Achieve Your Advocacy & Engagement Goals

Strategy

Mobilize, Engage, Win

Our approach to strategy begins with understanding the people side of the question, through what we call ‘audience intelligence.’ We work together as a partner to understand the why, who and what of a campaign. We identify real opportunities for engagement that align with those objectives. Then, we develop a detailed plan of action.

• Generate action from real people
• Unleash sharing and outreach from supporters
• Reach policymakers and journalists
• Change perceptions and drive action

Messaging

We develop the campaign’s key messaging and talking points, which are informed by the audience research. Breaking out messaging by audience, to ensure our voice will be heard and inspire action with the right people.

Branding

Branding is the visual voice of the campaign. We begin with creative direction to establish the fundamentals of the campaign brand, before finalizing the campaign style guide and logo.

Websites

An advocacy website is the hub of campaign activity. It’s where key resources and toolkits live. It can also be connected to advocacy tools to contact elected officials and building lists. We have in-house UX specialists, developers and designers to build and launch the campaign site.

• Full-service website design and development
• Microsites, toolkits and resources
• Integration with 50 systems including: Google Analytics, Salesforce, EveryAction, Mailchimp, Phone2Action, Social Media, CRMs, AMS and more

Content + Video

Content is king. Our in-house creative studios produce videos, graphics, GIFs and other consumable content. As we develop content we use our 6 Es of Engagement framework to determine the right content at the right time. Are we trying to Elevate? Empower? Ease? Entertain? Entice? or Educate?

• Branded content (posters, mailers, leave behinds, etc.)
• Social media content (Content calendars, GIFs, Videos, etc.)
• Partner toolkits (Facts, Style Guides, Example Content, etc.)
• Emails + Drip Campaigns

Social Media Community Management

Whether we are providing the social media management or our client is running their own channels, social media community management is important to shape and build engagement. We provide services from day-to-day management to training and reporting.

• Influencer strategies
• Content traffic lights (rules of engagement)
• Follower growth strategies
• User generated content strategies
• Strategic recommendations for communities, conversations, content, channels and competition

Digital + Social Media Advertising

Digital and social media advertising lets your campaign tell its side of the story. Amplify those messages to reach more of the right people through a technical and data-driven set of strategies and tools on Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit and other platforms.

• Social digital advertising
• Search engine advertising
• Messenger/Snapchat advertising
• Retargeting
• Email/database matching
• Custom audience development

User Generated Content + Influencers

Today, people are writing their own real-time autobiographies. They are telling a story. Instead of trying to interrupt them, we should ask, “How can we be a character in their autobiography?” Many of today’s most effective strategies leverage ambassadors that require “pitching” to influencers with their own audience. But we succeed by learning what stories people are already writing, and then becoming a character in that story.

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Contact Policymakers

Be Heard + Counted by Policymakers

Advocacy campaigns often need a strong call to action. Social Driver has strategies and technologies to be heard by Congress and policymakers. Sometimes a social media post from a constituent is the right call to action. Other times, it may be more effective to have a “Contact Congress” feature on a website.

• Social media strategies to be highly visible and relevant to policymakers
• Integration and experience with Phone2Action, VoterVoice, NationBuilder, EveryAction and other advocacy platforms

Measurement + Reporting

We will measure the success of the campaign by evaluating what people see (reach and impressions, such as video views), what people say (engagement, such as social media likes and comments), and what people do (website sign-ups, stories captured or shared by stakeholders and members of the public, etc.).