Oh sure, go ahead and use your “please help now” language and your matching gifts and your thermometer-style “we’re THIS close to our goal” graphics in your fundraising emails. But that’s nothin’ —...
Also published on HuffingtonPost So! Here we are in early August, in the midst a presidential race that folks have been saying would be won by a razor-thin margin either way. Funny thing: if we can believe the polls, Obama looks to be opening a...
Saturday’s Washington Post article about big conservative money flooding into House and Senate races is just the latest sign of this year’s changing post-Citizens United political landscape. The fear among Democrats? That wealthy...
First he racks up an $800,000 bill for a website and email system that should have cost him a few grand, then he rents out his email list to LifeLock, now he’s letting someone sell you stock advice. What’s next, pushing gold a la Glenn...
Jon Stewart thinks the super-casual tone of Obama campaign emails of late has gone a bit far: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook I’m sure those...
New Version! Available now on Amazon.com and as a PDF This article is from an earlier ebook and is now out of date! Please check out the NEW ebook, “How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014.” What Dean and Kerry suggested in 2004, Barack...
ProPublica has tried to reverse-engineer an Obama fundraising email, different versions of which went to a husband and wife: Sinker and his wife weren’t the only ones to receive similar but subtly different emails from the Obama campaign...
Politico had a short piece yesterday (via PoliticalWire) about Obama 2012’s new foray into mobile fundraising: The Obama reelection campaign is providing headquarters staff, field organizers and volunteers the ability to take campaign...
Guest article! See below for the latest from our friends at PowerThru Consulting, and note that this article originally appeared on the PowerThru blog. What Really Works for End-Of-Year Fundraising? By Jon Wheeler, PowerThru Consulting Ah, December...
Check out the fundraising email below, which rolled in via the Daily Kos list on Friday. Other than standard template elements, its sole content consisted of: Subject: Mazel tov! Colin, Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, a Democrat and one of the...