HessConnect

Building an online presence of visibility, authority, and trust for lawyers by leveraging LinkedIn. 

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HessConnect | LinkedIn Strategy, Consulting, & Management for Lawyers 

Branding + Content Specialist

DJJ Law Offices

Responsible for overall outreach directions, communications, and strategies for this law firm. Created, implemented and managed online platforms, visibility to accelerate engagement. Nearly doubled client base within three months of execution, and positioned law firm as authority through various national publications.

JD + Marketing Director

President Swedish American Chamber of Commerce San Diego

President

I help time-starved lawyers + law firms build & strategically position what makes them unique into their online presence to connect with qualified clients and high-quality referral networks consistently. 

Are you ready to leverage LinkedIn for business growth? 
As a trained lawyer, I'll help you with industry-specific business development strategies. 
Short on time? I can even handle it all for you.        

𝙎𝙀𝙍𝙑𝙄𝘾𝙀𝙎 
I offer custom online business development plans and strategies for lawyers, law firms, & business owners...

🟥   LINKEDIN CONTENT MARKETING (DONE FOR YOU)
▹ custom plans to create your online presence
▹ manage your online activity 
▹ engagement to build authority + develop quality client relationships consistently.

🟥   LINKEDIN CONSULTING (DONE WITH YOU)
Audit discovery & strategy sessions to help create content that resonates with your clients to build solid connections. 

🟥   LINKEDIN WORKSHOPS 
Presentations & workshops for law firms, law schools, conferences, law firm retreats, bar associations, & meetings.  
Topics include:
▹ LinkedIn Leveraged Lawyers
▹ Yawnworthy to Trustworthy Branding for Lawyers
▹ Promote & Protect: Social Media Policy 
▹ Content Making & Marketing

🟥   LEARN (ON YOUR OWN)
Private/firm-wide training or coaching on how to establish, build or elevate your online presence & best practices, (or conveniently via my Linked-In Leveraged Lawyers™ course.)         

𝙒𝙃𝙔 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙆 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙈𝙀
By combining a decade of business law + a decade of online business development, I offer a unique perspective on how to efficiently position you & your firm to connect, engage and build trust with your ideal client. I also understand the unique challenges, communication styles and regulatory requirements related to a lawyer's online activity.

❝ HessConnect understands online media for the legal industry! Law firms resist change in the technological arena. Viveca’s creative, nuanced know-how along with her legal background is critical for business growth. ~ Heidi Weaver, Esq. 

❝ With a wealth of marketing knowledge, Viveca sincerely cares about everyone who works with her. The value Viveca places on building relationships reflects the high quality of her work, making her a person you want on your team. ~ Evan Dwin, Esq. 

🟥   𝙇𝙀𝙏'𝙎 𝙏𝘼𝙇𝙆
619.962.5504 / viveca@hessconnect.com / connect on LinkedIn 
Explore Call ➤ https://calendly.com/hessconnect/15min-1


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Viveca Hess, J.D.

True Word Creative Copywriting

My bread and butter is helping B2B content agencies (like Stratton Craig and Publicis Pro) handle (often tricky) accounts. 

I slot smoothly into teams producing good work to tight deadlines. 

Regular/recent work includes monthly technical case studies for a US-based (global) SaaS provider  and campaign assets (including SEO articles, eBooks and infographics) for another US-based cloud comms brand. 

I've also written articles, web copy and advertorials for higher education, web copy and awards entries for legal clients, and quirky website copy for a UK travel and attractions site. 

I sometimes work closely with account managers and internal teams all the way through a project - from content strategy to producing plans/synopses, to conducting client interviews, and drafting/tweaking copy until it's ready for publication.

At other times I slot in at whichever stage agencies need support. 

Handy with words, sentences too. Pay me some cash and I'll write them for you. 

Unfortunately practically all my work's under NDA but I can provide reviews.

Head of Copy / Chief Cook and Bottle Washer

Maratopia

Lots and lots of SEO content stuff. Working closely with a top technical SEO guy every day. Met some lovely folk. 

Took a 30% pay cut to get back into writing. Started as the oldest junior in history. Worked up to Head of Content.

Head of Content

Scottish Social Services Council

Translating Legalese (and plain dodgy grammar) on statutory notices. Arranging conduct hearings for social workers and social care workers. Making sure they knew their rights and accessed all available support.  

Met two brilliant work besties. And another guy who showed me an escape route.

Taught me how to format docs really clearly. And support people in very difficult circumstances.

Hearings Officer

Aberdeen City Council

Got this job after a video interview in Jamaica. To this day, I'm not quite sure how. 

