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My successes and failures as an Aidmatrix intern. It started with my first few meetings and call in interviews with Brad. Which I will list under my successes. A few weeks after school had ended I traveled up to Dallas for my training. Which on the whole I thought was very informative. I would however have preferred a little bit more sales training. Cold calling and things of that nature. But it could just have been that I didn’t have the same schooling as the other interns.

Well any ways next I was trying to make calls and meetings. And here is where things started to go rather pear shaped on me. You see this is how it seemed to work. I would call up a clinic give my speech and the person would be excited about it. Then I would try to find out if they qualified or how interested they were. For the most part they would rather me explain it over the phone then go for a visit. So I would start talking to them. And seeing if they qualified. Most of them did not. And those they might have felt that there wasn’t enough of a benefit for them to implement our program. This was rather disheartening. So I tried the food banks and other non-profits in the area. But they were either too small or just not interested in what we had to offer.

So I called up Brad and told him about how things were going. And expressed my feelings that I wasn’t feeling very useful and if he had any work for me to do over by him. So he told me to do some web marketing and “spread the word of Aidmatrix” and that started to take up most of my day. I still made calls to clinks and tried to contact west Texas ones. But that was only and hour maybe 2 hours a day and the rest of my time were spent web marketing.

Also on several occasions I translated a few power points and wrote up some one pagers for Brad, which I thought was fun and helped break up the days. But if I am perfectly honest I don’t think I was as helpful or useful as you guys had originally hoped that I would be. Or as I thought I would be for that matter.

That being said I did have a lot of fun at this job. I got to meet a lot of interesting people both at Aidmatrix and in the health community of El Paso. So I would say that it was a very positive experience. The only thing I would have changed is probably have picked a community with a few more health clinics in it.

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