Steve Wamberg
Copywriter // Editor // Ideas Guy
Getting Started
Check out Steve’s background and a few writing samples in the sections that follow.
Feel free to contact Steve here or slightly more directly at sjwamberg@gmail.com today for your writing, editing, and strategic communication needs. A reply will usually follow by the next business day.
Steve Wamberg has been interested in words since his older siblings acquainted him with the encyclopedia at age 3 so he could read sections of it aloud to entertain their friends. (It was a pretty nifty parlor trick in those days.) Encouraged in creative and academic writing through his school years, Steve turned his attention to writing broadcast news copy while in college, and began editing books in graduate school. As that chapter of his formal education drew to a close, Steve was honored to encounter the warmth and writing wisdom of Madeleine L’Engle through his fiancée (now wife of 35+ years), Annie.
After years of writing curriculum, song lyrics, business plans, articles of all sorts, and ad copy, Steve’s writing world was rocked by direct response master Kurt Medina. Medina, famous for Time-Life and Franklin Mint campaigns, had been contracted to coach the writers of the not-for-profit organization that employed Steve at the time. In a three-day encounter, Medina politely demolished Steve’s best direct response efforts to date and gave Steve the practical handles needed to construct copy and campaigns alike for optimized results. The experience transformed Steve into a student of persuasive writing, a discipline with great (and often tangible) benefits for Steve and his clients alike.
Steve now applies the principles of persuasion in his own writing for web and print applications, as well as in his writing and editing efforts to transform words on paper into a page-turning engine. He still works in a wide spectrum of projects where words matter, and welcomes inquiries for new opportunities to put it in writing.
Résumé
500+
Direct Marketing Projects
50+
SEO/Web and Social Media Projects
120+
Book Projects
400+
Curriculum Projects
A Few Highlights
Orchestrating a complete rework of a major child sponsorship organization’s magazine, being an active contributor to its fundraising efforts to release children from the effects of poverty, and successfully putting the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide into writing for communications/PR and fundraising purposes
Coordinating a technical primer, select case studies and SEO-sensitive web copy for a leading-edge compression software company
Providing SEO-responsive copy to publicly launch an environmentally-friendly concrete restoration process
Collaborating with scores of authors and co-writers to prepare manuscripts for the marketplace
Services
Copywriter: Ads, direct mail, scripts, grant proposals, academic white papers, newsletters, magazines, position papers, authoring and ghostwriting books.
Editor: Content editor extraordinaire for books, speeches and storylines. Grammar guru. Sultan of syntax. Co-champion of local third grade spelling bee.
Ideas: Corporate messaging. Marketing and advertising campaigns. Book themes and synopses.
Testimonials
Ben Robb
Development/Fundraising Professional
Colorado Springs, CO
As a fundraiser, I need copy that gets results. For four years, I have trusted Steve to deliver copy that communicates the heart of our organization and moves people to take action. Time and time again, the results of his appeal letters, email campaigns, web content and social media posts have exceeded our goals. If you need an effective, experienced, intelligent writer who can deliver excellent copy for any channel and audience, I heartily recommend Steve.
Jared McCarthy
Advertising Unplugged
Omaha, NE
For years, Steve Wamberg has been my chosen comrade-in-arms to get the right words at the right time.
I've seen his writing and editing acumen tested and proven firsthand in all sorts of projects -- print and online, marketing material and killer ads, complex white papers and crisis press releases, reworking SEO, websites and social media. Books, even!
Steve's saved me thousands of dollars and a lot of heartburn just because he delivers great copy, often on a quick turnaround, that actually brings results.
Like Steve says,
“Always get it in writing.”
And let me add:
Make sure Steve is the writer.
Samples
Technical Paper
"The JBIG2 Compression Primer"
Editing and Rewriting
Press Release
Book Sample
Blog at
Resilient Church
STEVE WAMBERG
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