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Blaise Hazelwood is Co-Founder and Partner of iWeb Strategies, an online political consulting firm founded in 2007. Blaise has led and managed political operations, high-profile grassroots programs and political campaigns. She is recognized for leading the development and implementation of the 72 Hour Program, which is credited with revolutionizing the Get Out the Vote efforts. She served RNC Political Director in 2002 and 2004, spearheading their successful online Team Leader program and the construction of Voter Vault, the RNC’s voter file database. Blaise has served as the Political and Media Director at the NRSC, managed and consulted for PACs, 527s, and candidates from the state to the national level. Recently, she managed Michael Steele’s campaign for chairmanship of the Republican party. Following his successful election, Blaise spent two months at the RNC as Transition Chief of Staff and remains a top advisor to Chairman Steele.

Brian Lyle is Co-Founder and Partner of iWeb Strategies. Before forming iWeb Strategies, Brian was the eCampaign Director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) for the 2006 election cycle. In 2004, Brian was Deputy Director of Team Leader, the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) online volunteer program and also served as the Southeast Political Coordinator and was responsible for organizing historic 72-hour GOTV turnouts in Lee County, Florida and Desoto County, Mississippi. Brian also developed and managed the largest GOP mobile voter registration effort through the creation of “Reggie the Registration Rig.”

In 2002, he developed one of the top five mold breaking websites for Van Hilleary for Governor, according to Campaign and Elections magazine. He also worked on various state legislative campaigns throughout Tennessee.

clients

clients

Steele for Chairman
Global Intellectual Property Center
SteeleforChairman.com
TheGlobalIPCenter.com
Institute for 21st Century Energy
The Jindal Foundation
Temporary Workers and Border Security
EnergyXXI.org
JindalFoundation.org
TempsinUSA.org
Peter Roskam for Congress
Tuesday Group PAC
Chester County GOP
RoskamforCongress.com
TuesdayGroupPAC.com
ChesterCountyGOP.com
Elizabeth Dole for Senate
OnMessage Sports
OnMessage Sports
ElizabethDole.org
OMISports.com
SafeArkansas.com
Chris Lien for Congress
Pat McCrory
Thelma Drake for Congress
ChrisLienforCongress.com
PatMcCrory.com
ThelmaDrakeforCongress.com
Fred Thompson for President
Bobby Jindal
On Message Inc
Fred08.com
Bobby Jindal.com
OnMessageInc.com
Concord Capital
Smart Media Group
Klitenic Robertson
Concord Capital.com
Smart Media Group.com
Klitenic Robertson.com


Below you will find a list of projects our team has worked on over the years



Van Hilleary for Governor Team Leader 72 Hour.com
GOPSenators.com Fancy Ford.com Clueless Claire.com
Tic Tac Tester.com Far Out Brown.com Bob's Baggage.com

customer service

Unmatched Customer Service

iWeb Strategies provides more than a “website in a box.” We are an ongoing part of your organization. iWeb Strategies will continuously monitor what works and why and adjust your online program to be the best that it can be.

iWeb Strategies will help you build your online community from the ground up. One comprehensive program: from effective, eyecatching design to cutting-edge strategy to implementing innovative technology, iWeb Strategies will help you create an overarching presence to communicate effectively, organize, motivate and activate grassroots, and increase fundraising.

The competition is fierce. iWeb Strategies will ensure that you are on the technological edge and always one step ahead.

communications

Innovative and Active Communication

More and more, people are relying less on traditional media outlets as their primary source of information. They turn to the internet and people they know. It is not enough to just have a website that someone can visit. To be successful, you must build a complete online program that delivers the content your audience is looking for by effective lines of communication.

Spreading your message online

iWeb Strategies will help you to develop an online presence that attracts supporters and keeps them involved, by using a variety of new communication media.

iWeb Strategies’ experienced campaign professionals will design and build a website that is attractive and easy to use. But that’s just the beginning.With iWeb Strategies, you will be armed with the strategy, tools and skills to get the most out of your online presence.

Your eActivist Team is your rapid offensive and response communication team. They are your online warriors. They will be the ones who do the gorilla advertising and spread your message. You just need to give them the tools. iWeb Strategies will provide you with those tools from a complete blog section to widgets to flash video and beyond.

