photo by Isa Love

Melissa Balmer is a writer, ideator and creative connector using the Buddhist concepts of "Maitri" and "Mindfulness" as her guiding lights. She has over fifteen years experience in media relations, and over ten years experience using social media to successfully connect with audiences and galvanize special events and causes. She has served as the editor of Long Beach Magazine (now Live Long Beach), and placed clients in such media outlets as KABC Channel 7 News, MTV, Univision, KCET, Modern Bride, Los Angeles Magazine, The Orange County Register, The Daily Breeze, The Press Telegram, The Long Beach Business Journal, The Gazettes and more. She keeps up an active blog and social media presence.

A proud native of Long Beach California, Melissa lives a mostly car free life. She is even prouder to live in Long Beach – a city where riding a bike and taking public transportation is quite easy to do.

Melissa collaborates frequently with Georgia Case and Idea Group. She is a team member for the upcoming “Share Our Streets” bike safety marketing campaign for Bike Long Beach in fall of 2011 and handles the marketing and media relations for bike and pedestrian advocate Charlie Gandy. She is a special media consultant for the California Bicycle Coalition, the Long Beach based Bikeable Communities and is a member of the Host Committee for the Pro Walk Pro Bike Conference in Long Beach in September of 2012.

How would you like to tell your story in more comprehensive, beautifully crafted and engaging ways? Melissa and her collegagues can help you with vision and branding, project management, event production, art direction, social media, media strategy and placement, and marketing.

You can reach Melissa via email at balmer64 (at) yahoo (dot) com or call (562) 612-0197.