Horizon Peak Consulting

Helping enterprise technology companies bring a human touch to data-driven digital marketing for faster customer growth.

CEO, Principal Consultant, and Senior Conversion Content Writer

Verity Advertising Group

In-person events are back. Verity geofenced ads reinforce your brand's presence while you're connecting face to face. 

Verity Advertising Group helps technology companies reach their audiences with hyperlocal digital ads. The Verity Precision Method boosts brand visibility and results in sky-high clickthrough on ads across 100,000+ mobile apps and websites.

CEO and co-founder

Showcase Workshop

Technical Copywriting Specialist (consultant)

Hewlett-Packard

•	Manage all communications for Americas Sales Operations Order to Cash Center of Expertise team
•	Write communications such as: internal memos, bulletins, web content, newsletters, PowerPoint presentations
•       Manage content for all AMSSO websites
•	Act as editor for all AMSSO communications written by other colleagues
•	Provide usability testing for HP-internal tools and customer-facing sites

Communications Lead

Managed communications for commercial web storefront team, including:
•	Creating and managing content for all related intranet pages
•	Producing internal company emails, newsletters and presentations
•	Assisting in the production of support videos, including scriptwriting
•	Writing and editing internal copy

Acted as point person for Microsoft MDA compliance for commercial storefronts.

Communications and MDA Compliance Lead for Web Merchandising Team

•	Developed and managed promotional assets and web spaces for products within HP’s Public Sector store
•	Managed relationships with creative agencies and worked with them to create landing pages, banners, demos and other web assets
•	Wrote promotional copy for landing pages, banners and email campaigns
•	Used HTML, JavaScript and Photoshop to make edits to code and graphics to support the promotional process
•	Gathered and interpreted metrics using Omniture tool, and put together presentations of results
•	Performed as the lead troubleshooter for web merchandising team, working with IT and support to solve tool and site issues
•	Managed several microsites for internal and external customers, including 3D Showcase and Awards pages
•	Served as communications lead
•	Managed implementation of Microsoft MDA requirements for SMB and Public Sector online stores

Web Merchandising Lead

GlobalWrites

•	Developed and managed website content with team of writers
•	Wrote post content, feature copy and banner copy
•	Wrote and published social media posts
•	Created banners and feature images using Photoshop
•	Maintained style guide
•       Worked on freelance projects for clients in a writing, editorial and project-management capacity

Copy Director and Writer/Editor (Contract)

Self-employed

Freelance writing for individuals and businesses.

Freelance Writer

Walter Drake

•	Assisted in the purchasing and merchandising process for the Walter Drake catalog, Homewares catalog, Easy Comforts catalog, Walter Drake Christmas catalog, and Walter Drake website
•	Proofed/edited catalogs before print
•	Managed database of product information, vendor information, and competitive analysis
•	Managed product and vendor information
•      Wrote/edited advertising copy for 4 catalogs and website

Assistant Buyer/Copyeditor

Idea Integration

	Managed HP Public Sector E-business client relationship and account with $90,000/mo budget.  Responsible for resources and budgets for associated projects and programs. 
	Managed production of all web elements (landing pages, banners) for Public Sector online store promotions.  Managed production of E-newsletters, E-catalogs, and E-magazines.  Drove a 433% year-over-year revenue increase in Q3 05.
	Served as analyst for HP Public Sector web metrics, marketing campaign analysis and user experience reporting.  Provided recommendations and feedback to enhance performance of the campaigns.
	Identified and managed project risk through project assessments and status reviews.

Account Executive

	Led team of 6 category managers.  
	Managed content for multiple online stores.  
	Managed partnership between HP and Microsoft which resulted in $750,000/mo average revenue.
	Drove revenue increase and assisted B2B sales in association with product managers, account managers, eBusiness Consultants, and sales managers.  
	Managed projects such as splash pages, redesign, and creative media introduction.  
	Marketed product launches and promotions on eCommerce sites; designed page layout, marketing text, and images.  
	Assisted with end-user testing projects with TNS Research and metrics acquirement.

