Political Websites Edge Towards Business
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There is a reason Barack Obama's campaign has been so successful at raising money. It's called Blue State Digital.
Their successes:
- $200 million raised online
- Two million phone calls made on the candidates behalf
- 850,000 social networkers
- 50,000 campaign events (Lowry, 56).
Blue State is eyeing AT&T and Stonyfield Farm for next big projects. They are also talking about working for the White House, eventually. Just gotta win the campaign.
It is looking more and more like, if you have a good idea, having the right web folks on your side makes a big difference. If you have the right folks creating, you are able to test your ideas in days or weeks as opposed to the months and months it used to take to create a web site and test your ideas. Prices are going down, as well, allowing you to generate revenues AND profits, a tidy situation, especially if you need to approach venture capitalists.
If you have a high growth idea, give your software/website provider a lot of thought.
Reference
Lowry, Tom. Obama's Secret Digital Weapon. BusinessWeek. 7 Juy 2008. 56. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_27/b4091000977488.htm?chan=magazine+channel_what%27s+next