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.