Musings, tips, and thoughts from the Organizer team

The 2016 presidential race has gotten the attention and interest of voters. Often, campaigns are fighting for apathetic voters to get involved. Not this year.

The race between Hillary and Trump has been the go to conversational topic of the year and it shows. The 2016 election has captured voters interest, yet voters are unhappy with the candidate choices.  Do you feel this way?

So you see a societal, enviromental, or political problem in the world and you want to do something about it. Convincing others to support your advocacy work potentially growing your efforts to larger scale takes time, time, and did we mention time? Then after you have dedicated yourself to this work, there comes the moment when you have to see how effective it all was. 

How can you ensure that your advocacy campaign will garner the results neccessary for real change? Read on to find out.

The rate of union membership has continued to fall in the past couple of years. This tells us the labor movement is trending ona downward slide, and to combat the decline inmembership organizations will have to increase their efforts. The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that in 2015 only 11.1% of wage and salary workers were members of unions. The findings wereconcerning, becausethe percentage of union workers had not changed from 2014.  Another contributing factor to the decline of union growth is that the private sector has grown andhas not introduced unions to their workforce. With the United States' growing working classit is important to have the union workforce grow as well.  

Door-to-door marketing is making a come back, although it has been overlooked in the past now there are specific uses for this technique. A deterrent to using door-to-door marketing  is the impression that everyone hates door-to-door salespeople. In some cases this is true, but if done correctly door-to-door sales offers a personal connection. In addition, there is an opportunity for feedback. Door-to-door marketing opens an avenue to create real relationships with potential customers, and even be more effective than some online marketing channels. In addition, door-to-door marketing is a different way to your information out in public. Ultimately,  if a relationship can be forged during a door-to-door sales opportunity then this relationship will be worth a lot in the future. Remember thepower of being face-to-face makes a big difference.

Converting conversations to commitments.