Meet Digital Marketer and Writer Meryl Evans

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About meryl.net, the Web site
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Bio

I’m Meryl K. Evans, Digital Marketing Maven and author of “Brilliant Outlook Pocketbook” and the co-author of Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites. Since starting this writing and content marketing business in 2000, I’ve written and edited for “Billiards Digest,” “The Dallas Morning News,” ECT News Network, Lockergnome, MarketingProfs, “PC Today,” O’Reilly, Pearson, Sams, Web Worker Daily, Wiley and WROX. Meryl has written copy for businesses ads, cars (from Porsches and Jaguars to Lexuses — or is that Lexi? — and Hondas) and games including Fib-or-Not? and Meet, Mix, and Mingle.

My blog went live on June 1, 2000. It’s been asleep for awhile as I prefer to channel all my blogging energies on my clients’ blogs.

How your business benefits: Your businesses will build and maintain relationships with your clients and prospects through digital marketing such as email newsletters, emails, landing pages, blogs, articles, and more. Whatever your digital marketing goals, you’ll achieve them with my help.

Email newsletters: Original Editor-in-Chief of Intel Solution Services’ “Connected Digest” and Shavlik’s “The Remediator Security Digest,” a popular newsletter on computer security that started with a few thousand subscribers and climbed to over 100,000 subscribers during my tenure. I’ve been the editor of Professional Service Journal — an email newsletter for business-to-business (B2B) professional services providers — for more than 10 years.
I’ve worked in education with New York University’s online graduate program where I’ve helped students with their theses. (Gentrification in Harlem was one of the more interesting topics.) Past jobs include two Fortune 500 telecom companies, federal government in Washington, D.C. and IT consulting. A native Texan, I live a heartbeat north of Dallas in Plano, Texas with my husband, three kiddos and one four-legged one who thinks she’s human.

Why work with me? I have a reputation for providing high quality digital marketing services and deliverables on time (usually early) that matches your company’s requirements. Most clients work with me again, some come back even after changing companies. Here are client testimonials.
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Media and Releases

I can help journalists providing articles, resources and contacts:

Provide experts and resources relating to Web design, Internet, software, hardware, and Internet marketing.
Write articles, blurbs, tips, and fillers within the required word count and meet deadlines for a variety of publications.
Respond to emails within 12 hours to help those needing a rush job.

History

Meryl first joined the Internet pre-revolution in 1992 with Internet in a Box. She blogged the rest of the meryl history for your reading boredom.

Why the dull, uncreative names?

I racked my brain to come up with a name that would stick. Alas, nothing came. Ironically, I loves to read about names and the meanings behind them. I’m even a professional namer! Yet, I couldn’t name this electronic baby.

I never had a nickname, a big hobby or a way for making up a creative name using my name. For example: If your last name was Boot, then a good Web name would be “Reboot.” Although I had a handle from my BBS (pre-Internet) days, I was embarrassed for ever having used it. Considering “meryl” is so uncommon considering the lifetime of misspellings and mispronunciations, I used it thinking a better name would come later. No brilliant idea ever came. So, meryl stuck.

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Bio: The cool version

I’ve been hanging out on the pre-Internet aka BBS since 1986. (I appears in BBS: The Documentary, which landed me my own IMDB.com page. Color me shocked.) I met the Internet in 1993. In digital years, that would be the 1800s. I fell in love with it at first text.

I’ve written for anything and everything relating to Web design, technology, content marketing, writing, automotive and buffaloes (not kidding).

I’m the president, CEO, CIO, CMO, CFO and founder of meryl.net, writing, editing, content marketing, social media management, tech fixer-upper and all that extra stuff services.

I’ve blogged about living life as a deaf person. Mi numero uno priority ees de familia. You can find this southpaw in the Lone Star State … not wearing 10-gallon hats.

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Stats

Sign: Cap-Aquarius (some say Capricorn and some say water bearer – I drink lots of H20, it’s usually the latter).
Birthday: January 20 – Inauguration Day.
Myers-Briggs: ISTJ, ISTJ,ISTJ. (Every single time since taking the first one in ’90.)
Birth order: Da youngest, but practically only child (siblings more than a decade older).

Favorites

TV Shows: Big Bang Theory, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, The Goldbergs and The Middle.
Games: The Game Zen aka meryl.net Games [on a permanent vacation].
Musicals: Wicked and hooked on the songs from Company.
Pro Teams: Mavs, Rangers, Cowboys, Stars and Brooklyn Dodgers [not L.A.].
Birth place: Fort Worth, Texas.
College: TCU (freshman year and many years as a child for speech therapy), American University, NYU SCPS (certificate in Internet Technologies) and some post-college classes at SMU and Amberton.

