Resume

Jan Cohen Reisen
Phone: 908-832-0803
Mobile: 908-625-1366
janscreisen@gmail.com
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Downloadable resume: JanReisenResume0918

Experience:
American Kennel Club (Contract)
2015-present
Long-form articles
Social media articles
SEO copy
Product descriptions

HerRoom.com (Contract)
2000-2017
Content for the site and for email campaigns
Brand and product descriptions
SEO copy
Managing and writing WordPress blog
Creating and managing Facebook page
Managing Twitter account
Press releases

Search Interactions (Contract)
2014-2016
Web and social content for various clients, including Ames-Walker, Hearing Planet, New York City Blinds, Discount Watch Store and others/

Momtalk.com
2006-2011
Managing Editor of a website for mothers, www.momtalk.com. Responsible for all content since the site’s inception.

  • Managing the site’s editorial direction
  • Creating, writing, deploying and analyzing email newsletter campaigns
  • Assigning articles and editing material from freelance writers
  • Writing headers, news, articles and anything else that needs some quick copy
  • Using Movable Type to enter all content

Perfect I-Site
2002-present
As a partner in Perfect I-Site, I am responsible for project management and web content for the following:
B2C sites
Non-profits
B2B
Professional services

Aging Hipsters
1996-present
Co-Founder and writer-in-residence for a top-ranked Baby Boomer website, which won an LA Times Cool Site of the Week award, was chosen for Lycos’ CyberSurfari, and was reviewed in Web Magazine

Agency Experience:
1997-2002
Outside contractor for a NJ web development company writing content for dozens of clients. The scope of these projects also included creating slogans, tag lines, concept work.

2003-2005
Print and web projects for a Delia Associates, a NJ branding and marketing firm , including pharmaceutical, B2B, retail, and grocery clients.

2001-2002
Several freelance projects for Grafica, NJ advertising agency, including copy for Hasbro Toys website, AT&T.

Additional Content Experience: 

  • Viral marketing via bloggers and women’s online networks for HerRoom.com
  • Sales material, media kits, promotional mailings, sell sheets, brochures
  • E-Zine article, Mind the Gap, discussing the global sales possibilities for small internet companies
  • It’s Your Internet, Too, Blue Tree Books, Ringoes, NJ, 2004
  • Ongoing, bi-monthly e-newsletters for HarrietCarter.com
  • Co-writer, The Catalog of Contemporary Design, Main Street Press, Pittstown, NJ 1983
  • General Editor, The Fourth Old House Catalog, Main Street Press, Pittstown, NJ, 1984

Skills:

Writing and copy editing
Developing and maintaining online content
Movable Type, WordPress
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Google Analytics
Online apps such as Google Docs and Zoho
Basic Photoshop
Basic html (tags, formatting)

Education:
B.A., Washington University in St. Louis

Contact:
Jan Cohen Reisen
Phone: 908-832-0803
Mobile: 908-625-1366
janscreisen@gmail.com
Web: A Blinking Cursor
LinkedIn