Black This Out, Want $6,000,000? We Need THE ENTIRE MONTH for Promotion & 25,000 Attendees

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GOAL 1 - 25,000 Facebook Attendees
GOAL 2 - 12,000 Pledges on the Main Site
GOAL 3 - A $6,000,000+ Day for Ron Paul!


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Sentinelrv/Other-Images/BTOPodium3.png~original (http://www.BlackThisOut.com)


Money Bomb Links:
Pledge at www.BlackThisOut.com (http://www.blackthisout.com/)
Attend & Invite at www.BlackThisOut.com/FB (http://www.blackthisout.com/fb)
Follow Black This Out on Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/blackthisout)
Buy Flyers Here & Hand Them Out (http://ronpauldesigns.blogspot.com/p/specials.html)
Black This Out Printable Flyers (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?318407-Black-This-Out-Printable-Flyers)
Table of Contents:

1. Attendance Progress:

2. How we Raise $6,000,000:
- We're Slacking Off When it Counts Most
- Success is Dependent on Attendance Numbers
- GOAL 1 - 25,000 Facebook Event Attendees
- GOAL 2 - 12,000 Pledges on the Official Website
- GOAL 3 - A $6,000,000+ Day for Ron Paul!

3. Off-line Promotion - A How to Guide:
- Go to Ron Paul Events & Pass Out Flyers for Black This Out

4. Widgets:
- Add these Pledge Banners to your Website

5. YouTube Promotion - A How to Guide:
- Add Annotated Messages to All your Current & Future Ron Paul Videos
- Leave Video Comments About the Money Bomb Linking to BlackThisOut[dot]com
- Copy this Message & Send/PM it to as Many Ron Paul Video Uploaders as Possible

6. Facebook Promotion - A How to Guide:
- How to Invite your Friends to the Black This Out Facebook Event
- Getting Around the Facebook Event Invitation Limit
- Add a Black This Out Pledge App to your Ron Paul Facebook Fan Page
- Upload a Black This Out Banner Ad to Advertise the Event
- Post Status Updates & Comments on Ron Paul Facebook Pages
- Main Facebook Pages
- Other Facebook Pages
- State Facebook Pages

7. Contact Info:


Attendance Progress:

Sep 19 - 998
Sep 20 - 1,222 (+224)
Sep 21 - 1,440 (+218)
Sep 22 - 1,773 (+333)
Sep 23 - 2,244 (+471)
Sep 24 - 2,677 (+433)
Sep 25 - 3,313 (+636)
Sep 26 - 3,870 (+557)
Sep 27 - 4,571 (+701)
Sep 28 - 5,131 (+560)
Sep 29 - 5,642 (+511)
Sep 30 - 5,842 (+200)
Oct 01 - 6,313 (+471)
Oct 02 - 6,585 (+272)
Oct 03 - 7,000 (+415)
Oct 04 - 7,363 (+363)
Oct 05 - 7,722 (+359)
Oct 06 - 8,410 (+688)
Oct 07 - 8,893 (+483)
Oct 08 - 9,302 (+409)
Oct 09 - 9,840 (+538)
Oct 10 - 10,713 (+873)
Oct 11 - 11,799 (+1,086)
Oct 12 - 12,904 (+1,105)
Oct 13 - 14,380 (+1,476)
Oct 14 - 15,287 (+907)
Oct 15 - 15,846 (+559)
Oct 16 - 16,718 (+872)
Oct 17 - 17,848 (+1,130)
Oct 18 - 20,057 (+2,209)


How we Raise $6,000,000:

We're Slacking Off When it Counts Most

I've seen a lot of people complaining about our lack of fundraising power lately. They contribute it to things like too many money bombs, people being in worse financial shape and whatever other excuses they can think of. While these excuses probably do have some merit, I think the major reason why is because we simply haven't pushed hard enough during our promotion of each event. There are too many people being lazy and not helping out and doing their share of the work. And not only that, we're starting promotion too late with only a week or less to reach people. Just look at the stats of the Facebook event pages for the last couple money bombs. Look at the correlation between how many people we got to attend each money bomb and the amount of money we rasied during each event...

Aug 20th - Birthday Money Bomb (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197265100335690) - 7,840 Attending - $2,000,000 Raised
Sep 17th - Constitution Day Money Bomb (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=221373634578417) - 3,683 Attending - $1,000,000 Raised
Sep 19th - SuperPAC Money Bomb (http://www.facebook.com/RevPAC?sk=events#!/event.php?eid=144335795652038) - 579 Attending - Less Than $100,000 Raised


Success is Dependent on Attendance Numbers

Judging by these numbers, I think it's clear to see that a money bomb's success is dependent on how many people are notified about it, as well as some other factors like the theme and the level of emotional investment in the campaign. The more people that are notified, the more people will attend the event, the larger the total we'll raise. The Birthday Money Bomb did great, but then people slacked off for the Constitution Day Money Bomb. The SuperPAC Bomb hardly got any promotion and we see the results of that now. I understand that many people may have been short on money this last bomb, but that's no reason for them to slack on promotion. If you're short on money, then spend your time wisely getting others to donate instead of completely skipping the event. We need you to help out in promotion. Our goal for the Black This Out Money Bomb should be to far surpass the Birthday Money Bomb in attendance. 7,840 people is nothing compared to how many people we used to get to pledge in 07. Here are the current attendance numbers for the Black This Out event...

Oct 19th - Black This Out Money Bomb (http://www.blackthisout.com/fb) - 7,763 Attending - Amount Raised???


GOAL 1 - 25,000 Facebook Event Attendees

Judging from the number of people that hit the attend button on each Facebook event and the amount we raised for each bomb, we need to get about 25,000 people to hit that attend button on the Black This Out Facebook event if we plan on getting anywhere near $6,000,000. How did I get the 25,000 attendee goal? Adding the number of attendees from both the Birthday and Constitution Day Money Bomb together, it took 11,523 attendees to raise $3,000,000. So, doubling this number means we'll need 23,046 attendees to raise $6,000,000. We're making the goal 25,000 people just in case we don't make it with 23,000. Also, the Birthday Money Bomb received 7,840 attendees after only a week of promotion. We have four months to get this done. 7,840 times 4 weeks is over 30,000 attendees. This proves 25,000 attendees is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE to achieve, but ONLY if we start RIGHT NOW!

The only way that we even have a chance at raising $6,000,000 is if we all get off our butts and promote this thing until we get 25,000 people to attend the Facebook event. We must focus all of our attention and energy on early promotion in order to gain momentum going into the 19th. I don't mean to put people down, but I think too many people have just been lazy during this campaign, pushing off the work onto other people and hoping that the work will get done by somebody else. If you want this thing to be a success, then you MUST take the lead and promote the hell out of this thing. The reason why the Constitution Day and Ready Ames Fire Money Bombs did worse is because less people helped out in promoting them, plus the fact that promotion started way too late. The original money bombs that brought in millions had much longer promotional periods. We have AN ENTIRE MONTH to promote this thing starting right now. Let's not let it end up like the Ready Ames Fire Money Bomb and expect to make millions, only to end up getting $500,000 because we didn't do the work necessary to make it happen. We need to use ALL of this time and NOT forget about it until three weeks from now like we usually do every single month. Only by heavily promoting it the entire month and creating hype around it will we be able to get enough people to pledge and hit that attend button. Again, we need 25,000 people to attend this event, not 5,000, not even 10,000. If you want to make it to $6,000,000, then we need to get at least 25,000 people to pledge and hit that attend button. If we don't make it, then don't expect much from Black This Out. We need to be realistic.

I also just wanted to point out the reason I am stressing the goal of 25,000 attendees. It seems that people like to focus on the dollar amount they ultimately want to bring in as their goal to shoot for. Focusing on the dollar amount as your goal doesn't help in providing you a guage for how likely it is that you're going to reach that goal. People will blindly promote this and HOPE that they did enough to raise the correct amount. They will blindly promote it because they aren't using any kind of guage to help tell them how close they are to reaching their goal. Shooting instead for a goal of attendees allows you to measure how powerful the money bomb will eventually be. If you know that it takes roughly around 11,523 attendees to raise $3,000,000, then that provides you with a way of figuring out how many attendees you need to raise $6,000,000, in this case it's around 23-25,000. Until you reach that goal, you don't stop, because if you do then you'll know that it won't be as successful as it could have been if you kept on promoting. It's mainly for motivational purposes and measurement.


GOAL 2 - 12,000 Pledges on the Official Website

While I am using the Facebook event as a way to guage support for this money bomb, you must also make it your mission to get as many people as possible to pledge to the official money bomb website at www.BlackThisOut.com (http://www.BlackThisOut.com). It is extremely important that we collect as many email addresses as possible. We're setting the pledge goal at 12,000 people. Using these email addresses, we can coordinate with people already attending the event and give updates to the money bomb, promotion techniques and ways of spreading the message as far as possible. Even if we're able to attain 25,000 Facebook attendees, we'll have no way of communicating directly with them. That's why it's so important to send people to the Facebook event AS WELL AS the official money bomb website so that they can pledge. Another important reason to support the official website is that we'll also be able to use the email list gained from Black This Out and use it to promote the next money bomb on 11/11/11 and then use the combined list to promote 12/16/11, allowing each money bomb a better chance of eclipsing the previous one.


GOAL 3 - A $6,000,000+ Day for Ron Paul!

So my main message here is that if you really do want to have a $6,000,000 day, then we need to be realistic and set our goal at getting 25,000 people to attend the Black This Out Facebook Event (http://www.blackthisout.com/fb) and as many people as possible to pledge their support on the official money bomb website at www.BlackThisOut.com (http://www.BlackThisOut.com). It's just not going to happen with less than 10,000 attendees. Make videos, hand out flyers, leave comments, send personal emails, invite people. Do whatever you have to do, but if you want the campaign to get that much money, then we need to get serious and start our promotion now and not let up until the 19th is over. We all need to work on reaching this goal. DO NOT LET UP until the money bomb is over! Please check back here every so often because I'll be updating this post regularly to include new ways for you to help promote this money bomb.


Off-line Promotion - A How to Guide:

Go to Ron Paul Events & Pass Out Flyers for Black This Out

1. Go to any Ron Paul event, rally or group and Pass Out These Flyers (http://ronpauldesigns.blogspot.com/p/specials.html) for Black This Out to everybody.

2. If you're going to an event soon and don't want to wait on shipping, here are some Printable Flyers (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Sentinelrv/Other-Images/BTOflyer2.png).

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Sentinelrv/Other-Images/e-flyer.jpg~original (http://ronpauldesigns.blogspot.com/p/specials.html)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Sentinelrv/Other-Images/BTOflyer2.png~original (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?318407-Black-This-Out-Printable-Flyers)


Widgets:

Add these Pledge Banners to your Website

1. Use the following code to add a pledge banner to your website so that we can take pledges directly from your viewers.

<iframe width="728" height="90" src="http://www.blackthisout.com/widgets/leaderboard.php" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Sentinelrv/Other-Images/PledgeBanner.png~original


YouTube Promotion - A How to Guide:

Notify your Subscribers by Re-Uploading a Black This Out Promotional Video

1. Download and install a program that lets you download videos from YouTube. I personally use Orbit Downloader (http://www.orbitdownloader.com/).

2. Download this Black This Out Promotional Video (http://youtu.be/Pp0sb46aehI). It's short, energizing and gets the point across.

3. Re-Upload the video to your YouTube account. This will notify all your subscribers to watch the video.

4. This is the easiest and fastest way to spread Black This Out across YouTube!


Add Annotated Messages to All your Current & Future Ron Paul Videos

1. On all current and future Ron Paul related videos, please add an annotation to the video linking to BlackThisOut.com.

2. Annotations are interchangeable messages that pop up on the video player wherever and for however long you want them to.

3. Adding Your annotation to both the beginning of a video and the end will guarantee the Money Bomb message is seen by everyone.

4. Click Here for a tutorial. (http://youtu.be/O46Lfz4ekH0) Annotations are the most powerful way to reach as many people on YouTube as possible.


Leave Video Comments About the Money Bomb Linking to BlackThisOut[dot]com

1. Search Ron Paul or other related terms on YouTube and filter the results to show you recently uploaded videos.

2. Leave comments about the money bomb on every Ron Paul video you can find.

3. Link to the official website in your comments. In order to add the link, you may need to alter it to BlackThisOut[dot]com.

4. Make sure to thumb up any other comments about the money bomb. Get people to thumb up your comments here. (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?317234-Black-This-Out-Youtube-comments-to-vote-up)

5. If you are the video uploader, making a comment will place it directly at the top of the comments section for all to see.

6. If the uploader thumbs up your comment, it would jump to the top. Send/PM them the below message so they'll do just that...


Copy this Message & Send/PM it to as Many Ron Paul Video Uploaders as Possible

NOTE: To prevent annoying people, we're keeping track of who we send this to using a list. Post if you'd like to help.

1. Again, search Ron Paul or other related terms on YouTube and filter the results to show you recently uploaded videos.

2. Any YouTube video you find that is not promoting the Money Bomb, please copy and send/PM the following message to the uploader.

3. This is the most effective thing we can do. It will help to get as many video uploaders aligned around the money bomb as possible.

5. The pre-written Copy & Paste message is located below...


Title: Could you Please Help us Promote the Oct 19th Black This Out Money Bomb?

Body: Hey, I was wondering if you could help do us a huge favor. I'm helping out to organize for the Oct 19th Black This Out Money Bomb...

Official Website:
www.BlackThisOut.com

Planning Thread:
www.blackthisout.com/planning

I'm sure you've probably heard of it by now because the event has been exploding all over the internet and has started to take on a life of its own. We already have thousands of pledges on the official money bomb website and the Facebook event and every day the rate of pledges is increasing. Pretty soon we will be adding thousands of people a day. Our goal is to raise $6,000,000 for Ron Paul and with our early momentum, it is very possible we will achieve this goal, but ONLY with your help. I wanted to write you to ask if you could do a couple things from now on that would guarantee people get maximum exposure to this event. It would really help us out in our goal of getting as many people as possible to know about this event. Here they are...

1. First and most important, download one of the existing Black This Out promotional videos and upload it to your YouTube channel. This will notify all of your subscribers about the new video and everyone that watches it will be notified about the money bomb. This is the easiest and fastest way to notify as many people as possible about the event. May I suggest using the following video to re-upload...

http://youtu.be/Pp0sb46aehI

This video was uploaded by the people that run RonPaul.com, so it's ok to re-upload it on your channel. It's all about spreading the word here, but give credit if you feel you have to. Anyway, this video is short, so people will watch the whole thing and see the website details at the end. It's also exciting and energizing. It puts people in the perfect mood to go pledge on the website and start promoting. I would suggest uploading a new Black This Out video every time a new one comes out in order to keep it current in people's minds. I personally use Orbit Downloader to download videos from YouTube, but if you prefer another program, go ahead and use that instead. The important thing here is that all your subscribers are notified about the money bomb. Here is the link to Orbit Downloader in case you need it...

http://www.orbitdownloader.com/

2. Add an annotation on all your current and future Ron Paul videos up until Oct 19th mentioning the money bomb and listing the website. In my opinion, the best place to add the annotation would be the beginning of the video to guarantee as many people get to see the message as possible. Remember, not everyone finishes watching a video all the way to the end. Adding the message to the beginning will guarantee they see it. It might be even more effective to add one at the beginning for those who might not reach the end of the video, and one at the end in order to remind people to check out the website now that your video has completed. If you don't know how to add an annotation to your video, check out this tutorial...

http://youtu.be/O46Lfz4ekH0

3. Add the money bomb website link to your video description.

4. Either you yourself post a comment about the money bomb and link to the website, OR look through the comments section of your video and thumb up any comments referencing the money bomb. Doing either will automatically bump up the comment to the top of the comment list. The money bomb details will then be visible to everyone commenting on your video. In order to actually post a comment with the money bomb website in it, you may need to alter the address to look like this...

BlackThisOut[dot]com

Please consider taking these 4 steps on all your Ron Paul videos from now up until Oct 19th. It will really help to make as many people aware of this event as possible and it will guarantee Ron Paul has a $6,000,000 day. Also, when I'm sending out these messages, it definitely helps to increase my enthusiasm when people respond to let me know that they're actually going to help out. It lets me know whether or not I'm making a difference, so please let me know what you think. Anyway, thank you for considering this!


Facebook Promotion - A How to Guide:

How to Invite your Friends to the Black This Out Facebook Event

1. Go to the Facebook Event (http://www.blackthisout.com/fb) page for the money bomb.

2. If you haven't done so already, hit the "I'm Attending" button near the top right corner of the screen.

3. On the left side of the screen under the Black This Out banner, click the "Select Guests to Invite" button.

5. Check off the people you want to invite and hit the "Submit" button.

6. Try following up with people who you know are Ron Paul supporters by sending them a message about attending the event.


Getting Around the Facebook Event Invitation Limit

1. To get around the Facebook event invitation limit, if Firefox is your browser, watch this tutorial (http://youtu.be/RmBgGDoX7G0).

