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Building an Engaged Email List

This is the second installment in a 5-part series on best email practices. Last week we gave a bird’s eye view of building a winning email program with two important concepts for growing an email list. This week we’ll buil...

Get Out the Vote! Add the Voting Information Project widget to your NationBuilder site

You have put tons of hours into your campaign and primary day is around the corner. Now, the most important question your website needs to answer is “Where do I vote?” NationBuilder and the Voting Information Project (VI...

Don't email blast the voter file

You’re in a rush: your candidate doesn’t have an email list of supporters because it’s the first time they’ve run for office. To make matters worse, you desperately need money and an easy way to reach out to voters. If you...

Updated Auto-districting for the United Kingdom

Running a campaign in the United Kingdom? Great news - we've updated our shapefiles for the entire country this week to correspond with newly drawn district boundaries (Wards in particular), and have also included Scottish...

4 Steps to Win Donors, Activists, and Voters with Email

This is the first installment in a 5-part series on best email practices Whether you’re brand new to email or a veteran with decades of marketing experience, these steps will help you win more donors, activists, and voters...

All United States State Legislature Seats: Now live on RunForOffice.org

At RunForOffice.org we just published all 7000+ state legislature seats in the United States and made those positions address-searchable, accompanied by easy to understand directions to get yourself on the ballot. The stat...

Logging Contacts - Politics with a Personal Touch

Every campaign's main priority is tracking their supporters and getting them to the polls, whether by 1s vs 5s, volunteers or donors. While tracking by numbers is the most streamlined way to do it, you can go a long way in...

NationBuilder on the doorstep - canvassing and much more

Knocking on doors and speaking to voters is an essential part of any successful election campaign. At NationBuilder, we’ve developed tools to help you do that. These work with your people database, so that you can take wha...

People: the (not so) secret ingredient in winning campaigns

Just over a year ago, I met Nancy Cooke, Director of Political Operations with the PC Party of Manitoba. I quickly learned that her leadership is a driving force behind the party’s organization and modernization - she even...