Oliver G

Drawing on years of experience in agencies and as a freelance writer, he took the plunge and, with the help of his partner, started his own business.

Civic Web Media is a specialist content marketing agency, the first of its kind in Newcastle.

His main role in the business is working as the editor across a range of projects: creating content strategies, communicating with clients, and coordinating writers and proofreaders.

Worked through agencies, but also wrote directly for clients, websites and magazines.

Wrote for Southeast Asia Backpacker about a silent meditation retreat in Thailand, Plaid Zebra about dog cafes in Korea, and for several other companies: hotel descriptions for Flight Centre, attraction details for Destination NSW and Sydney.com, video scripts for HotelsCombined.

Regular contributor for Live4, a magazine-styled website created for NRMA, wrote numerous travel pieces and opinion pieces, and articles about technology, sport, and entertainment.

Wrote from career and business websites such as CareerOne, produced articles and tips for jobseekers as well as interviews to get information about popular jobs and how people in those positions found their work.

Wrote articles for Lenovo, Snap Printing, Canon, Bloomtools and others.

Wrote pieces on SEO, content marketing, and social media for the likes of Brandalism and StudioOne.

Hired by Australia's premier content marketing agency, he started off as a Junior Editor, quickly rising up the ranks to be in charge of a small internal department, as well as a stable of freelancers and an external SEO department.

His department provided monthly blog packages for the clients of a larger agency. This involved writing articles, editing freelancer pieces, managing client expectations and meeting monthly deadlines. At its peak, he was in charge of 70 accounts, for businesses in a wide range of industries.

On top of this this, he wrote for several branded clients, took an active part in the appraisal of job applicants and created several articles for the King Content blog.

Wrote for a number of websites, agencies and content mills.

Worked in areas for eHow (through Demand Studios), writing travel pieces for Travelated and Unique 2 WA, creating SEO pieces for smbSEO and The Content Authority, and providing client work for Switched on Media.

Worked as part of Bigmouthmedia's Media Optimisation team, responsible for creating press releases and articles, and for sourcing opportunities for inbound links to client websites.

Worked for a number of high-end clients and was involved in the project management team for many of these, including British Airways and Sky.

Was in charge of article distribution and editing. Watched a team of 10 freelance writers and was responsible for allocating work then editing grammar, style and consistency.

Full training was received on many aspects of digital marketing, including copywriting, social media, website audits, usability and analytics.