This money-bomb has come and soon it will be over. I want to thank all people who worked on this project. Now it is time to analyze and learn from mistakes that were made and prepare for next money-bomb. This is not pointing finger at anyone and I hope that posters in this thread will talk about how to improve and not how someone "screwed up". I will not name names for good or bad.
-Lack of organization;
-Lack of leader/s;
-too few people are involved;
-lack of coordination;
-preparations not done on time;
-money-bomb website problems;
- Lack of organization.
I noticed this problem in first few weeks when I joined this movement (I even wrote few threads about it trying to correct this but...). Everything is done "ad hoc". There is no system, no clear plan how to "get there", no clear distribution of responsibilities...
-Lack of leader/s.
There is no 1 person that will manage resources and people. Someone who will tell: You x person are responsible for Facebook promotion and for contacting every group on facebook. You y person are responsible for Twitter etc. Everyone is on their own. We have situation that people work on same thing and waste 50% of time and resources. Some get "hurt/insulted(little)" because they worked so hard just to find out that their work was already done by someone else.
Suggestion: Have 1 person who will manage money-bomb project. Someone who will tell people what to do, when to do it and tell them what their responsibility is.
-too few people are involved
This is simple. More people need to work on money-bombs. We didnt have all graphic, avatars, widgets, facebook time-line etc. done until few days before money-bomb.
Suggestion: Involve more people. I know that there are people who are willing to help. They just need to be called and pointed in right direction (see "Lack of leader"). Give them clear objective and responsibility and not just some vague "promote" pointer.
-lack of coordination
This money-bomb had 3 names. Most contacted Ron Paul websites didnt respond when they were contacted (multiple times) to help promote money-bomb. I got answer from 1: Thank you for contacting but we are not interested at this time. They earn money from selling Ron Paul products but are not willing to promote money-bomb.
Suggestion:
Contact official campaign and ask that manager (leader) of money-bomb project gets official campaign email (example moneybmanager@ronpaulcampaign.com or whatever it is) This will get him some credibility, respect, authority when contacting people. I noticed this difference when I used my personal email and when I used inittowinit2012moneybomb@gmail.com email. This is at least a start. If they still dont help... well... we will cross that bridge when we get to it.
-preparations not done on time
This (like most of errors regarding money-bomb are) is related with lack of people involved, lack of organization and so on. Like I already mentioned all money-bomb promotional material wasnt finished on time (even if people gave their best). Latest were added yesterday. Preparation for next one need to start within a week from end of this one. And I dont mean lets take 2 weeks to figure out the name and then squeeze everything else in 10 days. Get in touch with campaign= agree on name= start working on important things (marketing).
-money-bomb website problems
Creating and hosting money-bomb website is not cheap. This one got less than 7500 visits(most of whom are us who organize money-bomb). To create new website just for few thousand it is not worth of money and resources. For future we should ask official campaign to host it on their server as part of their official website. We would ask them to post videos, avatars, banners and widgets right there. They would do it if someone asked it. They would also promote it on facebook and twitter if they were only asked. Get in touch with them and stay in touch. This would save us a lot of expenses and time. That resources we could use to promote money-bomb on facebook, twitter, youtube, reddit,meetup, stumbleupon, walls in public toillets, letter to the editor, articles, comments, infojam, everywhere.
We got talented people from every field. We got web designers, graphic artist, software developers, video creators,internet junkies, pessimists, optimists, people who name every activity "action lemon curry I", II, III etc. People who are willing and ready to do what it needs to be done. They need just a little structure and incentive.
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