Brand / Design / Copy / Web / Project Management / Social Change

GEORGIA STEELE INDEPENDENT / 2022

Empowering change in our local community.

Weekday was initially engaged by Georgia Steele when she put her name forward as an Independent for her local Council election. She needed support developing a brand and a website and wanted to work with a local agency.  

After a few initial conversations, it was clear that Georgia Steele and Weekday Director Ruby Bisson had like-minded values. After successfully building her website, Georgia decided to run for the Federal election and asked Ruby to be her Campaign Manager for the 7-month journey. The seat of Hughes was a safe Liberal seat, and was held by Craig Kelly for 12 years before he defected to the United Australian Party. As the Campaign Manager for Georgia Steele, Ruby provided overall leadership to the campaign, working 3 days a week at the beginning of the campaign, to a full-time load in the final 3 months. Weekday supported with copy, design, automated communications and media booking.

Results

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    Built a Wordpress website, a Campaign Registry on Shopify, a CRM (Zoho), and automated communications that kept our campaign running smoothly.
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    Raised $610,000 donations, with a median donation of $50. Significant support from Climate 200.
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    Printed and distributed tens of thousands of flyers and corflutes.
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    Ran targeted Facebook, Google & YouTube ads. Booked and designed a highway billboard, mobile billboards, and telephone booths.
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    Hosted 10 Town Halls, a fundraiser Art Auction, countless pub and cafe meets, panels, picnics, and more.
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    Built and moderated an engaged Facebook group of 250, and sent weekly emails with an av. open rate of 65%.
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    Opened and furnished a campaign office in the heart of the electorate (which Weekday shared, so we could work together as efficiently as possible!)
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    370 trained volunteers on election day, who, in the leadup, letterboxed the entire electorate (55,000+ homes) twice and door knocked 5000+ homes.

Hughes saw a 15% swing, making the safe Liberal seat marginal. Hughes had never seen an Independent gain more than 2% of the first preference vote in history. Over 13,000 people voted 1 for Independent Georgia Steele, after only 6 months of public campaigning. The campaign disrupted voter habits and encouraged a politically disengaged electorate to consider their options outside the party system.

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