Market Research for Plastics Recycling Project
Conseil Progressio provides management consulting services to small and medium enterprises. Currently, the organization is working on a project to set up a plastic recycling plant. Students will be assigned to develop some portion of a business plan or a complete business plan depending on the required level of details. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our company’s values, products, and services. Researching our target market and market potential. Researching the industry and competitive landscape. Recommending strategies to differentiate ourselves from our competition.
Financial Plan
Conseil Progressio provides management consulting services to small and medium enterprises. Our clients require assistance in the development of financial plans to apply for funding. We would like to collaborate with students to develop financial projections for various projects. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Learning about our business strategy from various employees to become familiar with our goals, mission, and products. Creating forecasts using Excel (or another financial software) for sales in the first year of operation as well as an income projection (conservative and aggressive). Working with our team to develop an expense budget. Conducting a break-even analysis timeline using financial projections. Reporting on projected assets and liabilities. Including visual comparisons such as graphs and charts to show the differences between the conservative and aggressive income projections. Conduct market size and market growth research to establish assumptions for financial projections.
Promotional Materials and Presentations
Conseil Progressio provides management consulting services to small and medium enterprises. Our clients require assistance in the development of various marketing materials for promotional purposes. The marketing materials may include PPT presentations, fliers, and infographics. We would like to collaborate with students to develop such promotional marketing materials. Based on insights from our marketing team and your research, you will develop the above materials for our various media (email and website communications channels, event activation, printed materials for trade shows) and make recommendations on alternative media to consider such as social media, etc. to bring awareness of products and services in the target markets. The details on the specific products and services will be provided to the students.
Market Research for Business Plans
Conseil Progressio provides management consulting services to small and medium enterprises. Our clients require assistance in the development of business plans to apply for funding. We would like to collaborate with students to conduct market research, competitive analysis, and marketing strategy development. Students will be assigned to develop some portion of a business plan or a complete business plan depending on the required level of details. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our company’s values, products, and services. Researching our target market and market potential. Researching the industry and competitive landscape. Recommending strategies to improve our positioning, brand, products, and services. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Recommending strategies to differentiate ourselves from our competition.
Financial Business Plan
Folium Labs is a biopharmaceutical company that develops innovative drug and nutrient delivery technologies and formulations to treat various medical conditions. We are looking for assistance in creating a financial plan and financial projections for new product introductions and licensing agreements. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Learning about our business strategy from various employees to become familiar with our goals, mission, and products. Creating forecasts using Excel (or another financial software) for sales in the first year of operation as well as an income projection (conservative and aggressive). Working with our team to develop an expense budget. Conducting a break-even analysis timeline using financial projections. Reporting on projected assets and liabilities. Including visual comparisons such as graphs and charts to show the differences between the conservative and aggressive income projections.
Promotional Materials - Infographics, Fliers, and Presentations
DLA & Associates Inc. is an active player in international commerce in the agricultural space and food industry. Currently, the company is exploring market opportunities for innovative functional food products, such as edible oil, snack bars, and grains and flakes, in North America. - Redesign the brand elements to be used in all marketing materials targeting functional foods markets. - Market presentation in PPT and PDF formats in English for assigned functional products. - 5 - 10 Flyers with product pictures and specifications for select products Based on insights from our marketing team and your research, you will develop the above materials for our existing media (email and website communications channels) and make recommendations on alternative media to consider such as social media, etc. to bring awareness of amaranth products in the target markets.
Sponsorship Outreach for Auctions Donation 2023
Centre Solaris is organizing live and online auctions to raise funds for its sports programs for underprivileged kids. For an auction to be successful, we need to conduct a campaign to solicit donations of auction items from companies that support kids' health and well-being. The auction items may include: sports equipment, accessories, and services, memorabilia, store gift cards, gift baskets, gift certificates for experiences, personal care services, restaurants, hotel stay, travel, etc., just to name some of the options. The students will be building lists of sponsors, creating awareness of Solaris programs and services among sponsors and supports, and generating auction items donations for the organization.
