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Kimberly Ballard

About Kimberly Ballard

Kimberly Ballard is an editorial, PR, and content writer. She has been writing professionally for over 30 years.
Kimberly has a BA in Communications and a minor in World Literature from the University of Alabama.
Kimberly is one of the Huntsville Business Journal’s first writers, moving over from HBJ’s sister publication EVENT Huntsville, after writing and covering events for them for over 10 years.
She started her career selling radio advertising for an FM radio station where she wrote her own radio spots. Since then, she has worked in ad agencies, managed corporate marketing departments, supported sales in a variety of industries, and moonlighted in a variety of writing and editing positions at local TV stations, newspapers, and magazines.
Specializing in creative messaging as well as PR and straight editorial, KimberlyWritesCreative has written and produced TV commercials, marketing videos and PSAs, as well as ghostwriting blogs and small business newsletters.
Kimberly wrote for the Mobile Tech News and Detailers Digest (now Mobile Tech Digest) for 17 years, as well as for publications like the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Guides and Initiatives, the Huntsville Times’ R&D Report, Pulse published by Crestwood Hospital, EVENT Huntsville, and many others.
She also represents the nationally recognized Air Force One Detailing Team at Seattle’s Museum of Flight and the Detail Mafia with Public Relations.
Kimberly is best known for her editorial and copywriting versatility.

Entries by Kimberly Ballard

Lumberjacks, Flannel Ribbon-Cutting Mark Rainy Opening of Duluth Trading Co.

June 10, 2019/in Featured, Lead, News, Retail/by Kimberly Ballard

MADISON — Duluth Trading Co., known for its durable, high-quality apparel and iconic TV commercials, opened its first Alabama store in weather befitting the company’s products. Despite the rain, local dignitaries and excited patrons gathered in front of the store for the cutting of a flannel ribbon, followed by Timberworks traveling Lumberjack Show. “We had […]

Successful Business Family Brings Hand & Stone Massage to Huntsville

June 10, 2019/in News, Featured, Retail, Services, Small Business/by Kimberly Ballard

Ayesha Patel may be one of Huntsville’s youngest new business owners but, at 26, she comes from a long line of successful Huntsville franchise owners who have built multiple restaurant concepts that were new to Huntsville when they opened. Now the owner of Alabama’s first Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa is introducing Huntsville […]

Huntsville Entrepreneurs Open Cicerone-Certified Brass Tap Beer Bar

June 7, 2019/in News, Entertainment, Food/dining, Small Business, Travel/Leisure/by Kimberly Ballard

Craft beer lovers will have a full-bodied experience awaiting them Monday when Huntsville entrepreneurs Chris Ray and Kurt Morganweck open the Brass Tap Beer Bar. Located in the Shops at Merchant Square on Bob Wallace Avenue and South Memorial Parkway, the Brass Tap will offer more than 300 beers from around the world, 56 craft […]

Clift Farm: Breland Companies Bought the Farm That Jack Built

June 5, 2019/in Lead, Agriculture, Development, Food/dining, News, People, Real Estate, Retail, Services/by Kimberly Ballard

MADISON — In 1850, the population of rural Madison was less than 500 residents. Alabama farmers were producing nearly 565,000 bales of cotton and nearly 29 million bushels of corn a year. John Henry Clift bought a small piece of rural farmland in what was then called Madison Station. Since then, six generations of the […]

AAA Credit Ratings Prove Huntsville an Economic Engine for North Alabama

June 3, 2019/in News, Featured, Finance, Government/by Kimberly Ballard

For the 11th consecutive year, Huntsville has received the highest possible “AAA” credit ratings from

Dynetics Opens State-of-the-art Manufacturing Facility

May 31, 2019/in News, Featured, Technology/by Kimberly Ballard

Dynetics expanded its footprint in Cumming Research Park Thursday with the opening of the Dr. Stephen M. Gilbert Advanced Manufacturing Facility. The 78,000 square-foot manufacturing and assembly facility is named for one of the company’s co-founders.  The state-of-the-art Gilbert Advanced Manufacturing Facility joins a Solutions Complex and the Dynetics Technical Solutions headquarters as the sixth […]

Electronic Express Opens First Huntsville Location

May 29, 2019/in News, Retail, Technology/by Kimberly Ballard

Hoping to fill a void in South Huntsville, Electronic Express recently opened its first store in the city in Jones Valley. “Our philosophy is ‘We Make it Happen’,” said operations manager Haley Harville. “We have had a store in Decatur for five years, but we are currently expanding into Huntsville and Florence. “We opened this […]

Hays Farm Presentation Set for Thursday

May 28, 2019/in News, Construction Zone, People, Real Estate/by Kimberly Ballard

The South Huntsville Business Association will host a community presentation of the Hays Farm revitalization project Thursday in the Grissom High School auditorium. It will start at 6 p.m.   Jim and John Hays, along with Jeff Enfinger of The Enfinger Cos., are developing the 850-acre generational Hays Farm into a multi-use project with 110 acres […]

A Food Hall of Kitchens, Breweries and Food Trucks Coming to Town Madison

May 16, 2019/in Construction Zone, Entertainment, Featured, Food/dining, News, Real Estate, Retail, Sports, Travel/Leisure/by Kimberly Ballard

MADISON — At his State of the City Address in March, Madison Mayor Paul Finley told the audience to buckle up for some big announcements coming out of the new Town Madison development this spring. Today, the Breland Companies delivered a big one! The latest addition is a sprawling Food Hall of 18 kitchens curated by […]

Limestone, Madison Counties Lead State in Capital Investment, Job Creation

May 14, 2019/in Construction Zone, Featured, Government, Manufacturing, News/by Kimberly Ballard

Limestone and Madison counties topped all other counties in Alabama for new capital investment (CAPEX) and job creation, according to the 2018 New & Expanding Industry Report just released by the Alabama Department of Commerce. Limestone County led the state with CAPEX of $1.7 billion, followed by Madison County with $1.1 billion in new capital […]

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