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The Origin of Dimpled Chads – Patrick Wohl (Down Ballot)
Entrepreneurs
February 21, 2024
26
 MIN

"The next time someone tells you local politics is uninteresting or inconsequential you can point them to this case."

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The Future Of Online Fundraising – Ryan Lyk (WinRed)
Entrepreneurs
November 22, 2023
35
 MIN

"What we've seen in our testing is that personalization works. When you are tailoring content for what that person cares about, you're going to get better results."

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Metrics and Innovation in Political Recruitment – Sylvie Légère (Candidate Pathways)
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November 8, 2023
32
 MIN

"These local races, it's a dog fight in the gutter, and you need to be liked, and you need to be known, and you cannot just be a barking dog – showing up and pointing to everything that's wrong. You need to have shown that you could be a team player."

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Building Audiences and Content in the Political Media Industry – Bubba Atkinson (Monarch Media Ventures)
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September 27, 2023
30
 MIN

"You can get the center left and the hard right to agree on a lot of things, but you have to present it in a certain way. It can't be combative. And that's how I view a lot of conservative medias, is quite combative."

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Using AI To Make Better Informed Citizens – Paul Allen (Citizen Portal)
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August 16, 2023
31
 MIN

"I think it's a really good time for Americans to say, let's lean into AI as citizens to hold our representatives accountable and to make sure that what they say they actually do and what they do actually works."

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Meet The AI Writing Campaign Fundraising Emails – Mike Nellis (Quiller)
Entrepreneurs
July 5, 2023
30
 MIN

"If you are looking at this landscape with all the tech changes that are happening now and that are gonna happen in the next year, five years, et cetera, and you are not thinking about how to totally restructure your process and your company, you are already a dinosaur."

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How To Build A Disruptive Political Business – Michael Beach (Cross Screen Media)
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May 3, 2023
30
 MIN

Everybody wants to get to streaming right now, and it's also the future of the business. If you are a TV buyer, the only way that you can hold onto the media budget long term is to own streaming.

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What About Improving Major Donor Fundraising? – Dante Vitagliano (Trailmapper)
Entrepreneurs
April 26, 2023
28
 MIN

"Not every donor prospect needs to receive every email, and that most especially applies to the major donors."

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Shaping The Washington Conversation With Digital – Tyler Brown (Hadron Strategies)
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February 8, 2023
33
 MIN

That's what the policy world in Washington is. Everything that you start to take for granted, there's always shifts. Three, two, every four years that shift can come, and it's a question of how are you prepared for when that shift happens?

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The Way Forward For Online Campaign Fundraising – Ken Mika (Politicoin)
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February 1, 2023
18
 MIN

"Campaigns are a hundred percent ready for having a specialized firm in fundraising. We've seen this take place with firms making just TV ads, even some for just knocking on doors."

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What Voters Think About Fundraising Emails – Josh Nelson (Civic Shout)
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November 30, 2022
28
 MIN

"The spamming and scamming tactics that have become all too common are doing real damage to our ability to reach people and hold their attention."

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The Startup Skills Campaigns Teach – Steve Johnston (Flexpoint Media)
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April 6, 2022
24
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"Data in the car, hopefully in your passenger seat, but not necessarily the driver's seat."

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What Americans Should Know About European Campaigns – Juri Schnöller (Cosmonauts & Kings)
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November 9, 2022
27
 MIN

"Most people say, 'Look, this kind of hyper polarized political debate, we don't want to have that in Europe.'"

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Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Campaigns – Will Long (Numinar)
Entrepreneurs
October 6, 2021
22
 MIN

"My only experience ever with political campaigns was one Saturday in New Hampshire where I volunteered to go up with the Harvard Republican Club and knock doors for a day. It opened my eyes to this new opportunity for where technology and entrepreneurship we see in Silicon Valley hadn't really permeated as deeply.".

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Bringing Digital Advertising Into Reach For Campaigns Of All Sizes – Andy Yates (Republican Ads)
Entrepreneurs
October 19, 2022
32
 MIN

"We can drill down and make sure your persuasion is only going to persuasion, and you're putting GOTV messaging in front of the folks that are already in your camp."

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Building Scalable Political Businesses – Nicole Schlinger (Campaign HQ)
Entrepreneurs
September 8, 2021
22
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"When you make the jump from operative to entrepreneur, you have to understand that your objectives are aligned with your clients' but they are not identical."

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Money Talks...If You Know How To Listen – Stephen Aaron (527 Tracker)
Entrepreneurs
October 12, 2022
27
 MIN

"There's a big difference between somebody spending $4 million in a week and $7 million in a week, and we needed to figure out what were the accurate numbers and we were able to build an algorithm to do it."

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Tracking The Spending Of The $9.8 Billion Midterm Elections – Kyle Roberts (AdImpact)
Entrepreneurs
October 5, 2022
23
 MIN

"One campaign always wants to know what the other campaign is up to."

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Embracing Cryptocurrency Voters – Tyler Whirty (HODLpac)
Entrepreneurs
September 21, 2022
28
 MIN

"The crypto community is a powder keg of political energy."

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Building Software To Solve Your Own Challenges – Joe Mansour (Speak4)
Entrepreneurs
September 7, 2022
23
 MIN

"Once someone sent a message to their lawmakers on this issue, they cared about they're, bought in and they were much more likely to then donate to the organization than if they'd just been asked directly for a hard solicitation."

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Online Fundraising Software For Donors – Marcus Tetwiler (Sprinkle)
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August 31, 2022
36
 MIN

"We look at political contributions as a 15 billion market where the candidates have had their needs prioritized for years, while the donor experience has fallen behind."

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What It Takes To Build A Winning Campaign Website – Ryan Rodgers (The Strategy Group Co.)
Entrepreneurs
July 6, 2022
32
 MIN

"People are visual. You have to pierce the heart, then move the mind. To do that it's emotion based."

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How To Survive Crises In Business And Politics – Wesley Donehue (Push Digital)
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July 20, 2022
30
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"When the cancel culture mob comes for you, they don't want you to just lose your job temporarily. They want to make sure you are destroyed for life."

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Knowing What's On Every Ballot – Alex Niemczewski (BallotReady)
Entrepreneurs
July 27, 2022
23
 MIN

"We are nonpartisan and we mean it. We have integrity around it."

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Voter Data As A Utility – Jon Black (Data Trust)
Entrepreneurs
August 10, 2022
26
 MIN

"They were focused on building a data operation for the party. And that's kind of what led to the Data Trust in how we operate. You know, we are an entity and again, a utility for the party and not just for one candidate or one individual."

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