2. Install this add-on. (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/)

3. Install this script. (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/89653)

4. Refresh the Facebook event page.

5. On the left side of the screen under the Black This Out banner, click the "Select Guests to Invite" button.

6. Your invitation box should now have a "Select All" option.


Add a Black This Out Pledge App to your Ron Paul Facebook Fan Page

1. Go to the app page.

2. Click "Add to My Page" in the left sidebar.

3. Go to your page and go to edit settings.

4. Adjust the title and default tab as necessary.

5. Example: Black This Out Fan Page (http://www.facebook.com/BlackThisOut?sk=app_179191585490788)


Upload a Black This Out Banner Ad to Advertise the Event

1. Save the following picture to your computer.

2. Upload the picture onto your Facebook profile. It will show up as a large ad in your friend's news feeds.

3. The best way to do this is to upload the picture as a status update on other Ron Paul Facebook pages.

4. You can use this picture or make your own. The possibilities are limitless using the media blackout theme.

Example:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Sentinelrv/Other-Images/BTOphotoAD2.png~original

Photo:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Sentinelrv/Other-Images/e-flyer.jpg~original


Post Status Updates & Comments on Ron Paul Facebook Pages

1. Either type Ron Paul in the Facebook search box and hit "See more results for Ron Paul" in the dropbox...

2. Or use all of the Ron Paul Facebook pages that I've linked below. The pages with the most likes are higher in the list.

3. Go to the wall of any Ron Paul page and hit "Everyone."

4. Now post a status update on the wall about the money bomb so that everyone that visits the page will see it.

5. Post a new status update on these pages every so often to make sure new people visiting the page will always see it.

6. If the Ron Paul page or any other page posts an official status update, make sure to get in there and leave plenty of comments.

7. The best thing we can do is to leave comments and status updates in places where large numbers of Ron Paul supporters will see them.


Main Facebook Pages

Ron Paul (http://www.facebook.com/ronpaul#!/ronpaul?sk=wall&filter=1)
Ron Paul 2012 (http://www.facebook.com/ronpaul12)


Other Facebook Pages

Judge Andrew Napolitano (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471#!/JudgeNapolitano?sk=wall&filter=1)
Peter Schiff (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471#!/PeterSchiff?sk=wall&filter=1)
Thomas E. Woods Jr. (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471#!/ThomasEWoods?sk=wall&filter=12)
Ron Paul.com (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ron-Paul-com/123301236369#!/pages/Ron-Paul-com/123301236369?sk=wall&filter=1)
Campaign for Liberty (http://www.facebook.com/CampaignforLiberty#!/CampaignforLiberty?sk=wall&filter=12)
InforWars (http://www.facebook.com/InfowarsWithAlexJones?sk=wall#!/InfowarsWithAlexJones?sk=wall&filter=12)
The Constitution (http://www.facebook.com/TheConstitution)
Proud to be an American (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Proud-to-be-an-American/150354326163?sk=wall&filter=1#!/pages/Proud-to-be-an-American/150354326163?sk=wall&filter=1)
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Ron Paul Revolution (http://www.facebook.com/RPrevolution)
Ron Paul Polls (http://www.facebook.com/RonPaulPolls)
Ron Paul 2012 (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ron-Paul-2012/165755457366#!/pages/Ron-Paul-2012/165755457366?sk=wall&filter=1)
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Ron Paul Fans (http://www.facebook.com/passionateronpaulfans#!/passionateronpaulfans?sk=wall)
Ron Paul Swag (http://www.facebook.com/RonPaulSwag?sk=wall)
Southeast Liberty Project
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Over 1,000,000 fans for RON PAUL, after all "Freedom is popular." (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Over-1000000-fans-for-RON-PAUL-after-all-Freedom-is-popular/321204761602)
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Farmers For Ron Paul (http://www.facebook.com/FarmersForRonPaul#!/FarmersForRonPaul?sk=wall)
International Supporters For Ron Paul 2012 (http://www.facebook.com/International.RonPaul.Fans)
Ron Paul Fan Club (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ron-Paul-Fan-Club/166378750090796#!/pages/Ron-Paul-Fan-Club/166378750090796?sk=wall&filter=1)
Veterans for Ron Paul 2012 (http://www.facebook.com/VetsforRonPaul)
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Christians for Ron Paul 2012 (http://www.facebook.com/ChristiansForRonPaul)
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Veterans for Ron Paul (http://www.facebook.com/VeteransForRonPaul#!/VeteransForRonPaul?sk=wall)
Ron Paul Social Networking Coalition (http://www.facebook.com/RonPaulNetworkingCoalition#!/RonPaulNetworkingCoalition?sk=wall)
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[MJU1983]

Great post.... we can definitely do more, and should, to step up promotion.

[davidt!]

Good points! We need to work toward getting 60,000 pledges and we need to start now. Does anyone know if this MB is being promoted on Dailypaul?

[trey4sports]

While i agree with your general point the Ready, Ames, FIRE! Moneybomb had a very low total but a high number of Facebook pledges. My point is that we should rely on Facebook pledges as the total amount of visibility.

[Monique]

I totally agree. I have been sending out invites to hundreds of people a day on Facebook. I have accumulated over 2000 friends in the past month and I post regularly about the BTO bomb. I love also that it is the anniversary of the British surrendering the Revolutionary War. Talk about a perfect fit!! A Revolutionary Day Money Bomb for the Ron Paul Revolution!!!

I have invited over 3000 people individually and I am posting the link on every Ron Paul page I can find. I am sending it to friends and asking them to donate too. I started a twitter account and I have 500 followers there. I regularly ask people to donate on Twitter. I agree totally about the videos...I don't know how to make them, but that is a fantastic way to spread this link.

What is everyone else doing? Maybe I can be more effective?

[mport1]

I've got over 10,000 liberty friends on Facebook. I'll invite all of them when I have a little time. I can usually invite them all at once, but Facebook is only letting me invite a few hundred at a time right now.

Does anybody have a new workaround for this?

[Airborn]

invite friends on facebook but also post on youtube videos whats what i see lacking compared to 2007, and 2007 it was only 12 spammers in their mother's basement ;) We can beat that!

I wish meetup groups were still going strong, those were a big help last time, more so then facebook...

[Sentinelrv]

While i agree with your general point the Ready, Ames, FIRE! Moneybomb had a very low total but a high number of Facebook pledges. My point is that we should rely on Facebook pledges as the total amount of visibility.

Yes, the Ready Ames Fire Money Bomb had 4,570 attendees, yet it didn't do as well. I believe this is because it was still so early. There is more of an emotional investment for people in this campaign now. They're much more dedicated to this presidential race now than before the Ames straw poll, which is why we got more money out of just 3,683 people during the Constitution Day Money Bomb. If we had that amount of attendees for the Ready Ames Fire Money Bomb, we would have made even less than $500,000.

[NickOdell]

+rep.

You are absolutely right. We need to push this hard, and early!

edit: this should be made sticky in "Ron Paul Grassroots Central" or put on the front page. We need everyone on board on this!

[Sentinelrv]

Another thing I noticed is that we need to be a little smarter about our Youtube videos. We've had some awesome videos made within the last month or two that have gained a lot of views, yet we didn't take advantage of these opportunities to promote the money bombs. For example, this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=raDx7Szxswg) was dedicated to the Constitution Day Money Bomb, yet only received 2,674 views. Both the We The People (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqY6CpgpSE) and The Only One We Can Trust (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohKz9OeiI0g&feature=share) videos received over 130,000 views, yet neither took adantage of the opportunity to spread the word about the money bombs at the end of the videos. Even one of our oldest videos, A New Hope (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG2PUZoukfA), with over 2,000,000 views talked about helping to raise funds at the end of the video. We need to be smarter about releasing these videos. They don't even need to mention the money bomb in the title, but please put a message at the end of the video just in case it ends up going viral.

[mport1]

+rep.

You are absolutely right. We need to push this hard, and early!

edit: this should be made sticky in "Ron Paul Grassroots Central" or put on the front page. We need everyone on board on this!

Agreed.

[Monique]

Spread the word far and wide. We need every single Ron Paul supporter to help on this one.

The Black This Out money bomb is being held on Oct. 19th...the day the British surrendered and we won the Revolutionary war. Isn't that perfect??? We can win TWO Revolutions on Oct. 19th, but you must help us spread the word. We need this one to be THE ONE that wins the Ron Paul Revolution!!!! Help please...spread the word far and wide and click attend...http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471

I am posting that everywhere Ron Paul supporters are. Post it on Youtube videos. Text to friends. Get them to text to their friends. Tweet it. I don't know what else there is, but whatever there is, post it! Let's show them all what the grassroots really is and what we can do when we ALL work our tails off for it. This has to be the one folks.

[justatrey]

We just passed 1,000 on Facebook :D

[Birdlady]

As far as Youtube videos go, remember you can make annotations after the fact. The same video can just be changed to promote a new money bomb without losing views or honors. Annotations are limited, but it is better than nothing.

I'm trying to think of a video I can create to get some views/interest in this. If anyone has any ideas for me, please let me know. I think we should get a hold of Alexa too and see if she can start making videos now for the MB.

[Sentinelrv]

This should be made sticky in "Ron Paul Grassroots Central" or put on the front page. We need everyone on board on this!

I agree with you about the sticky, not just to get this information out, but also to put this 60,000 goal in people's heads. The more people shooting for a solid goal like this, the better chance we'll have of making it.

[Bruno]

What about an ad on Drudge and elsewhere like they did about the debt celing?

[Sentinelrv]

I've got over 10,000 liberty friends on Facebook. I'll invite all of them when I have a little time. I can usually invite them all at once, but Facebook is only letting me invite a few hundred at a time right now.

Does anybody have a new workaround for this?

I would suggest instead that you create a copy and paste message that sounds personal and start sending that to everybody on your list as well as sending the invite link. People can ignore the event link, but it's a little harder to ignore a message from somebody asking for their help in saving the country. I would also link them to this thread in your message letting them know how important it is to reach our goal of 60,000 people. The more people that are asked to help promote, the faster we'll get to our goal.

[Sentinelrv]

As far as Youtube videos go, remember you can make annotations after the fact. The same video can just be changed to promote a new money bomb without losing views or honors. Annotations are limited, but it is better than nothing.

If this is true, then does anyone know how to get in contact with the people who made those two videos with the high view counts so we can ask them to add an annotation about October 19th?

[Sentinelrv]

Here is something else we can do. We need to get in contact with the owner of the Facebook event...

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=221469004546764#!/event.php?eid=181997088537471

...and ask them to add in a sentence in the description, something like "Can we break the $6 million mark? I know we can, but this can only be achieved if we have 60,000 attendees or more! That is our goal, so let's make it happen!" or something like that. We need everyone to know about this goal.

Also, we need to get in contact with the owner of the main money bomb website (Maybe the same person?) and ask them to include a link to the Facebook event as I don't see one listed on the website. This will allow people who find out about the money bomb through the website to go straight to the Facebook event and start inviting people.

[hubze]

Are there official events being created via the Ron Paul facebook page for these money bombs? If not, they NEED to. As a matter of fact, the next money bomb event needs to be created and needs to be on the official Ron Paul facebook page NOW. This would help tremendously. It gives it so much more credibility if it is created by the page itself...I would give anything to be able to help with the official facebook page as that is what I do! I know so much more could be done.

[mstrmac1]

I think its time for the mod's to step it up on this one too! We should have a pledge and facebook counter at the top of RPF so everyone can see if were achieving our goal...which of course is 60,000 attendee's. Mods we need your help for success!!

[mstrmac1]

Also, when sending emails to friends or supporters to pledge.. we must let them know that this one is different. A lot of folks probably feel money bombed to death.

[Sentinelrv]

I think its time for the mod's to step it up on this one too! We should have a pledge and facebook counter at the top of RPF so everyone can see if were achieving our goal...which of course is 60,000 attendee's. Mods we need your help for success!!

That's a brilliant idea! People can ignore a sticky thread, but they can't ignore a damn pledge counter, lol. Put the goal right in front of everyone's faces, right at the top of the website where everyone can see it. I'm tired of seeing people on money bomb days post, "Oh wow, I didn't even know there was a money bomb today." It's just an example of our failure to get the word out. Put a pledge counter at the top of the website or something that measures the Facebook attendees and a button to attend. This will help to regroup the community's efforts around a single goal! Everyone will know what they're supposed to get done because it will be right there for all members to see.

[NickOdell]

That's a brilliant idea! People can ignore a sticky thread, but they can't ignore a damn pledge counter, lol. Put the goal right in front of everyone's faces, right at the top of the website where everyone can see it. I'm tired of seeing people on money bomb days post, "Oh wow, I didn't even know there was a money bomb today." It's just an example of our failure to get the word out. Put a pledge counter at the top of the website or something that measures the Facebook attendees and a button to attend. This will help to build the community's efforts around a single goal! Everyone will know what they're supposed to get done because it will be right there for all members to see.
This ^.
We seriously need EVERYONE helping on this. No slackers!

[NickOdell]

Also, could someone at the DailyPaul post this as well? I don't have an account there. I know a lot of the users there are the same as here but there are some that aren't. We need their help too.

[mstrmac1]

That's a brilliant idea! People can ignore a sticky thread, but they can't ignore a damn pledge counter, lol. Put the goal right in front of everyone's faces, right at the top of the website where everyone can see it. I'm tired of seeing people on money bomb days post, "Oh wow, I didn't even know there was a money bomb today." It's just an example of our failure to get the word out. Put a pledge counter at the top of the website or something that measures the Facebook attendees and a button to attend. This will help to regroup the community's efforts around a single goal! Everyone will know what they're supposed to get done because it will be right there for all members to see.

I don't think stickies work anyway. We need to think outside of the box on this one. We need everyone's help and the mods on this forum can help out a lot. I'm feeling a little grassroots harmony coming on!

[mstrmac1]

That's a brilliant idea! People can ignore a sticky thread, but they can't ignore a damn pledge counter, lol. Put the goal right in front of everyone's faces, right at the top of the website where everyone can see it. I'm tired of seeing people on money bomb days post, "Oh wow, I didn't even know there was a money bomb today." It's just an example of our failure to get the word out. Put a pledge counter at the top of the website or something that measures the Facebook attendees and a button to attend. This will help to regroup the community's efforts around a single goal! Everyone will know what they're supposed to get done because it will be right there for all members to see.

Also, I think for this to happen.. somebody will have to write the script or code and submit it to the forums mods. Right?

[dusman]

Just an update...

The OP is completely correct. This past day, pledges have "blown up" simply because a few here have been pushing people to the web site on the forums, Facebook, Reddit, etc.

Here is a breakdown of the result:

http://www.blackthisout.com/statistics.jpg

Take notice of the % new visitors. There is a lot of people who haven't seen it yet, so it's not good to assume these moneybombs are even known about by a large amount of people.

My focus over the next few days will be to improve the share capability of the web site and also building up additional functionality that will encourage involvement. Anyone willing to help on some of the mundane tasks? Once I put in place some of these widgets and things, I'll need help from some people to get other web sites to pick them up.

[hubze]

Also, I think for this to happen.. somebody will have to write the script or code and submit it to the forums mods. Right?

I noticed on the DailyPaul.com he had the code, and there is an app that shows it on Facebook pages...so the code is already written. If anyone could reach out to the DailyPaul and get it, probably pretty easy from there...

[Sentinelrv]

Dusman, are you the creator of the website and Facebook event? If so, please read my earlier post. I'll quote it here...


Here is something else we can do. We need to get in contact with the owner of the Facebook event...

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=221469004546764#!/event.php?eid=181997088537471

...and ask them to add in a sentence in the description, something like "Can we break the $6 million mark? I know we can, but this can only be achieved if we have 60,000 attendees or more! That is our goal, so let's make it happen!" or something like that. We need everyone to know about this goal.

Also, we need to get in contact with the owner of the main money bomb website (Maybe the same person?) and ask them to include a link to the Facebook event as I don't see one listed on the website. This will allow people who find out about the money bomb through the website to go straight to the Facebook event and start inviting people.

[dusman]

Dusman, are you the creator of the website and Facebook event? If so, please read my earlier post. I'll quote it here...

Good point. I'll make sure to add the Facebook event link.

[dusman]

Anyone willing to collect news stories that might be pertinent to this moneybomb?

[Maximus]

This one is going to be huge, let's do it

[Sentinelrv]

One of the most important things I think people need to realize is that the majority of Ron Paul supporters DO NOT visit either Ron Paul Forums or the Daily Paul. These money bombs originate on these websites and then knowledge of them is spread throughout the community. Only then do people outside of these websites become aware of the event. The only way to get the majority of Ron paul supporters to know about this money bomb is to spread it everywhere both online and offline, because they will surely not come here to find out for themselves. It's our job to make it known to everyone. I really like the idea of passing out these flyers or cards (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?316610-Black-This-Out-Moneybomb-Flyers-Are-In!)to people about the money bomb. That allows us to take our promotion of the event off the internet and into the real world.

[qwerty]

Awesome post!!!! Everybody change your forum signatures!

