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Step-by-step guides to running a field operation, whichever door you knock on. 15 articles on Guides.
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GPS Knock Tracking: Proof of Presence at the Door
Your canvasser reports 80 doors knocked this afternoon. Your map shows 80 pins. But did they walk every address in the t...
10 Canvassing Data Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
The report on Dana's screen looks like a good day. Two hundred doors. A 60% contact rate. Green across the board. Three...
Territory Segmentation: Why One Walk List Can't Cover a District
A campaign manager we work with loaded her voter list into a fresh walk list, picked "optimize route," and hit generate....
Bridging Paper Walk Sheets to Digital with QR
It's 9pm and a field organizer is squinting at forty rain-warped clipboard sheets, typing scrawled checkmarks into a spr...
Pocket Mode: Stop Misfires Between Doors
A canvasser logs "Not Home," drops the phone in his back pocket, and walks 150 feet to the next house. On the way, the p...
Pair Canvassing: How Live Coordination Doubles Coverage
Two reps get dropped on the same turf. One takes a porch conversation that runs long; the other drifts toward the easy b...
Using Homeowner Data to Canvass Smarter
Two reps work the same block. One knocks all hundred doors — the renters, the absentee-owned rentals, the couple who rer...
How to Find the Right Homeowners to Knock
Knocking every door on a block is the most expensive way to canvass — you pay for it in rep hours, in morale, and in the...
Why Offline-First Matters for a Canvassing App
Ellen is on her sixtieth door in a subdivision that got built faster than the cell towers did. One bar, sometimes none....
Canvassing Route Optimization: Cut Walk Time 30%
Two canvassers work the same 60 doors on the same afternoon. One walks eight miles and drags in exhausted at four o'cloc...