Hello everyone!

My name is Caitlin Romolt, and I am currently a marketing intern at an awesome military marketing company called MARCH Marketing LLC. MARCH is a military marketing company, which was started by a veteran himself, Tom Aiello. In fact, Tom recently received an award for North Western Kellogg students and alumni who have been named “2016 Youn Impact Scholars”. This group consists of the most innovative and creative Kellogg students and alumni passionate about social impact. We are a small marketing company that helps give back to other veterans who continue to help our country. This is through the use exclusive strategy, consulting, marketing, recruiting, public relations, social media, and word-of-mouth communications for products and services targeting military and veteran families. Every year 10% of our profits go to local veteran based charities. MARCH has already in the past four years, have raised over $100,000,000 and provided work for over 100,000 veterans. Giving back to the veteran community is what we strive to do as a company. We want to improve the lives of active members, veterans, and their families.

Part of my job as a marketing intern is working with a lot of nonprofit organizations that help raise money for veterans. These companies include Veteran Launch, Operation Rising Star, Helmets to Hardhats, and Rags of Honor. What I do as an intern, is heavy analytical skills. I retrieve their data given from my boss: including demographics, marketing strategies needed to be used, and organize base presentations using PowerPoints and PDFs for my boss to present to clients and other companies. For example, Operation Rising Star is a veteran talent agency. My job was to look at its competitors such as American Idol and The Voice and analyze their marketing strategies. These included websites, Facebook, and Twitter, and see what trends they were doing to make their marketing effective. I heavily use excel to keep a list of all the veteran owned companies that are in the United States, which is over 600 companies. As an intern I am very reliable and must meet exact deadlines for presentations, which I am given usually about a week to set up.

As an intern I am learning every day
more and more about marketing. Being an intern at MARCH Marketing LLC is so rewarding. Knowing that our marketing agency is giving back to the veterans reassures that what I do for this company matters not only to the company but to the 25 million veterans who have served for our country.

Here is a picture of MARCH Marketing LLC leading the panel discussion at the IFJ with leaders of the VA, Defense Department, and National Guard! #DayintheLifeofaMARCHIntern #ILoveMyCompany

Well, that is all for now, I am still learning and being inspired by such a truly amazing company.

Regards,

Caitlin