How we contact ALL C4L and YAL members ?

[qwerty]

just an update...

The op is completely correct. This past day, pledges have "blown up" simply because a few here have been pushing people to the web site on the forums, facebook, reddit, etc.

Here is a breakdown of the result:

http://www.blackthisout.com/statistics.jpg

take notice of the % new visitors. There is a lot of people who haven't seen it yet, so it's not good to assume these moneybombs are even known about by a large amount of people.

My focus over the next few days will be to improve the share capability of the web site and also building up additional functionality that will encourage involvement. Anyone willing to help on some of the mundane tasks? Once i put in place some of these widgets and things, i'll need help from some people to get other web sites to pick them up.


love it! :)

we can do it!

[Sentinelrv]

Anyone willing to collect news stories that might be pertinent to this moneybomb?

What exactly do you mean by this? What news stories and what are they for?

[MJU1983]

So, the current money bomb is averaging ~$57/donor. Assuming this is true for the next one, we would need 105,264 donors.

My hope is that people double down which would mean $114/donor and we'd need 52,632 donors.

We've got a lot of work to do but I think it's possible...the more donors the better, obviously. :)

[qwerty]

So, the current money bomb is averaging ~$57/donor. Assuming this is true for the next one, we would need 105,264 donors.

My hope is that people double down which would mean $114/donor and we'd need 52,632 donors.

We've got a lot of work to do but I think it's possible...the more donors the better, obviously. :)

If we tell people early they can save for this!

And when the ticker goues up and up, you can´t resist the feeling to donate more and more! ;)

[dusman]

What exactly do you mean by this? What news stories and what are they for?

Well, it would be nice to archive news stories that misrepresent Ron Paul. I'd like to go as far as doing rebuttals for them, similar to how Tom Woods has done. Something people can come back to check frequently and use when countering points. I also have the pledge DB built so that it can take pledges for specific news stories and we'd be able to track how many pledges specific stories generate.

[mport1]

I've got over 10,000 liberty friends on Facebook. I'll invite all of them when I have a little time. I can usually invite them all at once, but Facebook is only letting me invite a few hundred at a time right now.

Does anybody have a new workaround for this?

I'm now inviting people 500 at a time which is working. I should be done in a few days.

[ItsTime]

I'm now inviting people 500 at a time which is working. I should be done in a few days.

Don't try to invite them all at once. Facebook may flag your account as a "spam" account. Keep only inviting a few 100 at a time. Thanks for all your hard work!

[mport1]

Don't try to invite them all at once. Facebook may flag your account as a "spam" account. Keep only inviting a few 100 at a time. Thanks for all your hard work!

I don't think FB does this anymore. I was able to invite everybody at once the past few money bombs with now problems. I think they will still flag as spam if you add too many friends at once or send too many messages.

[freejack]

Has anyone contacted C4L for help on spreading the word?

[reduen]

I only have like 500 twitter followers and even less facebook friends than that but they will all know about this for sure. I make it a point every money bomb...

[TexMac]

I would suggest instead that you create a copy and paste message that sounds personal and start sending that to everybody on your list as well as sending the invite link. People can ignore the event link, but it's a little harder to ignore a message from somebody asking for their help in saving the country. I would also link them to this thread in your message letting them know how important it is to reach our goal of 60,000 people. The more people that are asked to help promote, the faster we'll get to our goal.How about everyone posting a copy of the message they're using for invitations. Then other people can get ideas and rewrite them tailored to their own lists.

[hubze]

How about everyone posting a copy of the message they're using for invitations. Then other people can get ideas and rewrite them tailored to their own lists.

When you copy and paste the same message over and over, that is where you will get flagged, but Facebook will warn you that your activity looks like spam...so just don't copy and paste the same message. Change it up a little bit.

[DerekB]

Also, I just wanted to point out the reason I am stressing the goal of 60,000 attendees. It seems that people like to focus on the dollar amount they ultimately want to bring in as their goal to shoot for. Focusing on the dollar amount as your goal doesn't help in providing you a guage for how likely it is that you're going to reach that goal. Shooting instead for a goal of attendees allows you to measure how powerful the money bomb will eventually be. If you know that 10,000 attendees will never bring you even close to $6,000,000, then you will have a goal to help motivate you to keep promoting. Until you reach that goal, you don't stop, because if you do then you'll know that it won't be as successful as it could have been if you kept on promoting. It's mainly for motivational purposes and measurement.

Sentinelrv,
If you want 60,000 attendees to be the goal... how about making it public on the Black This Out website and Facebook Page. I just visited both pages, and there wasn't a single mention of an 'attendee goal'. Things are more likely to go viral and reach their goal if you make that goal WELL KNOWN so that your brand ambassadors can tell their friends. As long as your goal is a dollar amount, your fans have no way of knowing whether there is enough people to make this happen! They'll assume that there are enough people and they won't do anything until the big money bomb day when they realize that the goal isn't being met. Let them work on meeting the goal ALL MONTH! Make your goals clear so you have a chance of meeting them!

[TexMac]

When you copy and paste the same message over and over, that is where you will get flagged, but Facebook will warn you that your activity looks like spam...so just don't copy and paste the same message. Change it up a little bit.Agree with change it up, but I think it would be good for people to be able to grab some text and make a few alterations. Also, someone might be writing some really inspirational ones that would help others improve their appeal.

[NickOdell]

Just invited a bunch of people.....bump

1,041 attendees so far! Keep up the good work!

[ItsTime]

I don't think FB does this anymore. I was able to invite everybody at once the past few money bombs with now problems. I think they will still flag as spam if you add too many friends at once or send too many messages.

Ok, I wasnt sure and didnt want to see your facebook account closed :D

[ItsTime]

Sentinelrv,
If you want 60,000 attendees to be the goal... how about making it public on the Black This Out website and Facebook Page. I just visited both pages, and there wasn't a single mention of an 'attendee goal'. Things are more likely to go viral and reach their goal if you make that goal WELL KNOWN so that your brand ambassadors can tell their friends. As long as your goal is a dollar amount, your fans have no way of knowing whether there is enough people to make this happen! They'll assume that there are enough people and they won't do anything until the big money bomb day when they realize that the goal isn't being met. Let them work on meeting the goal ALL MONTH! Make your goals clear so you have a chance of meeting them!

Good point about the goal. I just added this to the facebook page: Can we get 5000 RSVPs? Once we reach that I will up it again.

[dbill27]

I remember we had facebook ads for one of the moneybombs and they increased the rsvp total greatly. Is anyone going to put up facebook or google ads for this?

[TexMac]

bump!

[freejack]

I remember we had facebook ads for one of the moneybombs and they increased the rsvp total greatly. Is anyone going to put up facebook or google ads for this?

Just priced out a CPC ad for this. Comes out to an average of 1.43/click with a recommended minimum of 1.09. That's going to rack up pretty quickly. If we're going to do this, we'll need to gather some funds.

[hubze]

I remember we had facebook ads for one of the moneybombs and they increased the rsvp total greatly. Is anyone going to put up facebook or google ads for this?

I run facebook ads for my business and know how to get in there and laser target...is it possible to maybe do an ad coop where we all throw in some money and get the word out? I always see Romney ads ALL over Facebook...just a thought.

[DerekB]

Good point about the goal. I just added this to the facebook page: Can we get 5000 RSVPs? Once we reach that I will up it again.

Very glad a RSVP goal was added. I think this is a smart move - although the number seems low.

In regards to the 'adjustable goals' (changing from 5,000 to 10,000, etc. as goals are reached)
I'm not sure what historical models prove in this regard as I haven't researched it at all... but I do question the effectiveness of having repeated "adjustable goals." It seems to me that moving goals half way through an effort diminishes the work done by those to reach the first goal and may have a negative consequence on people's excitement to work towards future goals (because they know if they reach that goal, another arbitrary one will be created immediately thereafter)

Surely moving goals like this is a good way to keep the excitement alive and keep new donations coming from people new to the campaign, but I fear it's at the detriment of future efforts and the motivation of people who would have otherwise contributed to multiple money bomb campaigns.

Just a thought.

[qwerty]

Good work people! GEt busy we have no time to waste!

[qwerty]

Does cage or trevor lyman have any mailinglists from the earlier moneybomb ? Would be awesome it they could send a message... :)

WE NEED TO GET ON AD HERE AND DAILY PAUL!

[Sentinelrv]

In regards to the 'adjustable goals' (changing from 5,000 to 10,000, etc. as goals are reached)
I'm not sure what historical models prove in this regard as I haven't researched it at all... but I do question the effectiveness of having repeated "adjustable goals." It seems to me that moving goals half way through an effort diminishes the work done by those to reach the first goal and may have a negative consequence on people's excitement to work towards future goals (because they know if they reach that goal, another arbitrary one will be created immediately thereafter)

Surely moving goals like this is a good way to keep the excitement alive and keep new donations coming from people new to the campaign, but I fear it's at the detriment of future efforts and the motivation of people who would have otherwise contributed to multiple money bomb campaigns.

Just a thought.

I agree with this. I think it might be better just to let the official goal be known. People will think that they have an entire month to gather only 5,000 people and we will not make it. Let the 60,000 goal be known and people will understand just how urgent it is to promote this now.

Also, I think the wording "Can we get 60,000 RSVPs?" needs to be changed to something more official. We need to make people understand that this is urgent and that the goal must be accomplished. How about something like "Can we break the $6 million mark? Yes we can, but ONLY if we reach 60,000 RSVPs. 5,000 will not do it, not even 10,000. The only way to guarantee we'll reach $6,000,000 is by reaching 60,000 RSVPs like the original money bombs did. I know we can do it." That is how official we need to make this goal in people's minds. It MUST be reached or we WILL NOT get the money necessary to reach the goal. ItsTime, please let us know what you think about this.

It would also be great if Dusman could place something similar on the official website (http://www.blackthisout.com/) so people visiting both sites know just how important the goal is.



I think its time for the mod's to step it up on this one too! We should have a pledge and facebook counter at the top of RPF so everyone can see if were achieving our goal...which of course is 60,000 attendee's. Mods we need your help for success!!

That's a brilliant idea! People can ignore a sticky thread, but they can't ignore a damn pledge counter, lol. Put the goal right in front of everyone's faces, right at the top of the website where everyone can see it. I'm tired of seeing people on money bomb days post, "Oh wow, I didn't even know there was a money bomb today." It's just an example of our failure to get the word out. Put a pledge counter at the top of the website or something that measures the Facebook attendees and a button to attend. This will help to regroup the community's efforts around a single goal! Everyone will know what they're supposed to get done because it will be right there for all members to see.

We also still need to find out about this. Are there any admins or mods here watching this thread who can tell us if something like this is possible? A pledge counter and a statement about 60,000 people at the top of the website will do wonders for reaching our goal. Who can help us with this?

[justatrey]

Wait...

Based on these numbers we need much less than 60,000 RSVPs:

Aug 20th - Birthday Money Bomb - 7,840 Attending - 1,363 Maybe Attending - 73,018 Awaiting Reply - $2,000,000 Raised
Sep 17th - Constitution Day Money Bomb - 3,683 Attending - 567 Maybe Attending - 17,364 Awaiting Reply - $1,000,000 Raised

Adding these together, it took 11,523 attendees to raise 3,000,000.

So, doubling this gives 23,046 to raise 6,000,000.

Let's round this to 23,000. This will still be very difficult, but more realistic than 60,000.

Shouldn't 23,000 be our goal? Or maybe 25,000 to be ambitious. Am I overlooking something?

[ItsTime]

Historically we have had around 10x the amount of actual donors vs that that have RSVPed. 5000 x 10 would be 50,000 actual donors.

[Sentinelrv]

Ok, just to let you know where my 60,000 goal came from, I was told that either the Nov 5th or Dec 16th money bomb had 60,000 pledges, so I figured this was the number we should be trying to reach. Maybe it could be lowered.

[ItsTime]

Ok, just to let you know where my 60,000 goal came from, I was told that either the Nov 5th or Dec 16th money bomb had 60,000 pledges, so I figured this was the number we should be trying to reach. Maybe it could be lowered.

Well the hope is to get 5000 rsvps so I can remake the goal to 6k, then 7k and so on.

[Sentinelrv]

Well the hope is to get 5000 rsvps so I can remake the goal to 6k, then 7k and so on.

Did you see my post on the last page about this? It should be the last post of the page.

[Sentinelrv]

Wait...

Based on these numbers we need much less than 60,000 RSVPs:

Aug 20th - Birthday Money Bomb - 7,840 Attending - 1,363 Maybe Attending - 73,018 Awaiting Reply - $2,000,000 Raised
Sep 17th - Constitution Day Money Bomb - 3,683 Attending - 567 Maybe Attending - 17,364 Awaiting Reply - $1,000,000 Raised

Adding these together, it took 11,523 attendees to raise 3,000,000.

So, doubling this gives 23,046 to raise 6,000,000.

Let's round this to 23,000. This will still be very difficult, but more realistic than 60,000.

Shouldn't 23,000 be our goal? Or maybe 25,000 to be ambitious. Am I overlooking something?

This sounds good to me. Perhaps we should make it 25,000 just in case. This is a much more realistic goal and something people can rally behind. There is more hope of achieving this than 60,000 RSVPs.

What does everybody think about 25,000 RSVPs as the new goal? If everybody likes it and nobody has any objections then I'll have the title and original post changed to reflect this new number. Just let me know what you think about it.

[The Dark Knight]

I really hope this Money Bomb explodes. I think we can bring in the highest total yet. Campaign season is here. we got 4 months to make it happen.

[KingNothing]

Would it be possible to get information for all of those who donated on the big days last cycle?
Did folks who pledged to donate on Nov 5 and December 16 sign-up at any of the sites? I can't remember. Could be worthwhile to find that list, and send out emails to those folks.

Also, might it make sense to roll through the campaign donations records to find the names of those who donated during the previous campaign?? I'd imagine that most of those folks used their real names, and that they've got facebook profiles today.

[VoluntaryAmerican]

You think they will be able to BLACKOUT 6 MILLION??? Let's do this!

[Sentinelrv]

Well, I'm going to change the 60,000 goal to 25,000 myself. If anyone has any objections please let me know now. We can work around this new number.

[qwerty]

The connection between facebook and the official page is bad. There should be some correlation between the pledges on official site and facebook.

Is there any e-mail lists from earlier moneybombs ? Trevor ?

BTW! Commenting on youtube videos is also great way to promote! ust choose your videos well! ;)

[dbill27]

Well, I'm going to change the 60,000 goal to 25,000 myself. If anyone has any objections please let me know now. We can work around this new number.

Why change it? The higher the better, we need a challenge.

[ItsTime]

The connection between facebook and the official page is bad. There should be some correlation between the pledges on official site and facebook.

Suggestions? Not everyone who rsvps wants to pledge and not everyone who pledges wants to use facebook.

[Sentinelrv]

Why change it? The higher the better, we need a challenge.

Yes, but if you set it too far off then it will seem impossible for people. The goal needs to be realistic in order for people to participate. Also, somebody did the math earlier and found out we only needed 25,000 people, so that's another reason why we are resetting the goal.

[Sentinelrv]

Alright, I've restructured the original post to get the point across more easily. I also changed all the goal numbers to 25,000. All I need now is for a moderator to change the title of this thread to reflect the new 25,000 number. It's not showing up on the board, so people will still think 60,000 is needed.

[Tunink]

I think another thing to bring up is the fact that a lot of supporters are reluctant to donate period.

They support Ron Paul, but we need to engage them. I believe we can do this by putting in perspective how much even a small donation can help.

I'm going to try to talk everyone I know to at least pitch in $20. I will try to put it in the perspective of buying a meal, or going out for fast food or something.

When you ask people to donate, I think they automatically assume large numbers.

[KingNothing]

We need to get a list of donors from last go-round. That would make this so much easier. If we had that, we'd know who to target.

[justatrey]

For the record, on Dec. 16 2007 when we raised 6 million there were a total of 58,407 donations made according to the old website.

So there couldn't have been 60,000 pledges on facebook or the total would have been much higher. I think 25,000 (or even 20,000) is a good goal. Either of these goals will be extremely hard to achieve. Keep in mind we only had about 3,000 for Constitution Day.

It's time for a gut check. We really need to go all out promoting this, and then all out on donation day. Honestly, I think we half-assed the last one. How bad do we want Ron to win?

If you say you "can't" donate because you're broke, ask yourself if there is really no way you can come up with $5 over the next month. If you're planning on donating, give more than usual.

Remember - We probably won't have another chance to elect someone this honest in our lifetimes.

Let's do this!!!

[qwerty]

Suggestions? Not everyone who rsvps wants to pledge and not everyone who pledges wants to use facebook.

Adding the facebook rsvps to website someway...

I´m sure that it would bring more momentum if people see more people attending.

[qwerty]

We need to get a list of donors from last go-round. That would make this so much easier. If we had that, we'd know who to target.

Forum member cage could have some e-mail list from earlier moneybombs and ofcourse Trevor Lyman!

