Monika Jansen

Monika Jansen is Head Kick-Ass Copywriter and Strategist at her boutique marketing agency, Jansen Communications. To connect with Monika and get your FREE copy of The Small Business Guide to Blogging, visit https://jansencomm.com/the-small-business-guide-to-blogging/.

She was born to be a copywriter and editor, though she didn’t know it til 6th grade. Her teacher, Mrs. Guildard, couldn’t wait to get Monika’s very creative sentences using that week’s vocabulary words. She kept encouraging Monika, so Monika kept writing.

In college, she majored in marketing. Lots of writing! Lots of creativity!

When she graduated in 1997, she faced a hostile job market and floundered around a bit. She worked in finance. She worked in marketing for a pre-dot-com tech startup. She worked as a private chef. And then she went back into marketing before landing at a non-profit.

One day, when her daughter was in kindergarten and her son was 18 months old, she had enough. She didn’t want to work for other people anymore.

So she hung out her shingle as a copywriter and slowly built out her one-person-show into a boutique marketing agency with a really fantastic team.

Jansen Communications provides copywriting and social media marketing services to small- and mid-size companies that want to grow. To that end, each project starts with a strategy that will help clients reach their business goals. This might include blogging, website content, email marketing, marketing copy for various pieces of collateral and/or social media marketing.

The team’s motto is “No matter the subject, write in plain English – there’s a person on the other side of that message.”

When she’s not working, Monika hangs out with her husband, kids, and friends, snowboards, travels and laughs as much as possible. Though she writes a lot about marketing, she is currently working on a memoir.