If your Conservative Campaign isn’t a super blast, if your Republican Activism isn’t hilariously fun and exciting, then you are not doing it right. 

  If you don’t look forward to working your neighborhood, if you dread doing your Precinct Chairman duties - then for heaven's sake, change the way you are doing them. 

  Here are 7 ways to make your activism much more fun:

   1.) Never perform any of your Precinct Chairman duties alone!  

  What are you, a self sadist or something? Blockwalk alone? Phone Bank alone? You might as well be at your job!

  Everything is easier and more fun when you have someone to do it with. The time goes by faster, the tedious parts are less tedious, and the pleasant parts are more pleasant. Always get at least one person to help you.

   2.) Don’t recruit volunteers for jobs – Invite friends to events! 

     How many people usually show up when you advertise a phone bank? Yep, that’s what I thought. Oh, you even promised pizza? Wow, I feel special now.

  Try this instead: Have your friends over to a hot dog, popcorn, and movie night, and just tell them everyone will make 20 calls each, before the food. Now, before you judge, tell me which one you would rather attend!  …Okay, then add ice cream sundaes to the hot dogs and popcorn, NOW, which one would you choose?

   3.) Always add a party to your event! 

  You know, there is a reason you have a swimming pool in your backyard. There is a reason you have a putt-putt golf course in your living room. There is a reason you have a built-in cotton candy maker in your kitchen.

  …What?

  Anyway, the point is, we all like to do fun things with others, and we all have some sort of way to accomplish this in our lives. Put those things to use in your activism! Clean out the pool, get the croquet set out of the attic, dust off that badminton chest, and find that hacky sack somewhere under the bed! Put them to use after that phone bank or that block walk or that pamphlet campaign!

    4.) Invite and schedule a VIP to visit your event!   

  Think about it, don’t you think a VIP present at your event would attract more volunteers? Wouldn’t you be more apt to attend if you knew you would get to meet Drew Carey or get to have your picture taken with Henry Winkler? Okay, me neither, but that’s not the point. If you could get the Governor or a Senator or Chuck Norris to stop by, even for a moment, it would attract more people.

   5.) Create a fun mascot for your Precinct!

  This one sure can spark some interest and plenty of people to do a double-take during your block walking events. It might even bring folks out of their homes, especially if your mascot is handing out candy or toys to children. Have a really tall guy dress up as Abraham Lincoln, or get an Elvis impersonator, or George Washington, or Ben Franklin; there is an endless list of possibilities waiting for the person who doesn’t mind adding a little offbeat creativity.

   6.) Put on Contests and offer Prizes!

  Yes, I know prizes cost money, especially if they are good enough to attract volunteers, but here is the real deal: You are trading the costs of the attractions for having to do all the work yourself! In order to make it fun for the folks doing the work for you, you are spending a little money. Let me see which one I would rather do: Do all the work myself and be bored to tears, OR have a big party, spend a little money, and have all the work done for me. 

I can’t imagine which one I would do. Sarcasm.

   7.) Go to an offbeat location when you can!

  Public forums don’t have to be held in a stuffy hall. An Open House doesn’t have to be in the house. Phone banks don’t always have to be done indoors. Block walking doesn’t always have to be done….never mind.

  If I got an email that was titled, “Phone Bank in the Park,” it would immediately get my attention. If someone told me we were having a forum where the candidates were debating from the deep end of the neighborhood pool, I would go just to see it.

  Guys, make it fun – fun is where the win can be found.