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

[NickOdell]

Good idea to promote on the V for Vendetta wall on facebook (1.5 million likes)? I posted to all Ron Paul supporters that this November 5th has been replaced with this October 19th.

Just wondering what your opinions are for using this type of page for promotion. I'm thinking it can't hurt.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/V-For-Vendetta/191457994228848?sk=wall&filter=1

Go for it. It can't hurt. You will likely be well received there and reach a valuable audience. I'm all for it.

Yes, that sounds like a good plan. Really, this is what we need Ron Paul's Facebook page to be doing. Repetition is key. If people keep seeing things about it, they will be more likely to check it out and become involved.

I know, I really want the Official Facebook page to get involved with this. However I don't think they can direct people to the grassroots event page or website, per FEC regulations.

Luckily we have the Ron Paul 2012 fan page to do this for us, with roughly half the likes. We have gotten over 350 shares of that video from this status update, so each status update is a little promotional bomb.

 

[Sentinelrv]

RonPaul2012 on Facebook just posted one of the videos. Also, here are today's numbers...

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)

 

[garyallen59]

I know, I really want the Official Facebook page to get involved with this. However I don't think they can direct people to the grassroots event page or website, per FEC regulations.

Yes, and since they most likely won't be able to link to the event or website we should make sure we bombard any post they make about the moneybomb with comments linking to those two places.

 

[NickOdell]

The Ron Paul 2012 admin I was talking to changed its profile picture to the Black THIS Out one! That should help!

 

[McDermit]

Yes, and since they most likely won't be able to link to the event or website we should make sure we bombard any post they make about the moneybomb with comments linking to those two places.

The official campaign sent an email blast including their own Black This Out pledge page.

 

[MJU1983]

Just uploaded this, it's essentially the pics I did up + a song I like by Mumford & Sons:



It's "widescreen" so if you want to view on YT direct, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66H57BrPzjA

720p as well.

 

[garyallen59]

The official campaign sent an email blast including their own Black This Out pledge page.

True. But, I believe it would also be beneficial to promote the bto website and the facebook event in the comments of their posts about the moneybomb, so we can continue to build upon the momentum already there.

 

[Sentinelrv]

Does anyone think this would be a good idea? We should go through the list of those attending on Facebook and send them all a message on Black This Out's progress and why helping to promote this is so important. Then we link them to this thread while explaining that it's a large guide on all the ways they can help to promote this thing. That's 9,000 potential promoters there! I think we just need to get more people helping out in promotion. Sending them the link to this thread would go a long way toward getting a lot of people off their butts.

The only reason I'm not doing it right now is that I'm worried about getting my account banned. I have an alternate account just for promotion, but I don't know how to change my IP address or anything so I can keep sending messages in case something happens to my account. I believe Qwerty knows how to do this.

 

[davidt!]

Just uploaded this, it's essentially the pics I did up + a song I like by Mumford & Sons:



It's "widescreen" so if you want to view on YT direct, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66H57BrPzjA

720p as well.

That's Awesome!

 

[mstrmac1]

We have about a 9% conversion rate on Facebook right now. With that said this promotion isn't about attending its about INVITES!Number never Lie.

The focus need to be on invites! I figure we need roughly 250,000 invites to reach the goal. How do we get more invites?

Does anyone have the daily numbers on INVITES? I think they have been slowing down recently.

 

[qwerty]

The only reason I'm not doing it right now is that I'm worried about getting my account banned. I have an alternate account just for promotion, but I don't know how to change my IP address or anything so I can keep sending messages in case something happens to my account. I believe Qwerty knows how to do this.

I have 2 internet connections and other one changes it´s IP allways if i take the power off from it. I´m not good wiht computers so i can´t help you on that.

But i can say that i have poster SEVERAL thousand times to FB walls and only got banned for few hours but never even got banned if i first "like" the Fb wall. Wall owner can ban you also so don´t post too often. But i think there are no worries about the IP ban...


justatrey : great idea to promote on movie Fb walls! Hadn´t thougt about it...


I just have to say that there have been so much awesome things happening while i was sleeping that i gives me even power to promote this!


ALL IN! ABSOLUTELY ALL!

It´s so awesome to see that hard work pays off but remember still 10 days left!!! Can´t wait, spread the word! Thank you!

No off to promotinG!

 

[Shane Harris]

This is what I'd like to see up the week of Oct 19th:

personally id love to see the site go completely monochromatic for october 19th in addition to something like this. we can come up with a creative ticker right? something like a picture of ron paul (in black and white of course) slowly being uncovered by the ticker rising. anyone know what i mean? like the time pic or any other good one. start at the bottom and have the whole pic start out blacked out or "noisy" then the donations move up and reveal the picture of our next president of the USA.

