[Lnc-business] ASC Annual Report - DRAFT

[Joshua Katz]

In Connecticut, we went to NB a few months ago.  The first big change was
that anyone who felt motivated could work on the website since it was quite
easy to do.  We've mostly integrated with it, but not fully.  We still have
some finances inside and some outside.  There are a few kinks - most
notably, if your domain is hosted by anyone other than 1&1 or GoDaddy,
there are issues integrating your email with it - we still haven't ironed
out how incoming mail works fully, although it works well enough for all
practical purposes.

I'm definitely a big fan.  Volunteer recruitment is up, sending out a
newsletter (the actual sending) takes minutes instead of an hour (granted,
I could have made that process easier if I had set up dedicated
spreadsheets for it).  I can maintain contact with members easily, and
follow-up on new contacts is great.  I have plenty of space to store
relationship data, and the ability for lots of people to update it easily.
Membership is also up, and I love that a lot of aspects of membership
maintenance are automated.  The learning curve is not terribly steep; I was
up and running with most functions within a week.  Modifying the website is
a piece of cake.

Also, because everything looks nicer and we have better contact with
supporters, we've been able to seek sponsorships for our NB costs - anyone
who pays our cost for a month gets a mention on the footer and in the
newsletter.

Joshua A. Katz
Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Scott L. <scott73 at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> If y’all want to see a Libertarian state affiliate web site that was built
> on NationBuilder, you can go here:
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>   http://www.lpnevada.org/
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> Brett Pojunis, State Chair, says the web site is still somewhat “under
> construction” since it only went live 3 weeks ago.
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> Their web site is totally integrated with NationBuilder.   Inquiries who
> leave their contact info are instantly put into the contact database.
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> I know very little about IT.  However, I do think that it would be
> extremely beneficial for the National LP to implement
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> an up-to-date database solution that integrates with the web site.
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> Brett looked at about a half-dozen of these systems, and in his opinion
> NationBuilder is the most productive in terms of costs vs. benefits.
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> There would be some rather significant start-up costs for the National
> Party to set up NationBuilder, and some additional set-up costs for each
> affiliate.  But - Brett says that after getting set up, the per-month cost
> for the average-size state affiliate would be around $200 per month.
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>     Scott Lieberman
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