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 are being drawn in the sand, and no matter where you fall politically, if you’re running for office in 2021, there’s one truth that you’re going to have to face: You’re going to have to […]

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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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