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Sure, the typical customer is this semi-professional non-profit organization that need something more "result driven" than change.org when it comes to build its

by bpizzi 8y ago

Sure, the typical customer is this semi-professional non-profit organization that need something more "result driven" than change.org when it comes to build its audience (nothing black hat, really).

akudha 8y ago
I guess I am missing something. Why should I use your service than change.org? I'm sure you know your audience very well - it is just that I am missing something.
- bpizzi 8y ago
  Two things: build the form and collect the data. Now that I think about it, it's a "surveymonkey" disguised in "change.org", actually.
  - midnightmonster 8y ago
    Wife runs a not-for-profit. This is brilliant. My perception is that petitions don't often accomplish their stated goals, but what if the side benefits of gauging interest, drawing light first-step commitments, and collecting contact information accrued to your org instead of an activism-feelings-aggregator like change.org? That may come off as cynical to people, but as a petition-signer, I'd rather get followed up a couple times by an organization actually working on something I care about (and given a path to act a little more on my caring, even if it's 'come to this event' or 'give us money') than followed up indefinitely by change.org, who cannot seem to guess well at all what sort of petitions I'd like to support.
    - justaguyhere 8y ago
      So your wife's use case would be : she would create a petition, her users would sign it, then she would download their contact details, correct? What happens to the petition itself? Is there any action on it?
      - bpizzi 8y ago
        Hey, I see what you're on, don't steal my prospect :D (joking ;))
      - midnightmonster 8y ago
        Just as much happens to it as usually happens to a petition. If you get enough signatures, you present it to whomever you think should care: government body or local news or whatever. There’s even a chance that they actually care and it makes a modest difference in some legislator’s deliberation or generates some publicity about the issue.

by bpizzi 8y ago

Sure, the typical customer is this semi-professional non-profit organization that need something more "result driven" than change.org when it comes to build its audience (nothing black hat, really).

akudha 8y ago

I guess I am missing something. Why should I use your service than change.org? I'm sure you know your audience very well - it is just that I am missing something.

bpizzi 8y ago
Two things: build the form and collect the data. Now that I think about it, it's a "surveymonkey" disguised in "change.org", actually.
- midnightmonster 8y ago
  Wife runs a not-for-profit. This is brilliant. My perception is that petitions don't often accomplish their stated goals, but what if the side benefits of gauging interest, drawing light first-step commitments, and collecting contact information accrued to your org instead of an activism-feelings-aggregator like change.org? That may come off as cynical to people, but as a petition-signer, I'd rather get followed up a couple times by an organization actually working on something I care about (and given a path to act a little more on my caring, even if it's 'come to this event' or 'give us money') than followed up indefinitely by change.org, who cannot seem to guess well at all what sort of petitions I'd like to support.
  - justaguyhere 8y ago
    So your wife's use case would be : she would create a petition, her users would sign it, then she would download their contact details, correct? What happens to the petition itself? Is there any action on it?
    - bpizzi 8y ago
      Hey, I see what you're on, don't steal my prospect :D (joking ;))
    - midnightmonster 8y ago
      Just as much happens to it as usually happens to a petition. If you get enough signatures, you present it to whomever you think should care: government body or local news or whatever. There’s even a chance that they actually care and it makes a modest difference in some legislator’s deliberation or generates some publicity about the issue.