Commonly Asked Questions from Supporters – Help Center

Here are answers to questions/concerns your supporters may have.

Most people trust their friends more than a stranger. Research backs this as well; it shows that friends contacting a voter is 5-10x more effective in getting them to vote than a stranger.
The messenger matters as much as the message itself.
Leveraging existing contacts, relational organizing can lead to a higher contact rate than phone banking or cold calling.
Higher turnout for the Campaign
Better contact and conversion rates
Relational organizing allows voters who are not on the voter file or whose information is incorrect to be contacted by friends.

Working as part of an OutreachCircle allows you to be a part of the campaign's overall plan, which means your efforts are contributing at the right time and in the right way to ensure the campaign reaches its goals.
OutreachCircle makes it easy for you to stay informed and get involved in a number of ways: learning about the candidate, watching videos, completing tasks or sharing on social media
OutreachCircle makes it easy to recruit friends to help out as well, you can't do everything yourself!
When you are contacting voters, it's much faster through OutreachCircle (OutreachCircle figures out which friends are voters, which live in the district, provides a simple message you can relay to them and makes it easy to quickly text or email them)
When you do it through OutreachCircle, the campaign can keep track of the results, so they can take those individuals off of their phone and door lists so they can focus on reaching more voters
Your efforts are boosted by the other supporters participating in OutreachCircle
How OutreachCircle helps campaigns win

First check with your organization, they have the best idea what they are asking supporters to do. If you (or they) need more help, check out or weekly training and demo options.
Use the clickable supporter flow demo to see how supporters interact with an OutreachCircle.

Your contacts are kept private to you. The campaign does not have access to any of your contacts’ information such as email or personal phone numbers.
You can also delete your contacts at any time, if you desire.

No, the password is never saved or stored. It is only used during the initial email contact import.

Only you can. You decide who to message, when to message them and what the message says.
- The campaign has no ability to directly message your contacts.
- OutreachCircle has a privacy policy that prohibits them from contacting any of your contacts. OutreachCircle will never share or sell your contact information with the campaign or any 3rd party.

Sangeeth Peruri founded OutreachCircle after running for his local school board. He wanted to create a way for campaigns to reach voters friend-to-friend in a cost effective, efficient and personal manner.

The messages supporters’ send will come from the supporter and not the campaign.
Supporters should edit the messages and make them personal before sending.

The messages will look like they come from the supporter, but they will be sent through OutreachCircle.
The supporters’ SPAM ratings will not be affected.

A voter’s response will go directly to the supporter that sent the message. The responses will not be tracked by OutreachCircle or the campaign.

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