[LPL Board of Directors] Advertising

[Adrien Monteleone]

I agree 100%.

-- In Liberty,

Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
Libertarian Party of Louisiana

On 04/10/2013 09:02 AM, Boyd Smith wrote:
> Here is an issue that we are going to have to make room for in the 
> meeting Saturday.  And I will do as much as I can to make the part 
> that may take up time that we need take as little time as possible and 
> to make it be as painless and actually productive as possible.  But 
> the issue relates to growing the party and performing advertising.
> We will need to engage in actual advertising in some markets to both 
> grow the party, the PECs and the local base.  We will also likely have 
> to engage in advertising to gather the support/people necessary to 
> form PECs in some parishes. Calcasieu is one of those special cases.
> We do not have the luxury of waiting till we have 64 or even 10 PECs 
> formed.  There is a momentum that we have to maintain to continue 
> building the party.  We are at 7550 (approximately) we could very well 
> get to 8500 from events like the Strawberry Festival, Gun Shows and 
> even word of mouth.  But, I think the limit of that is going to be 
> around 9000 - 10,000.  In order to become a viable force in this state 
> for politics, for reform, and for liberty, we will need to get to 
> 25,000+.  And that is going to be only a start.  We are #3 now.  I 
> want to be #1.  I want to be able to look at the Elected Officials 
> Database and see Libertarians in elective office all across the state.
> To get candidates who can make a serious run at some of the higher 
> offices in the state (parish council/police jury, state rep, state 
> senate, congress, US Senate, Governor, ect) we need a large membership 
> base.  To get a large membership base we will have to sell what we 
> have and what we have is ideas.  Good ideas, yes.  But ideas - and 
> ideas while bullet proof are abstract concepts.  They are not a hard 
> item like a vacuumcleaner or a tangible service like massage therapy.  
> They require propagation/marketing/advertising and we are getting 
> close to the point where we are going to have to market our ideas and 
> that is going to require an actual marketing campaign and advertising.
> Boyd W. Smith
> Elections Officer
>
>
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