"Black THIS Out" Money Bomb site is LIVE!

[justatrey]

Almost forgot - pledged

 

[wstrucke]

one million donations? seriously? and I'm a little wary about providing my personal information to an anonymous web site as everyone else should be. just pledge with the official campaign, it's better all around.

 

[ItsTime]

^There will be a facebook pledge page as well. Where you can RSVP. I dont pledge in emails either.

 

[freejack]

one million donations? seriously? and I'm a little wary about providing my personal information to an anonymous web site as everyone else should be. just pledge with the official campaign, it's better all around.

i'm not sure if the campaign will endorse this. this is more of an underground money bomb that harnesses the anger of the people into something productive.

as for your personal info, you can always pledge with a spare email address and a fake name. we just want to make sure we have a somewhat accurate pledge count.

we're not pushing this money bomb till next week. we may change the target before then.

 

[freejack]

Glad you like it!

Yeah, I had rushed some parts.. but good enough start to take some revisions if you have any?

Here is a link to the design I've submitted for those who missed it in the other thread:

http://www.creativesagest.com/black-this-out-layout.jpg

hey i sent you over some notes on the design. check your pm.

 

[justatrey]

one million donations? seriously? and I'm a little wary about providing my personal information to an anonymous web site as everyone else should be. just pledge with the official campaign, it's better all around.

I agree that one million donations is ridiculous. I know it seems possible, but on our absolute best day, there were 58,000 donors which was considered amazing. By the way I pledged and the most personal information required is any email address. The name can be anything.

 

[afwjam]

I might try working on a video.
You need to add the social networking links and setup a facebook event.

 

[CrissyNY]

I pledged.

Let's get this party started.

I am so mad and focused right now... let's capitialize on this.

 

[justatrey]

Glad you like it!

Yeah, I had rushed some parts.. but good enough start to take some revisions if you have any?

Here is a link to the design I've submitted for those who missed it in the other thread:

http://www.creativesagest.com/black-this-out-layout.jpg

There seems to be more interest in this again. I really think the site needs this makeover. I love the pic of Paul in this one.

 

[sailingaway]

Didn't the one currently going on pretty much take the place of this? Remember that there is already one planned for Constitution day, September17, with a continuing end of quarter push to the end of the quarter.

 

[justatrey]

Well I think we backed off of this one to promote the birthday bomb. Now that its over, no question that September 17th is next. This one is currently set for October 19. Now some are saying this should be the Nov 5 theme.

Not sure if its a bad idea to promote more than one money bomb at a time...

 

[mstrmac1]

^I am hoping people are working on a video to promote this money bomb and have clips of media bias in those youtube promotions.

Is there a video yet!!

 

[cero]

cool design there dusman! now throw a video or two

 

[mhad]

Ok, please do not set a goal of donations or total amount. We went through this in 2008 after the nov 5th and many people were wanting to set 10M 20M, 50M goals. In fact Trevor was sending our press releases stating these ridiculous goals. You are setting up the event up to be a huge failure (especially with an insane goal). It is a VERY VERY bad idea.... I pleaded back in 2008 for this kind of thing not to happen, the people hosting them did not listen and it was an epic fail. I think the Black This Out theme is AMAZING, that being said focus on the theme of the event not the total number of donors or donations. I PROMISE you will regret it if you don't listen, please listen...please.

 

[freejack]

Hey guys. Looks like we have a lot of ideas here. Here's what I'm thinking based on what we've discussed here:

1) If he's willing, I'll will continue to work with dusman to implement his design.
2) I agree, setting a donation goal is a bad idea but we need to get the point across that the theme of this money bomb will only work if the final tally is huge.
3) We went with 10/19 since there's a 'black' (black monday) theme that we could associate it with but now that I think about it, since 10/19/11 is on a wednesday, it loses the desired effect. 9/17 would be a good date but I really wanted this money bomb to stand alone and not distract or be distracted by other money bombs. I'm open to discussion on the date. If you think setting it around the same time as other money bombs is a good idea, please provide your explanation.

Thanks for all the feedback. Let's make this one they'll talk about for years to come.

 

[dusman]

Here is an updated version of my layout. What do you all think?

http://www.creativesagest.com/blackthisout-layout-v2.jpg

I'm trying to capture a little more emotion with this version. I wanted people by the time they reached the pledge form to be MAD!

 

[JoshLowry]

That's a nice looking theme. Good work!

 

[dusman]

That's a nice looking theme. Good work!

Thanks!

 

[Oddone]

Now that looks great, really like it much better than the old one. Keep up the good work!

 

[Monique]

I agree Mhad. We can talk amongst our selves about what we want to try to do, but yes, setting any set number goal will lead to failure. On the other hand setting low goals like this one this time may not help us either.

I do think that we all need to focus on the September 17th date right now for two reasons. 1. The October date is too far away for people to remember. And if you start pushing it now, by the time you get to October, half the people who signed up earlier will forget. 2. If we are going to have on in September, which I think we should, we all need to focus our energies on ONE date. If we push two simultaneously people will either donate to one or the other and not both. If we make the September one huge because we all focused on that, it will be easy to get the October one going...we got a lot of push for the Dec. 15th money bomb because we had the big one in Nov. before it.

The way money bombs work is they build momentum. We need to push that momentum in one direction. It is like beams of light...scattered all around they are very weak, but focus them all together and they make a powerful laser.