Portfolio

Hi there! I’m Mike Bjork.

I build impactful brands, craft content strategy, and write for cross-platform marketing campaigns in tech, finance, healthcare, e-comm, and other industries. I also give creative writing advice on TikTok to a community of 240K followers. Below you’ll find my portfolio. Enjoy!

Unless stated otherwise, all samples come from my work at Saltwater Collective.

Award-Winning ER Campaign

Freestanding ERs are a vital lifeline to isolated communities. In cities that already have a hospital, however, they create uncertainty over where to go in an emergency. I wrote this commercial and all other ads in the the “Take me to Wentworth-Douglass” campaign (which won Best of Category at the 2019 Summit Awards) to remind the NH Seacoast community where to go for the best emergency care.

Brand Campaign

Local banks usually differentiate themselves from national competitors by highlighting their commitment to the community. The result? A lot of overly familiar brand campaigns. But Kennebunk Savings is different. Their commitment runs deeper than most, and it’s tangible — donating 10% of earnings locally, and more. So I wrote this campaign with the goal of making Kennebunk’s impact on the community clearer and more tangible than any other bank in their market.

Influencer Campaign

Every week I post creative writing advice on TikTok to a following of 240K, but I also partnered with Campfire Writing over the course of eight months to promote their writing software. The above is a sample of the videos I made, where I balanced education with promotional content to meet Campfire’s goals.

Revitalizing a Brand

I’ve walked many companies through rebrands. A recent favorite was for Two Ten Footwear Foundation, a nonprofit that provides financial support to workers in the footwear industry. Working alongside our team’s researcher and designer, I helped refresh their brand identity with a new mission statement, tagline, brand voice, and messaging hierarchy. (The above is a sample from the brand book we created.)

Other Work

Distilling the Complex: Privitar helps organizations protect, curate, and share their data quickly — even when that data has to cross borders. They call that process “modern data provisioning,” and they brought us on to help coin the term and illustrate how their platform accelerates data analysis. This is the first of three videos I wrote after interviewing their subject matter experts.

Meeting the Audience’s Needs: EDvestinU was struggling to convince recent graduates to refinance their student loans with them. The reason, I realized, was that their audience didn’t know enough about refinancing to commit — so I pitched then wrote a two-pronged campaign: one that educated first (with the video above), then retargeted to convert.

Jack of All Media: One of my greatest strengths as a copywriter is my versatility. I frequently write for multichannel campaigns that cross a wide variety of digital and traditional media.