Social Media & Email Marketing Intern

AQ Consulting LLC — Traverse City, MI (hybrid or remote) Paid 1099 contract — Summer 2026, with runway to continue ABOUT THE ROLE I'm Attia Qureshi — a negotiation expert, keynote speaker, and the author of Never Settle. AQ Consulting LLC is the company behind that work: the book, the Archetype Quiz, and a growing body of teaching for academic and executive audiences. It sits alongside the existing canon in negotiation and leadership, not against it. I'm hiring a contractor (intern applications welcome) to run the day\-to\-day of my content presence — to turn talks, essays, and half\-formed ideas into a steady drumbeat of posts and emails that land with the right readers. You'll work directly with me. Real ownership, fast feedback, your fingerprints on everything that goes out. WHAT YOU'LL DELIVER EACH WEEK Instagram — 5 posts. Carousels, quote cards, Reels, stories. Repurposing long\-form (talks, writing, podcasts) into native short\-form. Replies, DMs, comments — the community side, not just the broadcast side. LinkedIn — 2 native posts, plus 2 cross\-posts repurposed from that week's Instagram. Native posts skew toward essays, carousels, and short video for executive and academic readers. Light, intelligent engagement in the comments of people doing interesting work. Email — 1 newsletter. Drafting, editing, scheduling, reporting on opens and clicks. You'll work from my voice and source material, not from a blank page. A short weekly recap. What posted, what worked, what didn't, what we're testing next. Once the above is humming: we expand into YouTube Shorts and TikTok. You'll help design that rollout. To make this work inside the time budget, I'll deliver a weekly source pack (talks, drafts, clips, themes) by Monday morning. You won't be sourcing raw material on the clock. TOOLS YOU'LL USE Canva, CapCut, Buffer or Later, ChatGPT and Claude, Opus Clip or Reap for repurposing, an email platform (Beehiiv, ConvertKit, or similar). Comfort with at least three is expected. Curiosity to pick up the rest is non\-negotiable. WHO YOU ARE \- You post. Natively, regularly, on at least one of Instagram, LinkedIn, or TikTok. You don't just manage social — you make things. \- You write tight. Short sentences. A point of view. You can hold a voice that isn't yours without flattening it. \- You treat ChatGPT and Claude as thinking partners, not typo\-fixers. \- You're drawn to the ideas — negotiation, leadership, personal development, the problem of translating academic work for a public audience. You don't need to be an expert; you need to actually be curious. \- You ship on a schedule without being chased. \- You take feedback well, and a lot of it. Most of what you'll hear is voice\-calibration, not criticism. \- You'd rather build a system once than redo the same work twice. Bonus: experience repurposing podcast or video content; you've worked inside an email platform before; background in marketing, communications, design, or writin