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 not know that The Campaign Coach is a fiction author, as well. I’ve published a few novels that, as you might imagine, are always influenced by politics in some way or another.

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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 often can’t see through the finger-pointing and mud-slinging to get a good read on the issues that actually matter. From another perspective, voting is so often based on emotion, and there’s no more powerful way […]

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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 a massive amount of meetings. And how many of them are well-run? How many of them reach an objective, and provide takeaway actions and follow-up steps? Probably not many.

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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 even due yet! But local candidates all across the country already have their sights set on 2019, no matter whether their races are in March, May, August or November.

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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 allows me to help more local candidates, all across the country. But, occasionally, I will be asked to participate more actively in a campaign for a candidate that I very much believe in, and I’ll […]

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