campaign message

(noun)

The ideas that the candidate wants to share with the voters, often consisting of several talking points about policy issues.

Related Terms

  • campaign
  • likeability

Examples of campaign message in the following topics:

  • Likeability of Political Candidates

    • Candidates run for office by orchestrating expensive campaigns designed to increase their appeal to the electorate.
    • Accordingly, candidates run campaigns aimed at establishing a popular campaign message and convincing voters of the candidate's likeability.
    • Apart from ideology, less explicit factors such as likeability and access to resources impact candidates' campaigns.
    • Likeability is thought to play a significant role in electoral politics but is difficult to access in campaigns.
    • Thus, campaigns have become extremely expensive.
  • Assembling a Campaign Staff

    • The campaign manager focuses mostly on coordinating the campaign staff.
    • Successful campaigns usually require a campaign manager to coordinate the campaign's operations.
    • Apart from a candidate, the campaign manger is often a campaign's most visible leader.
    • They are responsible for the campaign's message and image among the electorate.
    • Larger campaigns will include everything from high-priced sit-down dinners to e-mail messages to donors asking for money.
  • The Modern Political Campaign

    • A campaign team must consider how to communicate the message of the campaign, recruit volunteers, and raise money.
    • The avenues available to political campaigns when distributing their messages is limited by the law, available resources, and the imagination of the campaigns' participants.
    • The plan takes account of a campaign's goal, message, target audience, and resources available.
    • The campaign will typically seek to identify supporters at the same time as getting its message across.
    • Communication technologies such as e-mail, web sites, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster communications by citizen movements and deliver a message to a large audience.
  • Advertising

    • Facts, statistics, consumer images and scenarios are used to corroborate a campaign's premise.
    • A campaign must fit the image of the marketer to ensure that its public perception remains intact.
    • Its "aperture," or the proper timing and placement of an ad, can maximize a campaign's success.
    • Stating objectives like reach or the number of different persons exposed, frequency of times the consumer is exposed to a message, and timing of media assertions over the course of the campaign.
    • If the message is reaching more people, it is achieving the desired results.
  • Media Types and Scheduling

    • Marketers must choose the type of media that best suits their budget and message and then choose the best way to schedule their message.
    • Advertising runs steadily with little variation over a campaign period.
    • Program or plan that identifies the media channels used in an advertising campaign, and specifies insertion or broadcast dates, positions, and duration of the messages.
    • Series of commercials appear as a unified campaign on different media vehicles.
    • Compare the types of media and types of scheduling used in advertising campaigns
  • Direct Marketing

    • Direct marketing campaigns focus on the consumer, statistical data generated via outreach and the accountability of the marketer.
    • The message is based upon a "call to action" delivered directly to predisposed consumers.
    • Reduced mail cost and the elimination of "brick and mortar" retail stores have helped to decrease the cost of direct marketing campaigns.
    • There are many different direct marketing tools, including direct mail, telemarketing, couponing, direct response TV and radio, face-to-face selling, community campaigns, and grassroots campaigns.
    • Mobile technology direct marketing includes SMS-short message service, MMS-multi-media message service, QR Codes, applications, push notifications sent directly to users, and location based messages.
  • The Internet, Blogging, and Podcasting

    • Podcasts, a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device, have also become a popular way to convey political messages.
    • The internet is now a core element of modern political campaigns.
    • Communication technologies such as e-mail, web sites, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster communications by citizen movements and deliver a message to a large audience.
    • Signifying the importance of internet political campaigning, Barack Obama's presidential campaign relied heavily on social media, and new media channels to engage voters, recruit campaign volunteers, and raise campaign funds.
    • President Obama's campaign, depicted here, relied heavily on the use of the internet.
  • Creating Effective Messages

    • The goal of public relations is to disseminate information about a business (that is, to create an effective message).
    • One goal of a public relations campaign is to generate editorial coverage for a business, because editorial coverage is perceived as more authentic than advertising.
  • Measuring Effectiveness of Public Relations Efforts

    • Measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of a public relations campaign is necessary to ensure that established objectives are met.
    • Encouraging people to use their cell phones to read the QR code while driving at high speeds is an ineffective PR campaign.
    • On the most basic level are compilations of message distribution and media placement.
    • The second level, which requires more sophisticated techniques, measures audience awareness, comprehension, and retention of the message.
    • Explain how organizations can measure and evaluate the effectiveness of the campaign
  • Choosing the Right Method for the Message

    • E-mail (Electronic Mail) is a fast, reliable way of sending messages and interacting with people.
    • Business letters are written messages to a person or group within a professional setting.
    • The Internet, for example, could entail a web-based advertising campaign, a social media advertising campaign, or a website.
    • When choosing the medium, consider the audience and their reaction to the message.
    • For example, if the message is about employee benefits, the audience most likely will have questions, so this message is best presented in a group meeting that would allow for a question and answer session.
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