What’s in the Package: Campaign Packages Make Life Easy

If you are running a political campaign, whether you are the candidate or the consultant, your list of campaign materials can be daunting.  You have to get the campaign signs, get the palm cards and make sure the staff has t-shirts and campaign buttons to pass out in the parade.  Add this to the never-ending [...]

A Political Billboard? Really?: Highway Signs Cut your Cost

If you’re going to run for political office, you are going to need campaign signs.  There is no way around it.  Political signs are the single most effective way to raise voter awareness.  Signs are the most visible piece of marketing you can do, in politics and business.  So, be effective and smart with your [...]

Design Basics for your Campaign Signs

When running for political office, your main campaign cost is definitely going to be marketing yourself.  Yard signs are probably going to be where you spend most of your marketing money.  In order for your campaign sign and logo to be effective, consider some of these tips:
1. Short, Sweet and to The [...]

Not All Campaign Materials are Created Equally: Consultants Need to Consult

At CampaignPros.com, we do campaign materials.  Our staff has over 20 combined years of experience designing, selling, consulting on and printing campaign supplies.  Some would say we are experts.  On a daily basis, we talk to both political candidates and campaign consultants who are hired to work out the details of a campaign.
Generally, we prefer [...]

Hangout at the Voter’s Door: Door Hangers say it All

There is a vast amount of items a candidate can purchase to promote his or her campaign.  Some of these items will simply drain a campaign account.  Light up doo-dads, glowing what-nots and shimmering doo-hickies look nice in their packaging.  But, will these items actually work for you?  Nope.
Voters want to know a couple of [...]

The More You Write, The Less They Read*

Phil Van Treuren blogs about political campaigning on Killer Campaigning.
Campaign brochures from local political candidates are something that most of us are accustomed to getting in the mail around election time, and frequently they fit the same mold: too much information jammed into too small a space.
In the last decade, I’ve seen dozens of variations [...]

You Never Know Who They Know

We all have bad days.  Sometimes things don’t go as planned.  Sometimes people tick us off.  Sometimes we get so agitated we want to tell the cable company representative where to stick his DVR remote.  It’s human nature.  Sometimes we just feel it is necessary to tell people how it is and scream our frustrations [...]

Get the Big Money, Big Shot

If you have decided to run for political office, whether for school board or Governor, you are going to need a war chest.  The simple fact is that running a campaign takes money.  Of course it takes a solid platform, voter interest and dedication, too.  But, without funding, you can’t accomplish much.
This fact makes raising [...]

Hands Down the Best Handouts: Top 5 political handouts

Political candidates need three main categories of printed items to run for office-a name identification piece, an informational piece and a handout piece.  The name ID piece is typically their yard sign, which has become the number one way to let voters know they are running.  The informational piece is taken care of with a [...]

Waiting at the Door for My Candidate to Come

It’s October now.  I am CEO of a political marketing company called CampaignPros.com.  This is a busy political month for us.  We print any sort of campaign supplies a candidate could need.  We offer consulting and design work.  We have resources for bulk mailing and automated phone calling.  There is not much we can’t offer [...]