Political Web Services

Your website is the foundation of a successful online political campaign. Many candidates turn to local web developers or ‘free site builders’ for their political campaign website design needs. Neither has the experience or expertise in digital politics. That can mean that your development project costs more money and time than it should. Those are resources best invested toward campaign activities.

Web Services for Political Campaigns

We provide a variety of political website services to help new and established candidates win elections since 2004. We’ve built and launched political campaign websites long before digital became an essential marketing component of down-ballot races. Messaging, content and technical requirements all play a critical part in success.

Our political clients include mayor and city council representatives, judges, sheriffs, school board candidates, political committees, grassroots organizations to state and congressional candidates.

We help campaigns succeed online in a variety of ways:

Campaign Design and Branding

Our Custom Site Packages include logo design to grab attention and identity you to voters. The colors, font and layout all help create a foundation for a narrative on which to build your brand. The graphics we create can be provided in high-resolution for print use in brochures and mailings.

An Easy to Use Content Management System

We’ve worked to make our content management systems easy to use for non-technical users. You don’t need to know how to program or edit complicated building blocks. You can add and edit page content, images and post news and updates. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can use our system. Check out our Site Demo to see how the system works.

Digital Marketing Services

We offer a number of online marketing services to help launch your digital presence, including video design, social media account setup, and IP targeting. Online campaigning is constantly changing and expanding. We help our clients keep up with the best practices.

Resources and Tools for Candidates

Find just the right image for your page or post in our built-in image library. Clients also have access to additional tools, articles and resources. Use our social media and print templates to help promote online and offline.

An Investment In Your Political Campaign

The best political campaign websites are appealing, inform voters, and help visitors take action. Our system includes the pages, forms and layout (desktop and mobile-friendly, of course) to help get a jump start on content so you can launch your site quickly and without hassle. A sample of the features include:

• Domain and Hosting: A free .com domain name is included. We take care of all your hosting needs. It’s all set up automatically.
• Built in styles and Templates: Built-in page layout styles and professionally-designed color schemes are included, along with ability to easily embed YouTube videos, audio files and presentations.
• Powerful Page Editor: Make unlimited edits. Easily add, edit and update your site content. Add image popups, sliders, buttons, and even text-to-Tweet links. Plus, it’s easy to make your pages SEO-friendly so they appear in relevant searches.
• Accept Online Donations: Any outside fundraising system or service can be integrated to accept contributions and donations.
• Forms and Data Capture: Capture and download data from your contact, endorsement and event forms.
• Social Media Integration: Easily display your Facebook and Twitter feeds in your sidebar or in your pages. Visitors can share your content to their own friends and followers.
• Other Built-in Tools: Includes an event calendar, popover messaging, countdown widget and more to help win your election.
• Technical Support: Get help through our extensive knowledge base, by trouble ticket or phone.
• Up-Front Pricing: All of our services are spelled out clearly and have fixed prices to make it simple.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

How did you start in this niche?

Our first experience in politics goes back twenty years ago, when we employed online tactics to help a local candidate win her election. We created a campaign website for the candidate, which forced her opponent to spend thousands in developing a competing site. We also helped promote positive search results for the candidate and negative search results for her opponent. In the end, we won!

What are the benefits of using Online Candidate?

There are many benefits to Online Candidate. One of the most important, as expressed by our clients, is that you are actually dealing directly with the person who is doing the work. Our system is flexible for various needs, so you are free to work with and integrate other vendor services. We also focus exclusively on political websites, so our process is streamlined an efficient, allow us to pass along the cost savings.

We offer a variety of site packages and related marketing services. What services are best for you?