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Sep 08 2021 
Job Post – Marketing Communications
We’re looking for a marketing communications and PR professional who has passion and the magical ability to generate earned media in recreational product, lifestyle, machinery, and hospitality industries. Our ‘Spark Plug’ must be a good storyteller and have a passion for machines and experiences that move you physically and emotionally. We’re looking for a good person that will make our clients job easier and makes them say, “WOW.”Our PR Spark Plug will be a strong point person to help lead our earned media and special project efforts to ensure people LOOK. Based on Florida’s Space Coast, we launch marketing efforts that span across North America. The brands we represent are strong, led by smart people and solid backing and support… It’s a cool gig for a pro with white-collar smarts and blue collar work ethic and deep pride. You need to love the accelerator and leading the pack, in business and life.
Description of the Communications & PR position responsibilities:
- Plans, develops, and maintains promotional communications activities and projects to keep the public informed of our clients’ stories, accomplishments, programs, and point of view; to include preparation and distribution of information, content creation leadership to ensure the public message/image is aligned with client strategies.
- Manage the client accounts – proactive, regular client communication, coordinate and execute assignments/projects, timelines and deadlines, ensuring agency exceeds KPIs and client satisfaction.
- Manage development and implementation of strategic pr/communications plan, continuously contributing new and creative ideas that gives client and agency an edge.
- Create mini plans for key initiatives, while keeping timelines and efforts organized through overlapping priorities.
- Deliver top-tier results, proactive media relations, securing impactful placements.
- Draft written materials, including press releases, memos, talking points, pitches, statements, Q&As, and more.
- Showcases a firm understanding of social media and recreational product trends.
- Identify and formulate partnerships with external brands to enhance client visibility and extend their PR reach, as appropriate.
- Lead client calls guiding strategic discussions and reporting on results.
- Present at in-person client and stakeholder meetings.
- Ability to pitch and collaborate with all editorial mediums on earned coverage opportunities.
- Holds established marine, powersports and lifestyle media relationships with the skills to develop new relationships using traditional and digital tools.
Education, Experience, Knowledge and Skills Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in PR, communications, marketing, business, or relevant focus
- 4+ years PR, communications, or journalism, or relevant field.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a leader and team player.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office for Mac and Google Drive Apps
- Possesses excellent writing skills, with strong attention to detail, AP level.
- Detail and results-oriented with the ability to be creative while maintaining precision.
- A proven understanding of social media platforms such with an eye for emerging trends and a high comfort level with integration and content creation.
- Availability to travel, while juggling day-to-day tasks necessary to keep projects moving forward.
- Must be a Passionate and Experienced water sports enthusiast
- Strong planning and multi-project management ability.
- Licensed, safe driver
- Physical requirements – Able to work in non-climate-controlled environment. Able to lift 50 pounds if necessary. Safety sensitive situations.
Cherry on top:
- Can back up a boat trailer
- Has a motorcycle endorsement
- Habla español. Parle francais.
- Well-travelled, worldly, knows stuff
- Knows the difference between Cajun grouper and blackened salmon.
- Has run a 5K
Details:
- Full-Time
- Work Remotely: Limited, 4:1
- Location: Melbourne, Florida
- Salary: $55K-$65K per year
- Profit Sharing Bonuses
- Paid Holidays and Vacation
- Additional financial and quality of life perks
LOOK at us:
LOOK Marketing is an award-winning, strategic marketing agency offering integrated communications and go-to-market services based on Florida’s Space Coast. Our team offers strategic brand building, promotional marketing efforts in the areas of storytelling, public relations, content creation, video production, retail and show merchandising design, and experiential event marketing. LOOK clients are global and local leaders in their segments, and they all sell fun… Passion rules, that’s how we roll.
LOOK Marketing is based in Melbourne, Florida with project-based staff in 14 states and two Canadian provinces.
Please send your pitch to info@look-marketing.com
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Jul 28 2020 
LOOK at our Marketing Internship
Internship with us and Learn
LOOK Marketing is accepting ‘pitches’ for our Spring and Summer Marketing Internship. You’ll work directly with our team of Spark Plugs to develop strategies and execute tactics to help our world class clients’ engines roar. Your opportunities for real world experience are at LOOK Marketing. No cliche internship here. You’ll work on and contribute to real projects. This is not a, ‘get me coffee,’ or take out the trash semester time filler. We are looking for the Spark Plugs with fire.
