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Choosing your consultants
What you should know before hiring your consultant
What type of consultants do you need?
Directory of Professional Campaign Firms
Choosing the Consultants for Your Winning Team
You've made the decision to run for an elected office. Your name is on the ballot. Now make your next decision a winning one by selecting the right team of campaign professionals to help you achieve victory.
Choosing your campaign professionals is one of the most important decisions you'll make in public life. Like the choice to seek public office, these decisions should be made thoughtfully and intelligently.
Ultimately, your campaign team must be made up of professionals whom you are comfortable with personally and professionally. Consider some of these questions to determine if a consultant's experience and strategies are right for your campaign.
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What should you know before hiring your Consultant?
Determine your consultant’s experience
- Does the consultant have experience at the level of office you seek?
- Have the consultant's strategies been effective and successful in the past?
- What are the consultant's ideas for your campaign?
Inquire about other campaigns the consultant will be working with
- Will your campaign be a priority for the consultant?
- Will the consultant be personally involved in your campaign, or will you deal with other members of the consultant's staff?
Be certain to ask for references
- Talk with former clients of the consultant- both successful and unsuccessful ones.
- How does the consultant work? Consult with former campaign staff members or members of the state or national parties.
Reach a firm understanding of how your campaign's money will be spent
- How are spending decisions made?
- Don't be reluctant to negotiate the price of consultant's services.
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What type of Campaign professional do you need?
Your General Consultant
Most people wouldn't dream of going to court without a lawyer, a hospital without a doctor. If you are serious about winning you need professional advice.
Your Pollster
Conducts survey research to determine the opinions and issues of concern within the electorate.
Your Media Consultant
Creates and produces paid media for your campaign- the television and radio ads your campaign might use.
Your Direct Mail Consultant
Creates and produces mail communications for your campaign. Some mail consultants specialize in persuasion mail, others in direct mail fundraising- which is best for your campaign?
Your Fundraiser
Develops a plan to raise your campaign funds from individual donors and Political Action Committees.
Your Telecommunications Firm
Provides message consulting and direct contact services. Deploys calls for identification/segmentation programs, tele-fundraising, or message delivery.
Your Opposition Research Firm
Do you know all your opponent's strengths and weaknesses? Do you know the ins and outs of all the issues? The odds are you don't. You'd better retain an expert.
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Directory of Professional Campaign Firms
General Consulting:- (Ballard Everett) Ballard Everett & Associates: www.ballardeverett.com
- (Mark P.Campbell, Eva M. Campbell) Campbell & Campbell Campaigns, Inc:
- (Carlyle Gregory) Carlyle Gregory Company: www.carlylegregory.com
- (Joe Gaylord) Chesapeake Associates: www.joegaylord.com
- (Sharon Caldwell) CMA Strategies: www.cmastrategies.com
- (Doug Goodyear) DCI Group: www.dcigroup.com
- (Nancy Dwight) Dwight Partners, Inc:
- (Randy Enwright) Enwright Consulting Group:
- (James Banks) Jim Banks Consulting LLC:
- (Dave Doyle) Marketing Resource Group, Inc: www.mrgmi.com
- (Kenny Klinge) Marketing Resource Group, Inc:
- (John Maxwell) Maxwell & Associates:
- (John A. Peschong, Tom Ross, Max Rexroad) Meridian Pacific: www.meridianhq.com
- (Patrick Davis) Patrick Davis Consulting LLC:
- (Harvey Harlowe Hukari ) Political Communications:
- (Brent Littlefield) Political Solutions: www.polsol.com
- (Scott Cottington) Public Issue Management:
- (Craig Shirley) Shirley & Bannister Public Affairs: www.sbpublicaffairs.com
- (Steve Gordon) Steve Gordon & Associates: www.stevegordon.com
- (Impact Management Group) Terry Benham: www.voterimpact.com
- (James P. Farwell ) The Farwell Group:
- (John Kern) The Kern Company: www.kerncompany.com