Competitive Analysis - Omega 3 formulations
Folium Labs Inc. is a biotech company focused on the development and marketing of nutraceutical and pharmaceutical delivery technologies and formulations. We are working on curcumin formulations to increase the absorption and bioavailability of this natural health ingredient in consumer products. We are looking for a competitive analysis report that would identify competitive technologies that exist to improve curcumin absorption and create more efficacious therapeutic products. Omega 3 is known to have very poor absorption. We will give you access to organizational assets to support this project such as brand collateral, and more. Objective We hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of the competitors in the Omega 3 formulations and how we can differentiate ourselves through our product/service offering, and our messaging.
Regulatory Research for Commercialization of Drug Delivery Systems
Folium Labs Inc. is a biotech company focused on the development and marketing of drug and nutrient delivery technologies and formulations. We are looking for market research on a high level of regulatory compliance for our technology and products in Canada and the USA. The students will be given ingredients that we use in our products and will be consulting publicly available information on Health Canada and FDA websites to suggest if these ingredients may cause regulatory hurdles we may face when launching our products. Students will also research publicly available sources on regulatory compliance of competitive technologies and present their findings as case studies. We will give you access to organizational assets to support this project. Objective We hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of the regulatory compliance of some ingredients in our products in North America. The reports will help us identify the most appropriate commercialization strategies for our products.
Brand Development and Marketing Launch
DLA & Associates Inc. is in the process of developing a line of novel functional foods with medicinal benefits. The novel products will include protein bars, stick snacks, and porridge mixes. We want to better understand our target market and audience as well as the overall market so we can uniquely position ourselves within our industry. The research will include: Industry size and market potential for each product category Creating a brand persona and development of brand elements Target market research and communications strategies to reach the target segments Competitive landscape and SWOT analysis for each product category Strategic positioning of our brand, packaging considerations including product renderings The final project can come in the form of a report on a selected topic: market size and potential for the products of interest, marketing communications strategies for a product under consideration, SWOT analysis for a specific product, and packaging strategies for a selected product. The company plans to engage a group of students to work on this project. Students can pick certain areas of the projects in accordance with their interests and competencies.
Competitive Analysis of Edible Grain Flakes Brands in North America
DLA and Associates Inc. is planning to launch new healthy edible grain flakes products in physical stores and online marketplaces, such as Amazon, eBay, and Walmart. We want to develop clarity on our competitive advantages and optimize our traditional and online marketing strategy to sell our products on these platforms and to develop a strong distribution network. We will give you access to organizational assets to support this project such as brand collateral, and more. Objective We hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of the competitors in online marketplaces and physical stores and how we can differentiate ourselves through our product/service offering, and our messaging.
Blog Writers - Functional Foods and Health Benefits
DLA & Associates Inc. is an active player in the agricultural space and food industry. Currently, the company is exploring market opportunities for novel functional food products infused with vitamins, minerals, and botanical extracts. We are looking for students to write blogs on functional foods. The project includes: - Research on health benefits of functional foods and the functional foods industry in general; - Development of short blog articles for posting on the website and other social media platforms; - Reaching out to other websites for opportunities to post guest posts on functional foods. Based on insights from our marketing team and your research, you will develop a set of blog materials for our existing media (email and website communications channels) and make recommendations on alternative media to consider such as social media, etc. to bring awareness of functional food products.
Market Research - Therapeutic Applications of Natural Ingredients
Folium Labs Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and marketing of nutraceutical and pharmaceutical delivery technologies and formulations. We utilize innovative techniques to create highly absorbable compounds with enhanced efficacy and target a number of medical conditions. We are looking for market research on a number of natural ingredients and their therapeutic applications. Folium is currently working on the development of a range of products containing natural ingredients that are poorly absorbed by our bodies. We will give you access to organizational assets to support this project, such as brand collateral and background information on the subject of interest. Objective We hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of the set of defined ingredients, their medicinal applications, and market potential.
