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WELCOME! Technology for Advocacy Organizing ISSUES CONFERENCE 2015 Cynthia Menzel & Stacy Begin Communications 2-way information sharing where people have an opportunity to Ask questions Get answers Share ideas Today WHY =


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Technology for Advocacy Organizing

WELCOME!

ISSUES CONFERENCE 2015 Cynthia Menzel & Stacy Begin

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Communications

2-way information sharing where people have an opportunity to –Ask questions –Get answers –Share ideas

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Today

  • WHY = Goals
  • Target Audiences
  • Strategy & Planning
  • Communications Tools
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Why start with why?

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What do you want?

  • Awareness
  • Understanding
  • Action
  • Advocacy
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“Traditional” Marketing

  • Advertising

– TV, radio, direct mail, outdoor adv., online

  • Sales promotion

– coupons, samples, rebates, contests

  • Public Relations

– press releases to media outlets, sponsorships of events

  • Personal Selling

– salespeople, direct one-on-one contact

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Tools for a purpose

  • Critical mass
  • Respond to information need(s)
  • Opportunity to engage
  • For campaign or event
  • Reaches a select audience
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Communications Tools

  • Guerilla Marketing
  • Online/social media
  • External/public relations
  • Internal/member communications
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What it’s not

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Guerilla Marketing

  • “Unconventional / unusual / unpredictable /

unorthodox / unexpected or “un”anything that departs from the norm

  • Innovative, unique, outrageous, clever, funny
  • The more creative and jarring a campaign is

the better

Because it gets people’s attention

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What is Guerilla Marketing?

  • High creativity – gets noticed
  • Low/no budget
  • Get people talking/doing (earned media)

– ice bucket anyone?

  • Just about any type of promotion that

attracts attention in an unconventional manner Some examples of guerilla marketing….

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Blair Witch Project

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Crop Circle Advertising

Kansas - The WHOLE wheat state

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Small businesses

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Restaurant

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Interaction with “products”

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Spotlight / Beaming

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Consumer eye-level

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Outdoor / Billboards

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Spaghetti anyone?

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Know what these are?

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Body Part Advertising

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Guess where?

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Memory Loss…

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Experiential Marketing

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Low budget

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Idea Marketing: Social Causes

  • Community partners?
  • Guerilla marketing is great for non-profits to

draw attention to their cause…

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Hunger Awareness

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Water Pollution

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Landmine Awareness

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Stealth Marketing or Undercover Marketing

  • Sony hired 60 actors in 10 cities, and

asked strangers “Would you mind taking my picture?"

  • The actors handed people a brand new

picture phone while talking about how cool the new device was… “Thus an act of civility was converted into a branding event."

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Engagement & Branding

  • Use guerilla marketing as a positioning tool
  • By appearing innovative, creative, edgy, hip,

fun, consumers (members/target audiences) transfer this perception onto the organization, product or brand

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Plan to use the right tools

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PLANNING

  • Set clear goals with “WHY” in mind
  • Who
  • Frame & deliver YOUR message
  • If you don’t define “IT” someone else

will

  • Research, Analysis, Plan
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DIGITAL TOOLS