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Originally Posted by marcus
You could save on delivery costs by supporters just posting them through mail boxes.
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You could certainly save a bit doing that, but when you think that the average UKIP branch has 5-10 activists who might be able to deliver.... complete coverage is impossible.
Also, without some careful testing first, I imagine many activsts would be thinking that their time would be better spent elsewhere. Their time is valuable and should be treated as such.
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Originally Posted by marcus
I hear your point. However it is not from the conservative or labour party.
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Then imagine you received something from the English Democrats or the green party. How many people would watch that? We are going to be talking in single digit percentages at best I imagine. At that point, you might be paying £5 for each person who watches it... even assuming your 10p production cost is real (and I suspect it will be slightly more than that).
This will sound patronising, (but it isn't meant to be, since enthusiasm is always a virtue), but you are exhibiting a classic case of an understimulated activist. This is something that members have been complaining about since 2005 - they just don't know how to promote the party and jump on anything that appears. The problem is that the party doesn't help activists at all, and doesn't tell you what to do. The result is a couple of thousand very keen members all doing their own thing.
There have been attempts at coordinated member activities before - the A5 cartoon cards, Trevor Coleman's billboards, the Let the People Decide campaign and so on. These do work to some extent, in that they give people a motivation and direction, but the results were unknown. As mentioned in other threads, the problem is that the efforts are sporadic and amateur, rather than coordinated, professional and targeted. I can't recall an attempt at a campaign in the last 18 months.