Seize your future with persuasive communication!
Want to catapult your career, a business, a cause, or a project to new heights? Showcase your strengths? Attract talented employees? Win contracts or grants? Advocate for resources? Extend your influence?
You’ve come to the right place!
Bang: Game on! You have 30 seconds to grab the reader’s attention — then fight to retain it.
How? Powerful writing … as I explain right here!
Write to Influence! … opens doors to opportunity
Carla and Phoenix. I presented grant-writing workshops at two conferences for NGOs that train and provide service dogs to veterans. This training enabled NGOs to continue their work on behalf of deserving veterans.
I’m Colonel Carla D. Bass, USAF (Ret). For 47 years, I’ve composed products for the White House, Congress, ambassadors, and generals that produced desired results.
I’ve learned this life-changing lesson:
The secret — strategize your message and then make each word count.
The result — leverage every second of the reader’s time play to your advantage.
And, that’s my expertise.
Powerful writing tips the balance between success and failure.
Clients
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Rural Affairs
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Department of the Interior)
National Intelligence University (Office of the Director of National Intelligence)
Microsoft Software and Systems Academy
Invariant
Leadership Loudoun
Leadership Fauquier
McCormick & Company
Military Officers of America Association
George Washington University Graduate Business School
The Knowledge Impact Network
FTI Consulting
JMark Services, Inc.
Family Insight, P.C.
Cleared Solutions, Inc.
Diplomatic Language Services
Fairfax Christian School
Foundation for Resilient Societies
What Others Say …
It’s all about sales, folks … from that first college application essay … to the query letter for a job interview … to pitching a client for their account. If you can’t make your case clearly – and quickly – you lose to the person who can. It’s that simple. So don’t lose. Win.
Grab a copy of Write to Influence! Not only is Bass charming and entertaining, the tips and writing strategies she provides are brilliant. Today, more than ever, standout writing means the difference between success and failure. Succeed with Write to Influence!
Susan McCorkindale, Editor, SHE! Magazine
Write to Influence! is the best book for technical writing I have encountered since ‘The Elements of Style’ was drilled into me as an MIT undergraduate!
Thomas S. Popik,President, Director, and Co-founder, Foundation for Resilient Societies
This book has been a game-changer for my professional life. Carla’s no-fuss, conversational voice made improving my writing skills easy to understand and implement!
Ashley Bernardi, Founder and Director of Media Relations, Nardi Media
Write to Influence! will rejuvenate the lost art of clear, concise, professional writing. Corporate CEOs will rejoice at no longer being encumbered by reports difficult to read and frustrating to unravel!
Judith A. Sprieser, Non-Executive Director Allstate Corporation, InterContinental Exchange Inc., and Reckitt Benckiser plc
Write to Influence! helped me pass my college classes! Carla does an excellent job… MUCH better than a standard textbook!
Emily, Amazon Reviewer