Nate-ForLiberty
06-25-2011, 06:57 AM
This end of the quarter push is a decent idea, but it is not organic. And because of that it may not be as successful as maybe it should have been. Also, you set the goal too high. We reached $3Million, great. Next is $4Million, not $5.
We are also doing our best to get you new supporters/donors. If you leave the ticker up permanently, you will inspire more organic fundraising. This will free up quite a bit of energy which the grassroots is currently spending scratching for money from people who already support Ron Paul.
Fears that showing our fundraising will tip our hand, or make it appear that we can't raise money like other candidates, while justified, are not worth keeping the ticker down. You've got to take a chance on us, the grassroots. You've got to trust that we can raise much more money than even you can imagine. But we need the ticker up to do so. Sounds silly, but around here, it's the consensus. You've got to take a chance on us.
The Ron Paul '08 campaign created the idea of the animated donation ticker, but what made it successful was not the idea itself; it was the relationship that formed between you and us. That relationship is what we need again. It's ok to run a very traditional campaign with one small exception. Give the Ron Paul 2012 campaign an advantage over every other Presidential campaign that we will see.
The donation ticker will become a staple, an ICON of this campaign, far beyond anything we saw four years ago. It represents the TRUST we have in Ron Paul. Ron Paul has spent his whole career telling it like it is, being absolutely straight with the American people. That is why we trust and support him for President. Now the campaign needs to tap into that trust. Putting the ticker up permanently is like the official campaign standing on a chair, falling backwards, and hoping it will fall gracefully into the arms of the grassroots. It's called trust. What you don't know or realize is that not only will we catch you, but while grasping you gently but firmly in our arms we will fly into the stratosphere and leave orbit. . . but only if you trust us.
You Lois Lane. We Superman.
Please take some time to strongly consider keeping the ticker live and always on display.
We are also doing our best to get you new supporters/donors. If you leave the ticker up permanently, you will inspire more organic fundraising. This will free up quite a bit of energy which the grassroots is currently spending scratching for money from people who already support Ron Paul.
Fears that showing our fundraising will tip our hand, or make it appear that we can't raise money like other candidates, while justified, are not worth keeping the ticker down. You've got to take a chance on us, the grassroots. You've got to trust that we can raise much more money than even you can imagine. But we need the ticker up to do so. Sounds silly, but around here, it's the consensus. You've got to take a chance on us.
The Ron Paul '08 campaign created the idea of the animated donation ticker, but what made it successful was not the idea itself; it was the relationship that formed between you and us. That relationship is what we need again. It's ok to run a very traditional campaign with one small exception. Give the Ron Paul 2012 campaign an advantage over every other Presidential campaign that we will see.
The donation ticker will become a staple, an ICON of this campaign, far beyond anything we saw four years ago. It represents the TRUST we have in Ron Paul. Ron Paul has spent his whole career telling it like it is, being absolutely straight with the American people. That is why we trust and support him for President. Now the campaign needs to tap into that trust. Putting the ticker up permanently is like the official campaign standing on a chair, falling backwards, and hoping it will fall gracefully into the arms of the grassroots. It's called trust. What you don't know or realize is that not only will we catch you, but while grasping you gently but firmly in our arms we will fly into the stratosphere and leave orbit. . . but only if you trust us.
You Lois Lane. We Superman.
Please take some time to strongly consider keeping the ticker live and always on display.