Blogging on the Women Participation in Sports in Canada
Centre Solaris is a charitable organization that caters to low-income families. The organization has launched a program to increase sports participation for equity disadvantaged groups including women, girls, the disabled, and LGBTQ2I+. We would like to collaborate with students to create blog posts that explore women's participation in sports in Canada. The blogs should raise the issues of sports equality, barriers to participation, and policies to encourage sports participation. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our goals, subject matter, and social challenges of women's participation in sports. Recommending topics for our blog posts. Drafting blog posts relevant to our cause Revising blog posts based on feedback. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Recommending ways to market our blog.
Social Media Strategy for Sports Camps
Centre Solaris, a charitable orhnaization that caters to low-income families, is looking for a social media marketing wizard who can help us drive more traffic. The primary project requirements include: Keyword analysis to determine relevant search terms to our organization A strategy document to outline social media requirements to increase the number of followers/likes and share. Content Calendar Execution: Timely deployment of all our social media content to drive maximum traffic to our site. Students will be introduced to and provided with tools to work on the project.
Guidelines Development to Coach Kids with Disabilities
Centre Solaris is a charitable organization that caters to low-income families. The organization has launched a program to increase sports participation for equity disadvantaged groups including women, girls, the disabled, and LGBTQ2I+. Solaris is planning to include in its sports programs kids with disabilities. We are looking for team members to explore and research kids with disabilities and how interactions with the environment affect them, and we start to introduce the concepts of inclusion. The project will include the following activities: - Research on social barriers that prevent kids with disabilities from participating in sports. - Strategies to remove the barriers and promote sports participation for kids with disabilities. We are looking for convincing and persuasive social research and strategy recommendations.
Strategy Development to Facilitate Gender Equity in Sports
Centre Solaris is a charitable organization that caters to low-income families. The organization has launched a program to increase sports participation for equity disadvantaged groups including women, girls, the disabled, and LGBTQ2I+. We are looking for team members to explore and research social barriers for these groups to participate in sports in Canada and ways to remove those barriers. The project will include the following activities: - Research on social barriers that prevent equity-deserving groups from participating in sports. - Strategies to remove the barriers and increase sports participation. We are looking for convincing and persuasive social research and strategy recommendations.
Google Ads Campaigns 2023/2024 - Fund-Raising and Client Acquisition
Centre Solaris is a Canadian charity that runs different programs to cater to low-income families in Quebec. The organization is moving some of its programming and operational activities online. The project will be focused on one of the following campaign (s): 1) Promotion of the current online fund-raising raffle campaign The company has just launched an online raffle and needs a digital marketing person to help promote it using Google Ads campaigns; 2) General online fund-raising for the organization using Google Ads; 3) Online client acquisition campaigns using Google Ads. The campaigns will be focused on our summer camp programs, healthy and active living, and anti-bullying and self-defense programs. A participant with graphic designer skills is required for this project to develop visual assets for the Google Ads campaigns including graphics, short videos, and text copies. The graphics designer will be working in close collaboration with other participants in Google Ads campaigns. We are looking for students who have some Google Ads experience.
Digital Content Creation for Web and Social Media
We are looking for students with social media skills Folium is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative natural health and pharmaceutical products. We would like students to help us with creating social media content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. Students will create content about our LIVLI brand for Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, and YouTube. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Assist with social media videos and images; Create images and short videos for our posts, sales materials, product specifications, fliers, and other marketing materials; Identify media outlets that are most beneficial to share our story and write media proposals; You will be working on content creation that we can use as go-to marketing tools;
Blogging - Reviews of Clinical Studies of Amaranth Oil
Folium Labs has recently launched a new wellness product - a 30 ml dropper bottle with cold-pressed amaranth oil. Amaranth Oil has a lot of medicinal benefits and contains a number of active ingredients that are widely used in the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industries. We want to create a blog with reviews of the latest advances in the scientific evidence of amaranth oil in treating various medical conditions. This will strengthen our marketing and bring more awareness about the science-backed benefits of amaranth oil. Also, we would like to collaborate with students to create blog posts that drive more traffic to our website educate consumers on the latest research on amaranth oil, and build credibility among consumers about its benefits, converting them into online buyers. The students will conduct and learn the following digital advertising and e-commerce activities: Conduct keyword analysis utilizing online tools and optimize the blog posts for search engines. This includes using target keywords and naturally adding meta tags. Share your blog posts across your social media channels, email newsletters, and other marketing channels. Encourage our audience to share content, too. Encourage comments on blog posts and actively respond to them. Engage with our audience in discussions related to the content. Incorporate blog content into our email marketing strategy. Share new blog posts with our subscribers and provide them with additional insights or incentives to visit the blog. Consider guest blogging on industry-related websites or inviting guest bloggers to contribute to your blog. Use analytics tools like Google Analytics to track the performance of the blog posts. Monitor metrics like traffic, bounce rate, time on page, and conversion rates. Incorporate calls-to-action (CTAs) within your blog posts to guide readers to take desired actions, such as signing up for a newsletter or making a purchase. Each blog should convey information about a specific study and its conclusions. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our goals, target market, products, and services. Recommending topics for our blog posts. Drafting blog posts relevant to our business. Revising blog posts based on feedback. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Recommending ways to market our blog.
