister Ream
Graphic Design Intern
Wheelock College '14

day 24 of this so called Zukunft

German is an angry language. It's worse when it's German Death Metal.

Yesterday I went to the first video shoot for Jayna Lininger. It basically encompassed all of my favorite things except for cooking: photoshoots, makeup, and music. Jayna has a beautiful voice, so it was great getting to hear her live. The makeup artist (Kerry I believe, although I'm not sure on the spelling) was really nice, and her work was amazing. The best part, though, was that I got to take pictures of all the behind-the-scenes stuff, so as Jayna was getting her makeup done or they were doing sound-check or whatever else was going on besides shooting, I got to take pictures of all the action. The lighting was really difficult because it was super dim in the hallways where they were doing makeup, and where they were shooting, the stage was well lit but everything else was really dark so I'm going to have to edit the pictures to make them more balanced. That'll be my job this afternoon!

I think it was last Thursday afternoon that I went on a sales call with Ron. It was really quick; we just walked into the gas station, he told the guy why he needed a site, and about half an hour later we were out of there and the guy was getting a website. The whole process was interesting to watch.

This morning it was back to leads, which didn't go over too well. I didn't spend as much time as usual on them because Ron wanted to show those of us who went to the shoot yesterday how the videos turned out, and on top of that my first list was a total let-down with only two leads. So I didn't do so well on those today.

Anyway, it's going to be an interesting last six days here at Esente!

Carolina Rago
RIT Student
Graphics Intern

running out of clever titles!!!

  Today is Tuesday, and Leads research this morning has been a bit slow due to the crashing of some of our researching sites.  I have learned that some restaurants give the weirdest names to their companies, I researched a restaurant called something like Goombas...all I could thin of was Mario!

Other than the interesting names, Today I will update the blog.  Last week was very cool because the Design interns made logos for a client, which was interesting.  Do not know what the rest of the week holds, more logos? The intern video? the future is unknown.

Meghan Connolly
Design Intern
Umass Dartmouth

(Insert Clever Title here)-Part 25

Hey everyone happy monday. I had a nice weekend thanks for asking. Last Wednesday Rebecca, Shayna, and I went to Flamer's Grill in the the Prudential Center in downtown Boston. We offered free coupons and pens to all the customers who showed up. We also offered potential customers to sign up for the Flamer's email list, we collected about 35 total (Yes Shayna, and Rebecca collected more than me, though Ron had correctly predicted this outcome due to my Y chromosome.) I think it was a good day for Flamer's because even though we did not as many emails as we hoped one, the owner was happy with the results, two we gave out a lot of pens and coupons to help spread the brand name and give incentive to have customers to return, and three we promoted a friendly, happy, human environment  to the restaurant (Even if Rebecca was making fun of me the whole time.)

My time here is starting to wind down so I've created a couple goals for myself to finish before I leave. I plan on having the 50 project shell done for the fall interns to send and create the website within the first week, I plan on finishing the intern video with everybody else, and I plan on helping finish whatever Kickstarter stuff Ron wants me to so he can start that as soon as possible.    


-Peter Sliva

Almost There

There's not a lot of new stuff going on with my project. It's still in the steady work flow I've been on for most of the summer. The only other significant thing going on is the fact that some of my peers have already ended their internship for the summer. It's kind of weird to think that I'll be done soon-ish too. I don't know exactly when that is, but I'll probably stop showing up in person around the 15th. I've got other stuff to start focusing on.

Ingrid Parena

Graphics Intern 2013

RM - 8/5/13

It is another nice day out and I'm back at Esente Music Group after a nice weekend. Today my internet research was focused in Fall River, MA. I have never been to Fall River but judging by the amount of businesses there I'd have to assume that it is one of the biggest cities in Massachusetts. I collected a below average amount of leads which totaled 34. Only about 15% of the links worked on Merchant Circle today but that's just the luck of the draw.

Ron is not in the office today because our client Jayna flew in to do some photo shoots, recording sessions, and video sessions. I hope that I can go to at least one of the sessions so that I can actually see what the process is like. I've been waiting all summer to get out of the office and this is my chance.

One thing I've learned from this internship is that projects need to have deadlines for every step of the way. Almost every project that we have worked on this summer has dissolved due to lack of direction. If I ran my own company I would make strict schedules and put certain people in charge of maintaining them. The 50 Project is the longest lasting project so far but I am skeptical as to whether or not it will become anything. It might have to be me who takes the lead, and if no one else does I will try to get that done.

Randy McGravey
Public Relations Intern
Esente Music Group

Cinco

Jayna Lininger is here today! We haven’t met her yet but she should be here soon. I’m really excited for this afternoon. We’ll be in a recording studio with a hot mic. I’m not sure yet what I’ll be doing but no matter what it is, it will be great to get to experience it. I’ve never been behind the scene of any productions. I know that it always looks easier and more glamorous than it actually is but I’m still excited.

Next week will be my last week in the office. We’re finishing up our responsibilities for 50 and will hopefully be able to put a wrap on some intern videos before a lot of people leave. I can’t say I’ll miss the hour-long drive but I will miss everything else. I’m going to try the Intern 2.0 program so I’ll still be a little involved.

Have a great day, everyone!

Hanna Lane

University of New Hampshire