Politicians Can Gain Votes By Using A Teleconferencing Service

Politicians are motivators by nature.  The really great ones can convince people to follow them and support them because their priorities are aligned with one another.  Good politicians know that they earn votes by shaking hands and appearing in town hall meetings.  Political power is all about relationships.  The stronger your relationships are and the more of them you have leads to more votes and a happier electorate.

One service that smart politicians could be using to generate more publicity for themselves is by conducting voter informational meetings via a teleconference.   This service gives these speakers a way to communicate with hundreds of people at one time if they want to.  It is conducted just as a business conference would be conducted.  The main benefit though is that the people who attend the teleconference will leave there with a feeling like they just had a one on one chat with this politician.  It gives the politician a chance to essentially shake hands with hundreds of people at once.

This kind of plan is the thoughtful grass roots kind of plan that build very strong voter support.  If you can get people to come to a political rally, there is a really good chance that those people will vote for the person hosting the rally.  The same is true with a conference like this.  It gives the politician a chance to explain his viewpoints and why he chooses them.  This is how you sway the swing voters.

Imagine a local person who is running for congress.  He holds one of these teleconferences and invites two hundred local businessmen to attend.  He contacts the local chamber of commerce and asks them to notify their members that he is hosting a teleconference to discuss some issue that he knows is on their minds.   He has his staff prepare some really nice Power Point slides to show via the web while he is giving his lecture.  Then at the end of his lecture, he allows the listeners to press a button on their phone if they want to ask a question.  Better yet, he could ask them to submit their questions via email prior to ever hosting the conference.  This could be done when those people sign up for the conference.  Then the politician will have the time to prepare some exceptionally thoughtful answers to those questions.

The entire teleconference is automatically recorded if you are using a good conference call service provider.  Then that speech and snippets of comments from the businessmen who attended could be clipped and used as part of the campaign to elect this guy.

Not only can this be used for campaign speeches, but it can also be used to have conversations with multiple party donors at once.  It is an excellent relationship building tool for people who need to build relationships on a mass scale.

This technology has been out there for a long time.   I don’t see too many people taking advantage of it.  Remember that using a high tech approach to deliver a message to many people at once is what gave President Barack Obama the boost he needed to win his historical presidential election.   Smart politicians will use techniques like this to win the minds of other influential people.