Political Campaign Tips and Strategies

Online Marketing With a Limited Campaign Budget

Online Marketing With a Limited Campaign Budget

While budgeting for signs and mailers, how much of your campaign spending will go toward online marketing? While social media through Facebook and Twitter may be ‘free’, you may want to boost your online exposure with paid online... Read More

Text Messaging for Political Campaigns

With the rise of cell phone usage, political campaigns are using mobile texting as an effective campaign tool. As mobile computing blurs the line between online and offline campaigning, we are going to see more use of crossover technologies by... Read More

Raising Political Donations Online

Raising Political Donations Online

Running a successful political campaign costs money. A candidate needs to raise funds throughout the entire campaign. Over the last decade, the web has become a popular and powerful tool for political fundraising. As technical barriers have dropped,... Read More

3 Dirty Tricks Political Candidates Pull Online

Here are three tactics that candidates sometimes to gain an online advantage over an opponent. These are three of favorite dirty tricks, but only one of these is really ‘dirty’, though. Guess which one! Stealing a domain name. This can be... Read More

Fundraising Letter Templates For Success

Campaign fundraising letter templates are a great tool to help craft an effective appeals for funding and donations. But as a tool, letter templates do have limits. For a campaign to truly succeed in raising funds and cash, your fundraising letters... Read More

Leveraging Campaign Yard Signs Online

Leveraging Campaign Yard Signs Online

In a tight race, you are always trying to get the edge over your opponent. One way to stand out is to combine offline campaign tactics with online ones. When field and the campaign’s web team are working together, great things happen. Campaigns... Read More

Tracking Your Campaign Video Success

Larger political campaigns have been using video for years now, but now even smaller campaigns are getting into the multimedia act. With the rise of YouTube and other video sharing sites, it’s easier than ever to store and share content. The most... Read More

Preparing for Candidate Name Searches

When voters begin searching for your campaign, are they finding what you, as a political candidate, want them to see? If you are not actively laying the groundwork of online content about yourself, you’re leaving it up to others to define you... Read More

Political Campaign Strategies That Stink

It’s something most voters claim to hate, but negative campaigning and mudslinging seems to rule American politics – from national campaigns right down to local elections. Unfortunately, these negative political campaign strategies and... Read More