Business & Marketing Communications

We specialize in clear, effective, readable English for business. We’ll listen to your needs and vision, use your company’s preferred voice and style, and give you a professional product. We’ll make you, and your company, look as good as you are.

Our goal is to tell the story you want to tell and make it your product, not ours. People will understand your message without having to read it twice. No wordiness, ambiguity or intellectual exercises. We’ll get your message across to your audience, whether clients, customers, partners, board members, vendors or employees.

Whether you’re a small business owner who doesn’t have time to create marketing materials, or part of a large company with an overworked marketing department, we offer you an impressive, yet inexpensive way to turn your important business communications into company profit.

Our Commitment

• We’re reliable and easy to work with. No project is too small.
  
• We welcome your comments on drafts and expect to be edited. It’s your company and you’re the boss.
  
• We’ll interview all personnel involved in the project and listen carefully.
  
• We are well-organized, resourceful, versatile writers committed to clarity, excellence and customer service.
  We always meet deadlines.

That’s a promise!

Services

• Brochures
• Newsletters
• Web Sites
• Magazine Articles
• Press Releases
• Proposals
• Annual and Other Reports
• Employee Manuals
• Biographies
• Books, Booklets
• Company Histories
• Shareholder Letters
• Product Descriptions & Instructions
• Pitch Letters
• Language Analysis
• Editing
  

Qualifications

We’ve written countless newsletters, brochures, press releases, proposals and other corporate communications and marketing materials for non-profit and for-profit organizations. We’ve ghostwritten hundreds of trade magazine articles for professionals in every conceivable industry from automotive to diagnostic imaging and manufacturing to law.

Gloria Lintermans is a business and marketing writer, ghostwriter, author of three books and former syndicated columnist whose columns have appeared in newspapers across the U.S. and worldwide from Saudi Arabia to South America. She has appeared on national and local radio and television talk shows across the country, has hosted her own cable TV and radio shows and is a popular lecturer and commentator.

Alice Shepherd is a business and marketing writer, ghostwriter and linguistic consultant. She has ghostwritten approximately 200 feature articles and case studies on behalf of professionals in a wide range of industries and disciplines. All have been published in national, regional and local trade magazines and business journals. She also has many years experience writing press releases, brochures, newsletters, web pages, proposals, company histories, employee manuals and other collateral and promotional materials. As a linguist (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley), she is the author of four books and 15 scientific journal articles on topics of language analysis. She also creates new names for products, services and businesses as a subcontractor to naming and branding companies. Prior to becoming self-employed as a writer and linguistic consultant, she worked at the University of California and private colleges for over 10 years, in teaching and administrative positions including Registrar, Dean and Vice President. There is much more to writing than producing grammatically correct sentences with commas in the right places. It takes the sensitivity of a linguist to create distinctive, unambiguous, powerful communications.

Fees, writing samples and references for Alice Shepherd and Gloria Lintermans available upon request.