Doug Stern is a free-lance writer and consultant to public agencies and companies with marketing and business development problems. His clients have included leading law firms, engineers and architects, medical practices and other professional service providers as well as manufacturers and real estate developers--and he's written just about anything you can imagine.

"I never discuss the work I do for my clients unless they've said it's OK to do that. So, anything you read about here is something I've cleared with them. Or, I've removed the names to protect the innocent."

  • The Boston-based law firm of Goulston & Storrs hired Doug Stern in 2008, principally to write case studies.
  • A book producer hired Doug Stern in 2008 to write case studies of graphic design branding campaigns from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The book is slated for publication in early 2009 by HarperCollins.
  • "I ghosted an article in 2008 for a West Coast law firm marketing IT guru on how to be a smarter buyer and user of ERM/CRM software."
  • Doug Stern is part of the team hired in 2008 by Kentucky's suicide prevention effort. Business Communication Group is producing a new Web site, video, and variety of other awareness-building tools and events.
  • Katie Bush Design hired Doug Stern in 2007 to write copy for a relaunched Web site.  Katie's client was a DIY gourmet-to-go business in San Francisco.
  • The Corradino Group is the lead consulting engineer and planner for the Detroit River International Crossing. TCG used Doug in 2007 to edit technical translations and to script an overview video for the project.
  • “The law firm of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, Boston, first engaged me in 2006. Since then, I've helped its marketing department with a variety of projects, including writing and editing the 500-attorney firm's descriptions of its work in securities litigation and life sciences.”
  • A Washington-based architectural firm hired Doug to plan, edit and develop a Web site documenting the privatized historic housing at a military installation. This was part of the fulfillment of a Memorandum of Agreement with the State Historic Preservation Office. "Ron Jasin (www.madpixel.net) designed and developed the site with me between the summer of 2006 and its launch in early 2007."
  • "I worked with law firm consultant Coke Morgan Stewart, Esq., in 2006, before she joined Kaye Scholer's IP group in Washington, DC. Coke says, 'Doug took a hard look at my website and thought of dozens of ways to freshen it up and make key information easier to find.'"
  • New Orlean's McGlinchey Stafford PLLC used Doug Stern to write the law firm's intro to the 2006 real estate supplement to the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report.
  • In 2006, Doug worked with a metro Washington-based company, P.L. Doyle, Inc., on marketing communications and strategies relating to the company's alternative and integrative healthcare products.
  • In late 2005, a Louisville ad agency, New!West, hired Doug to re-write the copy for www.kentuckytourism.com. That's the official Web site for the state's tourism agency.
  • "I've been the editor of Results Mail since late 2005. It's the weekly, practical-as-can-be business development e-letter for lawyers from Mike O'Horo and Pat Sweeney now in its 13th year. As Mark Twain (not a client) once said, 'There are no great writers, only great re-writers.' I've also had a hand in everything else written and put out by the company, Sales Results, Inc."

  • Plaschke Design Group used Doug Stern to write copy for a direct-mail piece for Muhlenberg (Ky.) Community Hospital announcing the installation of state-of-the-art imaging equipment in the Kentucky facility. "I've been a student of healthcare issues ever since the late 1980s, when I worked as a speechwriter for Harvey I. Sloane, MD, the top elected official in Jefferson Co., Ky., and a public-health physician."
  • Doug Stern has produced print ad concepts and copy as well as other collateral sales materials for two innovative urban redevelopment projects in Louisville: Park DuValle and Liberty Green.
  • Louisville-based Peritus Public Relations has turned to Doug Stern for several projects. He re-wrote the agency's Web site in 2005-2006 and has handled newsletter copy and production of a invitation to a special event for one of the agency's clients, Museum Plaza.
  • “I handled two agency jobs for Louisville's Bandy Carroll Hellige in early 2006. Both involved creating ad concepts and writing copy--one for a home-health tech supplier and the other for a workforce education initiative.”