Blogging - Medicinal Benefits and Applications of Amaranth Oil
Folium Labs has recently launched a new product online - a 30 ml dropper bottle with cold-pressed amaranth oil under brand LIVLI. We want to create a blog to strengthen our marketing and bring more awareness about the medicinal benefits of amaranth oil and its applications in wellness in wellness and cosmetics. Also, we would like to collaborate with students to create blog posts that drive more traffic to our website. The students will conduct and learn the following digital advertising and e-commerce activities: Conduct keyword analysis utilizing online tools and optimize the blog posts for search engines. This includes using target keywords and naturally adding meta tags. Share your blog posts across your social media channels, email newsletters, and other marketing channels. Encourage our audience to share content, too. Encourage comments on blog posts and actively respond to them. Engage with our audience in discussions related to the content. Incorporate blog content into our email marketing strategy. Share new blog posts with our subscribers and provide them with additional insights or incentives to visit the blog. Consider guest blogging on industry-related websites or inviting guest bloggers to contribute to your blog. Use analytics tools like Google Analytics to track the performance of the blog posts. Monitor metrics like traffic, bounce rate, time on page, and conversion rates. Incorporate calls-to-action (CTAs) within your blog posts to guide readers to take desired actions, such as signing up for a newsletter or making a purchase. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our goals, target market, products, and services. Recommending topics for our blog posts. Drafting blog posts relevant to our business. Revising blog posts based on feedback. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Recommending ways to market our blog.
Sponsorship Outreach for Auctions Donation
Centre Solaris is organizing live and online auctions to raise funds for its sports programs for underprivileged kids. For an auction to be successful, we need to conduct a campaign to solicit donations of auction items from companies that support kids' health and well-being. The auction items may include: sports equipment, accessories, and services, memorabilia, store gift cards, gift baskets, gift certificates for experiences, personal care services, restaurants, hotel stay, travel, etc., just to name some of the options. The students will be building lists of sponsors, creating awareness of Solaris programs and services among sponsors and supports, and generating auction items donations for the organization.
Strategy Development to Facilitate Gender Equity in Sports
Centre Solaris is a charitable organization that caters to low-income families. The organization has launched a program to increase sports participation for equity disadvantaged groups including women, girls, the disabled, and LGBTQ2I+. We are looking for team members to explore and research social barriers for these groups to participate in sports in Canada and ways to remove those barriers. The project will include the following activities: - Research on social barriers that prevent equity-deserving groups from participating in sports. - Strategies to remove the barriers and increase sports participation. We are looking for convincing and persuasive social research and strategy recommendations.
Digital Content Creation to Promote Services, Programs, and Events
Centre Solaris runs free sports day camps and self-defense classes for underprivileged kids from low-income families. The organization also assists low-income families with job search and self-employment. We would like students to help us with creating digital content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. Students will be working on content, including video, social media, and other collateral that we can use as go-to marketing tools. A student or team with excellent writing, graphics design, and video skills would be the ideal candidate for this project.