[MJU1983]

Adding the facebook rsvps to website someway...

I´m sure that it would bring more momentum if people see more people attending.

Yes, there should definitely be the Facebook RSVP with the "Find us on Facebook" box. The sooner the better.

[Sentinelrv]

Yes, there should definitely be the Facebook RSVP with the "Find us on Facebook" box. The sooner the better.

I believe Dusman said he is going to be adding more social networking tools to the main website, including the Facebook Event link, maybe even a counter.

By the way, I am contacting forum administrator Bryan about incorporating the pledge counter stuff at the top of the website. Hopefully he'll be able to help make this happen.

[dusman]

I'm working on some changes to the web site at the moment, including the link to RSVP on Facebook.

You guys have done a great job. Your effort over the past two days has generated about $10k in pledges.

[Airborn]

yeh this one is going to be our biggest one for this election(2012) but will we beat 2007?? Would be grand if we did! 6 million dollar man?? I'm ready to hear Ron Paul: 10 million dollars!

[ItsTime]

boooooom rsvps are flying today! keep up the push, twitter, youtube comments, facebook invites!

[TexMac]

The FB page still says 5000, I thought we were changing it to 25,000?

[ItsTime]

The FB page still says 5000, I thought we were changing it to 25,000?

Im not changing it to 25,000. It is unrealistic and not necessary. The last couple of moneybombs only got 3k+ rsvps. We need 50000 donations, not rsvps. The last couple of moneybombs have had around 10xs more donations than RSVPs. So if we get 5k rsvps that would be roughly 40/50k donations.

[KingNothing]

Im not changing it to 25,000. It is unrealistic and not necessary. The last couple of moneybombs only got 3k+ rsvps. We need 50000 donations, not rsvps. The last couple of moneybombs have had around 10xs more donations than RSVPs. So if we get 5k rsvps that would be roughly 40/50k donations.

This makes sense. Stick with it.

[ItsTime]

Im thinking it over.

[Sentinelrv]

The FB page still says 5000, I thought we were changing it to 25,000?

Well, I've been trying to convince ItsTime to change it but he doesn't believe it's a realistic goal. Here was my response...


What do you mean? The Birthday Money Bomb which took in $2,000,000 had 7,840 attendees on Facebook and we got that amount with only about a week of promotion. We have four weeks to make this happen. If you think people will find the goal unrealistic, maybe you could even put that in the description also to show them that it's not. 7,840 times 4 weeks is more than 30,000 attendees. It is entirely possible, but only as long as people get on it starting right now. They can't wait and put it off until the last week. It's better to shoot for the moon than shoot for the mud and make it. Translation, people need a reason to be excited about the next bomb ($6,000,000) and a goal to shoot for (25,000 Attendees). 5,000 people is not exciting, at least to me and does not energize me in the least bit. The reason why I am pushing this so hard is because I believe it is possible. The only thing that can prevent this from really happening is a limiting belief that it is impossible or unrealistic. We need to energize people and trash these limiting beliefs. It was done before. It can be done again, and the math proves it, but again, only as long as people are energized enough to start promotion right now.

My main concern is it's not enough of an exciting goal to motivate people. I'm afraid that people will take their time and spread out the promotion over the next month only to finally make it to 5,000 people. I think we should let the goal be known and show them it is possible.

[Johnnymac]

bump

[ItsTime]

changed to 25,000. LETS DO THIS!

[Sentinelrv]

changed to 25,000. LETS DO THIS!

Yes, this is great! May I ask what changed your mind?

[ItsTime]

Yes, this is great! May I ask what changed your mind?

My motto of late "go big or go home". Plus what you are saying makes sense there was 7k+ to the bday MB, we should come close to 25k.

[TexMac]

Yes, let's do it. Rise to the challenge!

[Sentinelrv]

Ok, what we need right now is something to get people energized about the money bomb. Viral videos usually do the trick in this case. All this year though, the money bomb videos have come out a week before the money bomb dates. We need some videos to be released right now. This will help to build momentum early rather than later on when it's too late.

I'll see about contacting some of the people who created videos with a large view count and convincing them to add in annotations about Oct 19th.

[NickOdell]

Seriously, can we get a mod to put this on the front page, or put an advertisement for it where they put the ticker for moneybombs?

We need more people doing this! I have spent maybe 10 minutes working on this and have gotten at 5-10 people to attend.

edit: Also, if we could get the official campaign to post the event page to their Facebook that would accomplish two things:

1. Establish credibility. Some people are unwilling to attend an event page not controlled by the campaign. That would help things, and I think its too late to ask the campaign to start one, when this one already has so many people working on it.

2. Get a lot of visibility, obviously.

-Nick

[garyallen59]

Ok, what we need right now is something to get people energized about the money bomb. Viral videos usually do the trick in this case. All this year though, the money bomb videos have come out a week before the money bomb dates. We need some videos to be released right now. This will help to build momentum early rather than later on when it's too late.

I'll see about contacting some of the people who created videos with a large view count and convincing them to add in annotations about Oct 19th.

^ this! If anyone is creating Ron Paul videos, I would suggest adding annotations about the moneybomb or an advertisement at the end of the videos. also links in the descriptions!!! This will be big!!!

[davidt!]

Does cage or trevor lyman have any mailinglists from the earlier moneybomb ? Would be awesome it they could send a message... :)

WE NEED TO GET ON AD HERE AND DAILY PAUL!

I think Gage frequents this site. We can message him. I don't know about Trevor? I am sure he has a HUGE list though. We really need to consolidate all lists for this.

[CTRattlesnake]

attending

[davidt!]

Ok, what we need right now is something to get people energized about the money bomb. Viral videos usually do the trick in this case. All this year though, the money bomb videos have come out a week before the money bomb dates. We need some videos to be released right now. This will help to build momentum early rather than later on when it's too late.

I'll see about contacting some of the people who created videos with a large view count and convincing them to add in annotations about Oct 19th.

Everybody here should be contacting people on youtube with RP videos and ask them to add annotations about Oct 19th.

[tnvoter]

Just pledged $10, I know for a fact I can do at LEAST that on that day, if not more by adding some merch :)

[Sentinelrv]

Everybody here should be contacting people on youtube with RP videos and ask them to add annotations about Oct 19th.

Make sure to link them to this thread so they know about the 25,000 person goal. That's the most important thing here. Everybody needs to know about the goal.

[NickOdell]

Okay I know I'm probably crazy but....

I made a separate FB account solely for promoting things so I wouldn't annoy friends I know in real life that I'm trying to convert on my real facebook page, but I have been adding people and direct messaging them about the moneybomb, and a LOT of people dont know about it and are sharing it/posting it all over facebook.

Seriously. Everyone starting doing this. We can make it happen. Again, mods moving this to the front page would be more than helpful!

[Sentinelrv]

Ok, I sent Youtube messages to the creators of both of these videos. We the People (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqY6CpgpSE) and The Only One We Can Trust (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ohKz9OeiI0g). Here is the message I sent them...


Hey man, I wanted to make a request to you. First off, if you didn't know, the October 19th Black This Out Money Bomb is approaching. Here is the official website and Facebook event page...

http://www.blackthisout.com/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471

Anyway, I've been trying to create a movement around this date and it's finally starting to take off. This is the main thread I created on RonPaulForums discussing it. Please read the first post so you know what I'm talking about...

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?316961-Black-This-Out-Want-6-000-000-We-Need-THE-ENTIRE-MONTH-for-Promotion-amp-25-000-Attendees

What we're trying to do is rally the entire Ron Paul community around a goal of getting 25,000 people to attend the event on Facebook or pledge on the main website. The Facebook event has now taken on our 25,000 goal and I expect the official website to follow along also. Gaining 25,000 attendees will give us the power to have another $6,000,000 day.

The Aug 20th Birthday Money Bomb had 7,840 people attending the event and we brought in $2,000,000. Like all the other money bombs this year though, people only seriously promoted it during the last week. 7,840 times 4 weeks is over 30,000 people attending this event. It is entirely possible to make it to 25,000, but we need to get serious about it right. We can't wait until the last week to promote this. We need the entire month up until the 19th to make it happen.

This is where I'm hoping you will help us out. You've made an outstanding viral video that is getting thousands of hits every single day. We were all wondering if you could add some annotations to the end of your video to help promote our goal and the Black This Out Money Bomb. If you did this for us, we'd be able to expose thousands of people a day to the money bomb. We really have a chance to make $6,000,000 happen again.

If you add the annotations for us, could you please tell people that our goal is to get 25,000 people to attend or pledge to the event and then link to the main website. The reason why adding this to the video is so important is because we need early momentum for this money bomb. All the viral videos came a week before the money bomb date. We have four weeks to get a head start. So please, let me know what you'd like to do or even post on my thread on RonPaulForums if you'd like to talk about it. Thank you so much!

Does anyone know if these people have accounts on this forum? Also, are there any other very popular videos that aren't already promoting the money bomb?

[rich34]

I'd say 60,000 to 70,000 .. The 6 million figure last time took 59,000. Just sayin.

[ItsTime]

New edition is ready for print! You can not beat 1000 cards for $39. Today, I priced these out at my local print shops they wanted between $150 and $200 to print these cards! Order 1000 cards here: http://ronpauldesigns.blogspot.com/p/specials.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JmuEeAkJuvE/TnksUQGexhI/AAAAAAAABHc/t-eab6DpGCk/s1600/black-out.jpg

[SchleckBros]

Ok, I sent Youtube messages to the creators of both of these videos. We the People (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqY6CpgpSE) and The Only One We Can Trust (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ohKz9OeiI0g). Here is the message I sent them...



Does anyone know if these people have accounts on this forum? Also, are there any other very popular videos that aren't already promoting the money bomb?

The creator of The Only One We Can Trust reads the messages on here but I don't know if he is a member. I know this because he has used quotes from this site to promote his Youtube video.

[TexMac]

Ok, I sent Youtube messages to the creators of both of these videos. We the People (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqY6CpgpSE) and The Only One We Can Trust (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ohKz9OeiI0g). Here is the message I sent them...

Does anyone know if these people have accounts on this forum? Also, are there any other very popular videos that aren't already promoting the money bomb?

We the People is Chainspell's video:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/member.php?32981-Chainspell

[Sentinelrv]

We've already gotten 200 people to attend the Facebook event just today. This will surely build on itself and snowball into something massive!

[ItsTime]

We've already gotten 200 people to attend the Facebook event just today. This will surely build on itself and snowball into something massive!

I don't have too many friends on facebook and I am already seeing the event being posted. It should be huge.

[wgadget]

Found this on race42012.com

Perry‘s campaign has indicated that they will most likely hit their $10 million goal for the third quarter, which would put them slightly above Romney’s pace from the second quarter (Romney raised $18.4 million; Perry had half the third quarter to work with).

There was also something about Romney having LESS THAN $10 million.

[wgadget]

Found this on race42012.com

Perry‘s campaign has indicated that they will most likely hit their $10 million goal for the third quarter, which would put them slightly above Romney’s pace from the second quarter (Romney raised $18.4 million; Perry had half the third quarter to work with).

Also this:

UPDATE: A “source close to” the Romney campaign tells Reuters that Romney’s third quarter figure is likely to be less than $10 million. If Perry raises more than Romney, in half the time, expect Perry to gain a lot of momentum (along with the support of some big money men in the party).

[Rfalcon51]

The creator of the Facebook event can send a message out to all the attendees, correct? If so maybe send a weekly reminder what the
purpose of the event is, how to promote it, goals, etc.

[Chainspell]

Also on your blackthisout site you should really consider having a page where the "make a pledge" box is on the very top where people can see it first and they dont have to scroll down. Either change the homepage or make another page blackthisout.com/pledge/ or pledge.blackthisout.com where the pledge box is right up front. So that 'known' supporters can be given a direct pledge link.

I almost missed it and my resolution is 1920x1080 so I can actually see further down the page, but your pledge box is waaayyy down on the bottom. I went to your facebook link, etc. I think I went to 4-5 different pages looking for where I can pledge.

Hope that input helps :)

Oh another thing you can do is create a pledge page like I suggested, but keep your home page like it is. But with a big pledge button right underneath the text "black this out!". So that no one will miss it :)

[Birdlady]

Also on your blackthisout site you should really consider having a page where the "make a pledge" box is on the very top where people can see it first and they dont have to scroll down. Either change the homepage or make another page blackthisout.com/pledge/ or pledge.blackthisout.com where the pledge box is right up front. So that 'known' supporters can be given a direct pledge link.

I almost missed it and my resolution is 1920x1080 so I can actually see further down the page, but your pledge box is waaayyy down on the bottom. I went to your facebook link, etc. I think I went to 4-5 different pages looking for where I can pledge.

Hope that input helps :)

Oh another thing you can do is create a pledge page like I suggested, but keep your home page like it is. But with a big pledge button right underneath the text "black this out!". So that no one will miss it :)

^Very good point here. I agree that the Pledge button should be "above the fold".

[justinpagewood]

This is a great thread. We need to market this event as if it's a big coordinated, and decent marketing event. I'm willing to do more design for this event, if needed.

[davidt!]

Could probably use this video to get some great clips for a blackthisout youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4unznqeiXU&feature=related

[EvilEngineer]

ok... I'm frankly SICK to death of the over usage of "money bombs". It seriously seems like the creativity has been sucked out of this movement. Simply repeating a fund raiser and labeling it a "money bomb" does not make it special. This might as well be called "The Tuesday money bomb!" followed shortly after by the "Wednesday money bomb!"

The only 2 money bombs that have mattered are the Nov 5th and Dec 16th money bombs from 2007. Everything else has been a fizzle at best raising a fraction of the other two.

We've had half a dozen money bombs already this year. Time to move on to something new...

[garyallen59]

ok... I'm frankly SICK to death of the over usage of "money bombs". It seriously seems like the creativity has been sucked out of this movement. Simply repeating a fund raiser and labeling it a "money bomb" does not make it special. This might as well be called "The Tuesday money bomb!" followed shortly after by the "Wednesday money bomb!"

The only 2 money bombs that have mattered are the Nov 5th and Dec 16th money bombs from 2007. Everything else has been a fizzle at best raising a fraction of the other two.

We've had half a dozen money bombs already this year. Time to move on to something new...

help us promote this instead of complaining and it will be the huge success you remember of old. who knows maybe bigger. :cool:

[justatrey]

I agree there are too many, but this one isn't going away.

We're better off with too many money bombs than none at all. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be donating as much as I have and I know I'm not alone.

Update those signatures and keep this page bumped everyone. Today was our best day so far.

[Paul4Prez]

The BlackTHISOut.com site shows 388 pledges now for $28K. Any way to add in the Facebook pledges so the amount on the main site looks more impressive? People want to get involved more if they think it's going to be big. Also, add a few standard amounts as pledge buttons, in case people don't get the slider.

How about adding a link to the Facebook event on the main blackthisout.com site?

[NickOdell]

I agree there are too many, but this one isn't going away.

We're better off with too many money bombs than none at all. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be donating as much as I have and I know I'm not alone.

Update those signatures and keep this page bumped everyone. Today was our best day so far.

Your exactly right. Today was way better than yesterday. We have a lot more people promoting, and it will only increase!

Keep up the good work! This moneybomb is actually exciting already. Or at least I'm excited... :P

[EvilEngineer]

This is like the Apollo missions and trips to the moon. Apollo 1 -11 had the world on edge as it was something new and exciting, wrought with danger and rewards. After 13(media bumb because of accident)... it was like going to the grocery store and no one cared. By 17 there was such little interest they scraped it.

It's very hard to get enthused about something that has been repeated, over, and over, and over, and over again.

It needs to be interesting and new to make a big splash, especially in the media.

You want to get people talking, require the donations in gold and silver bullion or coins. Deliver a CHEST of coins to Ron Paul. Dr. Paul has always said gold and silver are the only legal currencies. Literally give him a War Chest of gold and silver, and you'll see a spark of interest.

[MJU1983]

This is like the Apollo missions and trips to the moon. Apollo 1 -11 had the world on edge as it was something new and exciting, wrought with danger and rewards. After 13(media bumb because of accident)... it was like going to the grocery store and no one cared. By 17 there was such little interest they scraped it.

It's very hard to get enthused about something that has been repeated, over, and over, and over, and over again.

It needs to be interesting and new to make a big splash, especially in the media.

You want to get people talking, require the donations in gold and silver bullion or coins. Deliver a CHEST of coins to Ron Paul. Dr. Paul has always said gold and silver are the only legal currencies. Literally give him a War Chest of gold and silver, and you'll see a spark of interest.

Well, it's not going away. A lot of people were unaware of the Constitution Day Money Bomb because of lack of promotion.

If you aren't enthused, why even post in a promotion thread effectively throwing cold water on people who ARE enthused? You could certainly start a new thread with your ideas to generate revenue for the campaign but just objecting to a money bomb instead of promoting it doesn't seem helpful.

[davidt!]

This is like the Apollo missions and trips to the moon. Apollo 1 -11 had the world on edge as it was something new and exciting, wrought with danger and rewards. After 13(media bumb because of accident)... it was like going to the grocery store and no one cared. By 17 there was such little interest they scraped it.

