Stacey Wigmore Email & Phone Number

Springfield, Virginia

Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) is the nation’s largest recreational boating advocacy, services, and safety group making boating better for America’s recreational boaters. BoatUS provides a range of benefits and services, representation for boaters’ rights, and offers many savings opportunities to approximately 800,000 Members. We also work with our nonprofit BoatUS Foundation to educate new boaters, keep boaters safe and our waters clean through our Boating Safety and Education programs.In this role, I manage all day-to-day responsibilities for the award-winning BoatUS Magazine from pitching story ideas to final proofreading. In addition, I manage our educational video program, assist with newsletter production, collaborate with our web team, and advise the social media team. • Edit all articles for clarity and adherence to AP Style as well as in-house style• Ensure all photos are included and match up to text, especially for how-to articles. Also gather photos from a variety of sources, including stock houses, product manufacturers, and Creative Commons• Set and adhere to all deadlines and keep staff and contributors on schedule• Write feature and stakeholder articles for publication in magazine and online• Copyfit articles and make edit changes in Adobe InDesign• Proofread entire magazine before publication• Coordinate with stakeholders and contributors• Edit articles for publication online using SEO and backlinks• Was interviewed several times on a boating radio show• I have grown our YouTube platform from a few thousand subscribers to more than 62,000 in six years

Alexandria, Va

Manage all day-to-day responsibilities of the magazine production scheduleEnsure all stories are submitted on time from freelancers and internal stakeholdersRoute articles among stakeholders, outside editors and internal design channelsFormat and copyedit storiesCollect images as neededWrite features Proofread using AP Style and in-house style sheetCopyfit and make changes in Adobe InDesignEnsure the production schedule is moving ahead on time and problem solve as neededWork with marketing, social media and web teams for online contentProofread press releases issued by public affairs office

Lothian, Maryland, United States

Second-camera work for equestrian event photographersBarn shootsTravel photographyEditorial photographyEvent/competition photographyPhoto assistantPhotoshoot producer/director for stock and advertisingEditingTravel writing

United States

Research photos and request publishing rights for Jim Wofford’s column in Practical Horseman magazine

Edison, Nj

Weatherbeeta is the world's largest equestrian equipment manufacturer and distributor, based in Australia. Brands include WeatherBeeta, Dublin, Collegiate, Saxon and Korsteel.• Content marketing• Leveraged relationships with national and regional magazine and online editors and writers to pitch story ideas about new products and programs. Garnered approximately $50,000 of editorial coverage each year (based on ad costs for same sizes). Organized and hosted successful media events at trade shows to introduce new products and technology, a novel idea for the equine industry.• Oversaw production of annual catalog (200 pages) and supplement (56 pages), including layout, writing and editing copy, briefing designers, managing production cycle, proofreading and negotiating printing costs. Delivered both catalogs on time and under budget.• Maintained three brand websites using Drupal CMS as well as online drag-and-drop designers. Populated two redesigned brand websites with product information, photos and editorial content and updated seasonally. Increased unique visitors by an average of 1,187% in first two months after redesign.• Created and posted content to four brand social media pages. Employed tools such as Wyng, product giveaways and promoted posts to increase page likes, promote the brands and build consumer email databases.• Worked with sponsored riders to create original editorial and video content for brand social media channels and websites.• Designed and sent semi-weekly BTB emails to retailers using MailChimp platform. Includes database management.• Guest hosted equestrian podcast several times.

Gaithersburg, Md

• Edited 8–9 departments and 1–2 features monthly.• Sourced all photos for a monthly 100+-page magazine, including setting up photo shoots with freelance photographers, using stock photography and taking photos myself. Negotiated fees according to pay scale, oversaw photography/art budget and assisted with photo rights contracts. Expanded the art budget by $10,000 per year through taking own photographs.• Posted 10–15 articles online monthly with images, video and slide shows on WordPress-based website using accepted SEO techniques.• Created and edited two monthly email newsletters using Dreamweaver.• Promoted and hosted educational webinars and question-and-answer seminars with top industryprofessionals using GoToWebinar.• Started and managed social network channels including Facebook (21,000+ followers with average monthly growth of more than 3% over 28 months), Twitter (5,800+ followers), Pinterest (2,000 followers) and YouTube, on a daily basis. Utilized Google tags and various analytics programs to track success of social media posts.• Cross-promoted current articles, events and news between print and social media while also driving users to the website, which saw a 25% increase in unique visitors over previous year. Provided social media training to other magazine staff in publishing group.• Photographed and did post-production work, including complicated montages, on all photos for the book Modern Gymnastics by Jim Wofford.• Edited videos using iMovie for social media and online use.