 

[Sentinelrv]

Qwerty, would you like to send messages to the people on that list if I was to write something up for you to copy and paste? It would probably take you a couple days to get through that list of people, but I think the impact gained from doing it would be well worth it.

 

[NickOdell]

personally id love to see the site go completely monochromatic for october 19th in addition to something like this. we can come up with a creative ticker right? something like a picture of ron paul (in black and white of course) slowly being uncovered by the ticker rising. anyone know what i mean? like the time pic or any other good one. start at the bottom and have the whole pic start out blacked out or "noisy" then the donations move up and reveal the picture of our next president of the USA.

I like this. Part of this moneybomb is being different than the rest. We need something better than a thermometer or just numbers. I like your idea.

Also, what about incorporating the # of donors into the ticker or have that as a separate ticker thing? Someone could get creative with this.

 

[qwerty]

Qwerty, would you like to send messages to the people on that list if I was to write something up for you to copy and paste? It would probably take you a couple days to get through that list of people, but I think the impact gained from doing it would be well worth it.

What list ?

 

[Shane Harris]

I like this. Part of this moneybomb is being different than the rest. We need something better than a thermometer or just numbers. I like your idea.

Also, what about incorporating the # of donors into the ticker or have that as a separate ticker thing? Someone could get creative with this.

thanks. yeah i also like the subtle wording in that picture. instead of _____ just donated. it could be ______ just got blacked out. ya know since we who support rp dont exist. or maybe we have our names 80 percent blacked out? idk just throwing around ideas lol i do still like the general concept of moving from noisy blackness to clarity, either slowly or abruptly upon reachign our goal, tho that could backfire if we didnt reahc a "goal"

 

[Sentinelrv]

What list ?

The list of 9,000 people already attending the money bomb. You can hit the link "See All" in order to cycle through everybody on the attending list. If we can get at least 5-10% of those people to start promoting this thing as hard as you are, this thing would explode.

 

[Shane Harris]

i think this would make an awesome ticker. start out totally noisy or blacked out and slowly reveal this picture as the donations go up? anybody?

 

[qwerty]

The list of 9,000 people already attending the money bomb. You can hit the link "See All" in order to cycle through everybody on the attending list. If we can get at least 5-10% of those people to start promoting this thing as hard as you are, this thing would explode.

i could do it but i have several questions....

1. Does the list stay same ? I mean that i don´t post several times to someone ?

2. What if they ask something back and i can´t answer cause of my bad english ?

3. Is there limit on how many messages you can send ?

4. i can´t figure out how i even see the whole list, i click "see more" but suddenly there´s no "see more" and it´s not at the end of the list...

Maybe it would be better that you make a message and we all make sure that it is allways at the top of the page on th event page ?

 

[Sentinelrv]

i could do it but i have several questions....

1. Does the list stay same ? I mean that i don´t post several times to someone ?

2. What if they ask something back and i can´t answer cause of my bad english ?

3. Is there limit on how many messages you can send ?

4. i can´t figure out how i even see the whole list, i click "see more" but suddenly there´s no "see more" and it´s not at the end of the list...

Maybe it would be better that you make a message and we all make sure that it is allways at the top of the page on th event page ?

I see what you mean about the see more link disappearing. I checked the links that show more viewers and they come up like this...

http://www.facebook.com/ajax/browse...8537471&edge=events:users_attending&start=100
http://www.facebook.com/ajax/browse...8537471&edge=events:users_attending&start=200
http://www.facebook.com/ajax/browse...8537471&edge=events:users_attending&start=300
http://www.facebook.com/ajax/browse...8537471&edge=events:users_attending&start=400

Then the link stops appearing. As you can see by the number at the end of each link, clicking it adds 100 more people to the list, but only up to 400 people. if you click on the links though, they don't work. Maybe there is a way to fool with the link to get the list to open up to 9,000 people instead of just 400. maybe Dusman would be able to tell us the answer to this.

As for your other questions, the list seems like it appears randomly, so you'd need to keep your computer on and the page open until all messages were sent. I guess we could put something in the message about if they have questions, to ask them in the planning thread that we're linking to, that way you don't have to respond back. Also, I'm unsure about the limit on messages. This is what I'm afraid of. They might stop you from sending stuff out. Maybe it would be worth it to just keep posting the link to this thread as a status update.