Colophon

Site created with CSS and strict XHTML using text editors and Dreamweaver.
Validated W3C CSS and XHTML compliant upon first release. (Seriously, this site is elderly by Internet standards and has undergone many changes plus it contains thousands of pages of content.)
Validated Section 508 compliant upon first release.
Validated WAI compliant upon first release.
www.meryl.net named one of the 101 Best Web Sites for Writers in 2005 by Writer’s Digest.
Received Talking Hands award for validation and accessibility.
You’re right. There are validation errors. This was not the case when the design was born.
Yes, you may link to this website. No need to send an email to ask.

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Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2010 Meryl Evans

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Testimonials

Meryl has passion, personality, and a persistent personal voice. She isn’t just followed by our subscribers, she’s adored. When they don’t hear from her after a while, we’re sure to get a few “Where’s Meryl?!” emails.

Chris Pirillo, head geek and founder

Lockergnome

A quick note to say kudos on bringing Meryl back into the writing stable! I have really missed her down home way she writes. Her writing style makes me feel like she’s an old family friend writing me along with others in my family. I hope she is back as a regular!

Bullitt Darlington

I have a good stable [of contributors] — but not as many true writers who also know marketing, which is where I’d put Meryl.

Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer

MarketingProfs

I recently used the services of Meryl to rewrite the text of a couple of my websites and I love the results that I received. She if very customer oriented and able to understand your needs while at the same time fulfill them beyond your expectations. Please continue reading below to find out more about Meryl and her services.

Kim Beasley, owner

Agap3 Business Services, LLC

Meryl’s thoroughness and attention to detail have been key ingredients to the success of the book projects that we have worked on.

Todd Marks, author

When I think of “professional writer,” I think of Meryl.
When I think of “personable” writer I think of Meryl.
When I think of a “Git’er Done” writer, I think of Meryl.
When I think of a truly caring and sharing person, in business and life, I think of Meryl.
And … When I think “it doesn’t get much better than that,” I think of Meryl.

Steve Kayser, Marketing and Media Relations Pro

Kayser Media

Meryl has the unique ability to quickly comprehend a project and its nuances, she is responsive to requests and deadlines and she has the capability to add value throughout the entire process. All of us respect her opinion and find her a pleasure to work with.

Frank Sobyak, founder

Dealership Partners LLC

Meryl Evans has been an outstanding freelancer for PC Today Magazine. Her understanding of mobile technology has made her one of our go-to writers. Not only that, she’s extremely prompt and professional. It has been a pleasure to work with her.

Nate Hoppe, editor

Sandhills Publishing

Working with Meryl has been a pure delight! I had so many ideas of what I needed and wanted to say and in so many versions – I didn’t know where to begin. Meryl sorted through the all the twisted and tangled threads and wove them into a masterful dialogue that is proudly displayed on my website. It’s great to know that Meryl is there for all my writing projects. An international company contacted me because of the web site content she wrote.

Janine A. Schindler, founder and owner

JAS Leadership

In addition to being an accomplished writer herself, Meryl is a researcher supreme if you need someone knowledgeable about all things. She is fast, responsive and always ‘gets it’ with a minimum of communication. I recommend her services highly. She is a pleasure to work with.

Debbie Weil, founder and author

Wordbiz LLC

Meryl’s work brings your writing to a level of real time real world readiness that enable you to reach your full potential with your target audience. She is a word master par excellence — a go to the mountain guru of the written word, who is capable of making your words, skills, and talents really shine, and propel them into greatness.

Paul J. Krupin, author and founder

Presari

I recall quite clearly that it was coming down to the wire; I was just completing my thesis and the due date was impending. To be honest, I was barely able to review my paper or correct the grammatical and structural errors in my paper. Luckily, Meryl was recommended to me by a professor. I required that my paper be edited – approximately 100 pages – with a 3 day turnaround. I was surprised when Meryl accepted the task and was able to accommodate my request with such grace and calm. She was very thorough and the changes that she suggested made complete sense. Meryl, thanks, you played a major role the acceptance of my thesis, returning high quality work to me in a timely and orderly manner given the strict guidelines of the department and the short time I gave you.

