Fall 2017 Burns Entertainment & Sports Marketing Internship

Burns Entertainment has been the industry experts in celebrity spokesperson campaigns, endorsements, gifting, and music licensing and professional speakers for over 47 years. Burns is not a talent agent, we serve as a talent procurement partner leveraging experience and expert industry savvy to negotiate and execute deals in the entertainment and sports space.                                                         

Interns will receive hands-on training in all aspects of the sports & entertainment marketing business.  Intern assignments include working in one of our four company divisions: PR/Gifting, Advertising, Celebrity Speaking Engagements or Business Development. Training will cover contracts, research methods, use of the database, as well as general office skills.  In addition, you will be provided with periodic informal seminars by Burns staff members on their areas of the business.

Under my supervision, you will assist Burns executives with all aspects of PR campaigns, endorsement campaigns, speaking engagements, personal appearance and other events.  You will participate in the creative side of the business by involvement in brainstorming sessions, researching celebrities and athletes for possible events and campaigns, and compiling full bios for client proposals.  Also, you may assist with event/campaign logistics and some customer service tasks.

Undergraduate students looking for academic credit and work force experience.

We receive a high volume of resumes and give preference to those who apply early. Phone & in-person interviews are conducted during the following time frames:

Fall Internships (August – December): Interviews are conducted between March/April

Winter/Spring Internships (January – May): Interviews are conducted in October/November

Summer Internships (May – August): Interviews are conducted in December/January

-Endorsements/Ad division: works with the Ad agencies and corporations on advertising campaigns to obtain celebs for commercial, print, radio spot; this division also does music licensing for clients wanting to get the rights to use a song in a commercial > goal is to sell more product

-PR division: works with PR firms and corporations to hire celebs for spokesperson campaigns, appearances, getting a celeb to show up at party/event, gifting (lounges backstage at events, mailing out gifts to celebs) > goal is to get media attention

-Business Development/Social Media division: works with colleges/universities, associations, not-for-profits, corporations to hire a speaker (you see it all the time on campus, companies bring in motivational speakers or business speakers for their employees, associations and not-for-profits bring in a big name to raise money). This division also handles Burns social media outlets and helps filter and drive our business.

-Business Development/Agency Relations: this division works on forging new relationships with companies/corporations/agencies and maintaining existing relationships; this is more of a sales/new business development role for students looking to go into this area of study

*part-time and full-time positions available