Sentences with phrase «money than some campaigns»

Nationally, the price tag for ballot access can soar well past $ 1 million — more money than some campaigns have left in the bank.

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Nearly a third of those sales came through a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 that raised more than $ 635,000, but Kraft didn't turn to crowdfunding for the money.

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

There is, unfortunately, no getting around the fact that the government will need to spend even more money on farmers than it does today if it wants to save the industry, whether it's for developing a perennial wheat, funding a home - grown advertising campaign or investing more into making car parts from plants.

Worse, more than 61 % small business owners feel that their money is unnecessarily being wasted on these campaigns and they are nothing but a waste of time.

There is nothing more frustrating for a business than spending money on a marketing campaign and not obtaining quantifiable results, especially when on a shoestring budget.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

There's something about learning to make your Google campaign profitable using your own money that makes you get smart faster than anything else.

We have raised more money with my 50 For 50 campaign and the recent weekend's Unstoppable Gala than in the history of the nonprofit's existence.

Overall, the pharmaceutical industry, biotech companies, and medical device makers have given less money directly to Hillary Clinton's campaign than they had to President Obama's by this time four years ago.

Cruz's campaign committee raised more than $ 20 million in the fourth quarter, and more than half of pro-Cruz money in 2015 came from the real estate industry, the CRP said.

Diaspora, a tech company that wants to build a social network to rival Facebook got more than $ 200,000 in seed money from a Kickstarter campaign

With all that money flying around, it's safe to assume that campaign contributors have an easier time getting their points of view across to representatives than your average citizen.

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The early smartwatch pioneers raised more money on Kickstarter than any prior campaign, then raised $ 59 million in venture funding, only to sell off assets to competitor Fitbit in 2016 in a deal reportedly valued between $ 34 million and $ 40 million.

Unless you want to encounter unneeded issues along the way, don't put more money into your campaign than you can afford to lose until you craft a winning strategy.

For perspective, that's more money than the group spent in all federal campaigns during the 2014 election cycle combined.

But the reality is, link building is incredibly valuable, usually worth far more than the money you put into your campaign.

The candidates also raise money for their parties, enabling them to ask for contributions far higher than the $ 2,700 - per - donor limit to the campaigns.

Parscale also shared more detail about the campaign's need to raise money, saying that when «Donald Trump became the candidate, we didn't have any money other than Mr. Trump's money and I don't think he wanted to write all that check himself.»

Donors who want to shape the political environment would do more good running these kinds of advertizing campaigns than giving Karl Rove money to intervene against the ghost of Christine O'Donnell and run ineffective general election ads.

Then ask yourself why churches spend money on billboards and political campaigns, rather than following the example of Jesus to help those in need.

Rather than each ministry vying for the same donor monies, the campaign established a percentage giving plan.

And while issue - oriented analysis by TV's journalists rather than a daily «story» handed out by the campaign managers might cost a network more money, it would begin to meet the ethical norms of good journalism as well as the needs of the electorate.

The campaign, which included more than 230 MGA retail members, 15 vendor partners and several Minnesota community food banks, raised enough money and food to provide nearly 3 million meals to families across the state, Faribault Foods says.

His money is better spent on the team than doling it out to some Republican SuperPAC or Trump's 2020 campaign.

And, adding those new donors to the list is probably more important than the actual money they give in the moment, since once they're on the list, they're subject to all the inducements to give again that a modern campaign can offer.

«Those private individuals and companies that were kind enough to support and fund President Jonathans presidential campaign with their hard earned money were perfectly within their rights to do so and they were more than happy with our efforts as well.

Slaughter's campaign says the money comes from 3,532 individual donors who contributed an average of less than $ 82.

A number of those aides received campaign bonuses that represent considerably more money than the 5 percent haircut they took on the public payroll.

This week's news that Obama's 2012 campaign has already assembled a powerful army of small online donors — more than a million people have given him money so far, only half of whom did so in 2008 — provided just one of many recent glimpses into the growth of what's shaping up to be a reelection juggernaut.

And I suspect, I hope, that the money's just simply going to become less important and that ultimately, campaigns make a determination that hey, they might better spend their time with the candidate out doing other things and actually thinking about the argument and the message that you want to send, than constantly raising all this money that buys you maybe some TV ads that nobody's watching but nothing that's gonna actually turn the campaign in your favor.

In the past few election cycles, Democratic consultants have generally taken a percentage of television ad buys rather than a flat fee, creating an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to determining how a campaign should spend its money.

Trump digital director Brad Parscale credits the campaign's Facebook outreach (along with Trump's own use of Twitter) for their victory, particularly because the social network was their primary channel into the hearts of prospective supporters and donors (more than two million of whom gave the campaign money).

At least the state party was actually doing things (raising more money than it spent, helping with key campaigns) and building constituency when O'Neil and Pollak were there.

It remains unclear where this leaves Tasini, who has had even more trouble raising money for his current campaign than his 2006 bid against Clinton.

Though well - armed and feisty, Obama's supporters weren't alone online, and his campaign was forced to spend more time and money countering narratives spread by critics than any of his staff would have liked.

Hillary Clinton could have made more money giving speeches to Wall Street for those two years than campaigning.

Nathan McMurray, the Grand Island town supervisor and party - anointed Democratic challenger to Republican Rep. Chris Collins in NY - 27, has raised far less campaign money so far than did four of the Democratic candidates who have dropped out of the race.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

Also published on HuffingtonPost This week's news that Obama's 2012 campaign has already assembled a powerful army of small online donors — more than a million people have given him money so far, only half of whom did so in 2008 — provided just one of many recent glimpses...

These problems have been exacerbated recently by the confluence of statewide and national fundraising into individual PACs which can raise and spend more money more easily than an actual campaign.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

As a fundraising tool, for instance, Facebook has largely failed so far, with most Facebook «causes» raising a few dollars at most — even the successful campaigns have generally raised far less money than a well - tended email list would yield from the same number of members.

A Twitter following tends to grow with use, assuming a campaign participates in the ongoing conversation and has something interesting to say, making it another of those tools that usually requires time rather than money to succeed.

Judging from the quality of the average campaign ad, though, many media firms seem to think of the creative content as an afterthought — MUCH more money seems to go into buying the time than into creating the actual advertisement.

Also, the money they are spending generally was campaign donations so it wasn't their money anyway, and campaign donations are much more regulated and hard to convert to personal wealth than the myriad of options they have once elected.

The Slaughter campaign doesn't deny it's been able to raise plenty of money, reporting more than $ 730,000 in the third quarter of 2012 and $ 1.8 million overall.

Television ad slots have been scarce in contested states during election seasons before, but the combination of big - money super-PACs and the expectation that both presidential campaigns will spend heavily seems to be driving political actors to reserve time much earlier than usual.

Then there was the most recent stick in the eye: forcing on Dinapoli a pilot public financing program — only for his race — that would make the comptroller give back more than two - thirds of his campaign money or suffer a P.R. hit.