LOOK is an award-winning creative idea agency that has hosted over half a dozen young marketers with paid internships. As a result, some of our LOOK internship alumni have gone on to their dream jobs. Likewise others have joined our agency engine, such as Tyler Fischer, working into full time positions at LOOK. Space Coast is our home located near downtown Melbourne, Florida and we are looking to help launch your marketing, advertising, sales, and business career with real world experience.
Be LOOK’s Spark Plug Intern
We are specialists in numerous marketing promotion and communication services and you will be immersed in our integrated efforts. Our core services involve media & public relations, content creation and video production, experiential marketing and event planning, visual merchandising design, strategic branding, and creative ideation.
Do you have fire? Can you be our newest Spark Plug? Integrity, Energy and Passion are required in that order! Our interns must motivated to work in an ever-changing environment and have the mind-set to deliver projects at an award-winning level our clients expect and deserve.
Please forward your pitch and resume for LOOK’s Spark Plug Internship to Info@look-marketing.com.
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Jul 27 2020 
Publicity Value, Why It’s Better Than Advertising
Though different, both advertising and publicity (public relations) are essential tools in the marketing toolkit, and can work together with other marketing initiatives to meet brand objectives. We’ll take a look at what makes them different, and why Let’s start with examining how these two marketing functions are different.
How are Advertising and Public Relations Different?
Though often conflated, advertising and public relations differ on the following:
- Advertising is paid placement, while publicity generated from public relations’ activities results in editorial placement.
- Advertising is your organization telling the world that your brand, product or service is the best – the message is expressly coming from your organization and distributed through ads or commercials. Publicity (often referred to as earned media), is third parties like those in the media or digital influencers sharing some form of the message by telling the world that your brand, product or service is the best.
Messaging Control: Advertising Versus PR
They both offer benefits with regards to communicating brand or product messages to the public. They differ on extent of control with regards to what the message is, and when and where it will appear.
Advertising and Messaging
With paid placement, your organization pays to advertise on select outlets and maintains complete control of:
- The message.
- Where the message appears.
- When the message appears, and the campaigns duration.
Publicity and Messaging
With earned media, journalists, editors, news producers, bloggers, influencers and others who’ve attained trusted status with the public control:
- The message – they can interpret or change the message as they see fit.
- Where the message appears.
- When and if the message appears.
In the editorial space, there are myriad of individuals with myriad of opinions regarding your product or service therefore your business cannot directly control the message.
However, your business can certainly shape the message through strategic public relations activities. And that is where truly excellent public relations’ strategies shine, and a compelling reason to have PR pros on your side.
The Value of Publicity #lookatus
Be where people are looking with something of value to them in a memorable, meaningful way.
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Mar 09 2020 
GIFTING, IT’S THE SHARES THAT COUNT
How do you take an ordinary task and make it shareable. Spinning the everyday into something remarkable is what separates thumb-swiping social media from phone spinning, turn-up the volume, “you have to see this,’ content gold. Our professional friends at Sea-Doo are committed to sharing the Sea-Doo Life with the masses and we work hard to help them showcase their already cool watercraft in ways people want to share. LOOK has been helping Sea-Doo leverage ‘people of influence’ for decades and today we call this influencer and ambassador marketing. This tactic allows brands to control the message and distribute Social Media content through people that are revered on phone screens on your street or around the globe.
DJK Custom Sea-Doo
Everybody’s Doo’in It.
It does help to represent a product everybody wants. We’ve had the opportunity to work with dozens of A-list celebrities over the years. All that personally want or already own a Sea-Doo and love sharing their experiences. Leveraging those short moments of opportunity is key to making our encounters bigger than life. DJ Khaled fits that description. DJ Khaled loves riding watercraft in his hometown of Miami and has big social reach. The marketing team made a deal with him and part of that was a custom Sea-Doo to match his latest album art theme. This custom Sea-Doo is one-of-a-kind and fits DJK’s personality.
When DJK’s custom Sea-Doo GTX was done, we decided a special delivery was more appropriate than simply trailering it to his house and unveiling it in his driveway. This was a gift. A big gift. A special gift. A gift worthy of being special delivered via water in a giant gift box. And this would certainly be remarkable, and shareable. This was an opportunity to disrupt the waterfront of Miami and create engaging social media content. Our design and fabrication team went to work.DJ Khaled is no newcomer to pitching products a he’s sent ‘gifts’ (and gifs, but that’s a different blog) all the time, so how do you deliver this gift in a sharable manner? The way we did it. Do you think he would have posted his new Sea-Doo on a trailer in his driveway? Maybe, but it probably wouldn’t have received over 650,000 views and certainly wouldn’t have allowed us to create a social buildup using instagram stories that showcased the Sea-Doo Life being a step above. This was an incremental Social Media content driven effort. And it worked.
