The Hill’s Jessie Hellman reports: The Donald Trump campaign sent its first “emergency” fundraising email to supporters Saturday, seeking to raise at least $100,000 by the end of the day. That request follows a multimillion-dollar...
An unsual email arrived last week from Hillary Clinton’s campaign (sender: Christina Reynolds). It seems to have gone out to out her general list rather than the Twitter posse specifically, because it encourages people to “join The...
If you’re a nonprofit organization or a political campaign, you almost certainly need to raise money. Most of us don’t have a wealthy donor waiting in the wings to swoop in at a time of need! High-dollar individual fundraising and direct...
Bernie Sanders may dominate the small-dollar-donor battlefield on the Democratic side of the presidential race, but he’s not the only one growing a list of grassroots supporters. We talked earlier about Hillary Clinton’s messages...
Presidential race drop-out Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump this week, leading to a strange joint appearance that transfixed the internet. Those eyes! Those eyes! But while Christie’s love may have gone to Trump, his email list went to...
We’ll have Super Tuesday follow-up soon, but first, regular Epolitics.com contributor and digital strategist Laura Packard (of PowerThru Consulting) guides us through important digital lessons we can learn from this year’s Reed Award...
Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary, and he’s also winning the post-primary fundraising war: his supporters tossed him more than FIVE MILLION DOLLARS in the hours after the polls closed in the Granite State (or six million, depending...
Regular Epolitics.com contributor and digital strategist Laura Packard (of PowerThru Consulting) is back with us, this time to help folks prepare for Giving Tuesday and year-end fundraising. This post first appeared the PowerThru blog, and see also...
Update: Digital politics veteran Stan Olshefski checks to note that HE”S getting Bush campaign emails. Thanks, Stan! Crowdsourcing at its finest. Next question: why isn’t Shaun getting the messages? Database glitch? Deliverability...
The latest from Epolitics.com contributor Jeanette Russell of Attentive.ly. This post first appeared on the Attentive.ly bog. Email marketing is an amazing tool – when it works. It’s still the strongest connective tissue in the digital...