- While working as an Accounts Associate with Webstrong Group, Marc was the account lead for the Reelect Tom Harkin campaign. He worked with the President of Webstrong to provide strategic advice to the campaign. Marc suggested setting up an emergency page in response to the devastating flooding that hit Iowa in 2008, as well as a summer website redesign to be rolled out in the fall to draw people to the website for the final push. Both ideas were accepted.
- As a two-time campaign manager, Marc has built campaign plans that included calendar planning for all aspects of the campaign; his strategic thinking was valued by both of the candidates he worked for.
Marc can write campaign emails
- Marc has extensive experience writing and editing campaign emails. He performed this function for the Reelect Tom Harkin campaign and several other clients at Webstrong. He also wrote and edited emails for the Kaye Kory for Delegate and Jeff Barnett for Congress campaigns.
- Marc is familiar with several email clients including NGP, ExactTarget, and Constant Contact.
- Marc has experience producing and delivering emails to nationwide email lists. He has also pulled email statistics and done email statistical analysis to optimize email performance
- With experience in campaign online advertising, direct mail, and media relations, Marc can connect with Blue State Digital's clients because he has been in their shoes. He understands how to unify the various aspects of the campaign through a winning message due to his experience as a campaign manager. He has also worked in new media, and can emphasize the medium's importance to any successful race.
Marc can research!
- Marc has done issue-based research for both campaigns he has run. This research was vital to crafting agendas and rapid response.
Marc is very detail-oriented
- Before Marc is willing to sign off on something, he meticulously checks and rechecks the work to ensure the deliverable is up to his standards and the standards of his clients.
Marc has strong writing, copy-editing, and proof-reading skills
- Marc has performed copy-editing and proof-reading for campaign emails, blog posts, website content, and press releases.
Marc is a team-player who can manage multiple projects at once
- Marc prefers to work in an environment where he is working with other people towards a common goal. He excels in fast-paced, energetic, team-oriented work environments. Marc probably would have been fired from any of his previous jobs if he did not have a superior ability to manage multiple projects at once.
Marc has a great sense of humor and loves the start-up environment
- Marc loves to laugh. He thinks he is pretty funny, and hasn't really been told otherwise. He believes that sometimes when the going gets tough, you need to fall on the floor with laughter before you can grab the bull by the horns and solve the problem. Per the job announcement, Marc loves loft office space, excels at ping-pong (seriously, he thinks he may instantly be one of the best ping-pong players at BSD), and loves the idea of having an office dog.
Marc has many of the preferred qualifications for this position
- Marc has extensive campaign-related new media and communications experience. He has written blog posts for a variety of clients that have appeared on Daily Kos, MyDD, and several well-known statewide blogs. He has also overseen the direct mail programs of both campaigns he managed.
Marc is a great fit for Blue State Digital and would love a chance to talk to you more in depth about this opportunity.
