About

My name is Donna Jolly, and I am a bona fide marketing and writing geek. Seriously, I’m one of those people that you will see in a coffee shop reading “Sin and Syntax” or “Blink.” When I’m not working at my trade of the last twenty some-odd years as a marketer and writer, I’m reading about marketing and writing, or blogging about it, or I’m squatting in some other blogger’s forum commenting on what they wrote. Or I’m Tweeting about marketing or annoying my Facebook friends with marketing tips, or I’m on Linked In a one of the two dozen marketing, PR, Social Media, Communications and Advertising groups I’ve joined talking about, well you know.

There should be a twelve-step program for people like me. That’s how much I’m into this stuff.

Do I have a life? Yes, because as I say on my website, www.donnajolly.com (see I can’t help but promote) “It’s all marketing, always.” I’d be a great sales pitchman if I didn’t prefer writing words to speaking them.

Words are our foundation, whether it is great literature or great marketing. You can’t have a great ad without words (well, it has been done, but generally, words are king). PR exists for words. Social Media wouldn’t be social without words. The Internet bleeds words. I like audacious words, audacious thoughts, audacious ideas. This blog explores the world of the marketeers and writers who create strategies and content that sell products and services differently. My goal is to interview them, write about them or write about things I’ve learned from people obsessed like me with the art of mixing promotion and words. In doing this, I hope you and I can figure out what makes the audacious things in life so darn wonderful. Then maybe we can turn around and create something equally audacious. In the end, it’s not marketing. It’s art.

Learn more about my career and clients at www.donnajolly.com.