Inkshed Inc.Company Owner, Writer, Editor
Jan. 1992Bainbridge Island, WashingtonProvide clients with content for marketing, blogs, websites, newsletters, social media, presentations, and news releases, optimized for SEO when appropriate. Design and implement marketing plans, build and update WordPress websites, and provide staff training in website and social media management. Clients include individuals, businesses, and nonprofits. Recently ghostwrote an Amazon top-selling memoir and illustrated three books: #Next Level Manners by Rachel Isgar, A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids by Julie Hall, and A Tale of Witchery by Jennifer Calkins. Writing and illustration samples available on freelance business website: https://inkshedinc.com. Some recent highlights of freelance work through Inkshed Inc. (1992-present): • Launched a social media campaign that enabled a client to get an $81 million levy passed on the first try. • Helped another client raise $1.6 million toward their $2.4 million capital campaign goal.
• Successfully branded a new volunteer emergency medical responder program for City of Bainbridge Island.
• Trained a nonprofit's staff in social media and rebuilt organizational website to help them double their audience.
• Built Inside Bainbridge website and wrote more than 2,000 articles in 4.5 years, resulting in blog being voted in the top five best news websites in Western Washington, averaging 6,000 views per day, and partnering with The Seattle Times.
• Designed products and created branding for pioneering green e-tailer ProgressiveKid. Succeeded in getting products in Whole Foods Markets and in stores across the globe. As Green Goat Books, published A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids by Julie Hall, widely praised by leaders in the green movement including Bill McKibben, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and then-Congressman Jay Inslee.