Making your petition attractive
This campaign tip (no. 97) was published on Sunday, 7th April 2019
I was involved with a petition in the early days of such things and it certainly got noticed. From that out-of-date experience, were I setting one up today I would look to ...
1. Have it as something that as wide and audience as possible can identify with and agree
2. Keep it simple so that people undertsand it
3. Have emotional appeal (wow factor) / clearly righting a wrong
4. Avoid contravesial bits that put people off
5. Have a wide geographic spread
6. Be clearly achievable
7. Have an excellent and active backup site / presence with punchy URL
8. Get any famous names to back you / see if they will be open in publicity
9. Avoid competing with another similar petition
10. Consider negative effect on campaign if failed to gather signatures
11. Set realistic (perhaps [initiallly] personal targets
12. Exhibit passion and committment
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1. Have it as something that as wide and audience as possible can identify with and agree
2. Keep it simple so that people undertsand it
3. Have emotional appeal (wow factor) / clearly righting a wrong
4. Avoid contravesial bits that put people off
5. Have a wide geographic spread
6. Be clearly achievable
7. Have an excellent and active backup site / presence with punchy URL
8. Get any famous names to back you / see if they will be open in publicity
9. Avoid competing with another similar petition
10. Consider negative effect on campaign if failed to gather signatures
11. Set realistic (perhaps [initiallly] personal targets
12. Exhibit passion and committment
Discussion via Coffee Shop forum