VoteVets sent out a fundraising
email to its supporters on Tuesday about Democrat Roger Dean Huffstetler, whom it wasn't planning to officially endorse until later this summer.
The Working Families Party in
an email to supporters on Monday is pushing the Legislature in the wake of the Sheldon Silver corruption scandal to enact the «number one recommendation» of the defunct Moreland Commission To Investigate Public Corruption, which it was says public financing.
In
an email to his supporters on Wednesday, the three - term Republican Congressman, who is facing an intra-party challenge...
Hawkins forwarded
an email to supporters on Saturday with information on the fall organizing efforts as well as email drives to build a database of potential voters.
Not exact matches
This
email linked
to a
supporter survey focused exclusively
on what other jurisdictions are doing: equalization, federal business taxes, and whether Alberta should work more with «friendly free - enterprise» Saskatchewan and Manitoba — Canada's only conservative - ruled jurisdictions at present.
Mr. McCormick also sent an
email to PC Party
supporters, explaining that the «work plan» issued
to the premier last weekend does not exist
on paper.
-- Premier Alison Redford in an
email to Progressive Conservative Party
supporters on January 23, 2013
Alternatively, you can contact our
Supporter Services team
on 1 800 888 584 or send
email to with your name and contact number (please do not include credit card details) and a member of our friendly team will be in touch.
It helps
to connect aggressively with potential «friends,» perhaps starting with the candidate's own social connections and moving
on to party activists, local officials, bloggers and the members of your own
supporter list (include a link
to your profile pages in mass
emails and people will do some of the work for you).
For instance,
on MySpace it's much easier
to add obvious and easy
email signup forms
to ensnare
supporters and
to provide clear links back
to important features
on the main Obama campaign site.
Of course, I bet that Huckabee is counting
on a little more than just
supporter emails to spread the word — an Iowa or New Hampshire win ought
to bring in some cash for a last - minute ad blitz.
Fast and effective response tools include online ads (particularly Google / search ads
on queries related
to the story), YouTube videos, blog posts and social media messaging, and of course an old - fashioned
email to supporters asking them
to help.
Here's an example in action from We Are Wisconsin, this tell a friend page is what you are redirected
to after you sign up for their
email list — encouraging you
to become a
supporter on social media too.
In contrast, just as it did for Obama, it took Brown months of tireless campaigning with little result (both
on and offline)
to create the inertia needed
to generate $ 12 million in donations, over 100,000 Facebook
supporters, over 10,000 people enrolled in our «Call from Home» program, over 215,000
email subscribers and 7,529 text message subscribers.
Despite the hype about Twitter and Facebook, it's still the most effective tool
to raise money, motivate volunteers and keep
supporters engaged — for example, roughly two - thirds of the $ 500 million that Barack Obama raised online came directly from someone clicking
on a «donate now» button in an
email message.
And in an
email released by the state Democratic Committee signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
supporters were urged
to volunteer
to phone bank
on behalf of Mayer and Sepulveda ahead of the April 24 special election.
The enormous 338 majority achieved
on second reading was even described as a «triumph» by Nick Clegg in an
email to supporters.
From Facebook,
to amateur content from
supporters on campaign websites,
email and text messaging, US candidates have successfully sought
to draw voters into a political conversation, giving them a stake in the campaign, and a voice in how the campaign should be run.
Using other online tools such as
email and Facebook and even offline tools like phone calls and text messages, they urged
supporters to ask Susan
to use her relationship with NYC Council Speaker (and expected candidate for NYC Mayor in 2013) Christine Quinn
to allow the council
to vote
on paid sick days legislation.
The WFP, a labor - backed party line, released a petition
email signed by Nadler that calls
on supporters to sign onto
to the effort.
Other noteworthy aspects of the site: a
supporter list, clear
email signup form
on the front page (if possible, better
to have it
on every page), a list of upcoming events, and even a brief tour of Zimon yard signs in their natural habitat.
We'll never know how many Obama
supporters bombarded their friends and relatives with
emails on his behalf, but we shouldn't forget them or discount their ultimate effect because their work was invisible
to outsiders.
Fordham Law School professor and former congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout
on Friday
emailed supporters from her political action committee urging them
to mobilize against the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's re-election campaign circulated an
email petition
on Wednesday urging
supporters to push Albany
to back his plan
to tax upper income earners
to bolster mass transit.
BTW, an
email discussion with Alan about Amy's mention of the need
to provide different channels of communication based
on supporters» preferences was a prod for me
to write yesterday's piece
on going where your
supporters are.
Just as campaigns send out «walk lists» of potential
supporters for volunteers
to visit based
on the voter file, they could provide volunteers with an «
email list» of neighbors for them
to contact directly.
For a start, you'll want
to populate your following with people you know: it helps
to connect aggressively (though perhaps not TOO aggressively) with potential «friends,» perhaps starting with the candidate's own social connections and moving
on to party activists, local officials, bloggers and the members of your own
supporter list (include a link
to your profile pages in mass
emails and people will do some of the work for you).
