Win Your Issue With Telephone Townhalls

When we think of political townhalls, it may conjure Rockwellian images of public officeholders standing before their constituents, listening earnestly, and responding thoughtfully…

While the times have certainly changed and technology has helped us evolve, the sentiment remains the same. How can elected officials, candidates or even interest groups have meaningful and effective communication that can be positive for constituents?

Telephone Townhalls, of course.

A scientific study conducted in 2019, affirms these facts about telephone townhalls:

They also acknowledge that it’s not simply the act of having a telephone townhall that does the trick. Telephone townhalls are a popular tool but when you let CHQ enhance your telephone townhalls, they become “an effective platform to reach many constituents at once and cultivate trust, approval, and positive impressions among participants.”

CHQ will help you make the most of your telephone townhall by:

Putting in the work before the event – Reach out to people and invite them to join well ahead of your event through peer-to-peer text messages, an email blast to your list, a social media post, and an automated call.

Prepare you and your team – Plan the flow and structure of questions and lay out the rules for discussion, produce quality line-by-lines and include notes to help guide the conversation, and act as a moderator to open the call and keep the conversation going.

Have an interesting, worthwhile conversation – Keep the conversation fast and lively, give the audience several ways to participate including poll questions, gather email addresses, and share valuable information with your audience.

Keep it going after the event – Use the recording of your event, share on social channels, and send peer-to-peer text messages to those who may have missed your event. Email supporters a synopsis and the link to listen to the recording.

CampaignHQ helps you take your telephone townhalls to the next level in a few key ways:

By gathering actionable data – whether it’s a list of people who have committed to vote, contact their legislator, share their opinion on an issue, or provide an opt-in to communicate during the blackout period – we start by learning your goals and work backwards to craft a program that will result in your audience taking action.
By helping you maximize your reach to younger, mobile-phone-only audiences with live audio and video streaming to your website and Facebook live. We can also invite your cell phone audience to join you by text message and a free pinless (EASY) toll free number to dial in.

Now is the time to connect in a positive way. Let CHQ help you win with telephone townhalls.

Telephone Townhalls: an experiment

According to political science studies, telephone townhalls are popular tools but when you let CHQ enhance your telephone townhalls, they are an effective platform to reach many constituents at once and cultivate trust, approval, and positive impressions among participants.

Call me today and let’s get to work.

Take Your Event to the Next Level

Nicole Schlinger

Event season is upon us. The country is opening. Organizations are holding events. Incumbents are out hosting meetings. Associations are getting together to recap the session and lay out their agenda for the next one. No matter your event – size, in-person or virtual, or topic – the experts at CampaignHQ stand ready to help you take it to the next level.

There are several strategies that you may not have even considered. Here are a few ideas:

Automated Calls

Automated calls are the fastest, most affordable way to reach people. By relying on CampaignHQ for your automated calls, you will be able to grow your RSVP list and broaden your reach affordably. You can depend on us for complete FCC / TCPA compliance, lightning-fast setup, reporting and return of data and RSVPs. When you’re planning a big event, you don’t need one more thing to worry about.

Live Calls

Our team of specialists and award-winning callers will work with you to quickly turn around a script and get the calls rolling as you push turnout to your event. Trust the pros to have effective, two-way conversations with potential attendees, providing them with all the information and details they need to attend your event.

Text Messages

There are countless ways to leverage a text message. You can send your invitation directly to attendees’ phones, send reminders to those who have RSVPed, direct people to your website or even send a follow-up video after your event, thanking attendees for their support.

Telephone Townhalls

Cover all your bases by taking your in-person event and leveraging a virtual aspect. By utilizing a telephone townhall, you’ll be able to stream audio and video and connect to your attendees virtually thought a live Facebook event or on your website. You’ll get more attendees, more attention and have content to share later.

Give us a call and let us know what you’re planning. We will talk through your goals, expectations and needs and work with you to develop the best plan for YOU. There’s no question, with the CampaignHQ team by your side, you’ll knock it out of the park.

Communicate Directly with Telephone Townhalls

This past year, I’ve talked a lot about telephone townhalls and how, especially during COVID, they have been a great tool for candidates to talk to voters directly, while still allowing people to feel safe.

Telephone Townhalls are much more than that. I wanted to give you a better picture of this tool and how to best utilize it. I even share some actual calls as examples.

Give me a call today and the CHQ team will get to work for you right away to help you better deliver your message.

