Nobody likes to be manipulated. Between advertising, the 24 hour news cycle and endless political propaganda flooding the airwaves, it’s become harder and harder to get facts without spin. Truthiness has replaced truth in American politics. Read More...
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6 Twitter Tips for Political Candidates
Twitter is a social messaging tool that presents great opportunities for political candidates to create branding, exposure and word-of-mouth advertising. In recent years, Twitter has become a favorite tool for political social media marketing. It’s a tool that’s easy to set up and easy to use. Not only that, it’s a social media tool that helps candidates save time, money and effort in communicating to the voter base. Read More...
Running for Office as an Online Candidate 2011 Released
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...