Addy Award for BEST Branded Content & Entertainment and Social Media Single Execution
We’re a proud group at LOOK. We believe in ensuring our client projects deliver above the set objective. We want to win and win big. Sea-Doo is the global leader in watercraft fun and we work tirelessly with passion to ensure that status grows. Along the way we enter some of our favorite projects in award contests and they have been well received by advertising and marketing industry experts. The DJK Sea-Doo ‘Gift Box’ activation won a American Advertising Federation Silver Addy award for best Social Media Single Execution and a Silver Addy at both the local and District level for Branded Content & Entertainment for Online.
Like a giant gift box being pulled through a canal, when you want people to LOOK your way we can help. LOOK Marketing is a Space Coast creative idea and strategic marketing agency focussed on delivering WOW. We thrive on helping our clients win in their long term businesses. If they happen to become industry rock stars along the way, we’re glad to be the roadies. #lookatus
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Aug 08 2018 
EPIC EVENT INVITATION FOR AN EPIC PRESS EVENT
How do you get the attention of boating media editors whom are invited to dozens of incredible press events every year? Produce a disruptive event invitation. To stand out in Public Relations you have to disrupt.
The invitation is one of the most important elements of the entire event production. The invitation also sets the tone and expectations of what the attendees will experience. A well crafted and executed invitation can bring your brand to the forefront and set the stage for an epic event. You have to have people attend the event to have an event. Our strategy related to this specific event entailed a custom printed video book with personalized invitation video.
LOOK Marketing received two 2018 ADDY awards from the American Advertising Federation Space Coast Chapter for the production of a Press Event Video Invitation for client Sea-Doo watercraft. The two 2018 ADDY awards received for this project included; Judge’s Choice Award and Gold Addy for the category of Card, Invitation or Announcement.
Project Objective
Produce an invitation that disrupts normal in-mail and introduces the brand’s new model year campaign and key messaging. The goal was to create an invite that intrigued and demanded invitees to attend the event and learn about the new product.
The Press Event Invitation video book gained immediate attention among media.
Press Event Video Invitation Project Strategy
LOOK Marketing would design a physical, video book invitation that would be sent by express mail to targeted editors. The book visuals would include key message copy and high level event details including location and dates over imagery of the actual event location. The auto playing video included a brand hype reel and a personal, event invitation message to to engage media through a sensory experience of visual, audio and tactile modes. The three sensory modes would work together to help convey Sea-Doo’s 2018 story theme of “Escaping the Everyday” with Sea-Doo.
Execution
Targeted North American and international marine media and regional vertical and general press received the video invitation. The invitation set the tone for the Sea-Doo “Escape the Everyday” Press Event. It immediately pulled invitees into the world of Sea-Doo by sharing a unique, adventure-themed video.
The video began with auto play when the book was opened. It opened with vintage clips of Sea-Doo watercraft, sharing the news that 2018 marked 50 years of Sea-Doo revolutionizing the personal watercraft industry and followed by teasing the 2018 adventure-ready platforms.
ADDY JUDGES CHOICE AWARD – 2018 Sea-Doo Escape the Everyday Press Event Invitation from LOOK Marketing on Vimeo.
A glimpse of everyday epic adventures being lived out by Sea-Doo riders around the world would follow the 2018 launch reveal. The video then invited them to attend the made-for-media event to experience their own epic adventure on the Colorado River aboard the all-new 2018 Sea-Doo models. The video invitation culminated with imagery of the natural beauty of the epic event location, and how the PR team would ensure a production and fun event.
Results
The video invitation generated exceptional results. 91% of the media targeted by LOOK attended the press event. Feedback from the media also noted the invitation strongly influenced their decision to attend. Three mainstream media noted that the invitation alone intrigued them enough to attend, where a traditional letter or e-mail invite would not have. Four boating media noted this was the best press event invitation they had received in years. This invitation was the first step in a complete brand immersion that carried the key messages from invitation to published articles. #lookatus
Event Invitation Project Awards
ADDY: Judge’s Choice Award
ADDY: Gold Award-Card, Invitation or Announcement
Select Published Media Generated By The Event – (three of the 21 published articles)
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Mar 04 2018 
Celebrating ADDY Award Wins for Branded Content
LOOK Marketing was recognized by the American Advertising Federation Space Coast Chapter with two 2018 ADDY awards for its video production and interactive branded content. The winning project was produced for client Sea-Doo, partnering with Boating Magazine titled “Summer Spring.”