Promotional Material for Services, Programs, and Events
Centre Solaris, a charitable organization that caters to low-income families, is looking for a graphic designer to assist with promotional materials for the organization. We are looking for team members to design new promotional material for our social programs, specifically summer day camp, self-defense and anti-bullying programs, women in sports, employment, and self-employment assistance programs. The promotional materials will include the following items: - Redesign the company logo to be used in all marketing materials targeting our clientele'. - Design a compelling business card for our employees to be shared electronically with potential partner organizations and sponsors. - Organisational presentation in PPT and PDF formats in English targeting specific programs. Several versions are possible focusing on specific programs. - 5 - 10 Flyers for our social programs. We are looking to design convincing, persuasive, and appealing promo items that will inspire confidence and credibility.
Grant Writing and Submission
Center Solaris provide a diverse spectrum of services to low-income families including free summer camps, self-defense programs for underprivileged kids, and employment services. We are looking for assistance in finding and completing grant applications and donation requests that support our mission and vision statement. We believe this project will include: Identify potential sponsors and funding opportunities that are a good fit for our organization and project. Research, plan, write, edit, and revise a persuasive proposal narrative. Improve the clarity and persuasiveness of our company's grant proposal writing. Research into other grant opportunities to support our cause Contact potential sponsors via email and phone to solicit donations and sponsorships for our programs and events.
Google Ads Campaigns - Fund-Raising and Client Acquisition
Centre Solaris is a Canadian charity that runs different programs to cater to low-income families in Quebec. The organization is moving some of its programming and operational activities online. The project will be focused on one of the following campaign (s): 1) Promotion of the current online fund-raising raffle campaign The company has just launched an online raffle and needs a digital marketing person to help promote it using Google Ads campaigns; 2) General online fund-raising for the organization using Google Ads; 3) Online client acquisition campaigns using Google Ads. The campaigns will be focused on our summer camp programs, healthy and active living, and anti-bullying and self-defense programs. A participant with graphic designer skills is required for this project to develop visual assets for the Google Ads campaigns including graphics, short videos, and text copies. The graphics designer will be working in close collaboration with other participants in Google Ads campaigns.
Website Improvement and Development
DLA & Associates Inc. is a trading and manufacturing company focused on agricultural products and technologies. We would like to update and improve our existing site. Also, we need assistance to add new modules, such as eCommerce. Students should be prepared to: Create a design of a proposed eCommerce section of the website and test its functionality. Populate various website sections with additional content provided by the company. This will include additional text, images, and short videos. Re-format some of the pages to make them easier to read and more pleasant to view. The suggestions will be provide by the company and discussed together with students. Provide training on updating and maintaining the site.
Blog Writers - Amaranth Products
DLA & Associates Inc. is an active player in the agricultural space and food industry. Currently, the company is exploring market opportunities for amaranth-based products, such as amaranth oil, snack bars, and pop amaranth, in North America. Amaranth grains are considered to be superfood and had many therapeutic benefits. We are looking for students to write blogs on amaranth-based products. The project includes: - Research on health benefits of amaranth and its applications in the foods industry; - Development of short blog articles for posting on the website and other social media platforms; - Reaching out to other websites for opportunities to post guest posts on amaranth and amaranth products. Based on insights from our marketing team and your research, you will develop a set of blog materials for our existing media (email and website communications channels) and make recommendations on alternative media to consider such as social media, etc. to bring awareness of amaranth products.
Promotional Material - Functional Foods
DLA & Associates Inc. is an active player in international commerce in the agricultural space and food industry. Currently, the company is exploring market opportunities for innovative functional food products, such as edible oil, snack bars, and grains and flakes, in North America. - Redesign the brand elements to be used in all marketing materials targeting functional foods markets. - Market presentation in PPT and PDF formats in English for assigned functional products. - 5 - 10 Flyers with product pictures and specifications for select products Based on insights from our marketing team and your research, you will develop the above materials for our existing media (email and website communications channels) and make recommendations on alternative media to consider such as social media, etc. to bring awareness of amaranth products in the target markets.