Ayana Cavelle Quackenbush

NYU MSIS

Meryl K. Evans is not only a great editor and writer, her love for the Web and its denizens is apparent in all her activities. Whether keeping up with design and development issues via her own blog or other venues, Meryl is a leading voice in the cry for sensible, contemporary, and standards-based design.

Molly Holzschlag, author

Meryl is an important asset for our website. She is able to sort through a large volume of industry news and break it all down into pithy and interesting weblog entries for our readers, all with a writing style that is a perfect mix of technical and conversational. She is a dependable contributor; I know not only that she’s going to get her assignments in on time, but that they will be well-written and useful for our audience.

Dustin Sullivan, senior site content manager

InformIT

We are fortunate to have been able to rely on Meryl to augment our internal resources here at Marqui. Recently, she was instrumental in helping us craft a white paper on blogging that helped us not only capture the spirit (through tone and manner) of the subject perfectly, it provided welcome entertainment along with technological enlightenment for our readers.

The paper has been (so far) downloaded more than 1600 times from our web site. And it is a testament to our collaboration that we’ve received compliments like this one: ‘Finally. A white paper not written by committee. How refreshing.’ Thank you, Meryl.

Janet Johnson, marketing pioneer

O'Johnson Partners

Meryl Evans is the hardest working Managing Editor I have met. She is very proficient at her job and always meets if not exceeds my expectations. If I needed to hire a freelance editor, I would hire Meryl before anyone else.

Nick Finck

UX pro

Your work is super and you are responsive and dependable. I wish we could clone you. Meryl is also talented, fast, smart, reliable, a good communicator, and honest. A precious combination.

Bill Moore, CEO

Zello

This is a site that even I understand, so I know my members will also. I can’t believe how much you guys did in such a short amount of time. Unlike my original web developer, you listened to what I wanted and gave it to me without hassle. Thanks! (On setting up a business blog.)

Jeff Forester, executive director

Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Advocates

Meryl is a joy to work with, whip smart, delivers her work on time and exceeds expectations, and is a great all-around person too! She has written several articles for a new Web site and takes pride in her work. I highly recommend her for this type of work. She truly is a content maven.

Top qualities: Great results, good value, on time.

David Strom, writer and speaker

David Strom, Inc.

Meryl’s Notes blog offers the most content rich material in my inbox.

Robin Rice, Author and Mentor

Be Who You Are Productions

We are excited about Meryl’s work for us. She is a very talented person and content written by Meryl reflects our company message with her own unique style. It is a delight to work with Meryl. She is a true pearl in the sea of freelancers.

Yury Uskov, CEO

iSpring

Meryl Evans is one of the reasons why InternetVIZ is in business today. Without her, the first overload of business would have sunk us. She has also made me aware of the need of clear and concise written communication. She has an accessibility and directness that is wonderful. Her intuition is great. I consider her a ‘trail blazer’. Finally, her work with eNewsletter Journal and The Remediator Security Digest are outstanding.

Hank Stroll

Publisher, InternetVIZ

You are a wizard at putting my thoughts on paper. It must be a special gift to take so much jargon and make it a sensible report.

Ernest Henderson, airport manager

It is a delight to work with Meryl. She delivers high quality work with great turnaround. I recommend her highly!

Judy Schramm, CEO

ProResource, Inc.

Meryl K. Evans is one of those rare people who can explain the most mind-numbing technical topics in such everyday terms that even nontechies like me can understand.

Janet Roberts, editor

I appreciate the quality of Meryl’s reviews, and her work ethic / dependability. I mean it wholeheartedly. Nothing made me happier than find a review from her that helped me make some of the tougher decisions.

David-Michel Davies, CEO

Webby Media Group

Thanks for your feedback and edits on my thesis. Your responsiveness and contributions are outstanding.

Patrick Kehoe

Meryl is a creative and original writer. She has natural intelligence, and worked to understand my project so she could interpret my ideas effectively. In addition, Meryl demonstrated excellent patience while working with me during the proofreading process of my thesis. She also has excellent communication skills and supported me in my thesis work in a timely manner.

Vikram Khanna, Messaging Consultant

You’re a hell of a writer!

Jeff Crilley, Emmy-winning and former FOX News TV reporter

Real News Public Relations

Meryl’s down-to-earth and insightful advice can transform any website from a money-sucker to a money-maker. Pay no mind to the get-rich-quick snake oil salesmen populating the Internet; the path to riches on the Internet is a long road that must be traveled slowly. There are few people better equipped than Meryl Evans to make that journey smooth and satisfying.

Howard Sherman, Chairman and CEO

Malinche Entertainment