This is hot off the presses… I just completed the brochure copywriting for an eight-page capabilities presentation for a security patrol and alarm company based in San Jose. First Security has almost a half-century of experience and over 1,000 clients. It provides comprehensive security solutions for residences, industrial complexes, businesses, school districts, government municipalities and […]
One of my best friends is Bart Saling, owner of Bridge to Bridge Technologies in San Rafael, CA. He promotes his business with promotional postcards like the two shown here and hired me to do the B2B postcard copywriting. Lauren Deane Evans of Good Looking Ideas was the art director and Marty Wall of Fritz […]
Zeimer marin scuba_may15 from Zeimer’s Advertising Shoppe I was the featured speaker last night at Saylor’s Restaurant in Sausalito for a Marin Scuba Club presentation on travel writing. I discussed some of the hundreds of articles I’ve written for dive magazines and travel blogs — and told the stories of my inspiration for each article. […]
Today, I featured this particular :60 video as the start of my BNI Presentation to promote the services of Zeimer’s Advertising Shoppe. Have a look. It was produced by Brandefy.com using a video template they created. By the way, I also write a wide variety of projects, from brochures to newsletters to websites. About The […]
Have you heard of Junior Seau? He was a 20-year NFL player who committed suicide last year. Like many former athletes in physical sports like football, hockey and boxing, he was suffering from Post-Concussion Syndrome from numerous cranium-rattling hits during his long-time career. Junior didn’t suffer in vain. His death was the catalyst for his […]
It’s been cold at night here in San Rafael. So cold that a local TV news crew was interviewing folks standing in line for a movie a few nights ago… and they shoved the microphone in my face. Have a look at this short video clip: Bay Area braces for cold temps — after the […]
I’m a proud member of BNI Embarcadero, which we boldly call “The Best Damn Chapter. Anywhere.” With about 60 members, we’re the largest on the West Coast, close over $2 million annually through referred word-of-mouth business, and host three seven-minute presentations per week. That means my turn in the rotation only comes up once about […]
My ex-BNI colleague, Mat Ventre, tapped me to write the site for Skytech Solar, a leading San Francisco solar panel installation company where he’s the Director of Marketing and Operations. As a Certified Bay Area Green Business, this was the perfect referral for me.
My long-time San Rafael friend and Yosemite Half Dome hiking buddy, Stephen Gandy, Certified Financial Planner, wanted someone to update his old website. In addition, the site needed to launch prior to the hosting of a table for a gala event in late October 2012 through his client who sat on the board of the […]
I was very proud to have been chosen to speak about healthcare copywriting at the annual American Medical Writers Association conference last Friday in Sacramento, CA. On the dais with me were two extremely knowledgeable and talented medical writers, each with decades of experience. The topic of our 90-minute presentation was “The Scope of Medical […]
I’m very pleased to have edited my first eBook. “How To Get on Google’s First Page Fast” was written by my colleague, Vitold Chrzanowski, founder of EnLocalDC.com, a top-notch Online Marketing company that specializes in engineering and building Google Local Search Listings now referred to as Google +Local Listings in conjunction with optimizing YouTube videos. […]
eniusRocket is a creative video agency in the Washington, DC area that hires freelance copywriters like me to produce concepts for their TV and radio client’s campaigns. I’m proud to announce my interview with their “Creative In The Spotlight” blog that went live today. Have a read… The mission of Creative In the Spotlight is […]
As a freelance San Francisco copywriter, I’ve been so busy writing other clients’ projects over the past six months that I haven’t updated my own newsletter lately. So here’s what I’ve been working on since last fall: healthcare copywriting, financial copywriting, website copywriting, blog copywriting, radio/TV copywriting…
If you’re looking for a freelance blog writer, I have extremely extensive experience over the past 10 years across a wide variety of industries. In fact, I’ve now written over 2,000 blogs. For example, for Financial Services, I’ve created freelance blog copywriting articles for: Experian during their Vision 2012 Conference in May through the largest PR […]
I was recently referred to a new client in the Pacific Northwest who owns a handful of Sonus Hearing Centers. He had been running radio spots that were not producing results. Within a week, I wrote and produced a :30 and a :10 radio commercial through my alliance with the incredibly talented Troy Duran at […]
My good friend and BNI Embarcadero colleague, Bart Saling, recently asked me to totally update the website copy for Bridge To Bridge Technologies. The result is a 48-page site that details his service offerings as a Cisco partner for a comprehensive range of communication solutions to enhance any small- to medium-sized organization located in the […]
I’m proud to have written over 750 radio, TV and corporate video scripts during my career as a freelance copywriter. But now, I’m written a TV commercial to promote the services of Zeimer’s Advertising Shoppe and am featuring the video on YouTube. Have a look: Healthcare copywriting by Zeimer’s Advertising Shoppe for Healthcare copywriting This […]
Angela Warren is a highly respected San Francisco Immigration Attorney who needed a professional, international site to best represent her business and her clientele, which includes Fortune 500 companies, the largest international corporations, start-ups, and everyone from America’s Cup employees to visiting professors to sushi chefs. Here’s what her old site looked like. Perfectly functional, […]
Speed Of Sound Audio Production is a recording studio in St. Louis, MO. It’s owned by Troy Duran, a terrific, very experienced voice actor and radio DJ. Through another BNI chapter in San Francisco, I was asked by Carrie Santi to collaborate with her on a revision of Troy’s nine-page website. Above, you can see […]
Pam Card of Surefire Online Marketing is one of my colleagues, power partners and frequent collaborators. She had designed and written a first draft of her website. But she needed someone to polish the content using a friendly, approachable voice. As an accomplished copywriting ventriloquist, I was able to revise her copy and am thrilled […]
I recently had the pleasure of working with John Donaghue, a CLIO-winning art director in San Francisco, on a series of animated banners for The World Golf Hall of Fame. The client wanted to run banners to inform golfers that they could register their most memorable shot ever in the Hole In One Golf Registry. […]