It's very hard to get enthused about something that has been repeated, over, and over, and over, and over again.



It needs to be interesting and new to make a big splash, especially in the media.

You want to get people talking, require the donations in gold and silver bullion or coins. Deliver a CHEST of coins to Ron Paul. Dr. Paul has always said gold and silver are the only legal currencies. Literally give him a War Chest of gold and silver, and you'll see a spark of interest.

Right on bro. Now don't forget to pledge at blackthisout.com and invite all of your negative facebook friends! This is the big one!!Let's bring in another 5 Million to the campaign!

[Chainspell]

help us promote this instead of complaining and it will be the huge success you remember of old. who knows maybe bigger. :cool:
well dont dismiss him that easily. I think he has a point, I agree a little bit but that doesnt mean I dont support money bombs. I strongly agree that someone needs to come up with something else, something new! :) till then all we have are money bombs :)

[Sentinelrv]

I'm going to start keeping track of how many attendees we are adding on the Facebook event. Today we added 224 people.

Sep 19 - 998
Sep 20 - 1,222 (+224)

[mstrmac1]

Ok, I sent Youtube messages to the creators of both of these videos. We the People (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqY6CpgpSE) and The Only One We Can Trust (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ohKz9OeiI0g). Here is the message I sent them...



Does anyone know if these people have accounts on this forum? Also, are there any other very popular videos that aren't already promoting the money bomb?


Dont forget this one? I mean starting at 2:55 min mark is awe inspiring...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muf23Rc7HV8

[Sentinelrv]

Also, Chainspell here created the We the People video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqY6CpgpSE) and he said he would add annotations to the end of the video to help promote the event. He needs to know what they will say though. Does anyone have any ideas?

I believe we need to get across our goal of getting the campaign $6,000,000 by getting 25,000 people to attend the event, but how should it be worded and what website should we link, the official one or the Facebook event? Or is it possible to link both? Any ideas?

[MJU1983]

Dont forget this one? I mean starting at 2:55 min mark is awe inspiring...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muf23Rc7HV8

I like that video a lot. :)

[Sentinelrv]

Also, Chainspell here created the We the People video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqY6CpgpSE) and he said he would add annotations to the end of the video to help promote the event. He needs to know what they will say though. Does anyone have any ideas?

I believe we need to get across our goal of getting the campaign $6,000,000 by getting 25,000 people to attend the event, but how should it be worded and what website should we link, the official one or the Facebook event? Or is it possible to link both? Any ideas?

Any ideas here? This is something we can work on right now and I just realized that Chainspell created both the We the People video and the one you just posted.

[Airborn]

I'm going to start keeping track of how many attendees we are adding on the Facebook event. Today we added 224 people.

Sep 19 - 998
Sep 20 - 1,222 (+224)

well let's just say it gets 224 a day, though with more promotion it would start becoming more then that a day but let's just say 224 a day for now..

29 days till OCT. 19

224 x 29 =6496 + 1,228 (current attending) = 7724

which I think would be most attending for a moneybomb yet, but as the word gets out there will be many more then 224 a day. So spread the word about this moneybomb, it was the potential to be great!

[qwerty]

How do we contact meetup groups ? And all the facebook groups for Ron Paul ? There should be thousands there...

How about trying to contact official campaign & Rev Pac & C4L & YAL and organisation like that ? DailyPaul owner ? Lew Rockwell ?

How about trying to contact people who organised earlier moneybomb and could have mailing lists ? Forum member Gage and Trevor Lyman ?


I can´t do this, cause of my bad english. But i hope that someone takes a mission about it. It shouldn´t take so long but it could generate easily anything from 1 - 1 million new people!

Really! I ask someone to do this cause it could have huge impact with just few e-mails!




I´m hitting Youtube right now! :) AND TRYING TO FIND FORUM MEMBERS WHO BELONG TO A MEETUP GROUP AND ASK THEM TO PASS THE INFO TO THEIR MEETUP GROUP!

[The Midnight Ride]

Found this on race42012.com

Perry‘s campaign has indicated that they will most likely hit their $10 million goal for the third quarter, which would put them slightly above Romney’s pace from the second quarter (Romney raised $18.4 million; Perry had half the third quarter to work with).

Also this:

UPDATE: A “source close to” the Romney campaign tells Reuters that Romney’s third quarter figure is likely to be less than $10 million. If Perry raises more than Romney, in half the time, expect Perry to gain a lot of momentum (along with the support of some big money men in the party).

They did another update showing Huntsman and Santorum struggling. I am hoping that there have been offline donors to up our total this quarter. Do we have any idea what to expect? Can we top last quarter's fundraising?

Count me in for Black This Out. I know fundraising occurred too late last go around so here's hoping that this is the BIG one!

[justinpagewood]

The concept for this moneybomb is good. We just need to be creative, build hype, and make it seem legit.

Who is in charge of the facebook event page and the website? We need their support to make sure this event is organized by the grassroots and that it is unique.

[trey4sports]

They did another update showing Huntsman and Santorum struggling. I am hoping that there have been offline donors to up our total this quarter. Do we have any idea what to expect? Can we top last quarter's fundraising?

Count me in for Black This Out. I know fundraising occurred too late last go around so here's hoping that this is the BIG one!

we will for sure top last quarters fundraising.

Here's my breakdown....


3.0M is being transferred from cong. to PCC account.

1.75M for Birthday bomb

1.0M for const. day mb

600K for Ready Ames Fire

1.4M non-MB fundraising (pure speculation here)


so my guess is roughly 7.75 Million raised and i would imagine they will push an end of quarter fundraiser as well.

[qwerty]

How do we contact meetup groups ? And all the facebook groups for Ron Paul ? There should be thousands there...

How about trying to contact official campaign & Rev Pac & C4L & YAL and organisation like that ? DailyPaul owner ? Lew Rockwell ?

How about trying to contact people who organised earlier moneybomb and could have mailing lists ? Forum member Gage and Trevor Lyman ?


I can´t do this, cause of my bad english. But i hope that someone takes a mission about it. It shouldn´t take so long but it could generate easily anything from 1 - 1 million new people!

Really! I ask someone to do this cause it could have huge impact with just few e-mails!




Someone please do this.....this has huge pontetial with little of work!

[justinpagewood]

Here's a facebook Avatar you can use for the event.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FGM6kWHp6sc/TnmF1V0FkiI/AAAAAAAABHs/vEpTfVShjlw/s1600/black-this-out-ron-paul.jpg

[justinpagewood]

Perhaps we can also build a Wikipedia page for this as well. It just needs to be well-known enough. We need people to go "What is that?" and Google "Black This Out" - Make it seem like it's some alternate movement type thing.

[Monique]

I have a much higher goal in mind. I want 100,000 donors. When I started promoting this weeks ago we had 17 attendees and it took all day to get 10 more. Last week we suddenly had a day where we had 50 people attend. I think in the past 24 hours we had 200 more. It is spreading! This happens exponentially. Heck, let's get one million!! Ok..so I am a little enthusiastic....lol

However you get the word out here are some great marketing points for this one:

1. it is a total grassroots effort. We can show what WE can do when we all work together. This needs to be as big as our biggest mbs ever.

2. Anytime you see anyone talk about the media bring this up. This is the Black this out moneybomb! We won't let them black this out. ItsTime..Dusman...whichever...would you change the middle word to be all caps? So it looks like this....Black THIS Out Moneybomb. To put an emphasis on the fact that they can't black out THIS huge event.

3. This is held on the anniversary of the date the British surrendered and we won the Revolutionary War. It is time to win the new Revolution...the Ron Paul revolution!!!

I think those are three very hot ways to promote this. I am so excited to see everyone working on this together!!!! Fantastic folks!!! This is what we need. When we work together, nothing in the world will stop us!!!

If you write articles...please include a link to both pledge pages....if you do videos...do the same. This is going to be THE one folks. We have a full month. The trick is for all of us to tell everyone about it. I agree about all the suggestions so far. What about texting too? I know people can send out mass texts that get spread everywhere...can we do that too? (Old person here who doesn't exactly know what she is asking..but can it be done?)

Nick...I adore the suggestion about the forums putting up a counter for this one!!

If the last moneybomb taught us anything, it is that we need to work to make these things work. We can do the work!!! I am watching it work.

to the poster who talked about sending out messages to all their friends on facebook..would you please tell me how in a message? I have gathered over 2000 friends in the past month, so I can send it out to all of them. I have been doing it one at a time, I would love a way to do that better.

Seriously people! We can get 100,000 or more to donate on one day. I know we can. As soon as we reach that 25,000 goal, I say we raise it again!

But one thing...I don't know about the campaign getting involved. I don't know about you, but I got 7 messages from the campaign in 2 days asking for money for moneybombs. I was ready to block all emails from them. I say, we do this the old fashioned personal way...with us....working together! Getting excited!! Don't panic if we don't get tons of people in this next week..it is happening...it will happen faster and faster as we keep working. Then it will really pick up steam!!

Let's go win another Revolution!!!!!!

[Monique]

Justin...nice avatar...add a little pic badge to it too...so they know you are a Ron Paul supporter...You can find them here...
http://www.picbadges.com/i-support-ron-paul-2/1545236/

[Monique]

Nice!!! I finished my new avatar...http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=541493901 I think it looks great!!

[Sentinelrv]

Alright guys, I made a new test video of my cousin snowboarding to show off an example of the annotated text we could use to add to the end of these viral videos. Here is the full text...


2 Goals - 25,000 pledges & $6,000,000 for Ron Paul!

The October 19th "Black This Out" Money Bomb is fast approaching! Inspired by the MSM's blackout of all Ron Paul coverage, the grassroots plan on throwing a 24 hour fundraising event that is so huge, not even the MSM can hide it!

The goal is to raise $6,000,000 in a single day for Ron Paul, but this can ONLY be achieved if we can get 25,000 people to pledge their support at www.BlackThisOut.com. We've done the math. Without 25,000 pledges, NO $6,000,000!

This is the big one! Promote this thing all you can! Do it for Ron Paul! Do it for the future of America!

Separate box - Pledge Your Support at www.BlackThisOut.com or Click the Link in the Description Below

Unfortunately, from what I can tell it is impossible to use annotations to link to websites outside of Youtube, so they'll either need to enter the link themselves or scroll down to the description. Check out the end of this test video and tell me how you like it. Will the annotations do as an advertisement for the money bomb?

[Birdlady]

When I made the annotation on my video, I just linked it to the Black This Out youtube video. I figured that was a good place to send people.

[Chainspell]

I suggest you cut those 5 lines into just 1 line. You don't give them all the information all out at once that'll scare a lot of regular people away and they wont even bother to read it. One headline and one sentence that's how you grab people's attention. That's why I asked you what do you want me to say :) coz 1 line has to be able to convey all 5 lines. that's how advertising works :)

like:
--
Help raise 6 Million Dollars! Your $10 dollars or more will meant a lot!
www.blackthisout.com

--
Pledge your support Today! Ron Paul needs your help!
go to www.blackthisout.com for more info

--
If you care about your children's future, sign up on www.blackthisout.com and pledge your support!

--
Pledge your support and sign up at www.blackthisout.com!

--
Fuck the media! Pledge your support at www.blackthisout.com!

lol you can give them all the info on the next page if they show interest.

[Sentinelrv]

Who is in charge of the facebook event page and the website? We need their support to make sure this event is organized by the grassroots and that it is unique.

I added this to the first post as well as your avatar...

Contact Info:
Official Website Creator - Dusman (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/member.php?31632-dusman)
Facebook Event Creator - ItsTime (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/member.php?3485-ItsTime)

[qwerty]

How do we contact meetup groups ? And all the facebook groups for Ron Paul ? There should be thousands there...

How about trying to contact official campaign & Rev Pac & C4L & YAL and organisation like that ? DailyPaul owner ? Lew Rockwell ?

How about trying to contact people who organised earlier moneybomb and could have mailing lists ? Forum member Gage and Trevor Lyman ?


I can´t do this, cause of my bad english. But i hope that someone takes a mission about it. It shouldn´t take so long but it could generate easily anything from 1 - 1 million new people!

Really! I ask someone to do this cause it could have huge impact with just few e-mails!



This has potential i think... it´s worth trying to send some e-mails around!

PLEASE SOMEBODYYYYYY!

Have commented over 100 youtube videos today! :) Anyone matching me....

[Monique]

I know the idea is to get as many folks as possible so that no one has to donate much at all...but keep in mind Ron pays a fee for each donation. A transaction fee. I am afraid if people only donate 10 bucks and do it over and over, a lot of that money will get eaten up in fees. Maybe we just leave out a figure all together and let people donate what they want?

My favorite is Fuck the Media! lol Although it might offend some folks.. it sure made me laugh!

[Sentinelrv]

I suggest you cut those 5 lines into just 1 line. You don't give them all the information all out at once that'll scare a lot of regular people away and they wont even bother to read it. One headline and one sentence that's how you grab people's attention. That's why I asked you what do you want me to say :) coz 1 line has to be able to convey all 5 lines. that's how advertising works :)

like:
--
Help raise 6 Million Dollars! Your $10 dollars or more will meant a lot!
www.blackthisout.com

--
Pledge your support Today! Ron Paul needs your help!
go to www.blackthisout.com for more info

--
If you care about your children's future, sign up on www.blackthisout.com and pledge your support!

--
Pledge your support and sign up at www.blackthisout.com!

--
Fuck the media! Pledge your support at www.blackthisout.com!

lol you can give them all the info on the next page if they show interest.

Ok, I was worried about this. Two things we need to absolutely convey are the dollar and pledge goal. Here is my attempt.

"2 Goals - 25,000 Pledges & a $6,000,000 day for Ron Paul - www.BlackThisOut.com"

Opinions?

[Monique]

qwerty..how are you commenting on Youtube vids? When I try to link to the facebook page or the website, I get an error message. How do I get around the sensors?

[TER]

Ok, I was worried about this. Two things we need to absolutely convey are the dollar and pledge goal. Here is my attempt.

"2 Goals - 25,000 Pledges & a $6,000,000 day for Ron Paul - www.BlackThisOut.com"

Opinions?

I would word '$6,000,000 day for Ron Paul' differently. It has to be about the message, not the man.

[Chainspell]

Ok, I was worried about this. Two things we need to absolutely convey are the dollar and pledge goal. Here is my attempt.

"2 Goals - 25,000 Pledges & a $6,000,000 day for Ron Paul - www.BlackThisOut.com"

Opinions?
your gonna scare people with putting a lot of numbers into one sentence like that :) keep it inviting. I know we want to convey our goals, but we gotta think about how itll look to regular people (who are only semi-interested) not diehard RP supporters like ourselves hehe :)


My favorite is Fuck the Media! lol Although it might offend some folks.. it sure made me laugh!
lol im glad you like it :) I know it would appeal to a few people i know haha

[qwerty]

qwerty..how are you commenting on Youtube vids? When I try to link to the facebook page or the website, I get an error message. How do I get around the sensors?




Next HUGE moneybomb for Ron Paul will be on OCT 19th

BLACKTHISOUT . COM

That´s my message!

You have to break the link!

[TER]

'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'

[Darrel Tucker]

Let's do this!

[TER]

Let's do this!

Welcome. Who told you about us and how did you get in here? :confused::D

[Chainspell]

Let's do this!
yeah!

[Sentinelrv]

your gonna scare people with putting a lot of numbers into one sentence like that :) keep it inviting. I know we want to convey our goals, but we gotta think about how itll look to regular people (who are only semi-interested) not diehard RP supporters like ourselves hehe :)

You're right. This is about getting people to go to the website. They can find out about the goals once they're on the website. We just need something catchy to get them there in the first place. We need more suggestions.

[MJU1983]

I just posted on Dr. Paul's FB Wall: http://www.facebook.com/ronpaul?sk=wall&filter=1

I suppose it wouldn't be a bad idea for us to do that every few hours per day, posts move fast on there.

[qwerty]

i just posted on dr. Paul's fb wall: http://www.facebook.com/ronpaul?sk=wall&filter=1

i suppose it wouldn't be a bad idea for us to do that every few hours per day, posts move fast on there.

awesome! :)

I just asked forum member GAGE if he could use the e-mail lists from the earlier moneybombs to promote this one!

We need banner on Ronpaulforums and dailypaul!

[Monique]

Thanks Qwerty! Got it.

[Chainspell]

You're right. This is about getting people to go to the website. They can find out about the goals once they're on the website. We just need something catchy to get them there in the first place. We need more suggestions.
yeap you hit it :) we need something catchy hehe

[Monique]

I am torn what the most catchy part is...I sort of like blending the two themes of the anniversary of the Revolutionary war, with the way to win the new Revolution is to stop the media from censorship.

We can only win this Revolution if we show them they cannot black us out any more!! Donate to Ron Paul on Oct. 19th to make your voice heard!! If every Ron Paul supporter donated something on that day, imagine the impact!! We need to stick together to make a splash. So, please...send this to your friends and get them all to support Ron Paul and stop the media black out!

