Posts tagged P2P.
P2P conversations is live in Txtra. Peer-to-peer sending for the moments a personal, human-in-the-loop touch matters.
Text is a fast, cheap way to survey voters and gather issue data. Here's how campaigns run surveys and polls by text, what the data is good for, and the limits to keep in mind.
Merge fields let you send a personalized text at scale, a name, a district, a polling place. Here's how personalization works in political texting, what to personalize, and where it helps and hurts.
Two-way texting means voters can reply and a person answers. Here's what two-way texting is, how it differs from one-way blasts, why the reply is where the value is, and what an inbox lets a campaign do.

Texting isn't just for big campaigns. Here's why it's especially powerful for down-ballot and local races, how a small campaign runs a program on a budget, and where to focus limited resources.
Advocacy groups use texting to mobilize supporters, drive action, and pressure decision-makers. Here's how issue and advocacy campaigns use text differently from electoral ones, and the compliance notes that come with it.
Texting isn't just for the fundraising ask, it's for building donor relationships over time. Here's how campaigns use text to cultivate, thank, and upgrade donors, and why the relationship matters more than any single ask.
Every texting program gets angry replies. Here's how volunteers should handle hostile and negative responses, when to disengage, when to honor an opt-out, and how to protect both the voter relationship and the volunteer.
A message from a trusted group or endorser lands harder than one from the campaign. Here's how campaigns use coalition and endorsement texting to borrow credibility, the compliance care it takes, and how to coordinate it.
Primaries reward texting more than general elections, low turnout, a narrow universe, and persuadable partisans. Here's how to build a primary texting strategy around ID, persuasion, and turning out a small, high-value electorate.
A text campaign is an organized political texting effort with a goal, an audience, a message, and a plan. Here's what makes up a text campaign, the pieces that have to be in place, and how they fit together.

Texting is the connective tissue of a field program, confirming shifts, sending turf, and keeping canvassers in sync. Here's how campaigns use text to coordinate a canvass and cut no-shows.