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Hapacity Marketing in St. Louis | Holly Reardon • 21st June 2023

COPY EDIT: Hapacity Marketing website

COPY EDIT + WRITE: As a contract editor and writer for Hapacity Marketing, I helped the agency owner edit, rework, and write the latest iteration of her company's website while adhering to her unique tone.

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9th December 2021

COPY EDIT: 2021-22 Industry Trends Report by Talkable

EDITING (freelance): I edited, updated, and reworked this guide — produced by referral marketing agency Talkable — as a freelance editor and writer for the agency. I also heavily rewrote the intro and conclusion.

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26th August 2021

COPY EDIT: The Science Behind the Shot: Vaccine Development 101 with Dr. Angela Rasmussen

EDITING: This blog for one of our healthcare brands — written by a fellow in-house copywriter at Colibri — required basic to moderate line edits.

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CEOWORLD magazine • 14th September 2019

COPY EDIT: 3 Simple Steps to Creating a High-Performing Intergenerational Team

EDITING: This is an edit for a thought leadership client at the content marketing agency I worked for. After proofing for AP Style and the publication's in-house style, this article landed in CEOWORLD Magazine.

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Forbes • 10th December 2021

COPY EDIT: Hold On To Your Money: How New Tax Laws Affect Agency Owners

EDITING: As an editor for a content marketing agency, I regularly edited copy for this client, Drew McLellan, who was a Forbes Agency Council member. I edited his FAC content from 2017 to early 2020.

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30th March 2022

COPY EDIT: Fighting COVID Complacency: A Public Health Challenge

EDITING: I regularly edit blog posts for the healthcare ecosystem at Colibri Group, correcting grammar, punctuation, syntax, and AP Style errors.

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13th September 2019

COPY EDIT: Cookie consent requirements: Are you doing enough?

EDITING (freelance): This blog post required a thorough line edit, a reworked intro, and source/stat updates. I edited this as a freelancer for Osano, a data privacy company.

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6th November 2019

COPY EDIT: The definitive guide to the New York SHIELD Act

EDITING (freelance): This is another copy edit for Osano, a data privacy company. Edits consist of updating the copy, originally written in 2019, so stats, sources, and links are up-to-date. Heavy line edits for style, grammar, and punctuation were also applied.

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Entrepreneur • 9th December 2021

COPY EDIT: How to Avoid Horrific Musk-Like Employee Reviews

EDITING (2019): As an editor for a content marketing agency, I regularly edited copy for this client, of whom we published in Entrepreneur. For this edit, I applied AP Style and the publication's in-house style

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12th September 2019

COPY EDIT: GDPR compliance regulations: The 12 biggest need-to-knows

EDITING (freelance): I regularly copy edit and/or update blogs for Osano, a data privacy company. This one required a heavier lift, including updating stats, sources, and style.

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11th October 2019

COPY EDIT: Combatting distrust via your company privacy policy

EDITING (freelance): This freelance copy edit was completed for a data privacy company. Heavily reworked, the request was to update blog copy (originally from 2019) with newer stats and sources, while also proofing it for AP Style, grammar, and syntax.

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11th October 2019

COPY EDIT: GDPR in marketing: Strategies to stay compliant

EDITING (freelance): This copy edit was completed for a data privacy company, Osano. The post is a few years old and required updated sources and stats, in addition to overall style, grammar, and syntax edits.

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14th October 2022

COPY EDIT: "Before and After" of a brand intention letter

EDITING: This is a before-and-after look of an external letter by my current company to introduce a brand name change. In the PDF, the top letter is the original; the letter beneath is my revised version.

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9th November 2022

B2B copy: Brokerage expo flyer

WRITE/EDIT: I reworked this flyer copy to improve messaging, clarity, and tone. These flyers were distributed to brokerages during an expo to encourage hiring real estate agents that Colibri Real Estate teaches through its licensure courses.

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29th October 2020

COPY EDIT: Take data privacy seriously: Here's why

EDITING (freelance): This freelance copy edit was completed for a data privacy company, Osano. The post originates from 2020 and required updated sources and stats, in addition to overall style, grammar, and syntax edits.

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11th December 2020

COPY EDIT: Understanding GDPR's data protection officer (DPO)

EDITING (freelance): This is a heavily edited blog post, originally published in 2020, that I conducted on a contract basis for a data privacy company.

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18th August 2021

COPY EDIT: Sharing the Science: How to Answer Your Patients’ Vaccine Safety Questions

EDITING: I regularly line edit or copy edit articles written by in-house copywriters across Colibri's brands and ecosystems. This article required moderate edits.

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5th October 2020

COPY EDIT: How cookies work, and how to conduct a cookie audit

EDITING (freelance): This freelance copy edit was completed for a data privacy company, Osano. The post, from 2020, required source updates and general edits for style, syntax, and grammar.

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12th September 2019

COPY EDIT: Ensuring data privacy compliance in the age of “accepting all terms”

EDITING (freelance): This is another freelance edit for Osano, a data privacy company. Note that the client made some discretionary changes once it changed hands.

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26th January 2022

COPY EDIT: Human Trafficking: A Global Crime With Local Consequences

EDITING: I regularly edit blog articles for the healthcare ecosystem at Colibri, correcting grammar, punctuation, syntax, and AP Style errors.