Killer Campaigning: Political Campaign & Election StrategyWe got a question this week from Darren in Arkansas, a Killer Campaigning fan who is not a candidate himself but wonders whether you can win a local election with nothing more than a great Internet presence.
. . . so to get to my point do you think it’s possible, if a candidate in a [...]
Although political campaign strategy is a hobby of mine, my full-time career is in the field of Search Engine Optimization, Internet Marketing and Online Social Media. All three of those topics are becoming more and more applicable to political campaigns of all sizes, and even candidates in local elections are starting to realize that simply [...]
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 career is in web design, Internet [...]
Last week on Killer Campaigning, I published two posts that had to do with how election candidates can create effective local political campaign websites. The first was an endorsement of the website platform WordPress for building and publishing political campaign sites, and the second offered advice about going with a minimal, simple candidate website design [...]
Are you a candidate for public office who is thinking about starting a political campaign website? An interesting recent article about a decline in blogging among teenagers and young adults might be a good indicator of how the average Internet user’s web browsing preferences are changing . . . and help you optimize your campaign [...]
We already touched on the more general topic of creating and implementing a great political campaign website, but let’s focus for a moment on the website management platform that I use for my campaign sites: WordPress.
I absolutely love WordPress and am more impressed with it every time it comes out with a new update (which [...]
The advent of computers and specialized software has made it easier to do just about every job imaginable, and political campaigning is no exception. Although I’m sure you could run a winning political campaign without a computer, I wouldn’t want to try it. When it comes to organizing and tracking names, addresses, finance reports, contributions [...]
In spite of what some tech-savvy web designers and Internet specialists might say, we still haven’t reached a point in our society where a website is a must-have for every single local political campaign. True, it’s hard to imagine a successful congressional, senatorial, statewide or presidential campaign without a great website, social media plan and [...]
