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Crucial Things to Have on Your Candidate's Website

Websites and social media pages are often the first or second point of contact between voters and a candidate. Judging...

How to Create a Donor Persona

Creating and developing donor personas is a huge step in building your fundraising effectiveness and driving results....

Political Yard Signs: Helpful or an Eyesore?

Depending on who you talk to, yard signs are eyesores or an essential part of a political campaign. During an election...

Conservative Messaging Tips for 2016 Political Candidates

Messaging for a candidate is one of the most important parts of a campaign. How a candidate’s campaign website is...

Why Donors Give

Time, Talent, Treasure. Those are the three big things we have to give in this world. We give them to others, we give...

An Election Year Guide for Political Campaign Managers, Candidates

You’ve spent last year finding a candidate, pulling papers, and doing all of the major preliminary work for 2016. A...

The Best Time of Year for a Membership Drive Campaign

As you’re looking over your calendar for the year, you will naturally be pulled in the direction of recruiting new...

5 Tried and True Association Marketing Ideas

For associations, marketing is generally all about growing membership. Of course, you also need to market your...

Simple Strategies for Making the Most of Winter for a Candidate

Winter and end of the year holidays are an unforgiving time for candidates and campaigns. Time and money, the backbone...

Year-End Fundraisers – Make the Most of #GivingTuesday

In my previous post on year-end fundraising, I examined how spectacular December can be — with 30% of annual donations...

RSVPs Hard to Come By? Make Your Association Events and Communication More Awesome

Is one of your recurring nightmares the hashtag #YourEventSucks? Or is your nightmare that no one will be around to...

How to set up a fundraising campaign for your small-dollar donors

When you have to raise a lot of money to run for office, it can be easy to focus solely on major donors… those donors...