Posts tagged consent.
It's the highest consent standard under the TCPA: a clear, written agreement, a checked box or signed form, to receive autodialed marketing texts, with specific disclosures, obtained before you send. Fundraising and promotional political texts generally need it.
When a voter gives you their number, they gave it to you, not to whoever you sell, lease, or share it with. The carrier standard on list transfer, and why buying a list is buying a problem.
The federal TCPA is no longer the whole story. A wave of state mini-TCPA laws now adds consent, quiet-hour, and identification rules that vary by state. Here's what's changing and how campaigns keep up across a multi-state list.
A wave of new state and federal texting rules sounds alarming. But if you run a compliance-first program, you're probably already ahead of most of them. Here's how to check.
A QR code turns a yard sign, mailer, or door into a one-scan opt-in. Here's how campaigns use QR codes to grow a consented texting list, where to place them, and how to make sure the opt-in is clean.
Put a clear, honest opt-in everywhere your supporters already are, website, events, forms, a text-to-join keyword, and tell them what they'll get. The campaigns with the biggest consented lists collect opt-ins constantly, not in a last-minute scramble.
Your compliance records are your defense. Here's exactly what a campaign has to keep, opt-ins, sends, and opt-outs, how long to keep it, and why the record matters more than how careful you actually were.
An opt-in is the moment a voter agrees to receive your texts. Here's what an opt-in is, what makes one valid, why it's the foundation of a compliant list, and what doesn't count.
The TCPA is the federal law that governs calls and texts to cell phones. Here's what it is, what it requires, how it applies to political campaigns, and why it's the single most important law in political texting.
The autodialer definition is what decides which consent standard applies to your texts. Here's what an ATDS is, how the Supreme Court narrowed it, and why it's the reason peer-to-peer texting exists.
TCPA violations scale into class actions fast, because campaigns send in volume. Here's how TCPA lawsuits against campaigns work, what triggers them, the damages at stake, and how to stay out of one.
Collecting a phone number isn't collecting consent. The carrier standard requires a clear, conspicuous call to action, here's what one actually contains, and what makes it hold up.