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

[JamesButabi]

I did 331-340 already today :/ I said I did a few posts back...

up to 349 is done

 

[pauliticalfan]

Finished sending messages about Black This Out protest & moneybomb promotion at FOX, CNN & MSNBC HQs in NYC to 620 members of Campaign For Liberty NYC FB group. So, if some of them were not aware of BTO moneybomb, or they didn't pledged yet, now they are reminded.

Here is graphic I made for FB event photo. What do you think? Lowest part will be changed on Saturday afternoon, to underline protest/promotion at Sunday is at CNN HQ.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185387714872689

Love the idea of having big screens of the ticker facing MSM HQs. Hopefully tons of people turn out and it's well organized. Best of luck!!!

 

[davidt!]

up to 349 is done

Seems like meetup has been letting me send a new round of emails every 4 hours or so. Have any of you guys tried again after 4 hours?

 

[Bobcat]

How many pledges are we up to, today?

 

[dusman]

Alright. I think we've finally got the issue resolved with the Leaderboard. Can someone go to http://www.blackthisout.com/blitz and sign up? Let me know if the link in the e-mail is working.

 

[MJU1983]

Alright. I think we've finally got the issue resolved with the Leaderboard. Can someone go to http://www.blackthisout.com/blitz and sign up? Let me know if the link in the e-mail is working.

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The link sent to me is my username: http://www.blackthisout.com/users/mju1983

Takes me to the main site. Is that the goal?

 

[badger4RP]

**UPDATE: 1-330 on the list has been done. We need volunteers to do 331-340, 341-350 etc. etc. Thanks!**

We all know that you can only send an email message to 3 meetup groups per day but I found a way around this.

First what you do is go to http://ronpaul.meetup.com/all/ . Then click on a meetup group. Once on their home page click on the "members" then "leadership" tab on top of homepage. A list of all of the meetup groups members will come up. Just click on a member and send them an email informing them of BTO. You can send emails to up to 15 people a day so you may want to send just a couple of emails to each groups organizers/assistant organizers. Some members have a facebook icon where you can contact them via facebook. There are over 80,000 members on there represented by these meetup groups. Here is a sample email written by MJU1983:

Hello,

The Ron Paul grassroots is planning the largest fundraiser of this campaign, perhaps ever, on October 19th. We are calling it the Black THIS Out Money Bomb. We need your help to promote it. If you could send an email to your group or discuss the money bomb at your next meetup, that would be VERY helpful.

RSVP & Invite Your Friends On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471
Pledge Today: http://www.blackthisout.com/
Ron Paul Forums Promotional Thread: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...-000-Attendees

Goals:
25,000 Attending on Facebook.
$6,000,000+ in Donations!

Thanks!

Is there a chance that starting over and hitting up big groups that haven't added BTO events... you can see their events... is contacting groups with a few hundred members a better bet than spending time emailing groups with <60?

Food for thought.

 

[dusman]

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The link sent to me is my username: http://www.blackthisout.com/users/mju1983

Takes me to the main site. Is that the goal?

Yep! It's actually a unique page to you, that is a duplicate of the home page, minus a few features that ensure they don't click away from your page.

That's great news! So, finally this is working and so I'll make an update on this tonight on the web site. I wish we could have had 7 days, but 5 days will be ok too.

 

[jordie]

Lol we need to get Ron to say black out in the debate the night before and people will go crazy

There is a debate the night before? Who's hosting it? Can we get in touch somehow, maybe they'll want to ask him about the moneybomb if we all contact them!

 

[jordie]

Yep! It's actually a unique page to you, that is a duplicate of the home page, minus a few features that ensure they don't click away from your page.

That's great news! So, finally this is working and so I'll make an update on this tonight on the web site. I wish we could have had 7 days, but 5 days will be ok too.

Got it working then?

 

[dusman]

Got it working then?

Yep! Thanks for your help. I'll send you what the final code end up being.

 

[MJU1983]

Yep! It's actually a unique page to you, that is a duplicate of the home page, minus a few features that ensure they don't click away from your page.

