Jamie Sue Austin
Marketing, Events, & Communications Slashie
The Big Bang
Nothing turns itself inside out and becomes Everything. Something inevitably happens.
The Great Spin
The infant universe sets itself in motion, spinning like an infinite top. Stars burst, planets form, life evolves, dies, and evolves again.
Cincinnati is incorporated.
It is mediocre. The internet is invented. It is good.
At some point, I am born.
The Big Freeze
10 to the 14th power (100 trillion) years later, the universe stops spinning. I have been dead a very long time. Everything reverts to Nothing. It was all waste of time.
There is no Wi-Fi signal.
I'm a slashie.
Writer/Artist/Marketer/Project manager/Events Manager/Administrator and more
I'm available for short term projects.
Writing
Business, Professional, and Editorial Content
- Sales and customer service scripts
- Sales letters and newsletters
- Press releases, blog postings, and web articles.
- Ghost-writing services, essays, and editorials
- Business plans, grant applications, and employment manuals.
- Case studies, SWOT analysis, buyer, and market profiles
- Works of short fiction, scripts, comic books, e-books, and poetry.
Art
Digital, Fine, Folk, and Craft
- Digital illustrations
- Works of Fine Art
- Painting, drawing, sculpting, collage, batik
- Works of Fine Art and Craft
- Sewing, candle and cosmetic making, jewelry making, wreath making, home goods, cottage foods.
- Video and content creation using Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Inkscape, ArtRage, and several open source graphic and video editing software products.
Marketing
Promotional Materials and Systems
- Launch and maintain cloud accounts, produce and manage web content
- Off-page optimization such as blog commenting, forum participation, and review responses
- Presentations and slide shows
- Business graphics, flyers, advertisements, social media graphics, and video clips.
- Manage social media profiles, develop posting schedules
- Informational static webpages.
Event and Project Management
Build a Dream, Throw a Party
- Organize, coordinate, and manage start-up or marketing projects with teams of 25 or fewer
- Organize, coordinate, manage, price, contract, and execute events with 1,000 or fewer attendees.
- Budgeting
- Licensing and regulations
- Sourcing and contracting with vendors
- Organizing team or participant work-flow
- Delegating tasks
- Anticipating and preventing problems
Rates and Reservations
I work with others, not for others.
If I'm excited about YOUR project, I will pour the same amount of enthusiasm into it as I would into my own, personal, work. If I'm not excited by it? I won't take it on.
That's how I sleep well at night. I keep things simple. "Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life".
I work remotely. Non-digital tasks (phone calls, voicemail, faxing, mailing, taking dictation) may incur PITA fees depending on volume. I am available for in-person project and event planning activities within the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Area.
Rates vary by project. Tell me about your project or business, your available budget, and your long term goals. I can prepare a quote for you. I'm open to a variety of payment arrangements, including work-in-kind. Request additional samples by email.
Absolutely no spec work.
All night I wondered about the dead catfish. Where did it come from? Who caught it? And why did they nail it to a road sign? Would it be there the next day? How long would it take it to decompose and slip to the ground?
Driving home, I saw a large catfish nailed to a road sign. I stopped the car. I reverse it. I parked. I gave the Catfish a curtsy and the courtesy of my confessions. After ten days of putrefying, it fell to the earth. Five new little fish took its place. Each sign on my road had a dead fish nailed to it. The road stunk like dead fish all summer as new fish replaced old ones. For 20 seconds each day as I drove by, the entire decaying universe stopped and allowed me to examine it under a microscope.
It was beautiful.
Find your moment - the one unique to you.
...then, live it.
Here are samples of work I enjoyed producing. The people involved were awesome. Additional samples and descriptions of past projects, including marketing plans, SWOT analysis, and Customer Profile samples are available upon request.
Project
Description:
Web design, graphic design, social media creation, etc. for the Yellow Vest Actions political protest group's #ShutDownBrunch campaign. I like this sample for its bright colors and bold diagonal lines. The majority of the website text and the press releases were written by me. I designed media kits for the campaign that could be used by volunteers to organize their own local groups. The "Yellow Vest Solidarity Image" was provided by the campaign organizers. The website and campaign materials were produced under a tight deadline.
Website: YellowVestActions.com
*I do not express opinions for Yellow Vest Actions.
Design
Description:
Flyer and brochure panels. These materials are owned by American Legal Publishing. Brochure text was provided by American Legal Publishing. I like these samples because when they arrived from the trade printer, the colors were rich and deep. Disclosure: I manage social media accounts as part of my employment with American Legal Publishing, but all posts are pre-approved.
*I do not express opinions for American Legal Publishing
Marketing
Description:
Promotional menu for Lonely Vegan in Instagram Story format. I like this sample because it highlights the unique ways businesses can reach out to their clients using free or low-cost technologies.
*I do not express opinions for Lonely Vegan
Design
Description:
Parody product design. I like to create parody product and service designs to sharpen my skills and entertain myself.
Member
Above: Screenshot illustrating the book page with the cut-out element applied..
Below: Illustrated pages
Images I produce to exercise (exorcise) my brain squirrels.
Elements from Canva content bank.
I am quiet now...
and properly sedated
for your comfort.
Am I pleasing
in this simple,
deconstructed
form?
I wish you could
see with the same
brilliance I do
because the colors
and sounds
are maddening
and bright.
If we had the same
visions erupting
from our skin
you would know
the ever present need
to release them as doves,
so they could float,
and soar; mate
and die as intended.
Most are Born sedate.
Quiet in the womb -
a soft, warm, lump of flesh.
I was forged.
Purpose
I was forged fine and
flexible, vain, and brilliant -
perfectly balanced to
my own purpose.
Sharp-as-Traps.
and cutting-kind.
I will not fill you up.
I am no commodity.
I am not from the universal wish list.
I am the
unexpected
gift.
This is
blowing out a candle
This is ending a sentence.
This is one sound following another
I see a ribbon -
a colorful wave spreading out
aurora borealis in my bedroom
the little lilts of light
I have dreamed all night long.
Said my prayers
and waited.
I waited.
You,
your name
trips my tongue,
like a tipsy chippy on
one broken heel,
it's a sweet name -
that tickles.
Not many things in life are as simple and earnest as a good kitchen table.
My grandfather
several or so back,
lives eternally
on a cracked
gelatin plate.
When I am dust,
will I live on
in the aether of
technology?
You spoke
in hushed, confessional tones
i could hear the cracking of my rib-cage
in the soft chatter of "never", "won't", and "can't"
why do we hope and dream
if not for better versions of ourselves?
all revolutions start from the breastplate.
I cannot sleep so full of you
I have wiped you form my eyes
a dozen times
and there
I brush away your lips
and still they rest on mine -
I cannot sleep so full of you -
with my body bursting daybreak.
How many times
did we stand between the door
and midnight,
exhaling pale ringlets
into the streetlight -
Two summer mayflies
floated down from black -
we barely noticed.
I produce works of fine art, folk art, and craft.
Occasionally, I remember to take pictures of what I'm doing.