Category Manager Team Lead

I help founders, owner-operators, business leaders and their companies write like humans, for humans. My firm, Horizon Peak Consulting, helps B2B tech companies reach audiences with resonant, high-performing editorial content and campaign copy.

Never in the history of humanity has *being human* been a differentiator. And yet … here we are. Even before generative AI came along, there was a mass movement toward writing for algorithms instead of human readers. 

The result is that EVERY leader and EVERY company is starting to sound the same. And audiences don’t know who to trust. (I should know. I have a master’s degree in this stuff.)

Today’s audiences have become blind to canned communication, deaf to formulaic content, and suspicious of robo-writing. (See my posts on “the replicant effect.”)

This problem is even more pronounced in the B2B technology sector, where complexity is the name of the game.

So how do you solve the problem without hiring an army of copywriters?

➡️ You focus on building trust. 

When you focus on building trust through your content, you put the relationship with your customer front and center. *And they feel the difference.* They pay more attention. And they remember you.

This is what I help founders and owner-operators achieve through my coaching and consulting. And it’s what I help tech marketing teams achieve through my firm’s copywriting and content writing services.

If you put the customer relationship first — if competence, integrity and connection matter to you — let’s talk.

Contact me here on LinkedIn or at https://www.horizonpeakconsulting.com/contact.

Jessica Mehring, M.A.

I find myself using the word "baffled" a lot lately.

It's a fun word to say. Try it! Also, it encompasses my perpetual state of bemused confusion quite well.

I went to graduate school just as AI was on the rise, so I got the opportunity to deeply study how it was impacting human-to-human communication. For three years now, I've watched the research and reports roll out -- on what AI can do well and what companies are choosing to use it for.

When you look at those reports side by side ... well, you would use the word "baffled" too.

Why would you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for technology that costs your company millions in lost revenue? (Not to mention a terrible Glassdoor rating.) But then shrug your shoulders at AI that costs a fraction of that, and enables your sales team to sell twice the product?

I'm baffled. 

So when I talked to Meridian recently about their AI-powered CRM for private markets, I got excited. Automatically enriched company and contact data? Now THAT is a use case I can get behind. 

Other founders I've recently talked to doing work I think will actually HELP companies? Question Base turns your Slack into a searchable knowledge base. Emergent Methods products help you find news sources *and vet them* so you're publishing valid information in your content. Bast AI is proving that AI can and should be explainable and traceable; and improving healthcare outcomes by augmenting provider expertise and giving patients a better experience.

Along with all of the negative disruption, there is some really cool stuff happening in AI. My hope is, now that the revenue hit has happened, companies will turn away from replacing humans and toward *enabling employees*.

As always, I'll be watching the reports ...

Jessica Mehring

Senior copywriter and content strategist | Author | Communications educator | Helping enterprise tech differentiate, connect and convert

It's the end of the year. HOLY MOLY. Have a burning copywriting project you need to check off your list? DM me.

AI won't create a “knock it out of the park” draft on the first try. The real skill is iteration — giving clear feedback and knowing when to stop refining.

Plan for 2-3 rounds per section, minimum. We break down the process (and what good follow-up prompts look like) here:

Open article: Iterating AI drafts: A practical guide for marketers by open.substack.com

Iterating AI drafts: A practical guide for marketers

AI drafts often fall apart halfway through, and the culprit is usually a weak outline (or no outline at all).

If you're using AI for drafting, a detailed outline is what keeps it focused. Without one, you could be fixing structural problems in your draft for hours.

Here's what a good AI outline looks like.

Open article: How to write content outlines that AI can actually follow by open.substack.com

How to write content outlines that AI can actually follow

Over the last two months, I've been publishing a workshop series (in written and audio formats) entitled Writing for Self Discovery on my personal Substack.

