3-Line Summary if Your Time is Short:• In my last full-time, permanent position, I wrote, edited and proofread all copy content for website, weekly online promotions, emails, newsletters, blogs & web articles, digital marketing, marketing materials, sales sheets, auction scripts and descriptions, pitch decks, and social media channels• In my current freelance consultant position, I create, write, proof and edit copy for this manufacturer/retailer of high-end massage chairs and saunas, including YouTube scripts, commercial scripts, website and email copy, damage control responses, marketing idea generation, and Google ads• Strengths include taking complex business topics and making them user-friendly, easily understood, and even entertaining. Increased bottom-line profitability and customer response through copywriting/content/marketing strategies. Highlights• Extensive copywriting experience with consumer businesses and professional service firms• B.A. degree in English with Honors• Superb oral and written communication skills• Extensive editing and proofreading experience• Very strong research and fact checking skills• SEO and social media experience• Detail-oriented• Thrive on multiple deadlinesEnhancing my Copywriting: My Journalism, Publishing, Performing & Creative Writing Experience • Author of two books—one in the field of accounting and one a collection of my humor essays.• Contributor of small business and celebrity profiles to a multitude of newspapers, magazines and websites• Great Gigs Interviews blogger for The Huffington Post and Medium.com• Contributor of humor essays to a multitude of newspapers, magazines and websites• Humor columnist for Los Angeles Times Syndicate• Staff writer/producer for numerous sit-coms and variety shows Special Strengths• Taking complex business topics and, using my marketing, copywriting, storytelling, and journalistic skills, making them user-friendly, easily understood, and even entertaining when appropriate. • Underscoring the human element--what basic need is the good or service providing; what problem is it solving; how is it making life easier and/or lucrative for the consumer, business owner or prospect?• Helping businesses market their goods and services via web copy, direct mail campaigns, landing pages, banner ads, corporate websites, press releases, blog articles, and new business pitches.• Looking at a business’s big picture to formulate a marketing communications strategy to best promote their brand and increase sales.