— Michael Clements, Founder & CEO, Genki Media; former Executive Editor, Washington Life Magazine
“Having interviewed, hired, and trained upwards to a hundred individuals throughout my career, I can attest to the rarity of encountering a person of Sarah’s calibre. From the get-go Sarah demonstrated a mature and professional demeanor and a drive to constantly increase her knowledge of the newswire industry. Sarah also possesses tremendous communication skills as she has an uncanny ability to read people and being able to adopt the proper stance to get a point across, whether to clients or teammates, concisely and effectively, without bruising any egos in the process. Being a team player she additionally and willingly offered her services to other departments when they were in need of assistance whether it be with content creation or marketing campaigns. Sarah never failed to impress me, and was frequently lauded for her comprehensive skill-set, attitude, and dedication to self-growth by other management team members. She undeniably encompasses all of the qualities required by a company looking for a star player to join their team.”
— Patrick Quigley, VP, Editorial Operations, Marketwire, Inc.
“Sarah is one of the most remarkably creative, enterprising and intelligent professionals I’ve ever had the honor to work with.
I am an experienced marketing professional with expertise in integrated marketing campaigns & communications, with strong backgrounds in the Health & Nutrition and FMCG industries. I worked with Sarah at vitarock, a start-up, soon-to-launch health & nutrition e-commerce company, where she served as the marketing and communications consultant for the management team, which includes the co-founders and myself. Sarah instantly brought tons of insights and ideas to the team and highlighted new marketing tactics in the realm of content marketing and social media that helped us build a community prior to the site’s launch. Prior to her joining, we were only equipped with “traditional” marketing knowledge & tools, and Sarah brought in a fresh voice that helped us understand how to seamlessly integrate state-of-the-art digital tools to our strategy and campaign. Because of her contributions, we are poised for greater success plus a solid foundation and starting point as we move forward with marketing our new business. She has elevated our communications strategy from a fundamental to leading-edge approach.”
— Manuel Sabares, Director of Business Operations, vitarock
“Sarah was an indispensable part of helping me launch the online marketing campaign for “Drumming an End to Poverty.” Back in those days, I had general ideas, but did not know how to go about putting these ideas into action and getting them ‘out there’ into the virtual world. This is the context in which I met Sarah.
Sarah graciously volunteered her time and gave me a crash course on online marketing and social media. She taught me how to set up social media for this campaign and showed me how to use blogging and other online communication strategies to spread awareness, build an online following, and drum up enthusiasm around this campaign.
As a former senior editor, Sarah’s writing skills and careful attention to detail were immediately visible. She pays particular attention to details and has a strong knack for writing things in a clear and impactful way.
Sarah was also an immensely strategic and creative help in the Drumming an End to Poverty campaign. There were numerous times when Sarah would listen carefully to my vision, process it, brainstorm with me, and help me bring it to life online.
The campaign would’ve been impossible without Sarah.”
— Jerry Peloquin, VP, MicroVenture Support (and original drummer of ’60s rock band Jefferson Airplane)
“Sarah is an extremely competent and intelligent individual. She knows how to prioritize her own workload while assisting others to keep their priorities in line with the entire team. Sarah is persistent in understanding and maintaining a high level of knowledge about her responsibilities and those of the team around her. These qualities, coupled with her strong work ethic and pleasant demeanor, allow her to provide exceptional customer service (she was well liked by many clients and co-workers). It was a pleasure working along-side Sarah and given the chance, would happily do so again.”
— Jahrome Youngker, Senior Editorial Supervisor, Marketwire, Inc.
“Sarah Ban, amazing online communications consultant and writer/editor… always dependable, creative and a great producer!”
— Denise Hughes, Executive Director, Creative-Connectors
“Sarah is a terrific addition to a team. She is thorough, detail-oriented, social-networking savvy, and knows her craft up and down. She NEVER drops the ball. She sets a great standard, and her enthusiasm is infectious, so her leadership in accomplishing joint tasks is especially valuable.”
— Betsy Teutsch, Director of Communications, GreenMicrofinance
