Sarah Smith

Attends ribbon-cutting ceremonies throughout the community to welcome new businesses and celebrate milestones for existing ones.

Collaborates with the marketing chair and board members on press releases, social media posts, email content, and other written materials.

Provides content services including website copy, blogs, email, and press releases for clients across healthcare, trade, and professional services industries.

Reads a book a month to third-graders at Jeffries Elementary School to inspire a love of reading in local students.

Created website copy in collaboration with web developers and graphic design teams. Developed blog calendars based on keyword research and client goals, and wrote blogs optimized with relevant keywords, headings, internal links, metadata, and images.

Taught a graduate course in Advertising.

Provided website copy, blogs, and more on a freelance basis.

Taught courses in advertising and marketing. Led student service-learning projects for local nonprofit organizations and served as faculty advisor for the American Advertising Federation student chapter.

Taught courses in Advertising and Media Planning.

Assisted faculty with research and taught media writing lab.

Provided sales support at a television station.

Directed research activities at a television station.

PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Georgia, with a dissertation on the impact of digital video recorders on household media consumption.

Master of Arts in Advertising from the University of Alabama.

Bachelor of Arts in Telecommunication and Film from the University of Alabama.