Email campaigning
I joined the RDP a week ago.
I have an interest in email campaigning that I have expressed to Zan and she said I should get in touch with the Action Alert Team. Below are messages Zan and I have exchanged on the subject of email campaigning. Please comment with your reactions or suggestions if you are interested.
Rob Shattuck
[messaging with Zan]
From Robert Shattuck to Rainy Day Patriots
Sent 11 hours ago
Hi Zan,
This response is about email campaigning.
The website for my Rp Redux blog is still down, so I still cannot make shortcut links to Rp Redux to explain my email campaigning in elections over the past 10 years.
Let me put some things in a nut shell for you, for what it is worth.
In my email campaigning, my interest has been to try to influence views and thinking by emailing to persons whose views I did not know. That is to say, I did not seek to do emailing that was "preaching to the choir," i.e., sending emails saying things that I knew my recipients already agreed with and who needed no influencing from me.
My email campaigning has required a high degree of motivation to endure the tedium of getting email addresses and sending emails and expending the time and effort needed to do it in large quantities. I have found my most powerful personal motivator to be anger about lawmakers and politicians and their actions.
I have wanted others to join with me and do similar email campaigning. I don't think I persuaded a single other person to undertake email campaigning. I am dubious that I will persuande any Rainy Day Patriots at this time either.
In my email campaigning, I have endeavored to create email subject lines and content and other elements of my email campaign that I thought would engender reaction and responsiveness on the part of email recipients. I have gotten very little feedback indicating that I was successful, but it is possible that I have had effect that I did not know or learn about.
I continue interested in a team emailing effort. I think there needs to be untity of team members in the email message they desire to spend a significant time and effort to convey on a wide scale basis.
If you think that anything I say above has potential for interest to the Rainy Day Patriots, let me know and we can find ways to develop further the idea of an email campaign during the remaining time before election day.
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Permalink Reply by Juanita T. Durham on -
Hi Rob,
I am presently the Action Alert Team leader and will look forward to meeting with you on Thursday night and having you share your ideas and experiences. I have sent out countless emails this past year hoping to educate and inspire political involvement and have gotten responses when least expected thanking me. It has been my prayer that there was at least one other person out there who did not respond who was in some way motivated or encouraged. And I would venture to guess that you have been more successful with your emailing than you know! It was Dick Morris who encouraged every conservative American to do just what you and I have done.
It has been an honor to have been a part of this tea party movement and to stand shoulder to shoulder with such good and decent patriotic Americans and it is gratifying to know that I have contributed in some small way.
See you Thursday night!! In God We Trust
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Permalink Reply by Rob Shattuck on
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Thank you Nita. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow night as well.
Inasmuch as I suggest that, in a team emailing campaign, there should be some unity of view about email messages to be purveyed, I would like to say that I like Don Alexander's theme stated here: http://www.rainydaypatriots.org/profiles/blogs/creating-a-national-...
[I think this is a reply to my original discussion and not a reply to your reply. I am still trying to figure out how things on the website work.]
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Permalink Reply by Rob Shattuck on
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Proposed draft of an email message for a team email campaign effort:
DRAFT
From: ______
To: _______
Sent: ____________
Subj: Fight America's no. 1 domestic enemy on Nov. 2, and after
Who is that enemy?
We think it is the system, and the lawmakers and politicians who are corrupted by it, serving the special interests in order to get the money they need to have the power of elected office.
They the politicians have been shameless in their corruption, as we the citizens have watched helplessly for years.
In their corruption, the politicians have exploited natural differences among the citizens, in furtherance of the politicans' money and power games.
Some say things are going to change in 2010.
We pray for that.
More, millions of us are working our butts off to make a difference on November 2.
Please learn more [insert appropriate link] and join in.
We think you will be glad you did.
_______________,
Member of the __________ Tea Party -
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Permalink Reply by Rob Shattuck on
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I propose an email campaign entitled as the "Rainy Day Patriots Ten Day Email Campaign."
The idea would be to have an agreed gist of the email message to be purveyed and to get as many RDP members and others as possible to send as many emails as possible. Possible addressees for emails would include personal friends, candidates and their offices, newspapers, TV stations, Republican and Democratic party organizations and members, chambers of commerce and other organizations, etc., etc.
RDP should have a special blog ("Rainy Day Patriots Ten Day Email Campaign Blog"). The special blog would set forth suggested email messages, have a webpage that email messages can link to that would set forth more about the "message" that the email campaign is trying to purvey, and provide information about emailing activities that have taken place and making suggestions for further emailing activities.
There should be a means for sharing email addresses that emailers accumulate so that the addresses may be used by other emailers for sending additional emails.
The goal would be for the email campaign to become a reportable event by the media. The more emailers there are and the more emails they send, the greater the possbility that the campaign will become a reportable event, which will amplify the message being purveyed. -
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Permalink Reply by Rob Shattuck on
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Nita, Zan has not approved this yet, but here is a blog I created setting forth a framework for an 10 day email campaign:
http://tparty10dayemailcampaign.blogspot.com/
Rob -
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Permalink Reply by Rob Shattuck on
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Rainy Day Patriots has initiated the Tea Party 10 Day Email Campaign. Go to the following links for more information: http://www.rainydaypatriots.org/events/tea-party-10-day-email-1?rsv... ; http://tparty10dayemailcampaign.blogspot.com/ ; http://tparty10dayemailcampaign.blogspot.com/2010/10/rainy-day-patr...
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