In our introductory newsletter, we talked about the huge number of tasks on our "to do" list.  While we've been busy doing related organizing "stuff", we haven't really made much progress toward marking things off the list as completed.

The first item on the list:  Get the word out.  Here are the actions taken toward this To-do item over the past two weeks:
- Numerous facebook posts have been created onto five conservative group pages - 
     Buncombe County Republican Discussion
     North Carolina Conservatives
     NC 11th Conservatives UnCensored
     Patriot Network NC, USA
     Buncombe County 2nd Amendment sanctuary

While we've experienced some engagement from our posts, we have not been successful in driving hordes of people to the website or in attracting any DMs.  Yet.

- Similarly, we have created posts on CloutHub, Gab and Parler.  As with Facebook, these posts have not driven any traffic to us either

- We also started running google ads on February 21.  Through March 4, our ads have had 167 views, but only one click-thru to the website and no conversions (newsletter signups).  To be fair, there is a learning curve associated with our efforts to setup the google ad campaigns, and maybe we can milk some results from this pathway if we spend more time becoming familiar with the tool and tweaking it.

- We acquired a free, limited function version of "Constant Contact" Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.  This tool almost immediately sends an acknowledgement to email addresses that signup on our website.  Two days later, it sends a follow-up email inviting these subscribers to become a volunteer.  A few days after that, it sends a third email inviting subscribers to our TAKE ACTION web page.

This software is not yet configured tightly enough with the website to tell us how people respond to our reaching out.  So we don't know if people used the TAKE ACTION! buttons.  We do know, however, that no volunteers have yet stepped forward to offer their services.

Getting the word out remains a top priority for First Tuesday.   So, we will continue to focus attention on improving our reach.  We may be fighting a long-standing reluctance on the part of conservatives to organize at a grass roots level.  Conservatives are mostly polite and don't really like to make waves.

However, it is time to make some noise.  Lots of noise.  LOUD noise.  As the current administration continues to push its socialist agenda, conservatives may start to wake-up and become willing to start creeping out of our comfort zones.

Please click the button below to explore ways that you can help First Tuesday become and remain successful.  Every little bit of help makes a difference.  Feel free to suggest other ways that you believe you could help.

Have you written anything inspiring or frightening lately but don't have a forum for making it available publicly?  Share a copy with us, and we can share it for you in our Blog section.  It's all fine and good for us to invite people to the website, but it would be even better if we could provide some interesting content there!  Your writing might be just the shot in the arm we need.

 We are currently working to improve the "Mission Statement" and will have that available for your review and feedback by March 15.  In the meantime, we invite you to review the "Our Values" page and provide your feedback - What's missing?  What should we discuss as a group and work to improve?  What do you like about the page?

We'll work next to build a page around our strategy, our vision.  How do we progress to a point at which we are helpful to area conservatives?  Where do we see ourselves at the end of this year.  Where do we see ourselves by the 2022 mid-terms?  Our target for having that section ready for your review is March 31.  However, we'll have a draft started and available by mid-March.  You can check our progress and offer your comments along the way.