Marketing Analytics Clinic
With the Marketing Analytics Clinic, you’ll gain experience through a real-world marketing project, setting you up for a career in marketing and analytics.
Each semester, the clinic partners with small to mid-sized businesses and nonprofits in the Twin Cities. Working with faculty, four undergraduate students create a marketing project to both benefit the business and provide students with an internship experience.
Students will:
- Meet and network with clients
- Assess the needs and scale of their project
- Analyze current marketing strategy and areas to grow based on the scope of the project
- Present results and map of future steps
Examples of potential projects include:
- Aggregating and analyzing data across multiple sources (social media, email marketing, Google Analytics, CRM data, and more)
- Creating a data-informed marketing plan
- Doing testing to optimize marketing campaigns
- Developing strategies to reach specific audiences based on demographics and email marketing open-rates/click-through rates, and more
- Researching keywords and hashtags to optimize websites and digital campaigns
- Studying text across the web and social platforms to understand competitive positioning
Student associates
Each term, students will be selected by application. Students receive a paid stipend and satisfy their internship requirement for graduation.
Preference is given to:
- Students pursuing a degree in business analytics, computational data science, marketing, and/or finance
- Students with skills including:
- Programming in R and Python
- SEO/SEM
- Adobe Photoshop
- Keyword research
- A/B testing
- Structured query language (SQL)
Interested in becoming a business partner?
The clinic can help businesses and nonprofits that don’t have the resources to make data-informed marketing decisions on their own.
Business partners will benefit from:
- Using advanced machine learning tools on existing internal and external data to uncover new marketing strategies
- Collaborating with two faculty experts in their fields who will closely guide the students
- Building your legacy by contributing to our next generation of business leaders
- Gaining diverse perspectives to solve your business challenges
- 700+ hours of analysis and recommendations from the project team
If you are interested in working with the clinic, contact:
Sonal A. Gerten
Marketing instructor
sgerten01@hamline.edu
Contact information
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Undergraduate Admission
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