Ballot Planning & Management

 

Winning Is All About The Details

We begin each process by working with the clients to understand their goals, address their concerns and develop winning programs, manage the process while keeping our client apprised of the progress and maintain the budget. When you engage our firm, you'll have the best winning strategy available which will be specifically tailored to maximize your communications operations. You'll also receive a Critical Path Schedule to see how your project is organized, a Detailed Budget showing you the costs and flow of funds from start to finish and the kind of Oversight you'll need to make sure everyone in the process is working seamlessly with the effort.

When you enter a referendum or initiative ballot issue campaign (voluntarily or not), you need to have an experienced hand at the wheel. Our team brings over 150 years of combined experience to help you win. Our winning experience in ballot issue campaigns and strong grassroots programs give us the strategic advantage you need in today's campaigns. We know how to develop winning programs, manage the process while keeping you apprised of the progress and maintain the budget. When you engage our firm, you'll have the best winning strategy available which will be specifically tailored to maximize your communications operations.

Critical Path Scheduling: Having decades of campaign experience means that we know how to structure winning campaigns that provide our client's a unique look into the inside of a winning campaign operation. Our use of Critical Path Scheduling we demonstrate the ebb and flow of the operation and how one portion of the operation flows into another, and vice versa. This ensures that you as the client know from the very beginning of the effort, what is gong to happen, when it is going to happen and how each flows from one measure to the next, day-by-day and week by week. Ultimately, the Critical path Schedule gives our client a global and narrow perspective of how the campaign will operate.

Budget Development and Oversight: As part of the organizational structure of our efforts, we provide a detailed line item budget that will overlay the Critical Path Schedule so our clients can prepare their internal cash flow and see the costs of each measure well in advance.

We have managed campaigns that have tens of millions of dollar and those that have spend thousands. Regardless of the campaign or effort's budget, we have implemented and adhere to stringent accounting principles to account for every penny of the project. Our detailed budgets given our clients a clear picture of their effort's day-to-day, week-to-week or month- to-month costs, to ensure our services meet their bottom line.

Vendor Oversight and Direction: From printers, mail houses, television stations to post offices, etc., winning efforts require attention to details and strict oversight. We take oversight very seriously and know how to ensure we maximize time and costs by taking care of the nitty gritty details daily. This attention to details is done not just to win, but also to ensure our clients can work on their day-to-day business, worry free.