Something like that.

[Sentinelrv]

I can't believe we've added 30 more people since midnight. Aren't people supposed to be sleeping right now? Hey that reminds me, I need to go to bed, but here are some things everybody needs to work on before I go, because I'm sure this thread will explode by the time I get up...

1. We need to get a good catchy line to use as an annotation on the Youtube videos.

2. I contacted RonPaulForum administrator Bryan to ask him about adding a pledge counter on the top of the website and stuff for the facebook event and he replied...


Great work-- let us know what we can do. We can send out a few e-mails, post a banner, or counter-- what else?

So you guys also need to work on figuring out what to put at the top of the website and how to do it. I'm guessing Bryan doesn't know and I know nothing about this. Somebody in the beginning of the thread mentioned something about a working script over at the Daily Paul, but this is something we need to figure out. Anyway, I'm going to bed, good work everyone!

[qwerty]

i can't believe we've added 30 more people since midnight. Aren't people supposed to be sleeping right now? Hey that reminds me, i need to go to bed, but here are some things everybody needs to work on before i go, because i'm sure this thread will explode by the time i get up...

1. We need to get a good catchy line to use as an annotation on the youtube videos.

2. I contacted ronpaulforum administrator bryan to ask him about adding a pledge counter on the top of the website and stuff for the facebook event and he replied...



So you guys also need to work on figuring out what to put at the top of the website and how to do it. I'm guessing bryan doesn't know and i know nothing about this. Somebody in the beginning of the thread mentioned something about a working script over at the daily paul, but this is something we need to figure out. Anyway, i'm going to bed, good work everyone!

we need same to daily paul too! :)

I continue commenting youtube videos! :)

PLEASE, consider posting the info about the moneybomb to every ron paul related facebook wall!

consider also to contact different groups like YAL & REV PAC!

[qwerty]

Who starts to post the moneybomb info to Ron Paul related articles ?

You can find these articles with news.google.com

[Monique]

I am posting this wherever I can...what do you all think?

ATTENTION ALL RON PAUL SUPPORTERS....We need you for one day. Oct 19th is the anniversary of day we won the Revolutionary War. We need to win another Revolution, but we can't do it if the media continues to black out Ron Paul. Won't you donate something...anything...on Oct.19th. Spread the word. If we work together they won't be able to ignore us. This is THE one!! Click attend at the link and send it to all RP supporters you know!! We need EVERYONE!!! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471 and www.blackthisout.com

[Monique]

Don't forget to WRITE Ron Paul articles. It isn't that hard. Write something about the censorship and why we have the need for this moneybomb and then send it to sites so they will publish it. Shout in a room and a few people hear you, shout at the podium and the whole room takes notice. :)

[justatrey]

I've been using this for youtube comments. It's simple and to the point, but I think we can do better...

*** Black THIS Out Moneybomb – October 19th ***
Inspired by the mainstream media's biased reporting of Ron Paul.

Pledge at BlackTHISOut[dot]com

Please spread the word!

[AmberH]

On the Daily Paul, Jordie is running ads for black this out and is asking for people to pitch in. http://ronpaulfbads.chipin.com/ron-paul-facebook-advertising

[fearthereaperx]

There should be another video made to promote this i think. This current one is just not that exciting.

[ItsTime]

There should be another video made to promote this i think. This current one is just not that exciting.

have you seen this one?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTF7S2I7k4s&feature=player_embedded

[Sjmfury]

bump

[LibertyEsq]

Have we gotten the Campaign's blessing for this MB yet? That's kind of a crucial step since we'll need a ticker

[reduen]

Attending and invited..!!

Going to tweet about it every day from now until then...

[reduen]

Have we gotten the Campaign's blessing for this MB yet? That's kind of a crucial step since we'll need a ticker

Trust me, if we build this thing they will put up a ticker. Of that I have no doubt.........

[ItsTime]

Have we gotten the Campaign's blessing for this MB yet? That's kind of a crucial step since we'll need a ticker

Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come, even the campaign haha ;). Im sure they will get behind it, the snowball has already started to form.

[dusman]

So, I'm just about finished with my revamp concept. So far so good, but I wanted to provide an update:

I've virtually halted all live progression on the web site until the Constitution/RevPac moneybombs were finished. Having thought about this moneybomb for over a month, I felt it was important not to distract from the others, in case these updates prove really successful. Now that Black THIS Out is next, I'm excited to start proceeding to put all the various parts together now.

What I identify as the underlying problem is the lack of activity on the moneybomb web sites themselves and nothing really more. Simply put, there isn't anything on the web sites so far to attract return visitors. It should be something each and every Ron Paul supporter would want to visit each day. Considering the themes of all our moneybombs this year, they lacked a lot of ability to build onto the theme and produce a snowball effect.

Black THIS Out is significantly different, thanks to the mainstream media giving us constant fuel.

Here are the new features being implemented:


1) Pledge. Report. Share.

An objective-based funnel system to encourage viewers to do each of the three actions.

A) Pledge, is just what it is.. pledging a donation to the campaign for October 19th, 2011. B) Report, is to submit articles and videos of clear media bias, censorship, misrepresentation of facts. These will be screened, rebutted, and published on the web site. Each published counter-article will accept pledges specific to the article. On the day of the moneybomb, we'll do press releases and open letters to the media on how much money THEY raised for Ron Paul, through bias and censorship, and share that through the social networks. C) Share, which is providing a step-by-step guide to promoting the moneybomb. This will adopt a Facebook strategy (how to invite, good practices, etc.), Twitter strategy (Using the one started already), E-mail, Blogging, etc.


2) Conditional Pledges and Taking Challenges

This idea may take a little more time to finish up, but I think you guys will like it. The idea is that there are really two ways to donate to the campaign. Money and effort. Just as significant as 25,000 donations will be, 25,000 people taking it offline to promote Ron Paul in a strategic collaboration would be just as incredible. Therefore, the idea is to combine both of these together.

So maybe FRDMLVR 1 has $1000 to donate, but they want to make that pledge on condition that 100 people do a certain activity. So FRDMLVR 1 submits the conditional pledge and that challenge now shows up in a thread among other challenges going on. Let's say FRDMLVR 2 is completely broke, but wants to still contribute somehow. They'll not only be able to share the moneybomb online, but also take challenges that get them doing things offline.

The end goal is having our money work TWICE for us. If we can use our donations to leverage effort, then that money gets put back into advertising, which attracts more supporters.. we have a nice recipe to make our dollars twice as valuable to other campaigns' dollars.

This will take a bit longer to build and launch, but I feel it would be a great addition.

3) Widgets, Banners, and Badges

I'm just about finished up with these. The widgets will allow other web sites to embed pledge data onto their pages and I'm working on a way to pledge directly from the widgets themselves. So, if RPF wants to put a banner at the top of the forum that displays current pledge count and people could pledge directly from RPF, I think that would be a great improvement. I also have static banners and badges, if those are preferred.

I'll have more to show tonight. What do you guys think?

[davidt!]

I have been getting good results asking video makers on youtube to add annotations at the end of their videos promoting the moneybomb. I sent a few emails out to them last night and had a couple of very positive emails back this morning. Another thing we can do is comment on online Ron Paul or Politic related articles.

[JVParkour]

Sounds excellent dusman!

[justatrey]

dusman: First of all, +rep. Thanks for all your hard work on this. The website already looks great imo, but you have some great ideas.

I say go for #1 and #3 first.

I think we could do without #2. Not that it would hurt anything, I just don't think it should hold anything else up. It seems like a good concept, but I question if it would really catch on.

[qwerty]

And back to work! Hitting youtube! :)

[qwerty]

New video for moneybomb!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql8hEWs9rCc

[qwerty]

Bump!

[qwerty]

I´m trying to comment every new youtube video about Ron Paul with the message about moneybomb!

will try to do it everyday from today to moneybomb day!

[AmberH]

I´m trying to comment every new youtube video about Ron Paul with the message about moneybomb!

will try to do it everyday from today to moneybomb day!

Me to, I will up vote yours along the way

[qwerty]

Me to, I will up vote yours along the way

Nice! :) I need to go to sleep soon! :(

[Sentinelrv]

So, I'm just about finished with my revamp concept. So far so good, but I wanted to provide an update:

I've virtually halted all live progression on the web site until the Constitution/RevPac moneybombs were finished. Having thought about this moneybomb for over a month, I felt it was important not to distract from the others, in case these updates prove really successful. Now that Black THIS Out is next, I'm excited to start proceeding to put all the various parts together now.

What I identify as the underlying problem is the lack of activity on the moneybomb web sites themselves and nothing really more. Simply put, there isn't anything on the web sites so far to attract return visitors. It should be something each and every Ron Paul supporter would want to visit each day. Considering the themes of all our moneybombs this year, they lacked a lot of ability to build onto the theme and produce a snowball effect.

Black THIS Out is significantly different, thanks to the mainstream media giving us constant fuel.

Here are the new features being implemented:


1) Pledge. Report. Share.

An objective-based funnel system to encourage viewers to do each of the three actions.

A) Pledge, is just what it is.. pledging a donation to the campaign for October 19th, 2011. B) Report, is to submit articles and videos of clear media bias, censorship, misrepresentation of facts. These will be screened, rebutted, and published on the web site. Each published counter-article will accept pledges specific to the article. On the day of the moneybomb, we'll do press releases and open letters to the media on how much money THEY raised for Ron Paul, through bias and censorship, and share that through the social networks. C) Share, which is providing a step-by-step guide to promoting the moneybomb. This will adopt a Facebook strategy (how to invite, good practices, etc.), Twitter strategy (Using the one started already), E-mail, Blogging, etc.

Dusman, this is really spectacular. We will need you to implement the same system for the next money bomb if it turns out to be a winner. I especially like your idea of reporting and I agree with your idea that the money bomb website itself needs more return value. Frankly, I don't visit money bomb websites at all except for maybe once to see what it looks like and maybe to pledge. I don't go back. But your idea of reporting media bias and then offering counter-arguments really does a number of things at once. It gives people a reason to return to the website, to see the news. It helps people not completely familiar with Ron Paul to see the media bias as well as the truth, which is provided in the counter-arguments. It allows people the ability to share the counter-argument stories through social networking, so that even more people are drawn to the website so they can pledge and start promoting. The apparent media bias also helps to fuel anger in supporters and directs it into promoting the money bomb through the social networking tools you provide through the website. All we need to do is get a couple people that understand Dr. Paul's positions fully, so they can write response articles.



2) Conditional Pledges and Taking Challenges

This idea may take a little more time to finish up, but I think you guys will like it. The idea is that there are really two ways to donate to the campaign. Money and effort. Just as significant as 25,000 donations will be, 25,000 people taking it offline to promote Ron Paul in a strategic collaboration would be just as incredible. Therefore, the idea is to combine both of these together.

So maybe FRDMLVR 1 has $1000 to donate, but they want to make that pledge on condition that 100 people do a certain activity. So FRDMLVR 1 submits the conditional pledge and that challenge now shows up in a thread among other challenges going on. Let's say FRDMLVR 2 is completely broke, but wants to still contribute somehow. They'll not only be able to share the moneybomb online, but also take challenges that get them doing things offline.

The end goal is having our money work TWICE for us. If we can use our donations to leverage effort, then that money gets put back into advertising, which attracts more supporters.. we have a nice recipe to make our dollars twice as valuable to other campaigns' dollars.

This will take a bit longer to build and launch, but I feel it would be a great addition.

I have a question about this one. If somebody makes a conditional pledge, how exactly would the original pledger know that the condition was carried out by somebody else? They would need to know if it was carried out in order to actually go through with their own pledge.


3) Widgets, Banners, and Badges

I'm just about finished up with these. The widgets will allow other web sites to embed pledge data onto their pages and I'm working on a way to pledge directly from the widgets themselves. So, if RPF wants to put a banner at the top of the forum that displays current pledge count and people could pledge directly from RPF, I think that would be a great improvement. I also have static banners and badges, if those are preferred.

I'll have more to show tonight. What do you guys think?

I'm glad this is being taken care of. If we were to put something at the top of RonPaulForums then I think it would really take off. I have a question about the widget though. We have two ways of pledging, on the main website and on Facebook. I believe people feel more comfortable using Facebook than signing up to the main website in order to pledge. That's why Facebook always has more attendees than the website has in pledges. Would the widget incorporate both the ability to pledge on the main site and attend and invite people to the Facebook event? I think it would be a good idea to cover both.

[qwerty]

We need the "facebook pledges" to show on the website too! :)

[NickOdell]

bump

[LibertyRevolution]

I was bored.
If TV ads were cheap... or if money grew on trees ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wx8UHMrVAA

[garyallen59]

I was bored.
If TV ads were cheap... or if money grew on trees ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wx8UHMrVAA

Very Nice!!!

[NickOdell]

bump... C'mon people, keep promoting :-)

In the process of direct messaging hundred of people on facebook (dont worry, i didnt send more than 1 message to each person), the lady that runs this site: http://www.shop4liberty.com/ put up a big advertisement on their homepage. Obviously this isnt a TON of internet traffic, but we need more of this!

Its not that hard, people are willing to help out!

[jasonxe]

Can I donate in gold?

[NickOdell]

Can I donate in gold?

I don't think so :p

It is an online event. Here is the link for FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471

And the website: http://www.blackthisout.com

[dusman]

Dusman, this is really spectacular. We will need you to implement the same system for the next money bomb if it turns out to be a winner. I especially like your idea of reporting and I agree with your idea that the money bomb website itself needs more return value. Frankly, I don't visit money bomb websites at all except for maybe once to see what it looks like and maybe to pledge. I don't go back. But your idea of reporting media bias and then offering counter-arguments really does a number of things at once. It gives people a reason to return to the website, to see the news. It helps people not completely familiar with Ron Paul to see the media bias as well as the truth, which is provided in the counter-arguments. It allows people the ability to share the counter-argument stories through social networking, so that even more people are drawn to the website so they can pledge and start promoting. The apparent media bias also helps to fuel anger in supporters and directs it into promoting the money bomb through the social networking tools you provide through the website. All we need to do is get a couple people that understand Dr. Paul's positions fully, so they can write response articles.

You are right on point. I felt the reporting would be a really big draw, so that would be a natural fit for this moneybomb. You had pointed on something that inspired the whole thought of return visit potential for me.. which was you said you don't go back to the moneybomb sites. This is exactly what I've experienced, myself. That aspect is different than in 2007, as I recall going back daily to check the pledge totals at the least. Trying to revive that and also build on it more. If we have people visiting daily, a percentage of those people are going to promote it simply through encouragement to do so on the site. Ultimately, this creates a win-win.

I definitely need people who know Ron Paul's positions well and are able to articulate their thoughts into writing.


I have a question about this one. If somebody makes a conditional pledge, how exactly would the original pledger know that the condition was carried out by somebody else? They would need to know if it was carried out in order to actually go through with their own pledge.

This one is tricky. It's somewhat speculative as there is no real way to verify anything. However, I've modeled it so far so that each step is opt-in based. So, someone taking a challenge does an opt-in for that challenge and then followed up with by e-mail to verify completion of that task. They'll be some drop-off obviously, however I think the real value comes from the e-mail list that would be generated. Since these are people who have at least shown some desire to be involved in activities/donations, this is a nice solution to build a list geared towards those things. A lot of those taking challenges might not have the money to donate to this moneybomb, but there is no reason we can't follow up with them on the next moneybomb. In this way, we acquire a list of "potentials" that otherwise we never had.

My other suggestion for this was to make it exclusive to the meetup groups, which then would help make verifying tasks being completed a bit easier to handle. It would be a dream to leverage pledges to the campaign toward Meetup group efforts. Ultimately, this may need to extend into the next moneybomb to get it fully functioning. I'm currently engaging a few App developers to do a simple check-in service, like FourSquare. This would allow a much more accurate way to verify challenges/activities are met.. since restraints on abuse or neglect could be handled programmatically. For example, check-ins would require to be done from different GPS locations or based off specific criteria (maybe an image upload of your sign waving challenge). We could go as far as making an app for canvassing, where each home visited gets a check-in and their responses recorded, however, still having a high regard for privacy of course. There's really a lot of ways this can be achieved, none of them are cheap (in time) or on-the-fly projects. I at least have about 20 web developers on Facebook organized and so just need to start coordinating efforts with them and I think we could get a lot of these things in place.


I'm glad this is being taken care of. If we were to put something at the top of RonPaulForums then I think it would really take off. I have a question about the widget though. We have two ways of pledging, on the main website and on Facebook. I believe people feel more comfortable using Facebook than signing up to the main website in order to pledge. That's why Facebook always has more attendees than the website has in pledges. Would the widget incorporate both the ability to pledge on the main site and attend and invite people to the Facebook event? I think it would be a good idea to cover both.

I may be one of the few who is pretty strongly opposed to relying on Facebook to indicate pledges. I use Facebook and I also attend the moneybombs; however, the fact that it is done on Facebook immediately alienates probably 30% of our user base. Simply put, not everyone uses Facebook and not everyone who uses Facebook is familiar with events or willing to use it for that purpose. Therefore, I am looking for a solution to pledge directly from the Facebook Event Pages where possible, so that it facilitates pledging rather than becoming dependent on it.

