Outlines & Designs

Publicity & Marketing Services…Putting the Spotlight on You

 

Melissa Mustain, Owner/Consultant

 

 
 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Helping You Grow… Keeping You Top Of Mind

 

The goals of tomorrow are things that you are working toward and affect your bottom line. Outlines & Designs offers these publicity and marketing services at very reasonable rates and with much flexibility. Completion of these tasks inherently brings your customers to you and helps position you as an expert in your field.

These tasks include writing and posting articles, distributing press releases, collaborating on ideas for the media about your company, researching things that you can write about in your company newsletters, as well as creating your newsletters. It also includes providing weekly updates of all the news you need to know related to your business. Furthermore, we can work on promoting your firm or organization through scheduling local radio spots, coordinating publicity events, creating media kits, and developing related brochures, fliers, and advertising copy. We have a network of graphic designers and printers who are ready to work with us for your more advanced project needs.

Other services Outlines & Designs provides to enhance your firm or organization’s growth and success include typesetting and layout of annual reports, booklets, and directories. We will also prepare company/organizational histories and profiles tailored to meet your needs.

 

 

Getting the Office Help You Need Without Hiring A Secretary

 

When you operate a small business, most of the time you do it all. You are the owner, manager, bookkeeper, secretary, sales staff, receptionist, cashier, and janitor. Many times you wish you had an assistant, but you are not in a position to hire an employee. A virtual assistant can be the resolution to your dilemma. Outlines & Designs offers many virtual assistant services to other businesses and organizations throughout the area.

Our virtual assistant (VA) service can help you with your tasks of today while our publicity and marketing services assist you with your goals of tomorrow. The tasks of today are those things that must be handled for your business to operate successfully. Daily tasks that Outlines & Designs’ VA service handles includes document preparation, proofreading and editing, desktop publishing, fax service, making appointments, maintaining your schedule, and managing inquiries as well as your contacts. Mail services are also offered, including bulk and large quantity mail preparation, and mailing list maintenance. By contracting with a VA to provide these services, you could then focus on your core business – the heart of what’s important to you. Ultimately, if a small business owner or executive is doing his own administrative tasks, he is costing the business more than he would pay our firm to do the same tasks.

 

 

Experience Counts…Benefits of a Networked Professional

 

Outlines & Designs has been in business since 2002. Owner/Consultant Melissa Mustain has over 20 years of experience in marketing, public relations, and administrative support. Her company is a locally home-based firm that has provided publicity, marketing, and administrative support to clients from throughout St. Louis metropolitan area.

Melissa received her Master of Arts degree from University of Phoenix. She completed undergraduate studies at Lewis and Clark Community College, University of Illinois at Springfield, and Greenville College. Her career has taken her through many facets of the field, including her work with the former local career development partnership in the area and as a writer for area newspapers. As for administrative support, Melissa has developed a strongly professional and organized style that appeals to a diverse group of managers and administrators.

As Owner/Consultant of Outlines & Designs, Melissa is actively involved in the local chamber/economic development organizations, actively involved in the Small Business/Ag Committee of the Jersey County Business Association (JCBA) and as a member of the Growth Association of Southwestern Illinois. She is also a member of the Calhoun-Jersey Youth Advisory Team and participating in the JCBA’s 2007 Leadership In Action community leadership training program.

 

For More Information

Melissa Mustain, Owner/Consultant

Outlines & Designs

mmustain@frontiernet.net

618-789-4626 business/cellular

618-498-3209 fax