Resume
Special Skills:
- Trained in search engine optimization, using keywords and phrases to improve the search engine rank of content and web pages.
- Clear and fluent writing style; ability to make challenging topics more accessible to readers
- Experience with Wordpress, including theme customization, plug-in use, and content creation.
- Facebook and Twitter profile building and marketing experience.
- Experienced in internet marketing techniques, SEO and social media marketing.
- Editing professional, with a knack for making content shine.
Education:
Tompkins County Community College (2003-2007)
- Extensive coursework in writing, education, psychology, and child development.
- Writing and editing experience.
- Experience in leadership roles.
Professional Experience:
Textbroker (2008)
- Creating sales content for a variety of businesses
- Using keywords and copywriting techniques to produce highly rated marketing material.
- Basic market research, used to create copy that reaches the ideal audience
We Build Pages/QualityGal (2008-2009)
- Web content writer.
- Work in writing on a diverse area of topics
- Keyword use and SEO for website content.
- Using keywords and copywriting techniques to produce highly rated marketing material.
- Basic market research, used to create copy that reaches the ideal audience.
WiseGeek (2008-2009)
- Web content writer on diverse topics, including parenting, health and science related articles.
- Use of keywords in articles for SEO purposes.
- Working one-on-one with editors
- Understanding and following strict guidelines.
eHow (2008-present)
- Writing how-to articles on a variety of subjects.
- Keyword research to discover high-ranking article topic ideas.
- Use of keywords to improve search engine rank of content.
Demand Studios (2009-present)
- Selecting and using keywords for a wide range of articles.
- Use of SEO to improve search engine rank
- Use of a variety of style formats
- Working one-on-one with editors to create effective content.
BrightHub (2009-present)
- Content production in the medical sciences channel
- Use of SEO in content, title, descriptions and tags to optimize article placement in search engine result pages.
- Research complex medical conditions and treatments, and then write about them in a clear, understandable way.
Private Client Experience
- In depth research on complex topics, and then turning that information into an easily understandable blog post or page of content.
- Professional blogging to improve website rank and build traffic.
- Creating, implementing and managing social media and internet marketing strategy.
- Building and customizing blogs and other websites.
- Copywriting and creating marketing materials.
- Keyword research and use to improve page rank without sacrificing content quality.
- Designing Twitter backgrounds.
- Editing and rewording previously written content to improve readability.
- Extensive ebook editing.
Real Estate Experience
- Specialized blog posts.
- Setting up and connecting blogs and social media sites to make social media marketing easier.
- Explaining complicated real estate concepts “in plain English” for buyers and sellers.
- Understanding and explaining market trends.
- Building websites for real estate agents, complete with high quality content.
- Embedding videos in websites and blog posts.
- Training in the use of blogging, Facebook, Twitter and Wordpress for real estate agents.
Accomplishments:
- Using blogging and social media, I was able to improve a client’s website traffic to ten times the original amount.
- Helped client to be featured on Trulia.com as the real estate blog of the week through providing high-quality blog posts on a weekly basis.