Wendy Weitzel: Writing, editing, design

Wendy Weitzel

Wendy Weitzel specializes in writing, editing, marketing and design. Weitzel loves to help businesses and individuals create clean, clear communications with news releases, social media, email marketing, brochures, menus, presentations, photography and more. Services are available on an hourly basis.

Services include:

• News releases and other publicity outreach
• Email marketing
• Digital and print newsletters
• Brochures, fliers, postcards, programs, menus and other printed materials
• Web content writing, editing and blogging
• Facebook, Instagram and Davis Wiki page setup
• Editing of business communications and speeches
• Book and essay editing and proofreading
• News, feature, business and travel stories
• Obituary writing (and helping people document their life stories)
• Preparation or editing of PowerPoint and Prezi presentations
• Videos, including editing and script writing
• Photography and photo editing

Specialties:

Creating clean, attractive graphic designs, and writing clever headlines and slogans. She's great at breaking down technical information, and believes all writing should be clear, succinct and jargon-free.

Software knowledge:

• Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Microsoft Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and Sharepoint
• Prezi interactive presentations
• Word Press, Wix, Appointy and other web-based applications

About us:

Owner Wendy Weitzel is a longtime journalist and former managing editor of The Davis Enterprise. She has more than 20 years of editing, writing and design experience, and loves to help businesses and individuals create clean, clear communications.

She's worked for daily community newspapers as a columnist, editor, writer and designer. Since 2001, she’s tracked local businesses that enter and exit the Davis scene in her column, Comings and Goings, which runs each Sunday in The Davis Enterprise. Recent work experience includes communications at UC Davis, and freelance work for the city of Davis, local businesses and Soroptimist International of Davis.

Links

• Comings and Goings - The Davis Enterprise
• Comings and Goings on Facebook
• LinkedIn (work samples) www.linkedin.com/in/wendyweitzel/