Killer Campaigning: Political Campaign & Election Strategy

One common mistake made by new candidates in local elections is not including their political campaign committee disclaimer on materials that are paid for from their campaign fund.  Let’s take a quick look at political campaign disclaimer requirements to make sure that you don’t run afoul of election ethics [...] Continue Reading…

If you’re a local election candidate who is running a for office for the first time, you might have a few questions about how to set up a political campaign bank account.  While it isn’t a very difficult thing to do, starting your campaign bank account is an important [...] Continue Reading…

There is one thing that political candidates in both small local elections and politicians who are running high-profile campaigns have in common: they both have to establish a political campaign committee and keep track of all financial transactions that take place over the course of their campaign.

Starting a political [...] Continue Reading…

Killer Campaigning is quickly becoming one of the most popular websites in the country for candidates and consultants in search of campaign resources, with hundreds of unique visitors stopping by every day.

We’ve started getting a lot of requests to link back to other political campaign resource websites, and I’m [...] Continue Reading…

What would professional politicians do without campaign consultants?  Political campaign consulting is a lucrative business, especially if you can get on board with winning candidates who have lofty ambitions and fundraising skills.  There are political consulting firms that rake in millions of dollars a year, and more during busy [...] Continue Reading…

I’m excited this morning to see that the Killer Campaigning Facebook page is about to roll over to 1,000 fans.  That’s an amazing number of followers for a website that has only been up and running for a few months, so we must be doing something right.

If you haven’t [...] Continue Reading…

Naomi writes a question for Killer Campaigning over on our Facebook Fan Page:
Should your campaign website url be a .com or a .org or does it even matter?
Good question Naomi, and not just for local political campaign candidates, either.  Political campaigning is a hobby of mine, but my full-time [...] Continue Reading…

What’s in a name, anyway?  If you’re a political candidate who is running a campaign for office in a local election, the answer is “a lot.”  Building name recognition is one of the most important things you can do to win a political campaign, and it’s one of the [...] Continue Reading…

Here’s a quick question for Killer Campaigning from Sarah in Arizona:
I’m a local political candidate who is running a campaign for office in a medium-sized town in Arizona.  I have a campaign website that I would like people to visit, do you think that I should put my website [...] Continue Reading…

If you want to know how to be a political candidate and  run for office in a local election, then part of planning a great campaign is choosing the race that you are most likely to win.

It’s not surprising, though, that most potential candidates who are interested in public [...] Continue Reading…