Building and maintaining campaign-to-campaign relationships:

This is one of the foremost opportunities an e-Campaign presents to upcoming and freshman campaigns. E-Campaign Solution tools such as Web-based procurement, web site management, and software used, raise the ability of campaigns to better collaborate and communicate, within the campaign.

• Reduce travel and communications overhead---

Online collaboration and communication can reduce the need for travel, phone calls, faxes, and overnight mailing. Sharing designs, documents, and presentations interactively reduces the time and operational costs of partner and supplier communications. As many growing campaigns have already discovered, an e-Campaign can identify and pre-qualify potential suppliers or campaign partners, thereby reducing communications and travel costs associated with pre-qualification.

• Collapse time-to-voters---

Online collaboration and communication allow candidates to move faster. By streamlining the processes associated with gathering, organizing and reviewing information, candidates can get their ideas and platforms to prospective voters ahead of the competition. This permits the new candidate to maintain a competitive edge.

Productivity Tools for Chairmen &Volunteers

By finding innovative ways to improve campaign practices, first time and incumbent candidates can conduct more efficient canvassing of voters, accurately calculate and label contributions, qualify audiences and better serve their supporters. Campaign managers will find that an e-Campaign web site staffed by trained computer literate volunteers or employees will streamline and expedite the internal operations.

• Each volunteer will have his/her own public and private calendar. The campaign manager will be able to know instantly where everyone is and what each is doing thereby streamlining the management process.
  
• Requiring the volunteer to be at campaign headquarters to login information is no longer necessary. Accessing the calendar from any Internet connection is possible. This software gives the candidate and the campaign manager flexibility and instant information. The candidate will be spending valuable time in front of the voters
  
• Lessening or eliminate scheduling conflicts, they’re embarrassing to the campaign and cause poor utilization of important assets i.e. time and money.
  
• The volunteer manager can save many hours of phone calling and scheduling with a few clicks on the keyboard to locate volunteers that are needed for particular tasks. A reply to e-mail will replace the phone calls required.
  
• The public will be able to identify where the candidate is or will be at any time within the next two to three weeks.
  
• Another benefit of the public calendar is it becomes the method to locate various types of information Another plus is the fact that the newspaper, radio and TV reporters may check the campaign site for the location of the candidate should they have any questions or wish to attend the event.