Sandra Smith
phone 209/524-9944 • fax 209/524-9944
ssmith@pagesmith.net • http://www.pagesmith.net
Highlights .
- Nonprofit experience with
Community Hospice in Modesto, CA. Community
Education Dept., formerly Marketing/PR Dept.
- Converts your thoughts into clear
and interesting documents whether it's brochures,
promotional pieces, newsletters, or articles,
etc.
- Reviews rough drafts for clarity,
organization, grammar and consistency--without
changing tone or intent.
- Performs and reviews large amounts
of research and comes up to speed quickly.
- Knows what questions to ask to
help determine focus.
- Understands that printed
collateral and writing for the Internet are two
distinct disciplines.
Capabilities
- Writing: Copywriting, newsletters,
advertising, promotion, press releases,
brochures, articles, sales letters, white papers,
etc.
- Write and design cost-effective
and original marketing collateral.
- Work effectively and efficiently
with marketing, sales, corporate, and engineers
to translate their input into customer-friendly
language.
- Handle projects from conception to
completion including writing, design, production,
and publishing.
- Write press releases.
Experience (see Writing page for
links)
- Nonprofit: Wrote, designed,
created marketing materials, brochures,
newsletter, revised and redesigned website,
fundraising materials, ads and marketing for the
Hope Chest Thrift Stores, flyers, posters, etc.
- Published essays in the San
Francisco Examiner and San Jose Mercury News;
published various articles in trade journals.
- Published business articles and
essays for various web sites.
- Wrote, designed, and created
direct mail pieces that generated
better-than-average response in saturated
markets.
- Wrote technical manuals.
- Wrote and designed marketing
collateral with view towards corporate image and
consistency on a worldwide basis.
- Worked with 7 different languages
for marketing and technical material. Responsible
for working with International offices and
coordinating translations. Became sensitive to
cultural issues in other countries.
- Conceived, designed, created and
produced a literary magazine that was distributed
by B. Dalton and Waldenbooks.
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