Shelly Bowen
Founder and Principal Content Strategist

Shelly Bowen is dedicated to helping you share your brand story online more effectively. By leveraging time-tested storytelling techniques and customized content strategy, she creates exceptional content for exceptional companies. From enterprise content strategy to blog, mobile, and video content strategy, Shelly’s goal is to reveal the biggest benefits to both your business and your consumer. (While making the process fun at the same time.) Here’s how to contact Shelly.
For more than 12 years, Shelly Bowen has led teams of web writers and creatives to develop websites and interactive online content that drive results. From VP of Content of RealAge, a health media company, to Principal Web Editor at Intuit’s TurboTax, to starting Pybop, Shelly’s passion is working with innovative businesses that are doing some amazing things for people and planet.
Shelly was also an editor of professional and children’s books for a world-renowned, international publisher and holds an MFA in creative writing and a BA in English. In 2011, she started a pet project Red Piggy Press, a children’s book app publisher, in order to dive into mobile content more deeply — and to create smart books for even smarter kids. She also frequently volunteers to help other entrepreneurs, writers, and editors with their startups and small businesses. As often as possible, she travels, rides her bike, draws, sews plushies and purses, kayaks, hikes, and reads anything she gets her hands on.
Contact Shelly Bowen to discuss how Pybop can help create your web content strategy and make your brand story shine.
Shelly’s Affiliations, Honors, and Side Projects
Red Piggy Press, Founder
San Diego Interactive Content Professionals, Founder
Startup Leadership Program, Graduate, 2012-2013, Program Leader 2013-14
San Diego Professional Editors Network Committee Member, Social Media Presenter 2009-2011
Thursday Happy Hour, Co-Founder and Content Director 2008-2010
Content Marketing Institute, Contributor
Google Content Strategy Knol Co-Author
Confab: The Content Strategy Conference 2012 Speaker
Women Who Mean Business Award Finalist 2012, San Diego Business Journal
NAWBO BRAVO Award 2012 Nominee, National Association of Women Business Owners, San Diego Chapter
Woman of the Year Finalist 2011, 2012, San Diego Magazine
Inaugural Content Strategy Consortium at IA Summit 2009, Participant
Inaugural Content Strategy Conference at Confab 2011, Attendee
Point Loma Nazarene University MBA Program, 2010 Guest Presenter
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