Here are a bunch of strategies to help get more people on board. Some take 15 seconds, others are more involved, but every bit helps.
Facebook: Our Facebook page is one place you’ll find daily updates on the campaign. Make sure you’re a “fan”, and invite
your friends to become fans. Also invite them to this Facebook event. Update your status EVERY TIME you vote and it will encourage others to do the same. Post the video to your wall. Make it personal and write a note about why giving young people access to participatory music culture matters to you. If you see your friends posting about the contest, hit that “like” button; it will then show up in more friends’ news feeds.
Bands, Record Labels, and Venues & Organizations with “fan pages”, you can add AMP to your page's “favorites”, and also share the
video and voting link with your page's fans.
Twitter: Follow us, and tweet about the contest!Send daily tweets reminding your friends to vote. Make it personal with a memory of a favorite music moment each day. Retweet your friends' tweets as well.
Email: Send a personal email to friends and family telling the story of why music mattered/matters to you. Can you think of 10 friends who would vote every day? Twenty more who would watch the video?
In person: Email Kevin and he’ll send you a pdf of some handbills you can photocopy
and pass out at shows and events throughout the month of February.
Myspace:Use
YouTube: Subscribe to our channel, and share the campaign video with friends! Feeling extra ambitious? Make your own video and tell your personal story—send us a link and we’ll post it on our site.
Etc: Got a blog? A college radio show? A billboard by the highway? You know what to do.
THANK YOU! We couldn't do this without the help of all our supporters across the nation!
* Full disclosure: this contest is sponsored by Pepsi. We hope you don’t take our participation in the contest as AMP endorsing anyone’s products, or abandoning our community values. We know the issue of corporate donations to nonprofits is something that different music and activist communities have a wide range of strong feelings about. We’ll have more to say about this later, but for now, rest assured, you won’t ever see Pepsi logos plastered all over AMP’s materials. In fact, if you feel like making fun of Pepsi as you encourage your friends to vote for us, go right ahead!