Brian Hensley
Email: brianhensley19@yahoo.com
I am an independent freelance writer from Michigan with 12+ years of web writing experience and a lifetime of creative writing accomplishments.
Experience
- 13 years writing automotive content
- 10 years in the music industry
- 3 years of professional songwriting experience – with two self-produced albums
- 4 years of writing prose, poetry, and lines for various greeting card companies
- 2 years of creative writing classes
Summary of Skills
Automotive Journalism/Content Writing
SEO Articles
Blog Posts
Ghostwriting
Product Description
Website Content
Landing Pages
Script Writing
Basic HTML
Work History
Company: One-off jobs for many different automotive clients
Position: Automotive content/copywriter/scriptwriter
Start: Mid-2003 — present
Company: Outsell
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Position: Automotive Copywriter
Start: Jan 2022 — June 2023
Responsibilities: Writing dealership content for vehicles based on OEM specs.
Company: Forged Media
Location: Australia
Position: Automotive Writer
Start: July 2021-to-March 2022
Responsibilities: Writing long-form content based on research to commonly asked automotive questions.
Company: Muscle Cars & Trucks
Location: Detroit
Position: Automotive Blog Writer
Start: Mid-July 2021-to-2022 off and on
Responsibilities: Writing on all kinds of different automotive topics.
Company: CoPilot
Location: California
Position: Automotive Content Writer
Start: Jan. 01, 2021 –
Responsibilities: Writing articles for the site on all kinds of different topics that have to do with the automotive industry.
My 2020 work history has been many small gigs where ever I could get them because of Covid-19.
SEO Optimizers
Dirt Legal
and a couple of writing mill gigs
etc.
Company: Ignite Visibility
Location: California
Position: Automotive Writer
Start: 2016-to-2020
Responsibilities: Writing/proofreading web pages, part descriptions, and blog posts, etc. for various automotive high-performance wholesale part companies: PartsForYourCar.com, Southern Car Parts, RPI Designs, and more.
Company:Foffer
Location: Georgia
Position: Copywriter
Start: 2015-to-2016
Responsibilities: Writing long-form copy with
Company: L2TMedia
Location: Chicago, IL.
Position: Automotive Writer
Start: 2015-to-2016
Responsibilities: Writing various web content pieces for different dealerships about their services, parts, and vehicles they sell. Pages, Blog Posts, SEO Articles, Etc.
Company: Paramo Group Inc.
Location: Washington
Position: Automotive SEO Writer
Responsibilities: Write 7-10 automotive articles per day. Each article focused on a different vehicle aimed to direct traffic to various dealership websites. (400-500 words)
Company: WebpageFX Inc.
Location: Pennsylvania
Position: B2C and B2B article writing
Responsibilities: Ghostwriting many articles for their different clients, mostly in the automotive genre. Some companies include – CJ Pony Parts, Empire CAT HD equipment, and The Whiz Cell.
Company: FanSided Spartans Avenue
Position: Sports Writer
Responsibilities: I mainly kept up with football and basketball season games and news for Michigan State Spartans (MSU).
Company: Many other independent freelance contractors/clients
Position: writer, light editing, light HTML
Rates: TBD – Comfortable with flat rate or hourly, contact me for more info. (Click Here)
Education
School: Southern New Hampshire University
Status: Attending
School: Recording Institute of Detroit
Certifications: Recording, Producing, Songwriting, Composing, Business of Entertainment
School: William D. Ford Vocational School
Subject: Automotive
Certifications: Certificate of competition and many ASE certifications.
