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Campaign Hack: Creating a Better Target Audience

The Voter Gravity platform prides itself in a user-friendly interface and navigation. The newest adjustments to the look and feel only further emphasize our efforts to continually improve the system based on feedback and the needs of users. That said, here’s a quick insider’s campaign hack you may not have realized was available to make your list preparations even easier.

Campaign Hack: Creating a Single Umbrella Tag

While we provide many options for developing your target audience, whether for door-to-door efforts or phonebanking, it’s possible that from among selections of election histories, party affiliations, and other options you may find yourself wanting to reuse that same criteria over and over again. Rather than choosing from each individual field every time you load a new precinct to pare down which voters you wish to contact, you can eliminate those steps by developing a single umbrella tag.

Under the Voter Data menu selection choose Export List. From here, choose from the various options for building a target universe just as you normally would in other areas of the system. Remember, in this screen you don’t have to select geographic parameters if you want to encompass all voters from your account.

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After pressing Submit to apply those choices, you can scroll to the bottom of the page and select a tag, using Tag Filtered Voters, to label everyone. This of course requires you to first create that tag but, if you haven’t, it can easily be done under Manage in the menu sidebar and choosing System Tags.

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Having completed this process once, you’re set for building your walklists and phonebanking lists by now choosing this new tag as the sole defining criterion. Especially when constructing walklists, working precinct by precinct, establishing this simple model beforehand can save you a lot of time!

We hope this campaign hack will help you maximize every possible moment during your voter contact efforts. If you have any questions or requests for future tips and hacks, please email support@votergravity.com.

This is What Engineering Victory Looks Like

It’s been a busy and rewarding summer and fall for the Voter Gravity team. We crossed a lot of items off our 2015 bucket list and are consequently in a better position to serve you! It was a privilege to help campaigns soar across the finish line earlier this month. We’re already working with 2016 campaigns who are gathering voter data to fine tune their messaging and speak directly to their voters.
My favorite upgrades:

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Podcast: Chris Littleton on Voter Databases and Grassroots Campaigning

Voter Gravity Director of Operations Chris Littleton is highlighted on Commonwealthy.com Podcast Series today, a site that aims to “Train those who know the benefits of limited government to win elections.” John Tsarpalas brings campaign and activism best-practices to conservatives as he interviews Chris on voter databases and grassroots campaigning techniques.

Check out this excerpt from today’s post on Commonwealthy.com. Click here to listen to the podcast.  Continue reading →

Fiorina Leads in NH in Post-CNN Debate Poll

All the talking heads were talking about Carly Fiorina’s debate performance, but were the voters of New Hampshire impressed as well?

Yes, they were.

In Voter Gravity’s latest presidential flash poll through touchtone phone responses, we surveyed 2,839 New Hampshire Republican Primary Voters the day after the CNN Debate, and they put Carly Fiorina in the top spot at 22%. Continue reading →

4 Ways to Leverage Your Political Events with Eventbrite

Why Events, and Event Data, Matter.

For longer than many of us can imagine campaign events and fundraisers have run in a very non-data rich environment. When I first started working on campaigns back in 1996, supporters attending campaign events were asked to fill out paper supporter cards which campaigns would toil over entering into their databases, sometimes never entering them at all.

As campaigns have matured and technology has allowed for greater efficiencies and functionalities, events, and data at events, have stayed in the slow lane of progress up until late. In 2012, the Romney campaign started to evolve this process by ticketing their 236 campaign rallies through the Eventbrite platform. Because of this, they were able to amass a data set of nearly every single person that not only registered in advance to come to the event, but also accounting for the people who actually showed up. Continue reading →

Integrate Like Obama

Voter Gravity Announces New Email, Survey, Event and Fundraising Integrations

Over the last generation, technology has changed our lives in ways we couldn’t have imagined. From personal photos that needed labs to develop film, to information seekers who relied on hours of scouring through books to find answers for the millions of tourists staring at maps to locate their destination, technology has made these once-complex tasks incredibly simple.

What has technology really done for us? Technology has saved us time. Time is one of the most precious commodities of the 21st century. With the time saved we can focus on a variety of other things that make us far more productive. Continue reading →

Here’s What A Modern Campaign Looks Like

Using campaign technology correctly means accomplishing the gold standard in politics — live interactions with voters. While many campaigns (of all sizes) still use paper walk lists and pens when contacting voters, our clients are doing incredible things with our system. We’re seeing truly remarkable modern campaigning going on. Hats off to you!

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Voter Gravity Announces Integration with the RNC Database

Voter Gravity announced today that it has fully integrated with the Republican National Committee database.

“We’re excited about these API integrations,” said Ned Ryun, CEO of Voter Gravity. “This will allow any candidate or state party who chooses to use Voter Gravity on the front end to put data back in real time into the RNC.” Continue reading →

The _______ Election

This piece is reposted from Pixels & Politics, originally published on July 31. Check out pixelsandpolitics.com for essays on technology, design, and growth marketing in the political industry.

Look, the Internet and its related technologies are a big deal, I get it.

In fact, the only person not to notice technology’s role in shaping our lives is likely to be found at the bottom of Mamie White’s mine shaft (she’s got three you know).

It’s gotten so bad that the average human being now carries at least 2.9 devices on them at all times.

In fact, there are now more people on this planet with a mobile phone than a toothbrush. Sad, especially during close conversations.

And, if those weren’t startling enough, in 2009 Google handled an estimated 1 billion search queries a day, generating almost 200 tons of CO2 and using more electricity in a year than almost two-thirds of the world’s nations.

So sorry Beyoncé, it’s obvious. Who runs the world? Tech…tech now runs the world. Continue reading →