- (Michael Smith) The Michael Smith Company:
- (Michael Smith) The Michael Smith Company: michaelsmithco@msn.com
- (Ann Stone) The Stone Group, Inc: www.tsgrp.net
- (Bill Tucker) Tucker & Associates:
- (Geoff Ziebart) Ziebart Consulting, LLC: www.ziebartconsulting.com
Polling:- (Whitfield Ayres) Ayres, McHenry & Associates, Inc: www.ayresmchenry.com
- (Chuck Rund) Charlton Research Company: www.charltonresearch.com
- (Patrick McFerron) Cole, Hargrave, Snodgrass & Associates: www.CHS-inc.com
- (Dave Lee) Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates: www.fabmac.com
- (David Hill) Hill Research Consultants: www.hillresearch.com
- (John McLaughlin) McLaughlin & Associates: www.mclaughlinonline.com
- (Hans Kaiser) Moore Information, Inc: www.moore-info.com
- (Bill McInturff, Glen Bolger , Robert Autry, Neil Newhouse) Public Opinion Strategies: www.pos.org
- (Brian Tringali, Dave Sackett) Tarrance Group: www.tarrance.com
- (Bill Lee, Barry Zeplowitz, Lance Tarrance) Tel Opinion: www.telopinion.com
- (Kellyanne Conway) The Polling Company: www.pollingcompany.com
- (Sean McCaffrey) Wilson Research Strategies: www.w-r-s.com
- (Dave Winston) Winston Group: www.winstongroup.net
Media:- (Robert W. Aho) Brabender Cox: www.brabendercox.com
- (Tom Edmonds) Edmonds Associates: www.edmondsassociates.com
- (Bill Greener, Ed Brookover) Greener and Hook: www.greenerandhook.com
- (Larry Weitzner) Jamestown Associates: www.jamestownassociates.com
- (Anthony Marsh ) Marsh Copsey + Associates: www.marshcopsey.com
- (Jennifer Cush) McAuliffe Message Media: www.m3media.com
- (Larry McCarthy, Rob Hennings) McCarthy Marcus Hennings, Ltd: www.mmhdc.com
- (Brad Mont) Media Ad Ventures:
- (Bruce Mentzer) Mentzer Media Services: www.mentzermedia.com
- (Robin Roberts, Alex Castellanos, ) National Media: www.natmedia.com
- (Jamie Pound) Pound Feinstein & Associates: www.PoundFeinstein.com
- (Stephanie Kincaid) SSG Media: www.ssgmedia.com
- (Fred Wszolek, Katie Packer) Sterling Corporation: www.sterlingcorporation.com
- (Russ Schriefer, Shellie Purvis, Ashley O'Connor) Stevens & Schriefer: www.stevens-schriefer.com
- (David Welch) Strategic Media Group: www.smgcommunicates.com
- (Rex Elsass) Strategy Group for Media, The: strategygroupmedia.com
- (John Gautier) Ten Capitol : www.Tencapitol.com
Direct Mail:- (Michael Milligan) Direct Mail Systems, Inc.: www.direct-mail-systems.com
- (Jim Foster) James R. Foster & Associates, Inc.: www.jrfinc.com
- (Jack Latvala) Latvala, Coley and Company, LLC : www.campaignconnection.com
- (Sam Van Voorhis ) Majority Strategies, Inc:
- (Todd Olsen) Olsen & Shuvalov: www.olsen-shuvalov.com
- (Brent Littlefield) Political Solutions: www.polsol.com
- (David Welch) Strategic Media Group: www.smgcommunicates.com
Fundraising:- (Kimberly Bellissimo, Robert Dubiel, Jordan Gehrke) BMW Direct, Inc: www.bmwdirectmail.com
- (James Newberry) Campaign Funding Direct: www.campaignfundingdirect.com
- (Phil Smith) Captel: www.captel.net
- (Tom Hammond) Hammond & Associates: www.thehammondgrp.com
- (Jody Thomas, Susan Niemann) Jody Thomas Company:
- (Carolyn Machado) Machado & Co:
- (Dan Morgan) Morgan, Meredith & Associates: www.morganmeredith.com
- (Ron Rietdorf) Omega Financial: www.Omegafi.com
- (Brett Littlefield) Political Solutions: www.polsol.com
- (Richard Norman) Richard Norman Company: www.richardnorman.com
- (Nancy Bocskor) The Nancy Bocskor Co:
- (Sheri Lee Norris ) Victory Funds, Inc:
Telecommunications:- (Jeff Butzke) Advantage, Inc.: www.advainc.com
- (David Johnson, Vic Gresham, Broc Johnson) Conquest Communications: www.conquestgroup.com
- (Jeff Larson, Tony Feather) FLS: www.fls-dci.com
- (Kelly Rogers) Political Solutions: www.polsol.com
Opposition Research:- (Mopsi Newman Villareal) Cynthia Villareal Company, The:
- (Jon M. Taurisano) Tauris Consulting, Inc: www.taurisinc.com
- (Terry Cooper, Raquel Villalpando) Terry Cooper Research:
Election Law:- (Jason Torchinsky) HoltzmanVogel PLLC: http://www.holtzmanlaw.net
- (Robert Gardner) Law Office of Robert S. Gardner:
- (Ben Ginsberg) Patton Boggs: www.pattonboggs.com
E-Campaigning (Websites, E-Newsletters, E-Commerce, etc):- (R. Rebecca Donatelli) Campaign Solutions: www.campaignsolutions.com
- (David Payne) the5wits, LLC : www.the5wits.com
Campaign Materials (Signs, Banners, T-Shirts, etc):- (Brian Harlen) GOP Shoppe: www.gopshoppe.com
- (Rich Taylor) Registered Media: www.registeredmedia.com
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