Anyways, I'll follow up more after dinner! The lady made catfish! :D

[NickOdell]

Edit: Nevermind to all of that. I was having trouble posting about this at the Daily Paul but got it figured out. :-)

[nc4rp]

i detect epicness

[NickOdell]

bump. More people still need to see this thread. I'm the annoying one that gets to keep bumping it :-)

I'm having great success with this. Creating lists of Ron Paul supporters so I don't email people twice, and a lot of people are posting it on their Facebook pages.
We are 'awaiting reply' from 12,250 people. :cool: Good work so far!

[dusman]

Yes, keep it moving. It is working great!

Otherwise, I'm going to start posting analytics showing all of us losing momentum. I'll do it... dare me! :D

http://www.blackthisout.com/statistics-9-21-2011.jpg

You guys really are making a huge difference!

Our trend line looks closer to 11-12% on conversion rate. That basically means every 100 people you send that's 11-12 pledges to Ron Paul's campaign. Keep it coming!

[ItsTime]

Dusman chech ur PM please.

[dusman]

All Yours! Have at it!

Don't forget to follow @blackthisout on Twitter.

[TexMac]

Hey, what if we ran a poll like this?

http://pages.townhall.com/campaign/presidential-straw-poll

L (http://pages.townhall.com/campaign/presidential-straw-poll)ook at all the RP supporter emails we could get. We'd need to set up a page that looked credible to sponsor it.

[NickOdell]

I emailed the owner of http://www.rp2012.com and asked for help promoting this. Maybe something will come of it, who knows. It would be great to have their help since they have email lists from all the phonebanking efforts.

[ItsTime]

follow BTO on twitter! http://twitter.com/#!/blackthisout

[WD-NY]

So, I'm just about finished with my revamp concept. So far so good, but I wanted to provide an update:

I've virtually halted all live progression on the web site until the Constitution/RevPac moneybombs were finished. Having thought about this moneybomb for over a month, I felt it was important not to distract from the others, in case these updates prove really successful. Now that Black THIS Out is next, I'm excited to start proceeding to put all the various parts together now.

What I identify as the underlying problem is the lack of activity on the moneybomb web sites themselves and nothing really more. Simply put, there isn't anything on the web sites so far to attract return visitors. It should be something each and every Ron Paul supporter would want to visit each day. Considering the themes of all our moneybombs this year, they lacked a lot of ability to build onto the theme and produce a snowball effect.

Black THIS Out is significantly different, thanks to the mainstream media giving us constant fuel.

Here are the new features being implemented:


1) Pledge. Report. Share.

An objective-based funnel system to encourage viewers to do each of the three actions.

A) Pledge, is just what it is.. pledging a donation to the campaign for October 19th, 2011. B) Report, is to submit articles and videos of clear media bias, censorship, misrepresentation of facts. These will be screened, rebutted, and published on the web site. Each published counter-article will accept pledges specific to the article. On the day of the moneybomb, we'll do press releases and open letters to the media on how much money THEY raised for Ron Paul, through bias and censorship, and share that through the social networks. C) Share, which is providing a step-by-step guide to promoting the moneybomb. This will adopt a Facebook strategy (how to invite, good practices, etc.), Twitter strategy (Using the one started already), E-mail, Blogging, etc.


2) Conditional Pledges and Taking Challenges

This idea may take a little more time to finish up, but I think you guys will like it. The idea is that there are really two ways to donate to the campaign. Money and effort. Just as significant as 25,000 donations will be, 25,000 people taking it offline to promote Ron Paul in a strategic collaboration would be just as incredible. Therefore, the idea is to combine both of these together.

So maybe FRDMLVR 1 has $1000 to donate, but they want to make that pledge on condition that 100 people do a certain activity. So FRDMLVR 1 submits the conditional pledge and that challenge now shows up in a thread among other challenges going on. Let's say FRDMLVR 2 is completely broke, but wants to still contribute somehow. They'll not only be able to share the moneybomb online, but also take challenges that get them doing things offline.

The end goal is having our money work TWICE for us. If we can use our donations to leverage effort, then that money gets put back into advertising, which attracts more supporters.. we have a nice recipe to make our dollars twice as valuable to other campaigns' dollars.

This will take a bit longer to build and launch, but I feel it would be a great addition.

3) Widgets, Banners, and Badges

I'm just about finished up with these. The widgets will allow other web sites to embed pledge data onto their pages and I'm working on a way to pledge directly from the widgets themselves. So, if RPF wants to put a banner at the top of the forum that displays current pledge count and people could pledge directly from RPF, I think that would be a great improvement. I also have static banners and badges, if those are preferred.

I'll have more to show tonight. What do you guys think?

You're on the right track - but focus is key. Pick off the lowest hanging fruit/bugs first then move on to the less straight forward features/functionality:


Priority #1: Basic improvements to the landing page layout, copy and message - Without a strong landing page that converts visitors into pledges, the other ideas won't matter. So my first question is, what's the ETA on the simple aesthetic and layout changes suggested by myself and several other forum members (e.g. create a clear, descriptive headline; reposition pledge form & pledge count above the fold; increase the font size, switch out fonts that are not easy-to-read/legible, replace the pledge slider with a basic radio-button list, etc.) being implemented?



Priority #2: Badges, Banners and Widgets - Simple enough, just resize the current marketing materials to standard blog & banner sizes. By "Widgets" I'm guessing you mean badges with interactive elements, like an auto-updating counter? If you can quickly build those yourself then make those as well. If not, see if someone else will help and move on the priority #3.


Priority #3: Create features/functionality that help the Pledge go viral (other than straight forward "share/email/tweet" links) - Only after priorities 1 & 2 are locked down would I begin working on features that build upon old-school sharing. That said, "contestifying" the BlackThisOut 10/19 money bomb definitely be done without too much effort using existing tools/applications. How do you 'contestify' a money bomb? Simple. Show a LEADER-BOARD. How do you create a Leader-board? You need to generate unique referral links for anyone who wants to keep track of how many people they get to sign up via the emails/tweets/etc. they send out. Like I said, there no sense in recreating the wheel if you can't code it up in a few days (since time is of the essence, so check out these links and I'm sure you'll be able to find something that fits the bill:


Found this app looking for alternatives to WildFire - https://socialprize.com/tour - instead of giving a prize away, the #blackthisout money bomb 'contest' can simply be "get the most friends/people to pledge" and win the +rep of fellow Ron Paul supporters. (Or, if the campaign is game, it would be awesome if the top 3 'pledge bundlers' could win something like a dinner with Dr. Paul :cool:)

Here's a portfolio of contest microsites that you can use for guidance - http://www.votigo.com/corp/showcase.php#fbcontests

Long story short, to really kick this (and future) money bombs up a notch, unique referral links and a leader board that shows who is securing the most pledges = key.

But again, first things first - square up the core page design/layout/copy so that when contest or other viral sharing kicks into gear, the pledge conversion rate and contest participation rate = max.

[Birdlady]

+rep!Great advice and insight, WD-NY. I agree that the landing page needs to be fixed first. It is so essential to get the Pledge section above the fold. With the way the stars and lines are at the bottom of the fold, it looks like there is nothing underneath and it's the end of the webpage.

[mstrmac1]

I'm sorry if I offend anyone who has made a BTO youtube video...But they all kind of stink! The one's that i've seen so far are not effective at all. Can someone step up and make something truly inspiring? I would, but I have zero skills. Just trying to help being that I'm an end user.

[FA.Hayek]

bump

[Anti Federalist]

Ordered.

I'm in on this one.


New edition is ready for print! You can not beat 1000 cards for $39. Today, I priced these out at my local print shops they wanted between $150 and $200 to print these cards! Order 1000 cards here: http://ronpauldesigns.blogspot.com/p/specials.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JmuEeAkJuvE/TnksUQGexhI/AAAAAAAABHc/t-eab6DpGCk/s1600/black-out.jpg

[NickOdell]

We still need someone to put this on the front page of the forums....

[mstrmac1]

We still need someone to put this on the front page of the forums....

^this

[justinpagewood]

black this out

[Sentinelrv]

Can you invite people to the event on Facebook that are not on your friends list? I'm trying to figure out how to send invites to people I see posting on Ron Paul articles, but when I hit "Select Guests to Invite" it only lets me choose from my current friends.

EDIT: Ok, I looked around and it's impossible. I guess you can still message them.

[NickOdell]

Can you invite people to the event on Facebook that are not on your friends list? I'm trying to figure out how to send invites to people I see posting on Ron Paul articles, but when I hit "Select Guests to Invite" it only lets me choose from my current friends.

I don't think you can. :/

[mstrmac1]

Here is the Nov 5th 2007 MB thread started by trevor.. it may help with ideas

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?25532-5th-Novermber-100-each-10-million-in-one-day&highlight=remember+5th+november

Looks like they started by hitting meet ups!

[dusman]

Priority #1: Basic improvements to the landing page layout, copy and message - Without a strong landing page that converts visitors into pledges, the other ideas won't matter. So my first question is, what's the ETA on the simple aesthetic and layout changes suggested by myself and several other forum members (e.g. create a clear, descriptive headline; reposition pledge form & pledge count above the fold; increase the font size, switch out fonts that are not easy-to-read/legible, replace the pledge slider with a basic radio-button list, etc.) being implemented?


Priority #2: Badges, Banners and Widgets - Simple enough, just resize the current marketing materials to standard blog & banner sizes. By "Widgets" I'm guessing you mean badges with interactive elements, like an auto-updating counter? If you can quickly build those yourself then make those as well. If not, see if someone else will help and move on the priority #3.


Priority #3: Create features/functionality that help the Pledge go viral (other than straight forward "share/email/tweet" links) - Only after priorities 1 & 2 are locked down would I begin working on features that build upon old-school sharing. That said, "contestifying" the BlackThisOut 10/19 money bomb definitely be done without too much effort using existing tools/applications. How do you 'contestify' a money bomb? Simple. Show a LEADER-BOARD. How do you create a Leader-board? You need to generate unique referral links for anyone who wants to keep track of how many people they get to sign up via the emails/tweets/etc. they send out. Like I said, there no sense in recreating the wheel if you can't code it up in a few days (since time is of the essence, so check out these links and I'm sure you'll be able to find something that fits the bill:



Found this app looking for alternatives to WildFire - https://socialprize.com/tour - instead of giving a prize away, the #blackthisout money bomb 'contest' can simply be "get the most friends/people to pledge" and win the +rep of fellow Ron Paul supporters. (Or, if the campaign is game, it would be awesome if the top 3 'pledge bundlers' could win something like a dinner with Dr. Paul :cool:)


Here's a portfolio of contest microsites that you can use for guidance - http://www.votigo.com/corp/showcase.php#fbcontests


Long story short, to really kick this (and future) money bombs up a notch, unique referral links and a leader board that shows who is securing the most pledges = key.

But again, first things first - square up the core page design/layout/copy so that when contest or other viral sharing kicks into gear, the pledge conversion rate and contest participation rate = max.

I appreciate the feedback!


Priority #1: Basic improvements to the landing page layout, copy and message

I actually have a concept to show right now. But I'm concerned I went a little over the top, maybe? :rolleyes:

http://www.blackthisout.com/blackthisout-layout-v3.jpg

http://www.blackthisout.com/blackthisout-layout-v3.jpg

What do you guys think? As for the pledge feature.. I'm taking the suggestion of removing the slider and I'll also make a popup come up with a pledge form and details on current numbers. I have most of the framework in place already, so re-theming the current site won't be a challenge at all.

Priority #2: Badges, Banners and Widgets

Yes, an auto-updating counter. I have these working, I just need to theme it now!


Priority #3: Create features/functionality that help the Pledge go viral

You and I think alike! I actually have the pledge form/db set up for unique referral ids and am tracking those. It was initially for the news stories, however, I could do a sign up to get your own page pretty easily.

I'll have a look over your links.

Just need a go ahead from you guys!

[mstrmac1]

Way better!! Looks great!

[justinpagewood]

I appreciate the feedback!


Priority #1: Basic improvements to the landing page layout, copy and message

I actually have a concept to show right now. But I'm concerned I went a little over the top, maybe? :rolleyes:

http://www.blackthisout.com/blackthisout-layout-v3.jpg

http://www.blackthisout.com/blackthisout-layout-v3.jpg

What do you guys think? As for the pledge feature.. I'm taking the suggestion of removing the slider and I'll also make a popup come up with a pledge form and details on current numbers. I have most of the framework in place already, so re-theming the current site won't be a challenge at all.

Priority #2: Badges, Banners and Widgets

Yes, an auto-updating counter. I have these working, I just need to theme it now!


Priority #3: Create features/functionality that help the Pledge go viral

You and I think alike! I actually have the pledge form/db set up for unique referral ids and am tracking those. It was initially for the news stories, however, I could do a sign up to get your own page pretty easily.

I'll have a look over your links.

Just need a go ahead from you guys!

Very cool. But I'd simplify that top shiny banner a bit (my stylistic preference). and get a big RED PLEDGE button in there.

[NickOdell]

I like the proposed design much better.

[justatrey]

:eek: That looks amazing. Great job!

[mport1]

We still need someone to put this on the front page of the forums....

Agreed, this should be front and center everywhere until the data.

[Sentinelrv]

Ok, so here are the updated stats for today...

Sep 19 - 998
Sep 20 - 1,222 (+224)
Sep 21 - 1,440 (+218)

Early Endorsements & Email Blasts: It's good that we've kept our current momentum, but it didn't increase any. In fact it went down, but only by six attendees. I think what we need is a large boost to help momentum for this build even earlier. We need to get larger websites to endorse this money bomb right now to help get everybody on board as soon as possible. Again, I talked to RonPaulForums administrator Bryan and one of the things he said he'd be able to help us with is an email blast. We could also try to get the Daily Paul to do this as well as Trevor Lyman and any other organizations out there that have large email lists. These emails need to go out as soon as possible so that momentum can build around the event early. All the promotion effort and email blasts have come too late in the game as I explained in the original post and there was no chance to build up any momentum.

When to Send the Email & What to Write: The problem is, when should we start contacting people about sending out emails? Should we wait until Dusman has a chance to update the official website a little bit, or should we do it as soon as possible? Maybe it won't take Dusman that long to change things around. He would need to let us know. Also, we would need to construct an email here on the board for Bryan to use to send out to the community. I think it might be best to wait until RonPaulForums has the promotion widget on the top of the website, but I just don't want to wait too long. Every day we wait is a lost opportunity.

Compile a list of Ron Paul Facebook Pages: Something thing we should do is compile a large list of Ron Paul pages from Face book and use the list to visit each daily and make new status updates about the money bomb. I know there are a lot of Ron Paul pages on Facebook. Really, I think all you need to do is search Ron Paul and click for expanded search results and then get the name and link for each page. Each day we check all of these pages and post a money bomb status update if there isn't already one there, that way the maximum amount of people know about it.

I've noticed people are promoting the money bomb by posting status updates on different pages like mentioned above, but I tried checking out the comments of status updates by either Ron Paul's Facebook page or the RonPaul2012 Facebook page and I didn't see much promotion there. For example, Ron Paul uploaded a picture onto his page as a new update and there are over 500 commenters (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471#!/photo.php?fbid=10150316896141686&set=a.10150115112081686.277590.6233046685&type=1&theater)posting who we could expose the money bomb to. All these different Ron Paul Facebook pages have many status updates a day with thousands and thousands of commenters. We could leave many comments about the money bomb in these updates. These are all places where large amounts of Ron Paul people come to visit and comment. We need to go to them.

What does everyone think about these points and is anyone willing to work on them?

[mport1]

I'm very glad to see this kind of push for this money bomb. This is something that has been dramatically lacking from past ones which I think is a major reason we haven't raised as much money.

[dusman]

Ok, so here are the updated stats for today...

Sep 19 - 998
Sep 20 - 1,222 (+224)
Sep 21 - 1,440 (+218)

Early Endorsements & Email Blasts: It's good that we've kept our current momentum, but it didn't increase any. In fact it went down, but only by six attendees. I think what we need is a large boost to help momentum for this build even earlier. We need to get larger websites to endorse this money bomb right now to help get everybody on board as soon as possible. Again, I talked to RonPaulForums administrator Bryan and one of the things he said he'd be able to help us with is an email blast. We could also try to get the Daily Paul to do this as well as Trevor Lyman and any other organizations out there that have large email lists. These emails need to go out as soon as possible so that momentum can build around the event early. All the promotion effort and email blasts have come too late in the game as I explained in the original post and there was no chance to build up any momentum.

When to Send the Email & What to Write: The problem is, when should we start contacting people about sending out emails? Should we wait until Dusman has a chance to update the official website a little bit, or should we do it as soon as possible? Maybe it won't take Dusman that long to change things around. He would need to let us know. Also, we would need to construct an email here on the board for Bryan to use to send out to the community. I think it might be best to wait until RonPaulForums has the promotion widget on the top of the website, but I just don't want to wait too long. Every day we wait is a lost opportunity.

