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Walgreens Photo: Holiday Catalog Concepts/Execution

Client: Walgreens Photo

Brief: Develop on-brand concept for holiday Photo catalog, including theme, tagline, layout and copy/product flow for holiday gifts. Maintain inspirational, heartwarming tone while promoting ease and convenience of Walgreens online and in-store fulfillment options.

Response: Worked closely with design partner Dea Boskovich to develop flow, organization and look/feel of 15-page print catalog featuring holiday cards and gifts. Wrote promotional and romance content including headlines and product copy. Once structure and flow was established, wrote on-brand, product-specific marketing copy incorporating RTBs such as value, convenience, and same-day order fulfillment.

 
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Crate & Barrel: Product Copy

Client: Crate and Barrel

Brief: As part of my role as a contract writer on the Crate & Barrel e-commerce “Furniture Journey” project, my task was to rework product copy for hundreds of furniture items to remove passive/generic language, and creatively inject copy with robust verbiage to “personify” the items and give them a distinct personality on the site. I also was tasked with incorporating RTBs such as quality, style, and value. (Because this project revolved around “bringing the furniture to life” with sensory language, the creative director was compelled by my creative writing background; i.e., MFA studies and the “Writing from the Senses” classes I’ve instructed).

Response: Worked with creative director and marketing strategists to apply furniture shopping analytics to revamp the furniture shopping experience with new copy, video and photography. Rewrote copy to inject a new level of “sensory experience”—simultaneously, each product also received new zoomed-in photography and a lot more lifestyle video to depict, for example, “sink-in” nature of items like sofas and chairs. This project successfully enhanced customers online shopping experience and resulted in increased web sales conversion by 44% in the very next quarter. (Spring 2015.) 

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Lulafit Health Concierge: Web Copy

Client: Lulafit

Brief: Take placeholder website copy and transform it into aspirational wellness content for health and wellness hospitality services.

Response: Researched other office buildings that offered wellness and hospitality amenities and produced new copy that targeted the health-conscious, wealthy clientele that this boutique company was targeting. Included language around fitness, yoga, meditation, HIIT group classes, mind-body sensibility and more

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