Campaign Doctor
How to get MORE votes, MORE Donors, MORE Volunteers & MORE Media Attention
(Chuck Muth) – Let’s face it, incumbents generally have, and have had, a significant advantage over challenger candidates, especially those running for the first time: Money, connections and …
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(Chuck Muth) – I received an email this week from “Darius Schmidt” (name changed to protect the guilty). Not only did I almost immediately delete it unread, but I almost blocked the email address …
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(Chuck Muth) - I’ve written often about how much I detest cookie-cutter campaign slogans that are completely meaningless, if not totally inane. But this one, noticed by Campaign Hot …
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(Chuck Muth) – For those of you old enough to remember the hit sitcom “Cheers,” you’ll remember the episode where Norm was thrown into the role of corporate ax-man, charged with the job of telling …
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Since many of you might right now be in the hiring process…a warning: If you’re an underdog, underfunded, inexperienced candidate, DO NOT hire the guy who tells you he or she has an 80-90 percent …
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(Chuck Muth) – I’ve been studying direct response marketing and copywriting for the better part of three decades now. But a few years ago, I learned that something that I’d been taught to do was …
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