Compile a list of Ron Paul Facebook Pages: Something thing we should do is compile a large list of Ron Paul pages from Face book and use the list to visit each daily and make new status updates about the money bomb. I know there are a lot of Ron Paul pages on Facebook. Really, I think all you need to do is search Ron Paul and click for expanded search results and then get the name and link for each page. Each day we check all of these pages and post a money bomb status update if there isn't already one there, that way the maximum amount of people know about it.

I've noticed people are promoting the money bomb by posting status updates on different pages like mentioned above, but I tried checking out the comments of status updates by either Ron Paul's Facebook page or the RonPaul2012 Facebook page and I didn't see much promotion there. For example, Ron Paul uploaded a picture onto his page as a new update and there are over 500 commenters (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471#!/photo.php?fbid=10150316896141686&set=a.10150115112081686.277590.6233046685&type=1&theater)posting who we could expose the money bomb to. All these different Ron Paul Facebook pages have many status updates a day with thousands and thousands of commenters. We could leave many comments about the money bomb in these updates. These are all places where large amounts of Ron Paul people come to visit and comment. We need to go to them.

What does everyone think about these points and is anyone willing to work on them?

One of the things I wanted to accomplish with the new design was to establish a "brand" for the moneybomb. If you guys think what I have here works, I will start theming a widget and share the code here so you guys can run with it, then work on revamping the web site.

I suggest moving forward with e-mailing web sites to make an initial contact. I can actually setup a generic theme for it right now and if I need to change it later it will change across all the other web sites.

[justinpagewood]

With all this creativity going on, I was inspired to throw in my own concept design.

You know me. I'm a minimalist.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6uPk8YfQHTk/Tnq4W-dl6gI/AAAAAAAABHw/be3P68UsLSc/s1600/black.jpg

[Sentinelrv]

Dusman, that looks very nice. A question though, how would people know where to go to see the counter-arguments? I see a report button, but it doesn't even mention that there are counter-arguments against poorly written and biased media articles and videos.

Also, are you going to add anything about our 25,000 pledge goal in the beginning text? I don't think we need to display the $6,000,000 goal, but I still think it's very imporatant to put a pledge goal out there for people to rally around.

Also, about this thread getting on the front page, I could ask Bryan if he'd be able to help us out with that.

[trey4sports]

Ok, so here are the updated stats for today...

Sep 19 - 998
Sep 20 - 1,222 (+224)
Sep 21 - 1,440 (+218)

Early Endorsements & Email Blasts: It's good that we've kept our current momentum, but it didn't increase any. In fact it went down, but only by six attendees. I think what we need is a large boost to help momentum for this build even earlier. We need to get larger websites to endorse this money bomb right now to help get everybody on board as soon as possible. Again, I talked to RonPaulForums administrator Bryan and one of the things he said he'd be able to help us with is an email blast. We could also try to get the Daily Paul to do this as well as Trevor Lyman and any other organizations out there that have large email lists. These emails need to go out as soon as possible so that momentum can build around the event early. All the promotion effort and email blasts have come too late in the game as I explained in the original post and there was no chance to build up any momentum.

When to Send the Email & What to Write: The problem is, when should we start contacting people about sending out emails? Should we wait until Dusman has a chance to update the official website a little bit, or should we do it as soon as possible? Maybe it won't take Dusman that long to change things around. He would need to let us know. Also, we would need to construct an email here on the board for Bryan to use to send out to the community. I think it might be best to wait until RonPaulForums has the promotion widget on the top of the website, but I just don't want to wait too long. Every day we wait is a lost opportunity.

Compile a list of Ron Paul Facebook Pages: Something thing we should do is compile a large list of Ron Paul pages from Face book and use the list to visit each daily and make new status updates about the money bomb. I know there are a lot of Ron Paul pages on Facebook. Really, I think all you need to do is search Ron Paul and click for expanded search results and then get the name and link for each page. Each day we check all of these pages and post a money bomb status update if there isn't already one there, that way the maximum amount of people know about it.

I've noticed people are promoting the money bomb by posting status updates on different pages like mentioned above, but I tried checking out the comments of status updates by either Ron Paul's Facebook page or the RonPaul2012 Facebook page and I didn't see much promotion there. For example, Ron Paul uploaded a picture onto his page as a new update and there are over 500 commenters (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471#!/photo.php?fbid=10150316896141686&set=a.10150115112081686.277590.6233046685&type=1&theater)posting who we could expose the money bomb to. All these different Ron Paul Facebook pages have many status updates a day with thousands and thousands of commenters. We could leave many comments about the money bomb in these updates. These are all places where large amounts of Ron Paul people come to visit and comment. We need to go to them.

What does everyone think about these points and is anyone willing to work on them?


Word to the wise about posting on Facebook group walls... Facebook will mark you for "spam" and disallow you from posting on facebook group walls for 2 weeks, this happened to me during the last moneybomb. I know you're not advocating spamming these or anything like that, i'm just saying that you want to be really cautious about how you go about it. Only post on a couple walls a day, and if you really want to kick shit into overdrive you can create secondary accounts and use proxies so as to elude trouble.

[helmuth_hubener]

It's gotta have a video. Get people pyched, you know. The Nov 5th and Dec 16th sites had a video or two, if I recall correctly.

[NickOdell]

Great points. I'm in 100%.

I emailed http://www.rp2012.org today and asked them for help. No response yet.
I figured they might be helpful since they helped so much with phonebanking and volunteer efforts for Ames.

I'll let you guys know if I hear back from them.

For now, I'll return back to personal messaging tons of people on Facebook about helping promote this, not just attending the event, all from the comfort of my bed on my iPod touch. :D

[dusman]

Dusman, that looks very nice. A question though, how would people know where to go to see the counter-arguments? I see a report button, but it doesn't even mention that there are counter-arguments against poorly written and biased media articles and videos.

Also, are you going to add anything about our 25,000 pledge goal in the beginning text? I don't think we need to display the $6,000,000 goal, but I still think it's very imporatant to put a pledge goal out there for people to rally around.

Also, about this thread getting on the front page, I could ask Bryan if he'd be able to help us out with that.

Basically, it will be broken up into sections.

Pledge: Pledge form and pledge statistics in the sidebar.
Report: Report a link form and current counter-articles in the sidebar.
Share: Sharing strategies, widgets, banners, etc.

Basically, when you click one of the three boxes, it will take you directly to the section. Pledge and Report the media is reinforced by the two buttons above the fold. Sharing details will be presented when they make a pledge. For the pledge itself, everytime you enter the web site, you'll be presented with a pledge form popup.

However, this is just what I envisioned and am open to ideas here.

[qwerty]

i was bored.
If tv ads were cheap... Or if money grew on trees ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wx8uhmrvaa

nice! :)

[davidt!]

I just sent an e-mail to Campaign for Liberty asking them for help in promoting this moneybomb to their lists and membership. I'll let everyone know if I hear back from them.

Has anyone contacted infowars.com about it yet?

Also does anyone have a web address for that Doctor that used to send out newsletters to thousands of people in 2007?

[Sentinelrv]

I just sent an e-mail to Campaign for Liberty asking them for help in promoting this moneybomb to their lists and membership. I'll let everyone know if I hear back from them.

I'm not sure if C4L will help out with this. As far as I know, they can't have anything to do with the campaign or they'll get in trouble. This is just what I heard, so I can't back it up.

[qwerty]

I'm very glad to see this kind of push for this money bomb. This is something that has been dramatically lacking from past ones which I think is a major reason we haven't raised as much money.

Totally agree!

We have the grassroot to promote this and we got money too to make this huge! Getting the word out it the thing! :)


Back to work, youtube commenting!

[Sentinelrv]

I can't guarantee that Bryan will send out an email, but he said he's open to it. What we need to do is construct one here and then I'll pass it along to him. What do we need to convey in this email? I'm not sure if we should mention $6,000,000, but I think we should mention the 25,000 pledge goal. We also need to convey that this email is being sent out early so that the money bomb has a chance to build momentum, unlike the previous ones. We need to include links to the website, Facebook event, this planning thread and maybe even tips on how to promote it. Anyone have anything else it should include?

[qwerty]

Great points. I'm in 100%.

I emailed http://www.rp2012.org today and asked them for help. No response yet.
I figured they might be helpful since they helped so much with phonebanking and volunteer efforts for Ames.



That´s really great!

There are ton of ron paul related sites and it would be nice if someone could send some e-mails around asking about support!

We can help together provide a list what to contact if someone needs help on that.

I think we need little (just little) coordination that we get everything done for this event.

You know why i can´t do it...

[WD-NY]

I appreciate the feedback!


Priority #1: Basic improvements to the landing page layout, copy and message

I actually have a concept to show right now. But I'm concerned I went a little over the top, maybe? :rolleyes:

http://www.blackthisout.com/blackthisout-layout-v3.jpg

What do you guys think? As for the pledge feature.. I'm taking the suggestion of removing the slider and I'll also make a popup come up with a pledge form and details on current numbers. I have most of the framework in place already, so re-theming the current site won't be a challenge at all.

Priority #2: Badges, Banners and Widgets

Yes, an auto-updating counter. I have these working, I just need to theme it now!


Priority #3: Create features/functionality that help the Pledge go viral

You and I think alike! I actually have the pledge form/db set up for unique referral ids and am tracking those. It was initially for the news stories, however, I could do a sign up to get your own page pretty easily.

I'll have a look over your links.

Just need a go ahead from you guys!

Ok, a few quick thoughts:


Keep the current header and design - the new header no longer matches the marketing/branding materials (cards, logos, etc.) - even with Ron Paul Money bombs, branding & messaging consistency = a must. I also personally think the current header you have up is pitch perfect in terms of communicating an 'enough is enough', 'don't f*ck with us' and 'we mean business' attitude that gets the core grass roots truly fired. Remember, the 2 huge bombs of 2008 were pretty 'in your face' in terms of branding (e.g. Fawkes Bomb website was almost cryptically dark whereas the Boston Tea Party site was super aggressive with the messaging used).


Just saw justinpagewood's design - Now that's what I call a Header/Headline graphic - love the edge (which I think this Money Bomb needs in spades since all the others have been warm and fuzzy). Nice job Justin - Can you try putting something together using the image of Ron Paul that's currently up on blackthisout.com? I think that one presents a much stronger/tougher/gruffer image of Ron Paul and as a result, communicates the emotion of this money better more effectively. In the image you used, RP looks like he's arguing or attempting to make a point (beta). In dusman's graphic, RP is basically saying ''bring it' (alpha). In other words, I think dusman's current graphic of RP = MONEY.

http://www.golocalprov.com/images/sized/images/sized/remote/images-golocalprov-com--lifestyle_obey-226x350.jpg http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/6245/ronpaulblackthisout.jpg

When we suggested moving the Pledge count and form box above the fold, we meant 'move the pledge count & form above the fold' - buttons with silly javascript that open popup lightboxes that show the pledge count and or form = a huge step backwards imo. Simple ftw.

Use bright, high contrast colors - Why are the 3 ACTION buttons ice blue given that the background is black?? Does that "POP OUT" to you?? RED and white text = your 2 best friends.

Replace the entire "Report" concept/button with the '[COLOR="#B22222"]Get your friends to pledge & win the internets (or a dinner w/ Dr. Paul:D)' contest/game. I just don't think the "Report media ignoring RP" dog is gonna hunt as they say. That will-be/is-being taken care of much more effectively with youtube promotional videos.

Page copy is way to "soft" - keep it "revolutionary" (which = unafraid, certain, DECLARATIVE, bold, aggressive,).

Last but not least, I think the latest mockup was/is a pretty big step backwards. Your initial gut had the right ideas, they just needed polishing. What's up right now is soft and has little/no soul. I don't mean to sound harsh, but as you yourself have said, time is of the essence.

Stay focused, keep it simple and please, knock off priority #1 before moving on to anything else. If you need any help with coding things us, I and I'm sure many other forum members with webdev skills would be happy to help.

[MJU1983]

Dont forget this one? I mean starting at 2:55 min mark is awe inspiring...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muf23Rc7HV8


I'm sorry if I offend anyone who has made a BTO youtube video...But they all kind of stink! The one's that i've seen so far are not effective at all. Can someone step up and make something truly inspiring? I would, but I have zero skills. Just trying to help being that I'm an end user.

I took a few videos and stitched together a video I think turned out pretty good:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgMnJXD2Yes

HD Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgMnJXD2Yes&hd=1

Although YouTube has been CRAWLING for me tonight. :(

[qwerty]

I took a few videos and stitched together a video I think turned out pretty good:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgMnJXD2Yes

HD Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgMnJXD2Yes&hd=1

Although YouTube has been CRAWLING for me tonight. :(


can your videos be used by other people ?

[dusman]

Just some widget concepts, with the same theme.

http://www.blackthisout.com/extras/bto-full-banner-468x60.gif

http://www.blackthisout.com/extras/bto-vert-rect-240x400.gif http://www.blackthisout.com/extras/bto-vert-banner-120x240.gif

[qwerty]

Just some widget concepts, with the same theme.

http://www.blackthisout.com/extras/bto-full-banner-468x60.gif

http://www.blackthisout.com/extras/bto-vert-rect-240x400.gif http://www.blackthisout.com/extras/bto-vert-banner-120x240.gif


WE need to add the facebook pledges too cause it seems that most of the people won´t pledge on the official site.

Also we need a direct link to the facebook event on the site!

I like the pictures! :)

[MJU1983]

can your videos be used by other people ?

Sure, like I said...that video is a compilation of clips from 4 other videos (their links are listed in my description on YouTube).

Anything to promote the money bomb! :)

[Sentinelrv]

I don't know Dusman. That logo looks like something used from the NFL in my opinion. I'm starting to lean back toward the original designs. They were more in your face. Even the Ron Paul graphic looks like he's about to fight someone. As WD-NY said, these new images look more soft. I liked the revolutionary aspect of it more. It was much more exciting. Maybe you could just keep it the way it is now, but rearrange things. For example, there is a space between the pledge counter and the decription where you could actually make the pledges. I even liked the original long form banners where Ron looks angry better.

[WD-NY]

Just some widget concepts, with the same theme.

http://www.blackthisout.com/extras/bto-full-banner-468x60.gif


With all due respect mate, I dig your effort thus far but you've gone way off track tonight and need to get back on point asap. October 19th is less than 30 days away but instead of fixing up the current css/design using all the great suggestions people have given you in this thread, you're mocking up banners and badges that:

have a dark teal color scheme when the name of the money bomb is BLACK THIS OUT ?!



have a logo that looks like the Pixar Cars logo instead of a... wait for it... that badass IMAGE of Ron Paul you already have up on blackthisout.com



have headline and subtitle copy that makes ZERO reference to "Ron Paul 2012" (KISS - people have no idea what something is about unless you MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR)



have light-teal colored CTA (call to action) buttons (this is becoming a trend...once again, when it comes to button colors, RED IS YOUR BEST FRIEND - and not just any red - google red #D14836 - they've probably tested 50 different shades across billions of page views and that's the color that converted best).

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/4522/ronpaulblackthisoutredb.jpg

Again, I don't mean to sound harsh, but you seem to be lost on what to do next... which isn't good since you're the only one with access to blackthisout.com at present. You have several very key changes that can be made to the design that's currently up RIGHT NOW. I implore you to stop working on any/all new branding ideas and simply clean up the current blackthisout.com home page layout and font-scheme.

This money bomb is the only one we have right now that has the 'edge' and 'push back' I think is critical to arousing the animal spirits of the web surfing masses. To go viral, that graphic of ron paul looking gruff + "BLACK THIS OUT - Oct 19th" needs to become a symbol like OBEY... something people feel compelled to plaster all over the internets because it gives voice to their frustrations over how the entire system, top to bottom, feels rigged... because the treatment of RP perfectly exposes just how rigged the game has become... because it says unequivocally, "Don't f#ck with us/RP/me".

And the only way that will happen is if the website and promotional banners maintain their bite.

[Sentinelrv]

WD-NY, is this where the pledge counter, form and Facebook attend and invite buttons should be, and everything else should just be pushed down a little bit farther?

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Sentinelrv/Other-Images/bto.png

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/Sentinelrv/Other-Images/bto.png

[qwerty]

Don´t want to sound rude but can we upgrade the website fast so that everyone can focus on promoting this event!

My hand is hurting and still i continue! ;)

[Sentinelrv]

Just so everybody knows, I'm compiling that list of Ron Paul Facebook pages. I'll have it up later. I'm sure Qwerty will be happy to go to work on it.

[qwerty]

Just so everybody knows, I'm compiling that list of Ron Paul Facebook pages. I'll have it up later. I'm sure Qwerty will be happy to go to work on it.


Here´s pretty good list!!!!

Ron Paul 2012 Facebook Network!!!

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?281284-Ron-Paul-2012-Facebook-Network!!!&highlight=ron+facebook+network


i don´t have facebook account... :(