Recently, the UTPL team has been getting recognition for the new Voter Fetch system. Meghann Olshefski from TechRepublican.com wrote a great summary of the system and how it can bring your campaign into the 21st century.
Are you looking for a new phone-from-home software for your campaign’s online grassroots efforts?
For some volunteers, showing up to a campaign headquarters to make phone calls can be an inconvenient and impossible feat. Every volunteer is different and many would like to help, but want to do so on their own terms and on their own schedule.
In a modern world, campaigns should do everything possible to make volunteering possible for mobile volunteers. Especially since many campaigns come down to the wire and GOTV efforts are the deciding forces in close races.
Today, Under The Power Lines launched VoterFetch.com a new tool designed to facilitate boots-on-the-ground grassroots activism for Republican and conservative campaigns.
VoterFetch.com increases the viral nature of campaign activity by giving supporters the ability to call voters from home.
Powered by Bivings Group developed technologies, VoterFetch.com is already being used in Beta by United States Senator Jim DeMint’s re-election campaign, US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s campaign for Governor of Texas, and the South Carolina Republican Party.
The company charges flat per-month fees for the application.
Don’t worry if you’re a smaller campaign – monthly fees are charged on a sliding scale, which means if you’re running for a state legislative seat you won’t be charged as much as a senate campaign would be and the price stays the same regardless of the number of volunteers who sign-up to use the tool.
Sure, there are other phone-from-home packages out there – how is VoterFetch.com different when it comes to price and functionality?
Under the Power Lines’ Wesley Donehue weighs in:
Voter Fetch is based on one concept in mind – simplicity. We didn’t include VOIP or make it too complicated because we want everyone to be able to use it. The biggest problem I’ve seen with other programs is that they’re just way too difficult for some folks to use.
As for the price, we might be the only ones who can provide this product for a cost affordable for every campaign level. A State House race can’t afford anything else I’ve seen.
If you don’t want to make the major commitment right away, you can try the service for 7 days, free of charge, to see if it fulfills your grassroots campaign needs.
Let Your Volunteers Call From Home New Tool Gives Republican Volunteers The Ability To Stay Active
Columbia, SC – December 29, 2009 – South Carolina based Republican Internet strategy firm Under the Power Lines today announced the release of VoterFetch.com, a new tool that increases the viral nature of campaign activity by giving supporters the ability to call voters from home. Powered by Bivings Group developed technologies, VoterFetch.com is already being used in Beta by United States Senator Jim DeMint’s reelection campaign, US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s campaign for Governor of Texas, and the South Carolina Republican Party.
VoterFetch.com was developed after Under The Power Lines partners Warren Tompkins, Terry Sullivan, and Wesley Donehue saw a need for more technology and connectivity in grassroots campaigns.
“Everyone sees the need for more Republican voter contact applications,” said Wesley Donehue of Under The Power Lines and online strategist for Senator Jim DeMint and Congressman Joe Wilson. “Traditional phone banks are incredibly inefficient. They’re typically only open in urban areas and only during a few hours a day. They must be manned by what’s usually a paid staffer and they require large offices and lots of planning.”
VoterFetch.com gives volunteers the ability to call voters from the comfort of their own home. They don’t have to drive anywhere. They can simply sign up and start calling voters at anytime.
VoterFetch.com was developed with one idea in mind – simplicity. “We wanted to make this process as simple as possible for the volunteer and campaign staff,” Donehue said. Campaigns upload their call lists and scripts into VoterFetch.com and they can view reports in real time as volunteers are making calls.
Senator Jim DeMint is already finding a lot of success with VoterFetch.com with hundreds of South Carolina supporters making calls nearly ten months before the election.
VoterFetch.com was launched by Under The Power Lines in conjunction with Bivings Group.
As the holiday season approaches and politics hopefullycomes to a screeching halt (we need a few days off), we want to thank everyone who helped Under The Power Lines grow tremendously in 2009. We also want to thank all our conservative clients who are helping beat back President Barack Obama’s liberal agenda at the national level, and all our state clients who are working to turn around South Carolina’s devastated economy.
For years we’ve been looking for a way to marry traditional campaign strategies with new innovative tactics. We found the answer with Voter Fetch.
Voterfetch.com is an Internet based online phone banking program that allows campaigns to coordinate home phone bankers. Campaigns can upload different call scripts and lists for different regions. Volunteers can log in to the program, pick which region they want to call, make the call in front of their computer, and then input the response into the program. Campaigns can then view and download the data in real time.
When South Carolina Solicitor Trey Gowdy decided to challenge SC Upstate Congressman Bob Inglis in the Republican primary, we knew that Gowdy is the candidate who truly represents South Carolina’s conservative values. That’s why we didn’t hesitate to jump on board and help Gowdy launch a state-of-the-art online presence.
How do you spread the word on Facebook and give supporters the ability to donate without leaving the social networking platform? With a brand new Facebook application.
This application, which publishes a RSS feed from the website, houses a funky Kimbia donation form. We developed this new app with the help of Emotive.
President Barack Obama promised to close down the terrorist detainee prison on GITMO and he’s making good on that promise while putting American families in danger. When it looked like President Obama was going to move terrorists to North Charleston, SC, making the lowcountry a target for a terrorist attack, Congressman Barrett said No, leading the effort to stop the move.
To help drum up public support, Congressman Barrett used a Wildfire App that was placed both in Facebook and on a petition splash page. This Wildfire App was developed with the help of Lauren Manke at northbounddesign.com.
With the help of amazing graphic designer Lauren Manke, we created an amazingly creative petition pushing Senator DeMint’s term limits legislation. The beauty of this app is that it functioned within Facebook and on our website splash page. A visitor could sign the petition through Facebook connect or with their email address.
Do you ever have one of those days where you think you should say something just because you haven’t said anything in a while so all you come up with is some blathering BS like I’m throwing out now?
That’s where I’m at right now. Over the past few weeks I’ve been churning out mad blog posts. But today I’m just fried. It is Thursday. Tomorrow is Friday. And I’m friend like a chicken.
This week I’ve been slammed up with a ton of corporate projects. I’m launching an awesome new voter contact application. I’m launching a new project with my BA designer. I’m launching a brand new site for our favorite Congressman. I’m launching a new site for JUMP! I’m launching a new blog for my wife. I’m even launching a blog for one of my best friends. And all that’s compounded by the fact that Adrienne has been rocking faces off in Virginia since last week instead of helping me.
So as I sit here and try to come up with some great analysis of Tuesday’s election or some strategy on using Twitter lists, I’m stuck listening to Ben Fold while staring at this guy who’s been responding to my DailyBooth pics. I don’t know who he is, but he’s one funny dude.
Do you ever have one of those days where you think you should say something just because you haven’t said anything in a while so all you come up with is some blathering BS like I’m throwing out now?