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Marketing content creator
Dan Goater
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Gosport, United Kingdom
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Multimedia journalist, designer, editor and marketing copywriter with over 15 years' experience in print and online media seeking freelance work.
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United Kingdom
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Language
English
Fluently
Spanish
Good
French
Good
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
My experience
2018 - 2021
job
Marketing content creator
Dream Doors Ltd.
- Producing press releases, business news and case studies for publication in the national, regional and local press, trade press and online
- Leveraging media industry connections to generate tens of thousands of pounds worth of editorial coverage for free, including four stories featured in the Daily Mail
- Creating a new franchise recruitment news channel on LinkedIn which now has more than 130 subscribers and has generated thousands of views and dozens of likes, shares and comments
- Writing, editing and designing a range of commercial material including the company’s brochures, product selectors, newsletters, print adverts and blog posts
- Writing multiple, successful awards submissions, including Dream Doors’ latest accolade: placing within the top 20 of Elite Franchise’s top 100 businesses
- Conducting on camera interviews and editing video packages for internal use and for recruitment and training purposes
- Managing PPC accounts, Customer Relationship Management systems and SEO keyword optimisation
- Leveraging media industry connections to generate tens of thousands of pounds worth of editorial coverage for free, including four stories featured in the Daily Mail
- Creating a new franchise recruitment news channel on LinkedIn which now has more than 130 subscribers and has generated thousands of views and dozens of likes, shares and comments
- Writing, editing and designing a range of commercial material including the company’s brochures, product selectors, newsletters, print adverts and blog posts
- Writing multiple, successful awards submissions, including Dream Doors’ latest accolade: placing within the top 20 of Elite Franchise’s top 100 businesses
- Conducting on camera interviews and editing video packages for internal use and for recruitment and training purposes
- Managing PPC accounts, Customer Relationship Management systems and SEO keyword optimisation
Copywriting, Social Media Marketing, Social media copywriting, Seo, PPC, Google adwords, Google analytics, Journalism, Press and pr, Graphic design, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Visual Identity
2017 - 2018
freelance
Freelance
eyeinthemiddle.com.
Writing Europe focused travel articles for eyeinthemiddle.com
Writing
2015 - 2017
job
Senior copy editor
Newsquest Southern.
* Editing news and features and writing headlines for newspapers, magazines and specialist publications throughout the UK at a national editing hub
* Responsible for ensuring stories' accuracy, legality, length and flow to intractable deadlines and to strict but varied editorial standards designed to cater to different readerships
* Mentoring junior editors
* Responsible for ensuring stories' accuracy, legality, length and flow to intractable deadlines and to strict but varied editorial standards designed to cater to different readerships
* Mentoring junior editors
Writing, Mentoring
2011 - 2015
job
Senior multimedia page editor
Dorset Echo.
* Designing eye-catching news and feature pages for daily newspapers in south Dorset as part of a 30-strong team
* Proofreading journalists' copy to ensure legality, accuracy, length and flow before publication and writing snappy headlines for stories
* Lead design editor for the Bournemouth Daily Echo's award-winning '24/7' arts supplement and its monthly business magazine. Also lead design editor for the weekly Lyme Regis News
* Managing daily uploading of stories to Dorset news websites. This involved delegating uploading duties to around 30 colleagues, ensuring editorial standards were maintained when stories were posted and that value was added where possible through the inclusion of picture galleries, videos etc
* Proofreading journalists' copy to ensure legality, accuracy, length and flow before publication and writing snappy headlines for stories
* Lead design editor for the Bournemouth Daily Echo's award-winning '24/7' arts supplement and its monthly business magazine. Also lead design editor for the weekly Lyme Regis News
* Managing daily uploading of stories to Dorset news websites. This involved delegating uploading duties to around 30 colleagues, ensuring editorial standards were maintained when stories were posted and that value was added where possible through the inclusion of picture galleries, videos etc
Design, Writing, Websites, Proofreading, Feature, Winning
2005 - 2011
job
Senio reporter
Dorset Echo.
- Generating off-diary hard news, human interest stories, features and reviews plus covering court hearings, council meetings, inquests and public events
- Producing a weekly faith news page, a births, marriages and deaths page and a weekly feature called Just the Job, designed to help unemployed readers publicise their skills and find work. Publishing this page helped at least three people to find jobs and raised the professional profiles of dozens more
- Finding and publishing numerous exclusive stories that were later covered in the national press, including a story about Chris de Burgh shooting a music video at a Weymouth church
- Taking quality photographs for publication and shooting and editing video news packages for the Dorset Echo website, including one about Paul Young playing a gig at a Weymouth bar
- Producing a weekly faith news page, a births, marriages and deaths page and a weekly feature called Just the Job, designed to help unemployed readers publicise their skills and find work. Publishing this page helped at least three people to find jobs and raised the professional profiles of dozens more
- Finding and publishing numerous exclusive stories that were later covered in the national press, including a story about Chris de Burgh shooting a music video at a Weymouth church
- Taking quality photographs for publication and shooting and editing video news packages for the Dorset Echo website, including one about Paul Young playing a gig at a Weymouth bar
Journalism, Interview, Copywriting, Copy editing, Photography, Social Media
My education
Liverpool John Moores University
Bachelors, Journalism
Bachelors, Journalism
n/a
Secondary, Media Production
Secondary, Media Production
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