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Telephone Town Halls are an incredibly effective way for candidates running for office to contact voters, but Stones’ Phones has also made them an efficient tool for fundraising, enabling candidates to target previous and prospective donors. During the 2012 election cycle, Stones’ Phones held a series of Telephone Town Halls with former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine for his senate campaign. The events were marketed as an insiders campaign briefing with current and former donors

Holding a Telephone Town Hall provides your campaign or organization with an amazing outreach tool to build support and discuss important...

Telephone Town Halls have become one of the leading ways to simultaneously communicate with thousands of people across the country. Campaigns and organizations have been using Telephone Town Halls for years to connect with members and voters. We at Stones’ Phones have developed new techniques to increase attendance and participation on your event by advertising on mediums such as websites, direct mail, cookied Internet ads, and Facebook Connect. Website Sign-up We recently wo

How many screeners should you have on hand for a Telephone Town Hall? As with most things in politics, it depends. If you want to run a...

One of the biggest decisions you have to make when holding a Telephone Town Halls is who your moderator should be or if you even need...

Whether it is remembering where you put your car keys or that important meeting with a client, everyone needs reminders in their lives....

Since we began organizing Telephone Town Halls in 2006, we have received many questions about what to expect when planning an event....

In July 2015 Roll Call ran an article trumpeting a “new ruling” from the Federal Communications Commission that Telephone Town Halls are now, and have always been, banned by FCC regulations. Happily, reports of the death of Telephone Town Halls have been greatly exaggerated. Here’s the relevant portion of Roll Call’s article (emphasis ours): “Politicians are exempt from the Do Not Call List rules … but not the robocalling restrictions for cell phones the FCC is now enforcing.