I wouldn’t have received the incredible opportunity to be a Business Sales Intern for Sprint this past summer if it wasn’t for Dr. Pinto and her Buyer Behavior Class. I have to admit the first day of class; I was intimidated by the coursework and the project. As the semester went on, Dr. Pinto and Mark Nachman, Sprint’s Regional President of OH, PA, WV were very helpful. Although my group did not make it to the final round of presentations, I believe we all worked hard and well together to produce an excellent guerilla marketing idea for Sprint. It was indeed a great pleasure to work with the group of marketing students I was assigned with.
The class project was an enjoyable experience, and it leads me to an even higher opportunity being an intern back home in Greentree, Pa. Here, I worked as a Business Sales Intern where my daily activities were to shadow the Business Account Executive Reps, make cold calls to create appointments, and learn more about the products and services Sprint has to offer. I also worked alongside Solution Engineers and Implementation Project Managers where I learned the technical aspects and helped in on deployments where we would set up phones for users.
The training process for the Sprint interns was managed from their headquarters in Kansas City mostly through Skype and Pixel Flix. They taught us more about the company, and how to be a satisfied Business Rep. I was very eager to learn and absorb as much as I could from my managers and Sales Reps I shadowed day to day.