: : What NOT to Do

Does your lobby day schedule look something like this?

Weeks before: All day, every day: Make hundreds of phone calls and send hundreds of e-mails trying to get meetings scheduled for advocates. Deal with overwhelmed Congressional staffers. Pull out hair.
Night before: 8:00pm to past midnight: Print out congressional schedules. Change the goshdarn ink again.
Morning of:
8:00am: Hand out schedules
8:30am: Answer 800 questions about schedules
9:00am: Attempt to make hundreds of calls to change meetings
9:30am: Attempt to respond to dozens of voice mails about changed or cancelled meetings
10:00am: Hide under lobby day registration desk

Wouldn’t it be better if it looked like this?

Weeks before: Advocacy Associates sends hundreds of meetings requests for your members, sends hundreds of emails and makes hundreds of calls. Deals with overwhelmed Congressional staffers. Your hair is still intact.
Night Before: Advocacy Associates prints Congressional itineraries, and 96% of your member meetings have been scheduled. Advocacy Associates changes the goshdarn ink again.
Morning of:
8:00 am: Advocacy Associates hands out schedules to happy members, 99.5% of whom have two or more meetings
8:30 am: Advocacy Associates answers 400 questions about schedules
9:00 am: Advocacy Associates makes a dozen calls to change meetings
9:30 am: Advocacy Associates responds to a handful of voicemails about meeting changes and cancellations
10:00 am: You take credit for a successful lobby day.

If you’d like us to take the stress out of your lobby day, call Advocacy Associates to help.