Activate filters out disconnected numbers, no answers, and most answering machines, consistently putting your volunteers into touch with live voters instead of wasting their and your time while they wait for a connection. Our 100% web-based product allows for simple and seamless integration into your existing phone and computer networks.
Activate can generate instant data results from anywhere thanks to this web-based technology. As called as made, your data and results are collected in real-time and are immediately accessible. The same technology also allows you to track the progress of your campaign in real time from anywhere at any time. We understand that campaigns work around the clock and we offer a 24 hour live support line, always staffed by an experienced member of the Activate team.
| List Size | Paper Lists | Activate | Hours Saved |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5,000 | 166 | 39 | 127 |
| 10,000 | 333 | 77 | 256 |
| 15,000 | 500 | 115 | 385 |
| 30,000 | 1,000 | 231 | 769 |
| 50,000 | 1,667 | 385 | 1,282 |
| 100,000 | 3,333 | 770 | 2,563 |
| 200,000 | 6,667 | 1,538 | 5,129 |
Using the Activate system, volunteers can make 35-45 live contacts and 120 dials per hour, well above the 28 dials and 5 live contacts that manual dialing typically generates. Thanks to Activate’s web-based technology, those same volunteers are able to log on and take calls from anywhere they have web access and make calls nationwide.
Clients have successfully used the Activate dialer for get out the vote efforts, advocacy, surveys, polling, issue research, message testing, and voter ID, preference, and persuasion calls. Check out how volunteers built grassroots support for Annise Parker during her successful campaign for Mayor of Houston.
Activate’s web interface allows your campaign to create voter specific, customizable surveys. The scripts of these surveys can be changed without logging and can be configured to serve a wide variety of data gathering purposes. The web interface also includes tools that allow supervisors to listen in on calls their volunteers are making to track their progress and take note of things that work and don’t work with the group of voters being called. A built in chat system also allows volunteers and campaign workers to be in contact with each other while they are logged in, all without disrupting their ability to receive calls.
Activate’s phone only system provides your voters with an 800 number to use to log in to our system. Volunteers are able to call from any phone – at home, at the office, or even their cell phone – to make calls for your campaign, giving them maximum flexibility. Using a touchtone phone, volunteers are able to gather data using a simple number-based system of disposition codes. Check out how Activate’s phone only system helped Elaine Marshall to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for the United States Senate during a hotly contested primary race in North Carolina.
Work with our resident Automated Call Expert to design a script, create and edit recordings, and implement features like built in touchtone surveys or the ability to allow voters that answer the automated call to be transferred to a live member of your campaign. Once everything is prepared, Activate can deliver your automated message to anywhere in the United States. Clients have used Activate’s automated call system for get out the vote efforts, advocacy and persuasion, endorsement notification, event notification, and advocacy and persuasion calls.
Combine your lists of phone numbers and phone-based goals with Activate’s script writing expertise and our phone bank employees – using the Activate system – will make calls on your campaign’s behalf to conduct your survey and gather data, all carried out by experience callers supervised by our call center supervisor, who makes sure that our phone bank operators are accurately delivering your script to gather that information your campaign needs.
Clients have used the paid live phone bank for get out the vote drives, polling, issue research, message testing, voter ID, and many others. The paid live phone bank can also be used to begin a self-funded field program to build an army of volunteers through live calls while asking those that are unable to volunteer for a low-dollar contribution that in turn funds the early stages of your campaign’s field program. Check out this highly successful use of the self-funded field program during Kathleen Rice’s campaign for New York Attorney General.
We watched as campaigns failed to use the energy and dedication of their supporters properly and wasted money on faceless paid help in an effort to get their message out. Activate was designed to change that.
We have spent the last few years developing and perfecting Activate, a system that puts supporters to work on the phones and allows them to efficiently get their campaign’s message out. Activate was designed by The Next Big Thing, LLC team, which has decades of experience and made millions of calls to help Democrats and progressive organizations. It maximizes the time the volunteers are able to spend contacting voters by cutting out time that would otherwise be wasted dialing, printing call sheets and even waiting for the phone to ring.
In the 21st century, this is the way campaigns should be run – driven by grassroots power and enhanced by cutting edge technology. Since 2006, Activate has been used to win campaigns at every level of political spectrum, from presidential elections down to small local efforts and everything in between.
