Allison Grant Email & Phone Number

• Social Operations -Social data insights and reporting -Brainstorm ideas and campaigns for new clients
• Community Management -Oversee daily management and follower engagement for clients from small community business to Fortune 500 companies -Manage editorial calendars for multiple clients on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.
• Community Engagement -Influencer outreach and identification -Client customer service alerts -Hashtag listening and identification -Identify opportunities to start conversations and engage with followers -Live event.
• Social Consulting -Performance evaluations -Recommendations and best practices

Chicago, IL

• Sent compelling print and TV pitches on a daily basis to local and national press
• Secured client coverage in leading news sources including Crain’s Chicago Business, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Magazine, FOX Chicago, NBC 5, ABC 7 and more
• Developed and maintained relationships with local editors, freelancers, bloggers and TV producers to ensure client coverage
• Drafted proposals and contracts for potential clients outlining the company’s services and scope of work
• Proofread and edited all written material for the company including press releases, newsletters, pitch decks and case studies
• Managed the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts for two clients by creating campaigns and graphics, promoting posts, posting press clippings and engaging with followers

• Write and edit articles for the sites FitandFab Living and Recipe4Living as well as their respective blogs
• Created an editorial plan using survey data to strategically post content that fits our demographics in order to improve site traffic and newsletter subscribers
• Update the Facebook (40,000 likes), Twitter (13,000 followers), and Pinterest (10,000 followers) pages for each site multiple times a day
• Create eye-catching graphics, polls and use demographic information and analytics to strategically post content that will get the greatest response from our social media followers
• Create daily email newsletters featuring content from our sites that reach over 1 million readers
• Use Google Analytics to write daily traffic reports and monitor site traffic

Champaign, IL

• Blogger on several health and fitness topics for an online magazine directed at college women
• Help fundraise for philanthropy events each semester

Wilmette, IL

• Pitched story ideas and wrote articles for the magazine and website that received over 100,000 hits
• Assisted in the editing of each issue before it went to print
• Learned how to write effectively for the web using tools such as Google AdWords
• Assisted the fashion editor in directing and styling several photo shoots
• Used web-based collaboration tools including 37signals and Dropbox

Champaign, IL

• Managed social media accounts and monitored Google Analytics to draw viewers to the site
• Sent daily email newsletters via Constant Contact highlighting articles and local events
• Uploaded approximately thirty articles onto the site every week
• Brainstormed ideas to improve the layout and user-friendliness of the site
• Managed and coordinated activities with the university magazine and radio station

Highland Park, IL

• Researched and wrote editorial pieces for the magazine as well as the blog
• Uploaded articles and images and created photo galleries on the website
• Assisted in the production of several photo shoots
• Contacted businesses, boutiques and designers to request items for photo shoots
• Assisted in the editing of each issue before it went to print