Recent work has included taking monthly minutes for a condo association.

Start-up activity for local client Golden Age Living, LLC, a  client since August 2016, has been designed to spread the word to relevant media about the work of its founder, residential interior designer Wanda E. Gozdz, and about her rigorous speaking schedule in locations ranging from Estero, Florida to Canada. Help with “Aging in Place” is the important service Wanda provides to the country’s aging population.  She also assists relevant businesses in adapting their work to design and remodel "forever" homes that are "visitable" and safer for seniors.  Recently Wanda's bylined articles were posted in senioroutlooktoday.com and seniorsbluebook.com.  We have also contributed byarticles to the Decorators and Designers Association of Canada.

Ongoing: 

• During the past few years we have achieved numerous online business and personal finance placements, includes Forbes and US News & World Report, for our client, an Enrolled Agent, to capitalize on the media's focus on tax preparation during the 2015, 16, 17,18,19 and 2020 tax seasons.  Additionally, we have succeeded in obtaining placements for his property management business, including a cover story in HiRiser and bylined articles in Florida Rising,  the magazine of the South Florida Property Management Association, placements in Condo Management magazine and SFPMA's Florida Rising.  We also assisted with the writing.  

The effort included improving profiles, the firm's website, seeking speaking engagements, creating ad copy and copy for online teaching applications.  The attorney was interviewed for a social security disability Q&A prior to speaking at a major national law conference that we helped to arrange.  Recently we created a speaking packet for use in soliciting speaking opportunities.  

After just a short time, the attorney reported that a client indicated being impressed and reassured after reading the website profile we wrote: “I have to tell you this, Rose…..Pat yourself on the  back.  I met a new client in Bradenton yesterday.  Prior to meeting clients, I send some papers for them to review.  We had just added the suggestion to look at the website to learn more about our law firm.  Well they did. A daughter came with her mother, and the mother said, ‘What an impressive bio you have. You have a wealth of experience’. . .etc, etc. etc.   She told me she felt comfortable meeting me after reading that bio!!!!!   Congrats to you!"

• Bodybuilding Event:  We completed a publicity project for an annual Fort Lauderdale bodybuilding event, covered by the Miami Herald,  Sun-Sentinel, et al.

• Virtual Bankruptcy Assistant, start up home-based business.  Worked on elevator speech, tag line, business cards, revamped website, LinkedIn Profile and email marketing campaign.

• Wrote two resume conversions from chronological to functional for a client who works in both real estate and fashion.


• Counseled and assisted a client with the introduction of a new software product for health care providers into the South Florida market. This project involved publicity, direct mail and web content.


• Converted a chronological resume to a functional resume for an out of work sales associate.

Previous Employment in Florida

Prior to establishing Business Communications Services in 2010, assisted in all aspects of development activity for eight prior years with
Legal Aid Service of Broward, including volunteer and event coordination, publicity, editorial work, outreach and fundraising.

        Freelance Writing Assignments

•   Researched and wrote articles for human resources newsletters on:
  
  • attendance policies
  • teamwork
  • the one-person HR department
  • telecommuting

• annual report for the Westchester (New York) Consumer Empowerment Center
• researched and wrote articles on "mixers" and “tequila” that were published by Beverage Media, a wine and spirits industry trade publication 
• wrote grant proposals for the Jewish Community Center in Boca Raton, Florida.

Previous Clients Served by Manhattan-based

Rose Sexton/Public Relations (1976-1996), mainly in:

• advertising/new product development
  

• publishing and

• wine and spirits. 

Advertising: 

·         Kane Bortree, Manhattan-based a new product development firm
·         Marschalk Advertising

Publishing: 

·         Air Group One (in-flight magazines)
·         Family Circle Magazine
·         Natural History Magazine
·         Nostalgia Magazine
·         Scholastic (Co-ed/Forecast magazines)
·         Teenage Magazine
·         Vampire Magazine

Wine/Spirits:

·         Paddington Corporation (Bailey’s Irish Cream and Cinzano introductions)
·         Wines of the World (Algerian/Chilean wines) 

Other:

·         The Dreiford Group, Inc., (MD-based corporate consulting firm)
·         Endispute (NY office)
·         HQ Global Workplaces (NY-based executive suite firm)
·         Jewish Community Center, (Boca Raton, FL)
·         H Kohnstamm & Co., Inc. (N.Y. manufacturer of colors/fragrances)
·         Run Around the World in Central Park (a charity Run/Walk)
·         United Grain Corporation (Portland, OR).

Special event coordination:

·         Assisted in-house staff to publicize 14th Annual Family Circle Tennis Tournament, Hilton Head, S. C.
·         12-day cross-country media tour for the Great American Antique Car Race.  With a troupe of some 700 people, it began in CA and traversed 15 states with stops in 40 cities.  
·         helped to establish a first annual 16-day charity event -- the Run Around the World in Central Park -- working with ultra-marathoner Tom McGrath, a Guinness record holder.