Ball State

» Giving away logo merchandise

By China at 4:29 PM

We're coming down to the wire now folks. IS anyone else feeling the pressure? Wednesday night was the third and final presidential debate and I am just ready to blast forward to the forth of next month and find out who our next president is going to be for the next four year. I am of course swayed towards John McCain and so I have my hopes up for now about whom it will be. I agree with his policies so much this year that I have been volunteering every week since June. In the beginning I did mostly general Republican Party stuff like handing out the elephant logo merchandise. Then I moved on to doing the voter registration and buttons. Those types of things are really great around here because we all know that as college students we love free stuff and if it says something about who we are and what we believe in then it is a double gift. All of these promotional products have since shifted to having the McCain name and the Palin name on them as well. Now it's sort of funny giving things away because everyone that takes it is someone who is in obvious support and not just someone who wants something for free.

Our final push this fall in terms of getting his name and the word about his platform out there is again in the form of giveaways but in some different forms. I proposed the idea at the Republican students office that we should model our last push after tradeshow giveaways. I am a business student so I know the power of one little piece of something in the hands of the right people. Putting something on a single college student can only get you so far. But imagine a respected boss wearing his corporate gifts with logos and what you'd think if you saw that. That is what we have done with local business owners. We found the ones in support and asked them represent the party through wearing some kind of logo product that we gave them for free. This in turn gets the word to their employees and their customers while at the same time easily opening a dialogue between all of them. It is really exciting this time of year and I am just dying to see what happens next month.