Meet: A.J. Craft. Author & Creative copywriter.
Likes: Golden Girls marathons. Recreation vehicles of all shapes and sizes. Femme fatale spy movies and cheese grits.
Nineteen years’ experience in: Writing fiction & non-fiction books, strategic content planning & creation, email & sales copywriting, getting customers to pay attention, ethical ‘shock and awe’ tactics, and 50 ways to kill an enemy with a Q-tip (everything I learned in the Marine Corps)
Consistent results in: Revenue growth for clients.
Favorite industries include: Health & fitness, e-commerce, Self-help, and B2B
Past leadership positions held: Marine Corps Combat Correspondent; Martial Arts Instructor; Black Belt Magazine Contributing Writer; Direct Response Copywriter; Content Strategist & Coach
Her colleagues describe her as: Intelligent, honorable, high moral character, committed, straightforward, savvy, consistent, high-energy, perseverant, insightful, cutting-edge, out of her mind.
On April 23, 2001, if you were standing on the yellow footprints in a sand flea swarm of sweat, your ears pummeled with violent screams from the most jacked, snarling, bulldog drill instructors on the planet five months before the world changed forever, then we may have met already….
Or, if you were in one of the first online courses for how to become a freelance writer before courses or the internet was a real thing and spent the past 21 years fine tuning that trombone, we may have chatted in a squidgy square AOL box…
Or perhaps we were classmates attending one of the first Arabic language classes in a Florida university so that you could fulfill your dream of deploying as a journalist, only to stay stateside and interview Ken Shamrock for a Marine Corps martial arts program for Black Belt Magazine (one of your martial arts role models) that was both awesome and a dream come true, we may have traded a judo chop or two at some point…
But then again, if you steered your go-go machine ninety degrees and became a high school and middle school teacher for five years with aspirations of teaching the up-and-coming generation how to communicate in a way that uses psychology and human behavior to effectively get what you want while keeping the parental folks happy, we may have attended the same parent/teacher conference…
Ultimately, if you decided to return to your journalism roots and chase stories about modern day Spartans….. while simultaneously becoming a self-published author and fulfilling a dream of writing fiction and non-fiction books for fun and using those writing experiences to next-level the hell out of your business by the sheer art of effective communication and a serious compulsion to just be of service…… we may be one in the same spirit trumpet.
Or maybe it’s just me.
Amber here, and it’s damn nice to meet you!