| Subject: Experienced Web Copywriter, Humorist |
| From: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 10/22/08, 13:41 |
| To: job-888949006@craigslist.org |
Sirs-
I understand that you're looking for a writer to assist with your t-shirt design firm, and I'd like to be considered. I've served as a freelance copywriter for several marketing and ad agencies as well as for my own clients, and my other work has appeared in dozens of publications, including National Lampoon, The Onion A.V. Club, and McSweeney's.
Along with my resume, I've provided a sample; it's a sales letter for one of my clients, a 3d modeling firm that's also based out of Chicago. Please take a look and let me know if you'd like to discuss this further.
Thanks,
Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302
It's Labor Day. We're Laboring.
We've never quite understood why it is that anyone would want to celebrate the end of summer, but that's exactly what a good portion of the American public will be up to this Labor Day. We refuse to commemorate the passing of barbecue season with anything other than tears. Besides, we've got a couple of tricks up our collective sleeve.
Virtual
Summer Lovin'
While
everyone else is running around smelling like bug spray, we'll be at
the office, consoling ourselves with ribs and the wonders of 3d
rendering. And while others are out on the lake, we'll be creating
advanced 3d models of photorealistic lakeside scenes - the sort that
aren't subject to mosquitos, isolated thunderstorms, or unwanted
in-laws. By the time we're done applying refraction textures and
instituting cloud algorithms, you won't be able to tell the
difference between your vacation photos and the renderings we built
out of nothing last week. Frankly, we'll have a hard time figuring it
out ourselves.
The trick is to look for the ones that are perfect. Those are ours.
Our
Clients Love 3d. So Will Yours.
But
enough about us. What can Studio2a's advanced approach to 3d do for
your company? For starters, it can help you to communicate your
concepts to clients through pictures of the sort that are worth well
over a thousand words. Ultimately, this can help to eliminate change
orders, lost time, wasted resources, and other, similarly unsavory
things that tend to result from communicational friction. More
importantly, our finished product will help to accentuate the merits
of your own, making it that much more likely that your next client
presentation ends with a green light.
Problems?
Solved.
If
they ever get around to proclaiming a "Photorealistic 3d
Rendering Day," perhaps we'll take the afternoon off. But
probably not.
Give us a call today. We'll be here.
BarrettBrown________________barriticus@gmail.com
Copywriter/ Feature Columnist/ Contributing Editor/ Book Author
With focus on political satire, policy analysis and contemporary humor.
Published Work/ Freelance Media Experience:
Enlighten the Vote Currently serve as director of communications for New Jersey-based political action committee founded in 2005 and concerned with advocacy of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. 2008 present
S.K. Oil and Gas Currently serve as copywriter for Dallas-based energy finance firm. 2008 present.
Texodus Media Currently serve as copywriter and marketing consultant for Brooklyn-based production firm specializing in marketing and game development. 2008 present.
Studio 2a Currently serve as marketing consultant for Chicago-based architectural rendering firm, handling all sales letters, marketing copy, and long-term branding strategies. 2007 present.
PoliticalBase.com Created content and served as paid blogger for online political news start-up founded by CNET. 2007-2008.
Fox Business Channel, Yahoo, Minyanville.com Writer on freelance creative team for animated humor series Minyanville, which aired on Fox Business Channel's Happy Hour program as well as on Yahoo Finance. 2007
The Onion A/V Club - Freelance copywriting for The Onion's features department. 2006-2008.
Sterling and Ross Publishers Authored nonfiction book of political humor, Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny, released in March 2007. Book received praise from Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, Rolling Stone, Skeptic, Air America Radio, Huffington Post, others.
Anglesey Interactive, Inc. Produced online marketing collateral (web text, press releases, blogging, etc.) in support of firm's "" integrated search engine from June 2007 to March 2008 Riight.com
Dining Out - Feature writing for national restaurant publication. 2006-2008
National Lampoon - Occasional contributor; past features included "Pick-Up Lines That Don't Seem to Work," "Craig's Conspiracy Corner," "A Guide to Dealing with Housecats," more. 2003 2006
Sullivan Perkins Served as junior copywriter at Dallas-based advertising firm. 2003.
Evote.com - Weekly columnist and feature writer for political analysis site from October 2004 to November 2005.
AOL CityGuide - Web content writer from 2000 to 2004 Researched/ created coverage of event and entertainment venues. Served as regional correspondent for Dallas, Austin, New Orleans, Houston and Little Rock markets.
Additional magazine work - Ongoing, have contributed feature articles from serious political commentary to humor pieces to fine dining overviews for outlets including business-to-business publications Pizza Today, 360, Club Systems International, Destination Dallas, D.C.-based public policy journal Toward Freedom, London-based public policy journal Free Life, humor magazine Jest, regional publications The Met, Austin Monthly, Dallas Child, Oui, literary journal Swans, dozens more.
Additional writing projects - Created both print and online marketing collateral for New York tech start-up Organic Motion, Inc. Created online marketing collateral for New York corporate training firm Illuminata Global. Researched and wrote entertainment/dining/venue content for Dallas ad agency Avacata and clients' marketing collateral, including that of luxury resort real estate firm. Have produced website copy for design firm NPCreate.com, provided public relations pieces for Texas energy company EBS and Dallas real estate firm Dunhill Partners.
Education:
1999 - 2003 University of Texas at Austin, College of Communications