{"id":5477,"date":"2019-07-25T22:41:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T03:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2019-07-26T09:14:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:14:19","slug":"followup-straws-as-a-marketing-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5477","title":{"rendered":"Followup &#8211; Straws as a Marketing Stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5475\">I wasn&#8217;t wrong<\/a> \ud83d\ude42 Plastic straws + free media attention were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-2020-reelection-campaign-hauls-in-200k-selling-straws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a great combination for the Trump campaign<\/a>. 140k straws at 15$ a pack is over 2 million dollars. They cleared 200k on that, which isn&#8217;t bad for a week or two of fundraising. And half of the purchasers were new donors &#8212; which means a lot of new contact information to solicit future donations and to target &#8220;get out the vote&#8221; efforts. And it&#8217;s pretty easy to figure out what message will entice this demographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I wasn&#8217;t wrong \ud83d\ude42 Plastic straws + free media attention were a great combination for the Trump campaign. 140k straws at 15$ a pack is over 2 million dollars. They cleared 200k on that, which isn&#8217;t bad for a week or two of fundraising. And half of the purchasers were new donors &#8212; which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[491,509],"class_list":["post-5477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2020-election","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}