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Across a Crowded Coffee Shop

He first saw her on a misty April morning inside a bustling Paris café.*

Anna Goldsmith labored at her laptop, sipping her double half-caf with a twist and struggling mightily over an arcane grammatical rule. Dan O'Sullivan silently approached. Leaning in over her left shoulder, he whispered, "A semi-colon might do the trick." Anna blushed. She knew right away that this man would one day be her business partner.

And so it came to be. Anna and Dan made their professional union official in June 2001, christening their venture The Hired Pens. The world of professional business writing would never be the same.

* This account is largely fictional, as the actual story is much more boring.

 

APPLAUSE

"Taking technical medical jargon and distilling it down to create accessible, flowing, consumer-patient-friendly Web copy that shapes the market differentiators of a 200-year old academic medical center isn't a particularly easy job. Dan and his team at The Hired Pens excel at being both scientific medical content strategists and consumer health writers. ... Do they give honorary medical degrees for this sorta stuff?"

  • Shawn Gross, sr. interactive marketing manager at Massachusetts General Hospital

"Anna does an amazing job with our projects. I am always above and beyond happy."

  • Rachel Panetta, marketing manager at Stride Rite Children's Group Inc.

 

 
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