But the pressure was on as getting my family back to Scotland depended on it. Anyway, someone was looking out for me. As a job, it wasn't my favourite. As a portal home, it was outstanding. 

Investigating complaints against ACC Social Work department and ensuring responses were adequate and provided to statutory timescales. So you can imagine, it was quite a tricky job. 

Another tough job dealing with complex legal procedures and learning lots about social problems up in the chilliest bit of Scotland.

Complaints, Rights and Enquiries Officer

UK Home Office

High-pressure and eye-opening decision-making job which required translating labyrinthine immigration laws to real-life circumstances.  

I met some lovely people and this job had the best culture I've ever experienced. From the High Commissioner to security team, local Jamaican staff to diplomats on postings, everyone was refreshingly transparent and generally positive.

We used to finish at 2pm on Fridays and take a dip in the high commissioner's pool. People like Chaka Demus & Pliers played at the social club. Lovely.

I was in Jamaica for bout 3 years-ish overall. Lived in Harbour View and then Kingston city centre. Used to go to the country every weekend and was lucky enough to see every parish. The Blue Mountains are magical. So many beautiful spots and (next to Scots of course) Jamaicans must be the toughest, funniest and most outrageously creative folk on the planet. 

Job itself was: assessing and making decisions on UK entry clearance (visa) applications. Working to tight deadlines with demanding quality control. Post was highest risk worldwide for criminality. Assessing thousands of visas throughout my time at post. 

Specialised in complex Appendix FM family migration visas for spouses/partners, children and adult dependent relatives. 

Worked with UKTI as Business Network Officer for the Caribbean Region. 

Experienced in visit/family visit visas, Tier 2 and Tier 4 visas.

Carried out face-to-face and telephone interviews with applicants/sponsors. 

Carried out investigative work liaising with internal/external agencies. Security cleared to Restricted and Confidential levels. 

Completed Entry Clearance Officer qualification at Home Office in Croydon and further training in New York. Yup, I got a work trip to the Big Apple. On a plane and everything. Hotel had a telly in the bath!

Entry Clearance Officer

Self-employed

My first shot at paid writing. Scribbled my way from Scotland to a new life in Jamaica. Best gig was for a fancy dress website. Got to write all the landing pages product pages and descriptions for hundreds of categories. Bit like rewriting history in your own words. 

Wrote SEO content and copy for a wide range of businesses in different TOV. Edited other writers too.

Also got stories in Scots/English/Jamaican patois published online and in print round about this time (a few times since too).

Online copywriter/ content writer/copy editor

The University of Glasgow

Taking verbatim electronic notes for disabled students and assisting them around the university.

Helping students with non-academic tasks outwith the uni. One day, this involved helping a student pick up a massive tandem bicycle at one end of Glasgow and getting it to her home at the other. Two of us and her massive Alsatian. Bike was as long as a car.

Academic Scribe/Personal Assistant to disabled students

The Big Issue South Africa

Yeah, this was really cool. And deeply humbling.

Conducted interviews with vendors. Had human interest, political, arts and culture articles published. Cape Town is just lovely.

Intern Journalist

B2B content manager under pressure? Hop(e) in here 👇

Managing a complex account for a demanding client is tough at the best of times. But when your internal team's short-handed, it's like swimming through porridge.

And it's tricky knowing which freelancer to trust when you need outside help - especially when there's no time for hand-holding. Don't stress, though. Because I've got the skills and experience to slot in smoothly and hit the ground running - creating good work fast to satisfy your valued clients and stop you tearing your hair out. 

Over the years, I've regularly supported top agencies like Stratton Craig and Publicis Pro. Putting my shoulder to the wheel with UK, US, Euro and Global accounts in spaces like SaaS/Cloud/Comms/Legal. Helping out at various stages of the process too.

You can hire me as a plug and play content pro at any point in your project. This means I can help with content strategy and messaging, as well as interviewing clients. Or when you need someone to draft synopses and/or write/edit drafts through all the agreed amends rounds. And you can count on me when you want an end-to-end service with the whole shebang.

There's light at the end of your content-crammed tunnel. Pop me in wherever you're jammed and I'll blam you right through like dynamite. 

Types of work? Give me a shout for website copy, pitch deck copy, advertorials, case studies, long-form SEO articles, blog articles, and eBooks. Course, you might need several different resources combined in a campaign. In which case, I'll provide ship-shape consistency (even when you want content laced with clock melting creativity). 

Clients say I'm easy to work with. And once we're rolling, I might even send you Christmas cards and occasional biscuits (the good stuff, mind - we're talking Tunnocks Caramel Wafers here). 

Whenever you're struggling, I'm handy with words. 


DM me here or email robbiehandy@trueword.co.uk

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