CREATIVE COPYWRITER
CHRIS
CIARMIELLO
WRITER &
EDITOR
SERVICES
COPYWRITING
Engaging copy for digital and print — blog writing, social media, white papers, email marketing, and more,
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BRAND STRATEGY
Powerful stories that get to the heart of your company or product.
GHOSTWRITING
Consistent, authoritative voices that get your message across with precision.
MY WORK
SOCIAL MEDIA
The Tutor Shack
Montclair, NJ
The Tutor Shack’s funky, energetic vibe and impressive track record of standardized test preparation has helped it grow significantly in recent years, but the company still faces strong competition from several nearby tutoring firms. I took over the company's dormant social media feeds in 2019, using a blend of educational and fun posts to quickly build a following among students, parents, and others in the community.
GHOSTWRITING
Validea Capital Management
West Hartford, CT
At Validea Capital Management, we faced two main marketing challenges: 1) how to make a complicated quantitative investing system understandable for lay investors, and 2) how to earn new clients' trust at a time when thoughts of the stock market made most investors cringe. We needed a voice that was expert but not esoteric, optimistic but not Pollyannaish. Pieces I wrote for print publications like Forbes and Globe and Mail and websites like Seeking Alpha threaded both those needles, greatly expanding our brand authority and market reach. So too did The Hot List, a biweekly newsletter I wrote, and The Guru Investor, a book I ghostwrote detailing our investment strategy and examining Wall Street "gurus" like Warren Buffett.
JOURNALISM
The reporting I did early in my career taught me how to ask the right questions to get to the heart of a story. My work has spanned a range of subjects, from local politics to education to crime. I've interviewed award-winning authors and actors, high-profile politicians, and a myriad of everyday people with fascinating stories.
MARKETING COPY
I've written an array of promotional copy, including marketing emails, website and blog pages, press releases, landing pages, and special reports. Here's a sampling of that work.
ABOUT ME
I'm a copywriter and ghostwriter who has been telling the stories of people, places, and companies for two decades. My ghostwriting has appeared in publications like Forbes, Globe and Mail, and RealMoney, and I've written copy for websites, social media, blogs, white papers, marketing emails, landing pages, and more. I specialize in taking complex topics and distilling them down to their essence for readers and consumers.
As a journalist, I won awards from the New England Press Association, Suburban Newspapers of America, and the Society of Professional Journalists. I received my MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School and earned the Joan Jakobson Fellowship in nonfiction from the Wesleyan Writers Conference in 2018. I'm currently working on a memoir.
The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story.
— Michael Margolis
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