I can't even tell you how fun it's been.

The focus is part reflection, part creative writing, and the blend of the two makes my nerdy little soul sing. And finding *just* the right short stories to include in each lesson has been an absolute delight -- and it's brought back my love of literature analysis. (I finally appreciate Hemingway. 😆)

If that sounds interesting at all, you can read the intro here:

Open article: Workshop: Writing for Self Discovery by jessicamehring.substack.com

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If you want usable drafts from AI, start with good sources — and structure them clearly before you ever open a chat window.

We break down exactly how to work with sources in the latest post in our step-by-step series on making AI a useful part of your content process.

Open article: Structuring inputs and source material for AI drafting success by open.substack.com

Structuring inputs and source material for AI drafting success

On Peak Content today, I address last week’s explosive Martech article. If you’re a marketer feeling disheartened by the current trends, this article will give you hope — and direction.

Open article: It’s not a marketing crisis — it’s a communication reckoning by horizonpeak.substack.com

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It’s not a marketing crisis — it’s a communication reckoning

Your AI draft is done. But if no one can find it, does it matter? Optimization isn't necessarily the “fun” part — but it's the process that makes your content actually visible online. 

Here's the 15-minute review that determines whether anyone sees what you wrote.

Open article: How to optimize your AI-drafted content for both search and AI citations by open.substack.com

How to optimize your AI-drafted content for both search and AI citations

Waykeeper Farm & Nerdery

Neither my husband nor myself have a farming background, we didn’t grow up around livestock and we both had very small vegetable gardens as kids.

We wanted to get involved in small-scale farming because we believe that big agriculture is not sustainable.

I first learned about permaculture design when I started planting trees in my suburban backyard outside Dallas, Texas and they kept dying.

I learned more about the interconnected world of soil life. I got to appreciate how important water flow is, and how planting more than one thing together can help the whole do better.

After successfully planting some fruit trees, I wanted to bring animals into the picture to help increase our fertility and add diversity. 

So we made the plunge and bought a 17-acre farm. We kept a few of the original horses as boarders, and we’re grateful because we learned so much about farm life from these longtime horse owners who have seen it all.

After moving we jumped in with both feet and welcomed chickens, geese, ducks, and dairy sheep to our farm. Not to mention a few barn cats, and all of the amazing birds, butterflies, and bees.

We’ve been called “software nerds who pick up sheep turds” and that feels like a great way to put it.

The farm is an ever-evolving project, where we continue to plant more trees, and practice rotational grazing in an effort to regenerate the land and sequester carbon.

Permaculture Farmer

AccessAlly

AccessAlly is the #1 WordPress Course and Membership Solution for Industry Leaders.

We understand what it’s like to outgrow your systems.

We’ve helped 100,000+ business owners scale on their terms. In fact, AccessAlly provides training to over 2,578,387 end users.

AccessAlly is a powerful, flexible customer-getting and retaining system that grows with your business, and that pays for itself.

It integrates deeply with automation marketing platforms like Infusionsoft, Ontraport, Drip, Keap, ActiveCampaign, and ConvertKit. 

You shouldn’t have to deal with software that hinders business growth.

Find out more at: https://AccessAlly.com

We believe that access to education can help defy stereotypes and make the world a better place, while providing a sustainable livelihood for enterprising teachers.

Founder

Nathalie Lussier Media Inc.

I’m a digital strategist, and I believe that unique businesses deserve unique strategies to succeed online… and I love coming up with ideas to match your ambition.

I'm award-winning entrepreneur who has been making web sites since she I 12 years old, and graduated with a degree in Software Engineering and a job offer from Wall Street. In a gutsy move, I turned down this job to start my own business right out of college. 

Now running a six figure consulting company, I help thousands of people all over the world get techy with it, and I've been featured in Forbes, Inc., FastCompany, Venture Beat, Mashable, and Under 30 CEO.

