Jim Murray
Helping businesses send the right messages in a consistent voice.
About
I have now been retired for a whole year and am primarily writing short stories and then adapting them to screenplays which I will be submitting to independent production companies.
Experience
I am the sole proprietor of MurMarketing, a strategic and creative consultancy
I am Writer, Blogger, Art Director, Communication Strategist, beBee Brand Ambassador,
I have been blogging on and promoting beBee since its first year in business.
I closed my former company, Onwords & Upwords in March of 2020, mainly because I decided to change my status to semi-retired and no longer needed the advantages of a corporation. I have also become quite active in promoting the renewables sector, and do this as a passion project as opposed to for money.
My mission, since 1989 has been to be a trusted advisor and supplier to small to mid-sized companies companies, helping them grow through effective, creative and cost-efficient communications. Over the years, I have helped improve the fortunes of a great number of SMEs, as well as a number of the business and marketing consultants who work with them.
Being able to develop strategic focus, write, art direct and project manage all the communications I create is a genuine advantage to these businesses, both in terms of time and dollars. It is a totally viable alternative to the high cost of working with ornately structured agencies and marcoms,
Since 2017, I have lived in The Garden City of St Catharines Ontario and my business serves both local clients and businesses all over the globe.
Education
BA Philosophy York U.
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Smoke Signals: My Story Collection
Over the past two years, recovering from some pretty serious spinal surgery, I started to wonder if the four months I spent in hospital and the surgery itself had affected my writing ability. So in ad...
The Very Difficult Process Of Learning To Write For Yourself.
I write a lot of stuff here on social media. Sometimes I hit big because I strike a nerve. Sometimes I hit small because what I’m writing makes people uncomfortable. That’s life in the world of social...
The 80/20 Differential And What It Means To Me
(The 80/20 rules, as it applies to work situations is also known and the Pareto Principle.This is my own take on it.) Most of the time, I'm pretty serious as a writer. But every now and then, maybe 20...
The 10 Commandments of Communication I Always Tried To Follow
One of the key things I have learned from talking to both clients and people in the communications business over the years is that they believed that hardest thing to do was to develop a methodology o...