A family explores Silver Springs, FL on their Sea-Doo Spark and Sea-Doo GTI.
Project Objective
Produce and publish via digital platforms a branded content video. The feature article and video should showcase how easy it is to have ‘one fun day’ with Sea-Doo watercraft.
Branded Content Project Strategy
LOOK Marketing would leverage the topical ‘record heat’ of summer through a branded video. The LOOK produced video would highlight the experience of escaping the summer heat by riding Sea-Doo watercraft at Florida’s refreshing and picturesque Silver Springs. That video would then be shared on the media partner’s digital platforms including Facebook and their website. Then Sea-Doo would share the posted video on their Facebook page.
Storyline
Capturing the cool water of Silver Springs, Florida
Follow a young family as they explore Silver Springs, Florida, where they show you that even in a more laid-back setting your PWC can still give you an escape from the everyday.
You get to see the family enjoying the peacefulness of the springs by exploring the crystal-clear waterways at a much more tranquil pace. This helps them to enjoy snacks and take a peek at the marine and wildlife life along the way.
The laid-back environment allows them to spend some quality time as a family as well as giving them an opportunity to relax at the nearest tree branch while having some fun, making memories and cooling off. What better way to beat the heat then a day on the water!
Results
Sea-Doo and Boating Magazine shared the branded content video on Facebook, reaching over 677,000 fans between the two pages. Boating Magazine additionally published a companion article on their website.
Project Awards
ADDY: Film/Video/Sound Branded Content More than :60 seconds
ADDY: Online/Interactive Branded Content & Entertainment
All Awards
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LOOK’s awards and accomplishments.
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Jul 04 2017 
July 4th Is ONE FUN DAY, More For Some Than Others
Video production can break down barriers. One of the barriers to purchase and re-purchase recreational products is for the consumer to carve out time in their busy schedules to enjoy the use of the product – be it boats, motorcycles, off road vehicles, bicycles, snowmobiles, personal watercraft, etc.
The reality is, a memory of a lifetime usually takes place in a short moment. Our most recent web video campaign for client Sea-Doo showcases how you, and your family and friends, can have more fun in one fun-filled, action packed, epic adventure day on your rec product than in a month or summer of the ordinary. These branded content videos showcase the value of how living the Sea-Doo Life, even if only one day, can be worth every penny.
This series will include five videos. Two of the videos have been published on Sea-Doo’s social channels – as of July 4th. The first featuring social media superstar, teen heart throb, and handlebar athlete Hayes Grier who lives on Lake Norman in North Carolina. Hayes shows how he and his buddies have One Fun Day. His family and friends live the Sea-Doo Life lake front style using the recreational segment models of the Sea-Doo line.
The second video production is performance model focussed and was strategically scheduled to post leading into the July 4th time frame to inspire true independence with wounded military veteran and professional athlete Anthony Radetic. Radetic and his family travel together to various personal watercraft races around the US and world. This allows them to spend quality time together and supports Anthony’s drive to be independent, free of his wheelchair, while feeding his competitive spirit.
This is the perfect July 4th story for the Sea-Doo brand. Enjoy One Fun Day with the Radetic Family
Sea-Doo – ‘One Fun Day’ with Anthony Radetic and Family from LOOK Marketing on Vimeo.
Follow Sea-Doo Social Media to see the next three ‘One Fun Day’ videos and learn how Fun runs in the Sea-Doo family.
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Jan 20 2016 
A Proper Marketing Plan Is A Kluge
Proper marketing does not consist of picking a few items off of a menu. If a business wants real return on their marketing efforts the entire branding process must be able to connect ALL the dots.
During a recent excursion to a candy store in Savannah, Georgia we were captivated by the process of making taffy and packaging it for immediate purchase (and we felt compelled to capture it with our Sony A7S). This store did it right. Of course Taffy can be made and wrapped in a back room but that’s not engaging. They do it right. In addition to the delicious aromas flowing out of the open doors was a taffy kluge. The process was fascinating and engaging and it makes you want to buy some taffy because you were involved in the process.
The other element of the process that stood out is how it is methodically connected. If just one piece was missing or out of line, all the candy would fall to the floor and not reach it’s final destination of consumption. This goes for all effective marketing. The brand communication and promotion must be connected to get to the end result. And when it does, it’s so delicious. #BESEEN
