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"What People Are Saying About "105 Ways to Keep in Touch with Your Elected Officials All Year"
Relationships with legislators in the district are what paves the way for future high-volume grassroots communications. Here are a few of the comments from those who have taken advantage of our "105 Ways" resource.
"I use the booklet as a mid-summer reminder to my members to stay in front of their legislators all summer. Our members encounter elected officials all summer through the rounds of barbecues, Rotary meetings, etc. This publication provides them with ways to leverage these opportunities."
Suzanne Goucher
Executive Director, Maine Association of Broadcasters
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Revelations from the Roundtables - Innovate to Motivate PAC and Grassroots Interactive Discussion
My Innovate to
Motivate seminar partners, Tony Kramer, Peter Kennerdell and I conducted our
first PAC and grassroots Innovate to Motivate Roundtable discussions in
August. How did the participants rate
the day? Our average score was 9.8 on a scale of 1-10. (And "10" is good, by
the way!)
Not only was a
good time had by all, with lots of laughs and banter, but also the following
results came from the Roundtables:
"I
learned to look at the big picture and work backward to achieve the 'big
picture' goal. Now I will look at the
small things I can do to move my program forward. I also plan to look at our communications plans and make our
grassroots communications more specific to each audience."
Heidi Watzak, Darden Restaurants
Click here to read more.
The Challenges of Properly Executing a Key Contact Program
Key Contact programs begin with great fanfare, hope and expectations. Properly
executed, they are one of the most efficacious ways to impact the political
process. However, many Key Contact programs are simply faceless names in a
database. How can something so right turn out so wrong? I believe that 90
percent of our results (or lack of them) are embedded in the execution of our
Key Contact programs. Click here to read more.
Beyond Fundraisers & Fly-ins -- New Grassroots Advocate Training Resource
If you ever found yourself wishing that your grassroots advocates/PAC members
would stay in touch with their elected officials all year, TSG has a resource
for you.
I have authored a new publication that will teach your advocates how they can
connect with their lawmakers all year, not only when they need their vote.
"105 Ways to Keep in Touch with Your Elected Officials All Year"
contains over 100 legislative, social, campaign, political and general
networking techniques that result in more active advocates.
Custom imprinting is available, as well as licensing opportunities and booklet
text customization for your particular industry/profession.
Click here to view a sample of the booklet
as well as an
order form
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Fire Up Your PAC and Grassroots Presentations
"We rely on employees who volunteer for our PAC Leadership
Committee throughout an 11-state service territory to recruit new PAC
members. Amy and Vickie "fired-up" our Committee members through their
insightful and entertaining workshop. More importantly, they incorporated
"real-world" exercises to ensure that each of our attendees left with
recruitment approaches tailored to their own area."
Larry Jones
- Manager of Public Affairs
American Electric Power
Just when you thought it was safe, we are
teaming up to provide government relations
professionals with practical, enduring tools
to increase your PAC dollars and grassroots
membership.
click here to find out more
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