I'm a content writer, editor, and blogger with specialties in business and entrepreneurship, sales and marketing, and grantsmanship. Editing work includes legal, business proposals, articles for the medical device industry, and other nonfiction. I also write on pets, travel, and humor.I serve as editor-in-chief for Insights Magazine, published annually by the Bartlett Chamber of Commerce. I provide SEO-driven blog content in diverse areas ranging from political action group websites to Writers Weekly, a resource for writers/editors. I've had several award-winning stories published by Revell/Baker's series on pets. I've had more than 600 articles published in over a dozen newspapers and magazines. I’ve won sponsored awards for articles in The Best Times, a publication I wrote a monthly columnist for, for 15 years. Previously, I was a writer, then editor, for The Memphis Star, a local music publication.After 24 years I retired as owner/president of Doing Business in Memphis, a marketing services company that provided sales leads and B2B data packaged in hard-copy directories, ebooks, and custom databases.My professional background extends into the corporate, educational, and non-profit sectors. I served as a part-time adjunct professor in two MBA programs where I taught graduate classes in marketing, business fundamentals, corporate communication, diversity, and conflict management. I created online MBA courses in critical thinking and entrepreneurship, which I taught at Webster University.I've served on several boards of directors and have been active in causes ranging from arts promotions and film recruitment, to entrepreneurship and animal welfare. I served 11 years on the Memphis Film Commission, three years on Crimestoppers board, and two years on the board of Mid-south Spay & Neuter Services (now Spay Memphis).Before starting my business, I served 9 years as part-time executive director of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, a non-profit organization that hosts the annual Grammy Awards. Memphis was one of 7 chapters at that time, with a membership of around 400 artists, musicians, songwriters, and engineers.
