11.11.11 - Website Redesign "UPDATED" Concept Image (Need Somebody to Build it NOW!)

[lucent]

What logo is that?

The campaign logo.

 

[Gage]

I'll be saving the mirrored version as the index page if no one objects.

 

[Sentinelrv]

Once we setup the pledge competition and have that vertical banner, we can include the large donation graph also. We probably don't want to include it yet anway, because there will be a large gap since we don't have the banner ready yet that would go there.

 

[FreeTraveler]

One other thing. People are going to think that if they pledge they have to give $100. Bad, bad, bad, bad idea.

 

[2ndfor1st]

Gage has got this.....it's looks great you guys!

 

[Sentinelrv]

Here's the text I used for my FaceBook post. It fits nicely. Feel free to copy and paste for your own purposes.

Support the Presidential candidate the troops support. The top three professions donating to his campaign are Air Force, Army, and Navy troops; not employees of banks, lawyers, or other special interests. More donations from the troops than all other candidates combined, including Obama. Click the link for the full story.

The link is to supportthemnow.com, naturally.

Sounds great. I'm getting excited about this now like i was for BTO. I think the theme we're using now has the potential to lure in a lot of new people that didn't know these facts about Ron Paul.

 

[2ndfor1st]

One other thing. People are going to think that if they pledge they have to give $100. Bad, bad, bad, bad idea.

Good point. I always wondered why there wasn't an amount field so we can make a leaderboard for the amount projected.

 

[Sentinelrv]

One other thing. People are going to think that if they pledge they have to give $100. Bad, bad, bad, bad idea.

I used that $100 amount so people don't think they can half ass their donation. This is the description we used for Nov 5th and we brought in $4.3 million...

"Please join us this November 5th for the largest one day political donation event in history. Our goal is to bring together 100,000 people to donate $100 each, creating a one day donation total of $10,000,000.

Please subscribe via feedburner below to confirm your commitment to donate. Each day you'll receive an email with our total number of subscribers. In this way we will know exactly where we stand in our efforts. Our goal is 100,000 subscribers.

Please subscribe now. Please spread the word. Thank you."

 

[garyallen59]

okay now... let's let gage do other things we're gonna be stuck editing this thing forever if he keeps changing it to everybody's whim.

Yeah, I don't know how long stuff like this takes, and definitely do not want to impose too much a burden. I was just making suggestions to what I know would make the site the most appealing upon first impressions. It looking good either way.

 

[Sentinelrv]

Good point. I always wondered why there wasn't an amount field so we can make a leaderboard for the amount projected.

We actually did do this for BTO, but we removed it later because we realized the amount pledged wasn't accurate and it was just demotivating people who thought we wouldn't bring in a whole lot. More people donate than actually pledge.

 

[D.A.S.]

I still don't like the slogan "Support Them Now"... Support who? Is the moneybomb for Ron Paul or for the troops? Support them how? Does the money go to the troops?

It would be much better to brand this moneybomb as "Bring the Troops Home" moneybomb (or Bring Them Home). That way there's no ambiguity as to the objective and who will accomplish the objective. Because we know who has said "Bring the Troops Home" time and time again.

I can tell you now - try to sell this to people on business cards, and they will be like "huh? support who? how? why giving money to Ron Paul supports the troops?" The concept of "Bring Them Home" makes everything clearer and more focused, in my opinion.

 

[Gage]

I still don't like the slogan "Support Them Now"... Support who? Is the moneybomb for Ron Paul or for the troops? Support them how? Does the money go to the troops?

It would be much better to brand this moneybomb as "Bring the Troops Home" moneybomb (or Bring Them Home). That way there's no ambiguity as to the objective and who will accomplish the objective. Because we know who has said "Bring the Troops Home" time and time again.

I can tell you now - try to sell this to people on business cards, and they will be like "huh? support who? how? why giving money to Ron Paul supports the troops?" The concept of "Bring Them Home" makes everything clearer and more focused, in my opinion.

Buy bringthemhome.com or supportthetroops.com and we'll change it.

