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Harris in Jan 2016: Donald Trump's brazenness will be his downfall
“And I think that, that we're all going to see that at the end, Donald Trump's brazenness is going to be his downfall.”
Washington political consultants produce campaign merchandise voters refuse to wear
“Most folks in the campaign space, the consultants in Washington think that they know what everyone wants to buy. And it's just normally just a bunch of crap that people don't want to actually wear.”
Conservative agency used liberal Change.org to build anti-Iran deal email lists
“And we have found that you know applications certainly like Heyo on, on Facebook, applications like even the more liberal site change dot org was very successful for Our clients in getting, getting emails on, on the Iran deal for another client against the Ira…”
Rand Paul's online merchandise store drove up to 10% of digital fundraising
“I'm saying, overall, since the past year, the store has represented, depending on the month, between five and 10% of online sales.”
Ted Cruz raised $3 million online in 2012, 90% via email
“In 2012, Senator Cruz raised three million dollars online on his Senate race. About 90% of that money came through email.”
Rand Paul's presidential campaign email list reached up to one million subscribers
“It's between 300,000 and a million.”
Email drives up to 80% of Rand Paul's online campaign donations
“It's probably more around 70, 80%, some of it coming through our store, some of it coming through search advertising.”
Harris Media charged political clients monthly retainers between $4,000 and $15,000
“A range for our clients will vary from 4000 dollars a month to 15,000 dollars.”
Harris Media hired creative talent regardless of their personal political persuasion
“About half of our agency are creative people. They're graphic designers, they're web developers, they're video editors, and those folks, you know, I could care less what their political persuasion is, and more that they're creative, and that they're doing a go…”
Rand Paul's campaign drove record traffic with first-ever full-day candidate livestream
“Just a few weeks ago, we actually did the first ever full day live stream for a candidate. So the Senator's entire day from when he ate breakfast to when he flew out of the certain city that he was on was live streamed. It was one of the largest days of traffi…”