So it makes sense for Mayor Bill de Blasio
to call
on supporters to help him organize voters over the next few weeks, although it's a little weird he sent one such
email to Republican State Senator Catharine Young (R) Olean.
Email, SMS and phone calls will let the campaign reach its own
supporters in relatively conservative areas without stirring up the Republican base, for example, while Democrats can use the same tools
to boost attendance at rallies and public events
on friendlier ground.
Supporter - driven distributed financial outreach raised a few tens of millions of dollars directly for Obama's campaign, but perhaps more important is that it helped mine individual fundraisers» social connections for new donors, who would then find themselves
on the main
email list and subject
to the kinds of «encouragements» described above.
Advocacy is different: without the urgency of a campaign,
supporters are likely
to tolerate fewer
emails, and they may respond
to those messages at a much lower rate than they did when the White House was
on the line.
The polarizing Wasserman Schultz, stepped down from the party post in the wake of Wikileaks» release of internal DNC
emails that seemed
to confirm claims by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders»
supporters that the DNC was working
on behalf of Clinton in the Democratic primary.
6,000
emails to MPs from
supporters calling for a Home Affairs Committee inquiry,
to make sure that the Home Office follow through
on their promises.
Monday, an Obama campaign official
emailed supporters asking them
to call Republican congressional offices and keep the pressure
on.
The labor - backed Working Families Party has seized
on a leaked internal poll that shows Democrat Kathy Hochul statistically tied with Republican Jane Corwin as a fundraising tool, sending out an
email that urges
supporters to contribute
to the Erie County clerk's congressional campaign.
In an
email sent out
to supporters this afternoon, Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor listed three major events for the union - backed third party: Kathy Hochul's upset win for a Republican - held House seat (May 24), the genesis of the Occupy Wall Street movement in Zuccotti Park (Oct. 5) and when the worm turned
on the tax code debate (Nov. 29).
I was going
to go
on a tirade about how the campaigns should do more
to empower people
to spread the word
on their own and how an iGoogle skin was a good way
to keep
supporters» eyes
on your message and your candidate and why doesn't Romney do more of that, but then I bothered
to check his site and found that he already has lots of downloadable doohickies, including an
email signature and banners for MySpace pages, though no actual widgets.
Reach out
to supporters via
email, your website, and social media, the goal being for all these channels
to feed
on each other and reinforce each other, delivering motivated
supporters and potentially reaching brand new
supporters too.
The people
on a campaign's
supporter list (in practice, its
email list) are its future donors, volunteers and ambassadors, and recruiting, engaging and mobilizing them is key
to almost any campaign's online success.
Here's an example in action from Transportation Riders United, this tell a friend page is what you are redirected
to after you sign up for their
email list — encouraging you
to become a
supporter on social media too.
There's been a really healthy, if vociferous, argument going around over whether or not
to send a «welcome series» of
emails to new
supporters on your
email list.
And it broke
on CNN just after midnight, before the Obama camp had a chance
to text and
email their
supporters to make the announcement as they promised.
From talking with various conservative friends and colleagues, the Right - side equivalent seems
to involve a mix of smaller online communities (like RedState), ads
on sites like Drudge, and «list swaps» or «list rentals» (i.e., buying the opportunity
to contact the members of a conservative
email list, a la Newt Gingrich's much - abused
supporters).
It is an account, relying
on contemporary vivid
emails, of the minute - by - minute battle inside Downing Street in the first week of September 2006
to stop
supporters of the chancellor, Gordon Brown, forcing Tony Blair
to quit after nine years as prime minister and three election victories.
By Thursday morning, his campaign launched a poll
on its website asking
supporters to vote
on which federal agency they'd want
to forget and picked up the theme in a fundraising
email that says the gaffe «Just goes
to show there are too damn many federal agencies.»
In a fundraising
email Monday, the progressive leader called
on her vast base of
supporters to donate
to Tester's reelection campaign and help him fight back.
«That's great news for our campaign, as Andrew Cuomo will be forced
to take
on a high - profile challenge from a celebrity - activist who is guaranteed the spotlight from the state and national media,» Molinaro said in an
email to supporters.
While most political operatives brush off any notion that Rangel would leave office
on his own will, he cast some doubt about his congressional future in an
email to supporters earlier this week.
Despite the hype about Twitter and Facebook in politics,
email is still the most effective tool
to raise money, motivate volunteers and keep
supporters engaged — for example, roughly two - thirds of the $ 500 million that Barack Obama raised online came directly from someone clicking
on a «donate now» button in an
email message.
They used online advertising and a create - a-video contest (which also generated free media coverage)
to drive
supporters to a site where they could «Learn more
on the go» by surrendering their cell numbers, as well as forward information
to a friend via
email, download wallpapers and screensavers and of course make a donation.