 

[FreeTraveler]

I used that $100 amount so people don't think they can half ass their donation. This is the description we used for Nov 5th and we brought in $4.3 million...

"Please join us this November 5th for the largest one day political donation event in history. Our goal is to bring together 100,000 people to donate $100 each, creating a one day donation total of $10,000,000.

Please subscribe via feedburner below to confirm your commitment to donate. Each day you'll receive an email with our total number of subscribers. In this way we will know exactly where we stand in our efforts. Our goal is 100,000 subscribers.

Please subscribe now. Please spread the word. Thank you."

Okay, just add "or what you can" after the $100. Then you don't scare off the $10 and $20.12 pledges. We're aiming for the general public, not just ardent supporters.

 

[Sentinelrv]

I still don't like the slogan "Support Them Now"... Support who? Is the moneybomb for Ron Paul or for the troops? Support them how? Does the money go to the troops?

It would be much better to brand this moneybomb as "Bring the Troops Home" moneybomb (or Bring Them Home). That way there's no ambiguity as to the objective and who will accomplish the objective. Because we know who has said "Bring the Troops Home" time and time again.

I can tell you now - try to sell this to people on business cards, and they will be like "huh? support who? how? why giving money to Ron Paul supports the troops?" The concept of "Bring Them Home" makes everything clearer and more focused, in my opinion.

I think it's pretty obvious now. It wasn't before. As soon as they visit the website they can see the answer is the troops. Then it says in big letters "Ron Paul, The Military's Choice". If they look even further there is a graph and a description that spells it out for you. This type of theme will bring more people in that might not already support Ron Paul because they had this misconception that he was weak on defense, when the opposite is true. It will help to convert Republicans that were on the edge. I think we need to broaden our donation base if we're to keep getting these million dollar days.

 

[FreeTraveler]

Sounds great. I'm getting excited about this now like i was for BTO. I think the theme we're using now has the potential to lure in a lot of new people that didn't know these facts about Ron Paul.

Feel free to grab that text and post it in the OP or wherever people can pick it up for their facebook posts. It's hard to get the important stuff into a short message like Facebook allows.

 

[D.A.S.]

Buy bringthemhome.com or supportthetroops.com and we'll change it.

I looked - both domains are unavailable, otherwise I was ready to buy one. The only one resembling this that is available would be bringourtroopshome.net

I'm guessing .net isn't suitable. If that is ok, then I can go ahead and purchase that one.

 

[Gage]

I looked - both domains are unavailable, otherwise I was ready to buy one. The only one resembling this that is available would be bringourtroopshome.net

I'm guessing .net isn't suitable. If that is ok, then I can go ahead and purchase that one.

I know. Why do you think I said it. And no it is not suitable.

 

[D.A.S.]

I know. Why do you think I said it. And no it is not suitable.

bringtroopshome.com and bringallthetroopshome.com are available, however. If either one is suitable, let me know.

 

[Gage]

bringtroopshome.com and bringallthetroopshome.com are available, however. If either one is suitable, let me know.

No.

Please get it through your head that the name is not going to be changed.

 

[Sentinelrv]

I think it's pretty obvious now. It wasn't before. As soon as they visit the website they can see the answer is the troops. Then it says in big letters "Ron Paul, The Military's Choice". If they look even further there is a graph and a description that spells it out for you. This type of theme will bring more people in that might not already support Ron Paul because they had this misconception that he was weak on defense, when the opposite is true. It will help to convert Republicans that were on the edge. I think we need to broaden our donation base if we're to keep getting these million dollar days.

And as a side note to this, I think a link that says bring the troops home will prevent these newcomers from even visiting the website. At least with SupportThemNow they wouldn't have a reason to object before they even visited the website. Right now we can hook people's curiosity so that they'll visit the website and learn about the military's support for Ron. If we switch to a bring the troops home link, there will be no curiosity because it would be pretty obvious from the link what it's about and certain people might be turned off by that idea. Right now we can at least hook them and lure them onto the website before they have a chance to object. The best we can hope for is that once they see the content of the website, they'll change their mind or at least do some research to learn more about him.