Turn to CHQ

I’ve been harping on this for a few weeks, but I want to be clear – you do not have to feel beholden to big tech companies. Whether you’re an issue advocacy group or a campaign – the experts at CHQ will help you keep things moving forward instead of waiting around to see what big tech is going to allow you to do.

It’s time to turn to CHQ:

Nicole Schlinger

If you are a campaign or an issue advocacy organization, you can no longer rely on social platforms to deliver your message. Telephone townhalls are an effective way to communicate a message to an audience of thousands, over the phone and online. Update your membership and keep them engaged on your issues.

Nicole Schlinger

If you are a campaign or an issue advocacy organization, you can no longer rely on social platforms to deliver your message. Patch through calls empower YOU to identify like-minded people, educate them about your issue, and transfer them directly to their lawmaker’s office to make their voice heard. This tactic will help you target the fence sitters and focus your resources. #WeCanHelp

Nicole Schlinger

You cannot rely on Big Tech overlords to deliver your message. Time to quickly build membership or support for your issue with a telephone petition drive. Our CampaignHQ representatives explain your cause and ask the voter to add his/her name to your petition, collect emails, and recruit volunteers. #WeCanHelp

Don’t Be Held Hostage by Big Tech

Nicole Schlinger Brooklyn

What began with political campaigns last fall is now silencing and limiting the reach of issue advocacy organizations.

With state legislatures and Congress back in session, how will you make your voice heard with people whose lives will be impacted by the laws they pass?

You cannot rely on Big Tech overlords to deliver your message. (They won’t.) Even if you’ve developed a following on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram … you don’t own that audience … they do! This is an existential threat to liberty-minded and conservative organizations.

I don’t want YOUR organization – your important work on behalf of the issues – to be the next victim of capricious Big Tech overlord.

Our sole mission at CampaignHQ is to make sure YOUR voice is heard.

We can communicate directly with the people who need to hear your message and mobilize them to take action.

Here’s how we can help:

Patch through calls empower YOU to identify like-minded people, educate them about your issue, and transfer them directly to their lawmaker’s office to make their voice heard. This tactic will help you target the fence sitters and focus your resources.

Peer-to-peer texting isn’t just for campaign turnout. You can mobilize activists to support key legislation by sending a text message with an informative video or a link on how to engage elected officials. This will help you connect and converse with your allies and even open a new fundraising channel.

Telephone townhalls are a powerful, effective way to communicate a message to an audience of thousands, over the phone and online. Update your membership and keep them engaged on your issues. We’ll help you record your files for a pre-call, live answer, voicemail and even post call.

Quickly build membership or support for your issue with a telephone petition drive. Our CampaignHQ representatives explain your cause and ask the voter to add his/her name to your petition, collect emails, and recruit volunteers. Each day, you receive a list of newly recruited, enthusiastic supporters to immediately plug into your grassroots efforts.

Nothing motivates a politician quite like hearing from their constituents.

We can help you get the avalanche of public opinion started.

Give us a call and our talented team will help you put together a creative plan to make your voice heard and help you win.

1-888-722-4704

Make Your Voice Heard

Nicole Schlinger

We continue our focus on how to best make your voice heard in our nation’s capital or any statehouse across the country.

This year’s legislative sessions will not be cancelled, yet in many ways, constituents ability to interact with lawmakers will be severely limited. This does not mean that lawmakers will slow down, it just means if you don’t come up with creative ways to reach them, the voice of your organization and membership will be left behind.

You need a new plan to reach lawmakers and make sure the voice of YOUR PEOPLE is heard.

Telephone townhalls are a powerful, effective way to communicate a message to an audience of thousands, over the phone and online. At CampaignHQ, we specialize in turning communication into action through training, scripting, and real-time feedback. After the event, we’ll help you make the best use of your valuable data.

Telephone townhalls can be used in a variety of ways, no matter who you are:

1. Lawmaker

Telephone townhalls can be used for official business, in leu of in-person events, talking to voters about how you’re fulfilling your campaign promises.

2. Candidate, Party Officials

Telephone townhalls help take your message directly to the voter and engage in a two-way conversation.

3. Interest Group, Associations

Brief membership and help keep them engaged on the issue.

Setting up a telephone townhall couldn’t be easier when you’re working with CampaignHQ.

We will help you record your sound files for a pre-call, live answer, voicemail, and even post call.

Don’t forget to invite voters via conTEXT message. We’ll help you use poll questions to gather critical information from the people on your call.

You’ll get real time, actionable data.

