• Mariah Beckman

    Content Creator. Creature Collector. Kind of a Character.

    The Healthy Place

    Content Marketing Associate July 2024 – February 2026

    • Develop brand-aligned messaging and strategy for marketing campaigns, product launches, and multichannel market entry initiatives for multiple wellness brands that aligned with broader marketing goals
    • Partner with designers, web developers, and COO to craft compelling headlines, taglines, and brand storytelling for product packaging, labeling, social channels, and properties
    • Monitor site analytics and run regular performance audits

    Cheeky Scientist

    Content Manager / Content Writer

    July 2022 – July 2024

    • High volume copywriter, delivering an average of 30,000 words per week (fun fact: that's roughly the length of Charlotte's Web)
    • Ghostwriter for newsletter, email marketing, blog, and video script
    • Saw a 5% sustained increase in revenue week-over-week as a result of SEO strategy and consistently on-brand and compelling copy

    Zulily

    Editorial Copywriter / Production Copywriter / Production Copy Editor

    May 2015 – 2022

    • Created compelling copy for cross-channel placement (site, social media, SEM campaigns and email)
    • Worked in tandem with design, photography and merchandising stakeholders to develop effective and compelling copy that reflects the Zulily brand
    • Consistently met high productivity goals that were often elevated to meet the needs of the business
    • Concepted and created copy-enriching resources and presentations for team members
    • Contributed to the company newsletter
    • Spearheaded a campaign to optimize landing pages for TOF shoppers

    Pif Magazine

    Managing Editor / Associate Editor

    Oct 2013 – 2019

    • Selected and revised macro- and micro-fiction submissions for publication in a monthly online magazine
    • Collaborated with editing staff to publish high-quality fiction, poetry and editorial pieces
    • Proofread fiction submissions for sentence-level and organizational issues
    • Created an editorial calendar to plan and delegate content creation for contriubting authors/editors
    • Conducted monthly interviews, wrote biographies and selected visual artwork for the site

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    Freelance Writer + Editor

    May 2010 – present

    • Created compelling copy for cross-channel placement (site, social media, SEM campaigns and email)
    • Worked in tandem with design, photography and merchandising stakeholders to develop effective and compelling copy that reflects the Zulily brand
    • Consistently met high productivity goals that 
    • Concepted and created copy-enriching resources and presentations for team members 
    • Contributed to the company newsletter
    • Spearheaded a campaign to optimize landing pages for TOF shoppers

    Paper Covers Rock

    Owner, Content Creator + Editor 

    2015 to present  

    • Worked for and with incredible local authors and editors on fiction and non-fiction manuscripts 
    • Engaged with a network of my peers to stay educated and up-to-date about industry trends 
    • Wrote for local newspapers and magazines 

     

     

    DRAFT Magazine

    Editorial Intern 

    Jan 2010 – May 2010

    • Fact-checked (dates, statistics, quotes) articles using standard reference sources.
    • Shadowed editorial mentors during monthly pitch meetings
    • Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax
    • Wrote for print and online mediums, working closely with DRAFT editors
    • Experienced the general editorial process (deadlines, story assignment, content creation, etc.) of a national consumer magazine
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