Engage Admissions Officers, Buyers, Donors, and Leaders with Compelling Written Communications
The Marin Story Workshop
We help you craft authentic, perfectly tailored content for your target audience.
Every day we communicate with family, friends, colleagues, and strangers. We converse, we text, call, write comments, and even “Snap.” The majority of our days are spent interacting with other people through short messages. It’s no wonder that students, new business owners, and grant seekers need help crafting long-form content that’s more formal, more actionable, and written toward a specific audience.
The Marin Story Workshop (formerly known as Talk Social to Me) helps clients craft perfectly-targeted communications that capitalize on the social nuances of any situation where writing and planning are involved, ensuring that your intended recipient understands exactly what you’re trying to say, request, pitch and promote.
If you’re selling a new product, a buyer should understand its value right away.
If you’re heading to college, admissions officers need to know how you stand out.
If you’re asking for grant funding, a donor should be able to visualize their impact.
If you’re looking for work, employers need to feel excited about your skills.
Offering in-person college essay tutoring and business plan support in Mill Valley, Sausalito, and other Marin County locations, and anywhere in the USA via Zoom.
Areas of Practice
Enterprise Collaboration and Communication
Known for our independent, no-nonsense advice and strategies rooted in data, we support organizations and senior leaders using digital workplace technologies to modernize their enterprise communication and collaboration programs. Customers include Citibank, Johnson & Johnson, Genentech, Samsung, Spotify, Stanley Black & Decker, UNICEF, Gulfstream, Compass, Becton Dickinson, and many more.
What We Do: Strategy consultations, senior leader coaching, technology migration and vendor evaluation support.
Examples: UNICEF Microsoft Teams Adoption Thought Leadership
Small Business Strategy and Product Adoption
Running a small business is both rewarding and challenging. You know your product and your market, but communicating a unique value proposition to buyers can be harder than it looks.
What We Do: Craft and refine sales and marketing communications, advise on business growth strategies, build strong operational practices for scale.
Examples: Dynamic Dental Scheduling Basecamp Lassen
College Admissions Essay Planning and Execution
The college essay that got me into UCLA took a boring topic and twisted it into a humorous story. The dull prompt asked, “what unique traits will you bring to campus?” I wrote about my terrible baking skills, and how my attempts to cook for my dorm-mates would inevitably lead to smoke alarms, which would in turn help build community and bring us all together.
Every student can take a moment, a class, an experience, or a belief and turn it into a phenomenal essay. I coach students on how to craft exceptional, interesting, and authentic pieces of writing that will make them stand out in the admissions process. No Chat GPT here - every word will be their own.
Non-Profit Fundraising Support
With more than 1.8 million non-profit organizations in the United States, securing grants and donations requires your team, mission and proposals to stand out from the crowd.
What We Do: Build narratives and grant requests with unique, memorable angles that align to your mission, target a funder’s goals, and ensure real impact on the communities you serve.
Examples: Social Capital Academy Manton Parks
Get in Touch
I’d love to learn about your project! Whether you’re looking for guidance on an enterprise software deployment or strategic leader communications, need help on your essays right away, are in search of fresh eyes on a small business plan, or if you need new creative content for your non-profit fundraising, I can help.
