The Impacts of Early Voting
As some of you may know from our blogs, I'm not only The Campaign Coach, but have tapped into my...
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7 ways to talk to voters (when you can’t talk to voters)
With the exceptions of the Amazons in the world, over the past year almost every brand that exists has had...
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Don’t Let Your Election Be Close
If you're following the news, you'll know that there is lots of mystery and intrigue surrounding elections right now. Lines...
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Asking for Things
For the next several months, as a campaigning candidate for political office you will be asking people for things -...
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5 Things You Can Do to Strengthen Your 2021 Local Campaign Now
For the last few election cycles, The Campaign Coach has analyzed campaign tactics, and offered best practices and ideas from...
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Thinking of Running for Public Office in 2021? Why?
Unless the first thing you did when you came to my web site was read my bio (unlikely), you may...
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Running for Office, Getting Attacked, and Still Winning
In today's political environment, attacks have become the hallmark of campaigning. From one perspective, it's an unfortunate thing, because voters...
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Top 10 People Who Come to the Door when You’re Canvassing (and how to deal with them)
Canvassing is the time-honored tradition of going door-to-door through the neighborhoods in your community in an attempt to connect directly...
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Running an Effective Campaign Meeting
Let's face it. We all have too many meetings. If you're in any kind of professional role, you sit through...
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Don’t Be the Candidate that Loses by Less than 10 Votes
Imagine you put your blood, sweat and tears into running your campaign and learn Election Night that you've lost by...
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Get Started Early Running for Local Office
The 2018 elections are barely over - in fact in some states the campaign filings from the recent elections aren't...
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THE “SWEARING IN” – THE PINNACLE OF RUNNING A WINNING CAMPAIGN (and how Facebook helped get us there)
I don't do a lot of hands-on, day-to-day campaigns anymore, having moved on to the broader Campaign Coach Program, which...
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Making Sure Your Volunteers are On Message
Once you reach a point in your campaign where you've got a team of volunteers out in the community helping...
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Going to Campaign School? Here’s what you should get out of it.
I remember going to a campaign school years ago - you've seen them, these all-day affairs where you go to...
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Taking on national issues in a local campaign
I caught a Facebook post for one of our local candidates on his campaign page the other day - a...
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5 Things Candidates Can Do on a Snowy Day
Not much you can do - almost the entire eastern part of the country is being inundated today with snow,...
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Your aunt says you should run for office: Let us help you see if she’s right!
That's how it starts, isn't it? At some point in your life, you're in a family discussion at some holiday...
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Lessons Learned from a $3 Million Campaign
It’s a bit of irony that, while at The Campaign Coach we spend the majority of our time counseling local...
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I’m not running yet, but I’m thinking about it: What can I do?
For a variety of reasons, local elections around the country happen at all different times of year. While most take...
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Call Some Consultants, Get Some Prices
We're political consultants, so we don't want to diminish the importance of bringing consultant expertise onto your campaign early in...
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