Photo by Mediocre Studio on Unsplash Making sure your emails reach your subscribers’ inboxes has always been difficult. Apparently, it’s not an even playing field, either, according to a recent study from North Carolina State University’s Department of Computer Science. “A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020,” … Read more
Creating a compelling video is crucial to any political or activism campaign. But how do you do that? Is there some secret formula? Actually, there is. It’s the same messaging formula I use every day in my marketing business and teach throughout the Digital Activism course. It’s based on the Human Action Model. In this … Read more
Before discussing how to create remarkable content, let’s review why it’s important. Purple Cows There are a few people I regularly cite in my work and my classes and marketing thought leader Seth Godin is one of them. In his book Purple Cow, Godin explains how businesses can transform themselves by being remarkable. His book … Read more
In this post, I’m going to share some of my most trusted and well-worn tools for crafting persuasive messaging. It doesn’t matter whether I’m writing a headline for a blog post, a script for an advertising video, or a political mailer. The process and tools I use are the same. The Human Action Model Everything … Read more
I have a two-word question I use for evaluating marketing tactics and it applies especially well to digital activism. When you’re crafting a headline, posting on social media, designing a mailer, writing a speech, crafting your elevator pitch, or just having a conversation with someone, there’s a simple but powerful question you can ask yourself … Read more
Telling stories is hands-down the most effective way to communicate. But there’s a big difference between bad storytelling and good storytelling. Simply going through the motions isn’t going to result in creating the remarkable content you need in order to be effective. In this post, I’m going to show you the mechanics of storytelling and … Read more