Let us know how we can help,

Nicole Schlinger

They’re Back!

Across the country, state legislatures are reconvening, and new Congress is already at work in Washington, DC.

Unlike 2020, this year’s legislative sessions will not be cancelled. In fact, newly elected leaders are making up for lost time. We expect record activity as politicians either try to make their campaign promises into law or break those promises with the hope that constituents do not notice.

In many states and at the federal level, lawmakers are looking under every proverbial “couch cushion” to find a few extra bucks to fill massive budget gaps.

If you do not want your members unfairly targeted for tax hikes or burdensome regulations, you need a strategy to make your voice heard.

In pre-pandemic times, you may have planned a trip to the Capitol or attended your lawmaker’s local townhall meetings. With the vaccine still months away for most Americans, personal access to lawmakers will be difficult, if not impossible.

You need a new plan to reach lawmakers and make sure the voice of YOUR PEOPLE is heard.

We can help you craft a creative, WINNING strategy!

The best way to get a politician’s attention is to mobilize constituents to voice their support or opposition to pending legislation.

One important distinction – not all contacts are created equal. Anyone on The Hill will tell you, calls matter. In a deeper dive on the issue, The NY Times noted:

“Activists of all political stripes recommend calling legislators, not just emailing — and certainly not just venting on social media….A phone call from a constituent can, indeed, hold more weight than an email, and far outweighs a Facebook post or a tweet.”

Patch Through Calls

CampaignHQ can help you generate these all-important telephone contacts with a smartly run patch through campaign.

Patch through calls empower YOU to identify like-minded people, educate them about your issue, and transfer them directly to their lawmaker’s office to make their voice heard.

To run an effective patch through campaign, our campaign experts will help you:

1. Target the Fence Sitters

There’s no need to waste limited resources on someone who is solidly in your camp or firmly against you. However, it can be helpful to send a few positive patches into an office to give backup to someone taking a tough vote on your behalf.

2. Keep It Conversational

Our script writing professionals will make sure your script is simple and straight to the point. Constituents are not immersed in the unique language of your industry. They want to know what the issue is, how it affects them, and how they can make a difference.

3. Coordinate Your Efforts

Patch through calls are a powerful tool, but they are even better when coordinated with your ongoing advocacy efforts.

Peer-to-Peer Texting

Peer-to-Peer texting isn’t just for campaign turnout.

To execute an effective P2P plan, our campaign experts will help you:

1. Mobilize Your Membership

Interest groups can mobilize activists to support the key legislation by sending a text message with an informative video or a link on how to engage their elected officials.

2. Connect and Converse with your Allies

The value of peer-to-peer texting is that a real human being is making a connection with another. Our team reads and responds to every text so the target audience is getting a real, two-way conversation.

3. Open a New Fundraising Channel

Engaging by text message can even be an effective way to raise money. Personalized messages, pictures, GIFs, links and videos help the audience buy in to what you’re selling and have the tool to donate right at their fingertips.

Telephone Townhalls

The vaccine may be rolling out across the country, but it will be a long time before people are comfortable with in-person events. If you’re an interest group, one way to mobilize your membership on important issues and keep them engaged is with telephone townhalls.

To run an effective telephone townhall, our campaign experts will help you:

1. Put in the work before the event

The most active and involved participants in any telephone townhall are those who proactively dial in to the event, so focus on contacting those who will be interested. We’ll help you with a text message, automated call, email, or social media post to help you get the word out.

2. Prepare, Prepare, Prepare

It’s important to approach a telephone townhall with the same level of preparation as any in-person event. CampaignHQ has the expertise when it comes to: planning the flow and structure of questions, producing a quality line-by-line, and even acting as a moderator.

3. Have an interesting conversation

We can help you to ensure you hold your audience with a conversation WORTH having by keeping the conversation fast and lively. We’ll also help you construct poll questions to keep your audience engaged.

4. Keep it going after the event

After your successful event, it’s time to take the most valuable segments of your interactive conversation and share them with an even larger audience by using a recording of your event and sharing it on social channels as well as sending peer-to-peer text messages sharing the event.

Politicians are always thinking about their next re-election. Hearing from one constituent after another on a particular issue is a way you can capitalize on that fact. Elected officials are good people who want to do right by their constituents.

Give us a call today and let us start delivering your message.

These tools aren’t just for advocating to legislators.

If you are a legislator, you should be utilizing these strategies to reach out and have real conversations with your constituents.

