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New York, NY, US

New York, United States

New York, United States

• Support various client accounts across automotive, consumer, and enterprise tech sectors with the creation and execution of PR strategies (Clients include Amazon Web Services (AWS), ecobee, Gusto, Slack, Sonatus)
• Compose media kits, pitch language, and media lists for various product launches and brand announcements, resulting in impactful coverage at major tech media outlets
• Generate detailed recap and coverage reports on a weekly basis, with findings compiled and shared leading to client retention and increased budgets on multiple accounts

• Serve as a contributing writer for various music blogs including Invisible Oranges and Post-Trash
• Pen engrossing artist bios and promotional album copy for a variety of highly regarded music acts and independent record labels such as The Flenser.

• Managed national press campaign for a highly regarded music industry event and accompanying compilation album (Anti Social Camp); secured coverage for client's event in various reputable publications including.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Served as strategic lead for the firm’s media relations accounts, providing services that included media outreach for music industry-adjacent organizations, securing media partnerships for international cultural export.
• Led and delegated tasks to a team of coordinators, specialists, and interns in daily operations pertaining to media outreach, reporting, and research across dozens of publicity and marketing projects
• Built content-centric B2B promotional campaigns for various accounts, including one for an international ticketing services company that resulted in the client securing new business with 100+ US music venues as its.
• Established strong working relationships and rapport with countless music journalists, editorial staff, and radio stations

Greater New York City Area

• Sent dozens of direct media pitches on a daily basis for the firm's diverse lineup of accounts
• Utilized applications Campaign Monitor and DISCO to build hundreds of compelling press releases and high-quality media kits
• Secured press coverage with top-tier entertainment and music trade publications such as BrooklynVegan, Billboard, Consequence, SPIN, Variety, Rolling Stone, Paste, and Pollstar
• Secured countless examples of organic radio airplay for the firm's radio promotion campaign clients with notable examples of stations including KCRW, KEXP, KUTX, and WFMU
• Used PR monitoring platforms MuckRack and PRlist to maintain and update contact info for thousands of press, radio, and industry contacts across the firm’s specifically tailored media lists

• Created engaging content in the form of artist interviews, album reviews and podcast episodes for an online music publication with over 75,000 readers
• Discovered and communicated with artists and talent in the Greater NYC Area for feature coverage in both digital and physical publications
• Planned digital content with Social Media Manager to provide weekly content on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter

Greater New York City Area

• Composed attention-grabbing email copy and newsletters to LPR’s 10,000+ fans detailing the venue’s Fall 2019 concert calendar
• Devised and scheduled daily high-quality content promoting upcoming events at LPR across the venue’s various social media accounts
• Enhanced and overhauled physical and online marketing materials via WordPress with strict attention to detail

Greater New York City Area

• Authored over 200 press releases/blurbs for promotional CDs that were then sent to college and specialty radio stations across the US and Canada, with 70% of those records receiving some form of radio airplay.
• Composed weekly email blasts to promote new singles and tracking priorities for artists among Terrorbird’s roster of high-profile clients (ex: Hatchie, Drab Majesty, Frankie Cosmos, Surf Curse, Squid)
• Utilized FileMaker and Excel to input and organize information regarding on-air spins, tour dates, and radio campaign milestones
• Formalized and mailed press kits to send to media organizations such as SPIN, Rolling Stone, etc.

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Act as the station’s primary liaison to record labels and promotion companies; Responsible for the curating and cataloging of all new releases that are received by the station.
• Create and submit various weekly charts to NACC of top adds and new releases
• Responsible for the planning and recruitment of artists for various station-sponsored concerts (ex: Snail Mail, Bad Bad Hats, Short Fictions)

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Responsible for and behind the controls of a live broadcasted, weekly two hour radio show on the award winning college radio station 91.7 WMUH Allentown.
• Eclectic programming of 91.7 WMUH accounts for the large number of regular listeners to the station, estimated at around ten thousand people tuning in at one time.

Greenvale, NY

• Responsible for the management and daily content/advertisement output for fifteen social media accounts, across five car dealerships, on platforms such as Facebook, Google MyBusiness and Instagram.
• Established a much-needed online presence for East Hills Auto Group through the creation of meaningful and well-crafted content.

Roslyn, NY

• Through constructing a robust content and post calendar, built a significantly more committed and engaged social media community on congregation's private FaceBook group; increased Facebook followers by 50% to a total.

Maspeth, NY

• Updated ingredient pricing list to reflect current market prices; replaced outdated or inaccurate data that had not been revised for 2 years.
• Created Excel spreadsheet to accurately reflect current prices of all required ingredients providing an accurate cost basis to assure that all final products were correctly priced.