I've been blogging for over 10 years, and really “get” the online marketing landscape, focusing heavily on improving key business metrics like traffic, subscribers, and sales. 

I've helped clients launch online campaigns that generated over $139,000 in sales in under a month, and kickstarted entire new businesses using these strategies. 

Clients and customers rave about my ability to simplify the complex, and make technology and digital strategy easy to understand and implement.

Founder / CEO

Wise Women's Council

Lead the Wise Women's Council members in a workshop around Scaling on Your Terms, and what's needed for today's leaders to grow a business sustainably.

Workshop Facilitation

CoachingOurselves International Inc.

Part of the Coaching Ourselves team, learning how to manage better through experience as a manager. Providing web strategy consulting, software wrangling, and social media mojo.

Web Strategy Consulting

Morgan Stanley

*  Worked closely with clients to design and develop an Adobe Flex interface to display key business data in a refreshing format.
    * Implemented dynamic charts and graphs from XML SOAP responses to give users a visual understanding of the data in Flex and Action Script.
    * Developed an Export to Excel function to retrieve data from Flex into a spreadsheet format that can be saved by users.
    * Wrote end-to-end functionality starting from Flex, through ASP.NET to pass SOAP messages, to coding Java server side database queries and data aggregation.

Application Software Developer

Platform Solutions Inc.

-Lead the daily bug status meetings, developed a PHP tool to display transient bug counts, managed the assignment of bugs to developers and tracked their progress.

-Learned the IBM z/Architecture assembly language by writing, testing and debugging new z/Architecture instructions using Intel's Itanium Assembly language.

-Leveraged self-modifying code to develop a dynamic debugging tool, written in Intel Itanium Architecture Assembly.

CPU Firmware Developer

-Designed and developed two new client-side C# view modules while adjusting to changing specifications and time constraints.

-Leveraged C# serialization and SOAP request/response messages to communicate with the Linux-run server side code while tracing the messages through from C# to Java in Eclipse.

-Wrote unmarshalling code to take XML and dynamically create columns and rows in a grid and display SOAP response data to traders.

-Incoporated my modules into the existing pricing form to recalculate prices based on the changing data retrieved from the feeds.

Trading Application Developer

ALT Software

-Became the sole developer for the C#-based test automation project (both build and test managers), implementing over 30 new features while increasing the level of stability and performance of the program.

-Leveraged C/C++ and OpenGL to create visual test cases to verify a safety critical Aerospace graphics driver.

-Traced through the graphics driver code and helped driver developers to pinpoint bugs, while acquiring a deeper understanding of graphics and low level programming.

-Developed keen interpersonal skills by working with QA for the automation program, while catering to the needs of users and keeping the MySQL back-end and the GUI front-end well organized.

Software Developer

Nuance

-Researched and proposed a new database system and implemented the database layer changes with a co-worker.

-Reimplemented two modules of the Voice Recognition program, performed developer tests, created a personal schedule for time management while meeting release deadlines.

-Worked with a team of testers and developers to debug and maintain existing code base and also worked remotely with a team from an offsite office.

-As a Quality Assurance Engineer in 2004 I wrote and debugged Perl scripts, to set up new testing environments for different aspects of the software product.

Speech Application Developer

I'm the founder of AccessAlly, the most flexible WordPress plugin designed to elegantly deliver your digital offerings as your business grows.

I'm a also permaculture farmer and raise dairy sheep, ducks, chickens, and geese.

I lead a team of incredible humans alongside my husband Robin because we believe that education can help defy stereotypes.

We're on a personal mission to help regenerate the soil and grow food in sustainable ways.

On LinkedIn, you'll find me posting about everything from online course creation, promoting membership sites, and raising dairy sheep.

Plus all of the ups and downs that come up for us as startup founders, what it's like being a woman in tech, and why I'm so passionate about regenerative agriculture.

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