Next-Generation Advocacy Campaigns
The Virtual Citizen Advocacy Toolset
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Speed-dial with Voice Recognition and Spoken Keywords
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[Letters and Faxes] to Lawmakers and Letters to the Editor
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[Interactive Action Video]
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[Multinational Coverage]
What is #250 Speed Dial?
Phone calls are the most effective medium for influencing public policy. Legacy tools make it hard. They require smart phones, texting, short codes or hard-to-remember 10-digit numbers, cumbersome web forms and ineffective, data-free patch-through calls.
The Virtual Citizen’s revolutionary #250 Speed Dial technology makes driving calls and text follow ups faster and easier than ever with just a simple 3-digit phone call and voice recognition. Unlike patch-through calls, we can record and capture stories, acquire mobile data, report call lengths, and map call locations.
Candidate Campaigns
Let voters connect with your campaign simply by saying the candidate name or slogan. Capture mobile numbers to send texts to solicit donations, build lists for “get out the vote” day, deliver links to videos, alerts and registration links for rallies, and more. Location data can help in your targeting strategies!
Issue Advocacy
Typical “Call Congress” campaigns put the burden of finding the right contact on the voter. The Virtual Citizen makes it easy by allowing advocates to simply dial #250 & saying a key phrase, e.g. “Save our Healthcare,” “Clean Energy”, or “Senator Smith.” No texting, short codes, or 10-digit numbers!
Radio and Television
7 of 10 radio listeners are busy driving and won’t remember a 1-800 or ten-digit number, short code, or visit a website. With The Virtual Citizen listeners simply dial #250 and speak the charity or PAC name or keyword – We connect the advocate or donor to a lawmaker, call center AND/OR send a fundraising link.
As Easy as Dial > Speak > Take Action
- EASY. Anyone can remember #250. Just dial, speak, and take action. Always the same number, just like 411 or 911. For those unable to speak or have dexterity issues, our system recognizes text-to-speech.
- CONVENIENT. With #250, you license a Spoken Keyword™ or phrase that defines your campaign such as “CLEAN ENERGY,” or “CONGRESSMAN SMITH.”
- FAST. No short codes or hard-to-remember 10-digit numbers, texting, web forms to complete, or call backs. Advocates dial #250, speak your keyword, and connect directly to a call center, lawmaker, or other target. You can also send a return text with links.
- NO INTEGRATION! Have an existing texting platform and want to drive calls? Send clickable call links to quickly connect advocates with your targets.
- ACQUIRE DATA: Unlike Patch-through calls which acquire no data, our system confirms connection and captures mobile data, date/time stamp, mobile carriers, cell tower locations by DMA, call volume, and call length. We can also record calls for stories and testimonials!
Dial #250 and say “VIRTUAL CITIZEN” at the prompt. At the end of the message, you will receive a text with a campaign link end long-term contracts! Click it and send a letter!
- Speed Dial directly to lawmakers
- Voice recognition & spoken keywords
- Send follow-up texts for fundraising, petitions, & more
- Send direct call links in text or social media campaigns
- No robocalls, short codes, webforms, or 10-digit numbers
- Acquire mobile data, cell locations, call duration
- Record calls to capture stories and testimonials
Letter Writing
Letters and FAXes to Lawmakers / Letters to the Editor
Send letters to lawmakers at the local, state, and federal level. We help ensure variation by providing advocates the ability to use their own voices, not fake AI-generated content.
In addition to letters to lawmakers and custom targets, the Virtual Citizen can send faxes to lawmakers as well as Letters to the Editor (LTE). We provide custom sites, and/or embedded forms and, when combined with our direct speed-dial platform, we send follow-up texts links for fundraising, event registrations, or additional actions.
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Interactive Action Video
Video can move emotions and leave a lasting impact on a viewer. Video offers tremendous opportunities to acquire data and engage advocates while Facebook and social media offer the media to disseminate them. In the past, organizations have not had the ability to engage viewers the moment they capture their attention.
The Virtual Citizen enables advocates to take action on a layer embedded right on top of a video. These layers can include advocacy campaign forms like the one shown, fundraising forms, or clickable numbers for direct calls to lawmakers on mobile campaigns. Deploy a video to Facebook or via text – Users take action immediately.
Importantly, we provide metrics on user actions on the video. Increase your response rate, your ROI and measure your effectiveness by deploying action videos.
Services
Our Mission is Innovation.
Our goal is to help organizations take advantage of advances in technology and navigate change to win on policy issues. Harness our technical and strategic expertise and commitment.
We drive cross-platform campaigns that inform, persuade, and inspire action while delivering experienced, best-in-class services to acquire and mobilize more advocates and expand your reach to shape public policy, meet fundraising goals, and understand media spend with Artificial Intelligence.
Advocacy
Campaigns
We are the next generation of Digital Advocacy. We’ll help you create an advocacy plan and apply the right strategy to win.
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Legislative and
Donor Intel
Stay informed, assess risk with political donation history and federal, state, and raise more funds with local legislative intelligence.
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Audience and
Data Acquisition
Build custom audiences from consumer and business data from 300+ million records & 900+ segments.
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Digital Media &
AI Optimization
Maximize impact with Omnichannel Media Management. Artificial Intelligence optimizes media spend.
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Fractional Management
Experience matters. Hire us. Save Money. Win. Harness our experience to maximize your technology.
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Testimonials
Thank you, Bryan Dawson, we needed technology to connect easily with the public, and we found The Virtual Citizen, which has helped propel our next-generation advocacy and public affairs. Their ability to quickly speed dial with voice recognition and direct-dial QR Codes makes advocacy frictionless and more accessible.
"The Virtual Citizen gave me something of value that proves the performance of radio to drive voters to action. I suspect we may be doing more with Virtual Citizen and #250 in the future.”
"Relentlessly committed to customer success and achieving shared goals" is an understatement for this guy. After working more grassroots campaigns with Bryan Dawson than I can count with all of my fingers and toes, he left a lasting mark on me as someone who is a true helper. In an industry with fast turns and overnight pivots, Bryan is someone you can depend on, and someone you can trust and respect."