The Ledger
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Todd Cranny: Go-to-Market Teams Must Tell Buyers What They Want
“Sometimes voters don't know what they want. You know, just like buyers don't know what they want. You got to tell them what they want. And you can tell them what they want. You can actually create a new paradigm with them.”
Todd Cranny: Grassroots field ops add 2 to 4 points in close elections
“The grassroots organization, they could be worth two to four points in a close election race if it's done well.”
Todd Cranny: Obama's 2012 victory margin came from superior field operations
“That was basically, unfortunately, the difference between us and President Obama. I mean, he beat Maybe by three and a half points, it was him being able to squeeze out on his field operation, and what they did was they maximized the technology and the digital…”
Todd Cranny: A political campaign is the ultimate startup
“A political campaign really is the ultimate startup. You come in with nothing and you have to basically build a organization and You got to do it in zero to 60 and in a hurry. And it's kind of the ultimate startup and then shut down.”
Todd Cranny: In politics, unlike business, coming in second is absolute defeat
“The difference between business and politics is that you can, in business, be competing with somebody in a quarter and come in second and still make a lot of money. And still be in business for the next quarter. And politics, you come in second, and you're don…”
Todd Cranny: Romney's 2012 campaign lacked data infrastructure because it was broke
“Well, the problem is we didn't have the money to invest in infrastructure in both field and on the data side because we were broke, you know, and we had four months over the summer to try to redo all that sort of stuff, to build out a field, full field program…”
Todd Cranny: Messaging requires data validation followed by strict delivery discipline
“The message itself, you test it, you know what it is, you know what the data tells you. Now that's the first part of it. Then you have to have a somebody who can deliver it and someone who can deliver it the way it's supposed to be delivered. In other words, d…”
Todd Cranny: Challenger organizations have far less room for error than incumbents
“When you're not the incumbent, you have very little room for error, and you have very much a much more difficult resource allocation decision to make. You got to really know what's the 20% that's going to get you 80% of the way there. If you mess that up as an…”