Recruiting

Recruiting new volunteers will be the main goal of this site until the actual election is much closer. This page gives you some hints on the good ways to do this.

• Word of Mouth: If you wish to do recruiting for the Oprah for President - 2008 campaign, the best method is word of mouth. That is, telling your friends and neighbors about this site and what it stands for...getting Oprah to run and win the Presidency...is the very best way to interest others. When you do it this way, you have the very best chance of recruiting a new volunteer.

• Email: If, on the other hand, email is your chosen communication medium...perhaps your family, like ours, is dispersed all across the U.S....then you should consider doing a group mailing. The easiest way to do this is to collect all the email addresses you want to contact into a single text file, separating each from the others by commas or semicolons. To avoid excess typing, each one can be "copied"...by first selecting it with the mouse or keyboard...then choosing "copy" in the edit menu or hitting ctrl-C...and finally "pasted" in the text file and typing a comma (or semicolon) after it. Then, you can save that text file...call it "my_contacts" or something similar and whenever you want to send a mailing to that group of people, you can load the file, "copy" the entire set of email addresses at once, then paste them into the BCC row on your email program. We recommend that you send the email to yourself in the subject line, and post all other recipients in that row. That way, you will always get feedback on what you have written, and BCC (instead of CC) keeps the others from seeing each other's email addresses. If this does not matter, use CC.

  A more sophisticated, but more time consuming method, is to set up a mailing list in your address book. That way, you can skip the copy/paste step when you send out an email to your group by just entering the name of your group mailing list...for example, "My_friends_and_family"...into the BCC or CC fields. Again, we recommend that you always send yourself the main copy, just to make sure everything worked as planned.

• Incentives: Patrick has put together some incentives to help get you cranked up about recruiting. Notice that we have added a "Referer" field to the volunteer form. Those you personally recruit should put your name or email address in that space. Each month, the person or persons who garners the most new recruits will be awarded an Oprah for President t-shirt. In addition, each time anybody recruits a new volunteer, a ticket will be printed in her/his name and entered into a raffle for that month. At the end of the month, a name will be chosen to receive another t-shirt. Finally, if anyone manages to recruit 10 or more volunteers in a single month, that person will also be rewarded with a free t-shirt.

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  If you wish to recommend this site directly to a small group of friends, click HERE to get to a page that will make it easy to send a notice to up to ten friends!

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