Online Candidate is proud to release the 2011 Edition of Running for Office as an Online Candidate. Completely updated and expanded, this e-book is a primer written specifically for local-level campaigns who want to leverage online communication to reach, communicate and motivate supporters. Read More...
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Running for Office as an Online Candidate 2011 Released
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Leveraging Campaign Yard Signs Online
The following is a guest post from our friends at campaigntrailyardsigns.com.
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Does Your Campaign Reach Three Out of Four Households?
According to a recent study by the Nielsen Company, U.S. consumers in May 2010 spent an average of 6 hours, 13 minutes using social networking websites. Three-quarters of U.S. adults visited a social networking site that month. About one-fifth owned a blog or published online, with 55% having at least one social networking profile on sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Read More...
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OnlineCandidateLinks Now Allows YouTube Video
OnlineCandidateLinks.com now allows candidates to embed YouTube video code directly into their profiles! Read More...
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4 Campaign Video Ideas
Uploading campaign video content to a YouTube channel provides a place to store the files, an additional place for voters to find you online (as YouTube is the second most popular search engine), and a way to easily embed videos into your website or blog. Read More...
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Building A Future Audience For Your Campaign Website
Not too long ago, most candidates would have started dipping their toes into the social networking waters only after they decided to run for office. Political candidate profiles would be created as a secondary way to drum up support and grow a campaign. Read More...
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Political Fundraising with Widgets
In addition to general contribution and fundraising buttons on campaign websites, candidates can use widgets in a variety of ways to help get out the word and raise money. Read More...
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Primary vs General Election Website Strategies
Generally, there are two types of election campaigns, the primary and the general election campaign. The primary ballot lists all the candidates who are looking to run for that office. Whoever wins the primary election goes on to be on the ballot as the party’s candidate for the general election. The general election then decides the final winner to hold office. Read More...
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Easy Link Building Tips For Your Political Campaign
We are often asked how quickly a new campaign website will appear on the search engines. Sometimes this question is asked before the site is even built! Read More...
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Will Your Social Networking Past Hurt Your Political Future?
Do you currently maintain a Facebook or Twitter account? Do you have an old MySpace page somewhere out there? Did you ever post comments on online forums under your own name? If you’ve ever done any of these things, you’ve left behind all kinds of person information that could come back to bite you when you start running for political office. Read More...
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