Bringing your campaign alive

iWeb Strategies will help bring your online presence alive. No longer a static web page, online videos and podcasting will bring reality and excitement to your organization.

grassroots

One campaign database: communicate, activate, and fundraise

Your online program has the potential to build and tie together your complete organization.

The most effective means of growing support is still person to person and whether that communication is over the internet, through neighborhood walks, or at a local fundraiser, the key is organization.

iWeb Strategies will help you activate and manage your Grassroots by building a platform that will allow supporters to easily volunteer for your organization’s specific programs: walks, calls, events, talk radio, coalitions, final 72 hours. The goal is ONE database of online and offline supporters to create the most effective and efficient organization.

And iWeb Strategies will help you keep you build your Grassroots in a variety of ways like contests and rewards. Keeping track of progress and awarding your Grassroots is a great way to motivate and make your online presence more exciting.

Microtargeting

iWeb Strategies will not only help you build and organize your database of supporters, we will help you to get the right messages to the right people. You will be able to microtarget your database and easily communicate to your supporters on issues that they care about and turn them into activists and donors.

Blogger friendly

It is critical that your web presence is blogger friendly. iWeb Strategies will help you build those tools and create a blogger network. iWeb will build a list of blogs and rank them, provide a daily report of blog content, help distribute your message to bloggers and give them the tools to spread your message.

iWeb Strategies will help you effectively utilize social networking sites to build your list of activists and donors.

fundraising

Online Fundraising With Real Results

The professionals at iWeb Strategies have an extensive amount of experience in online fundraising. They know what works and can help you set and achieve your online fundraising goals.

Successful fundraising begins with recruiting supporters to an action and issue orientated web site. It is important that your online program not only encourage supporters to donate but build a program that keeps them coming back for recurring donations.

iWeb Strategies will help you create and implement a fundraising plan. You will have homepage graphics that will represent progress and continue to motivate donors.

List Building

Building your list of supporters is critical for your communications, grassroots, and fundraising. iWeb Strategies can advise the best way to list build through renting and buying lists and online advertising. Using online targeting we can target potential donors who are most likely to give to your campaign.

Knowing what your supporters care about is another way to effectively activate and encourage them to donate. iWeb Strategies will help you microtarget your list and monitor which messages are working. You will also be able to see what part of your website interested a donor before he or she contributed to your organization.

blog

blog

We are hiring…

April 28th, 2009

iWeb Strategies is hiring for a full-time Project Manager. If you are interested in applying for this position, please submit your resume to info@iwebstrategies.com.

iWeb Strategies is an online political consulting firm. We help campaigns and organizations build complete online programs using the perfect mix of Communications, Grassroots and Fundraising. We work towards this goal by providing customer service and unmatched support.

You will be asked to and will take on many important responsibilities. Your assignments will allow you to become familiar with the basics of online political work.

Tasks that you will be asked to do:

•  Write and create weekly summary reports for clients to help maximize their online presence
•  Monitor and engage in blog conversations
•  Manage excel spreadsheets and data for list-building projects
•  Help manage and update our client websites
•  Other duties as assigned
•  Assist our developers in creating page graphics, CSS, HTML
•  Test professional sites for consistency
•  Support existing web page modifications

We need our employees to be self-motivated! We are seeking reliable people who have good communication skills and are well organized, have an interest in politics, who think ahead on how they can help our clients, and most importantly, who are willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done well.

Submit your resume: If you are interested in applying for this position, please send your resume, with contact information, to info@iwebstrategies.com.

Required Skills:

•  Minimum 2 years of professional internet strategy or website management experience
•  Working knowledge of HTML for updating simple website pages.
•  Working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop for creating simple site graphics, logos, icons and advertisement banners
•  Excellent communication skills, team player, multitasker, etc.
•  Perform well under pressure
•  Understand the importance of meeting customer expectations
•  Friendly
•  Flexible
•  Fast worker and communicator
•  Overall great attitude

Experience not required but preferred:

• Knowledge of WordPress, Drupal, Joomla a plus
• Knowledge of Flash design
• Knowledge of social network applications
• Ability to translate design into a functional website

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