Business Development Intern at SpeakIn

Abstract

This is a report regarding the hands-on experience of working at SpeakIn, a startup based on AI which prides in having the largest network of professionals under its bandwidth across Asia. It describes the detailed analysis of SpeakIn products and services and my contribution over towards the company in my 10 weeks of internship. As a business development intern in literal terms is hired to boost the sale of the company’s products. The profile requires skills like Oral Confidence, Interpersonal Skills, Business Sense, MS-Excel etc. My role at SpeakIn enabled me to develop skills like active listening, lead generation, content creation, digital marketing techniques. During my internship, I encountered a number of techniques and methods that will surely help me in my career ahead. It also allowed me to explore my interests in different fields of marketing as I was working across departments. The report has 3 sections, Section A gives a detailed introduction about the profile of the company, Section B talks about the Project work and the profile introduction, describes my learnings from the internship. There has been an attempt to connect the concepts and tools learnt in classroom with the practical experience. During this internship, I also discovered the extra competencies I need to perform well at an organisation. The focus of this role was to use different marketing techniques that can help sell companies core product at the moment, Expert webinars. The e-Learning industry witnessed a sharp rise in sales due to the advent of COVID 19 which enabled new opportunities for SpeakIn, which are further discussed in the report. The report also gives a brief about the challenges and limitations of culminating this project. Since SpeakIn is a startup, it was difficult to acquire information about its finances and operation and therefore, a lot of interpretations and conclusions have been made in this report. The information collected reveals aspects where the company must focus on to improve the efficiency of the team and work.