(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Something Daily Kos could do to attract new members: mention the FREE pro-Dem bumper stickers! [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-07 “Thank you! Your g orgeously concise stickers just arrived in 3 hand addressed envelopes! Soon my friends & neighbors will be driving them all over the northwest.” ~sybild In an effort to help improve Daily Kos, Elfling used her renowned tech skills to create a diary with an embedded survey form to collect opinions of Daily Kos users. If you haven’t yet taken the survey, you still can, up through June 9! One of the survey questions is “How do you think we could draw more people into the site and the community?” I was especially glad to see that question, because I already had an idea for this: let folks know that DK members can get FREE pro-Dem bumper stickers! So I quickly filled out and submitted the survey. But I realize now that I forgot to mention that I have evidence that the free bumper sticker offer will increase DK membership. Some years ago, with the support of a couple dozen other Kossacks, including luminaries like Meteor Blades and Denise Oliver Velez, I initiated a Daily Kos Community project, “Messages Across America,” to distribute FREE pro-Democratic bumper stickers. This is an ongoing project which I post a diary about at least weekly. We’ve distributed thousands of free bumper stickers to folks all across the country. Each bumper sticker gets many thousands of views, so this translates to many millions of pro-Democratic messages being seen throughout America, every day, in and out of election season. But here’s the thing: In order to request free bumper stickers, you click on a link which pops up a “Kos-mail” form addressed to me, so you can let me know which stickers you want and where to mail them. In order to use Kos-mail, you have to be logged on to Daily Kos — which means you have to be a Daily Kos member. I’ve noticed I sometimes get bumper sticker requests from users on the same day they signed up for an account — on the same day I’ve posted a diary about this project. That’s surely not a coincidence. It’s clear that some folks sign up for a Daily Kos account because they found out about this project — either they happened to notice my diary series on Daily Kos or someone shared them a link to it — and they wanted a free pro-Dem bumper sticker. That’s good for Daily Kos and it’s good for the Democratic Party! With DK membership comes the ability to engage — post comments, post stories, join DK Community groups. Like bumper stickers, DK membership is a way for pro-Democrats to speak up! That’s good for our country! So that’s why I suggested in the survey form that Daily Kos mention this Community project in their marketing efforts. It’s a beneficial and proven way to attract new members! Signing up for a free Daily Kos account has a lot of perks, including the opportunity to get free pro-Dem bumper stickers! :-) Testimonials [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/7/2245311/-Something-Daily-Kos-could-do-to-attract-new-members-mention-the-FREE-pro-Dem-bumper-stickers?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/