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Writing compelling stories for your union emails

I’ve mentioned before the fantastic e-news “Tip of the Day” from the New Organizing Institute. Recently, they sent one out that I thought was worth sharing: how to harness the power of stories effectively for your emails. (Here’s the weblink to the NOI’s email.) The email highlights a report by M+R Labs about the art [...]

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Harnessing your email list for change: great advice from Movements.org

Susannah Vila (@susannahvila) from Movement.org has some fantastic advice on how to gain success in using email to for social good. The advice is written for progressive organisations of all kinds – and unions can certainly use the guidelines from Vila. Collecting email addresses and using them to mobilize your supporters is one of the [...]

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Writing effective emails: halve the words

Over at the Marketing Experiments blog, there is an interesting case-study of a A/B tested email marketing campaign that demonstrates that reducing the number of words in your email can lead to a significant increase in the number of “clickthroughs” (the people who answer your call to action). Brad Bortone makes the case that email [...]

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Union email campaigning: Do not ignore the Spam Act!

Australia has had the SPAM Act since 2003. The Act is very clear: Under the Spam Act 2003 it is illegal to send, or cause to be sent, unsolicited commercial electronic messages. The Act covers email, instant messaging, SMS and MMS (text and image-based mobile phone messaging) of a commercial nature. It does not cover faxes, [...]

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Free E-book: Introduction to Email Campaigning for Unions

I am releasing my second free e-book for unions, this time focusing on using email for union campaigning. Introduction to Email Campainging for Unions This e-book looks at a widely used – and often misused – online campaigning tool: email. While some online campaigners have written the obituary for emails in this age of social [...]

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Six reasons why no one read your latest union e-bulletin

So, you’ve signed up for MailChimp, got yourself a new email template design, and started to track emails… and found out that none of your members read it. Why? Here are six reasons why your latest email was rubbish. Perhaps the open-rate was below average, or no one clicked through to the links, or perhaps [...]

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Five reasons why unions should care about email

Although email has been around for decades, it is still the cutting edge of campaigning and communication. Even in the age of social media, Twitter, Facebook, and iphone apps, email is by far the most used way that people use to send information – more than 94% of adults send or receive emails regularly, higher [...]

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Seven online campaigning activities you should already be doing

In Australia, most elections take place during the normal, general election period. The accepted wisdom is that local campaigns make up, at most, 3 percent of a candidate’s primary vote. The rest comes from the central campaign from party head office: television ads, the leader’s personal appeal, the party’s policies and so on. There are [...]

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