Now is the time to allow constituents to engage with you by asking their questions, meeting them right where they are, and building your lists for the next cycle.

Let us help you get started. 1-888-722-4704

Facebook is Shutting You Down

Facebook recently announced it will not accept any new political ads in the last 7 days before Election Day. So, what happens if your opponent attacks you on the night of the 8^th day and the “Facebook thought police” won’t let you respond?

You need a way to reach voters – and you can do that with conTEXT, live calls, and telephone townhalls.

conTEXT

You can introduce yourself, share your vision in a 20 second video, refute an attack, show a sample ballot and ask each person to watch your video and share their opinions. There are countless ways to leverage this tool.

CHQ is the industry leader when it comes to peer-to-peer texting. Our team knows how to deliver the right message to your voters to help you win. Our agents personally send and reply to every single message. We can even track who clicked on your link!

Live calls
An effective way to combat voter confusion is with live calls. Our team of specialists and award winning callers will work with you to quickly turn around a script and get the calls rolling.

Candidates who take advantage of real, two-way conversations with voters are going to have a major advantage over those who just blast their information in your face.

Telephone Townhall
A telephone townhall helps you reach a large audience directly and let the voters interact with you, showing them that you’re ready, able and willing to speak with them and answer their questions.

Even better – setting up a telephone townhall couldn’t be easier when you’re working with CampaignHQ. We will help you record your sound files for a pre-call, live answer, voicemail, and even post call. Don’t forget to invite voters via conTEXT message.

We’ll help you use poll questions to gather critical information from the people on your call. Are they voting early or in person? Are they voting for you or your opponent? You’ll get real time, actionable data that can move the needle in your campaign.

Facebook’s move is more than just an inconvenience for you – if you don’t take it seriously, it may be fatal to your campaign. We can help you combat disinformation about polling locations or absentee ballots, fight back when the smear attacks come from your opponent, or make a positive, last minute push.

When it’s too late to drop mail and the airways are already full, we’ve got your back with context, live calls and telephone townhalls.

Summer is Cancelled

Parades, town festivals, backyard BBQs, local fairs – there is nothing more authentic than campaigning in the summertime. Large crowds of local voters and lots of hands to shake make for easy and fun campaign work.

But what happens during a global pandemic where crowds are forbidden and handshaking is frowned upon?

How do you connect with voters when summer is cancelled?

Voter ID
Step one of campaigning is identifying your supporters. Since in-person campaigning has been nearly impossible, you may have pushed back your voter ID. If you haven’t done this already, you are behind. Don’t worry – we can get you back on track.

We can set up an automated call quickly, and they are extremely affordable! We can help draft a script, record the audio, scrub the list of mobile phones, set up, and launch! Using an automated call to survey voters can help you get the results you have been anticipating quickly!

CampaignHQ can also assist you with a live blind ID call. Simply send us a list of voters you would like us to contact and we can do the rest!

Telephone Townhall
CampaignHQ can help you rally your supporters and show undecided voters that you are ready, able, and willing to talk with them and answer their questions.

Setting up a telephone townhall is easy when working with CampaignHQ. Simply send us a date and time you would like to talk with your voters (or constituents on the official side) and a list. We will help you record your sound files for a pre-call, live answer, voicemail, and even post call!

We can also help you invite voters via conTEXT message and advise you on how to promote the event through your email and social channels.

conTEXT
If you haven’t added peer-to-peer texting to your campaign arsenal yet, you’re missing an important component. This may be your best chance to capture the attention of young voters, women voters, and swing voters.

You can introduce yourself, share your vision in a 20 second video, and ask each person to watch your video and share their opinions. There are countless ways to leverage this tool.

Remember, the value of peer-to-peer texting is that a real human being is making a connection with another. Our agents personally send and reply to every single message. We can even track who clicked on your link!

GOTV
As confusion continues to surround the country re-opening, Election Day is growing near. Phone calls can significantly impact your turnout.

Some people will be voting by mail who have never voted by mail before. These voters may be confused on how to even request an absentee ballot. Those who want to vote in person may be confused how and where to vote, now that protocols have changed due to social distancing.

In addition to GOTV calls, CampaignHQ can send out a conTEXT message letting your voters know where their voting location is on Election Day.We can even text voters how they would apply for an absentee ballot. Nothing is worse than voters not showing up to cast their ballot.

While summer may be cancelled, we know your election is not. Want the winning edge? Give me a call at (888) 722-4704.

Nicole Schlinger