That's great news! So, finally this is working and so I'll make an update on this tonight on the web site. I wish we could have had 7 days, but 5 days will be ok too.

Cool!

So I should be sharing that page/link that is unique to me? And then if I get the most sign-ups via my page I win? Of course the real winner is the cause of Liberty.

 

[JamesButabi]

Is there a chance that starting over and hitting up big groups that haven't added BTO events... you can see their events... is contacting groups with a few hundred members a better bet than spending time emailing groups with <60?

Food for thought.

If we get enough people promoting could do both.

 

[Bobcat]

How many pledges have been made today?

We need to try and get 1,500.

 

[jordie]

So I think we should prepare the wording of the FB Event for the day of. Update it so when people see it on their FB page as "happening now", they can click and get instructions. I would suggest:

The Black This Out MoneyBomb is happening NOW!

1. Go to http://www.ronpaul2012.com to donate. Even $10 is better than nothing! Try to push it to $12 if you can!
2. Remember buying signs, stickers and other merchandise counts as donations.
3. If you have maxed out to the campaign already ($2,500 for individuals, $5,000 for married couples), then consider donating to the Revolution PAC at http://www.revolutionpac.com
4. Tell all your friends to DONATE NOW, invite them to this even on Facebook, email your relatives, call your closest friends!

 

[dusman]

Cool!

So I should be sharing that page/link that is unique to me? And then if I get the most sign-ups via my page I win? Of course the real winner is the cause of Liberty.

Yes, share that link! I'd recommend using a URL shortener for now, until I can get URL masking in place.

 

[dusman]

So I think we should prepare the wording of the FB Event for the day of. Update it so when people see it on their FB page as "happening now", they can click and get instructions. I would suggest:

The Black This Out MoneyBomb is happening NOW!

1. Go to http://www.ronpaul2012.com to donate. Even $10 is better than nothing! Try to push it to $12 if you can!
2. Remember buying signs, stickers and other merchandise counts as donations.
3. If you have maxed out to the campaign already ($2,500 for individuals, $5,000 for married couples), then consider donating to the Revolution PAC at http://www.revolutionpac.com
4. Tell all your friends to DONATE NOW, invite them to this even on Facebook, email your relatives, call your closest friends!

Yes, this is very good. I'm glad you mentioned that maxed out donors should head to RevPac, as that will be important for them as well.

 

[MJU1983]

So I think we should prepare the wording of the FB Event for the day of. Update it so when people see it on their FB page as "happening now", they can click and get instructions. I would suggest:

The Black This Out MoneyBomb is happening NOW!

1. Go to http://www.ronpaul2012.com to donate. Even $10 is better than nothing! Try to push it to $12 if you can!
2. Remember buying signs, stickers and other merchandise counts as donations.
3. If you have maxed out to the campaign already ($2,500 for individuals, $5,000 for married couples), then consider donating to the Revolution PAC at http://www.revolutionpac.com
4. Tell all your friends to DONATE NOW, invite them to this even on Facebook, email your relatives, call your closest friends!

In addition, perhaps a day prior...

Since you can't message the group (at least I don't think you can)...typically if you change the pic on the event a notification pops up for everyone. I'm not sure if it does for "maybe attending" (if it does it might be worth doing). You can update the pic and then update it back...perhaps everyone would get a little red notification symbol and click the page. Just a thought.

 

[dusman]

In addition, perhaps a day prior...

Does this actually work? That is a very interesting means to reaching Facebook attendees. If so, nice find!

Perhaps a call to action profile image change.

 

[InTradePro]

So I think we should prepare the wording of the FB Event for the day of. Update it so when people see it on their FB page as "happening now", they can click and get instructions. I would suggest:

The Black This Out MoneyBomb is happening NOW!

1. Go to http://www.ronpaul2012.com to donate. Even $10 is better than nothing! Try to push it to $12 if you can!
2. Remember buying signs, stickers and other merchandise counts as donations.
3. If you have maxed out to the campaign already ($2,500 for individuals, $5,000 for married couples), then consider donating to the Revolution PAC at http://www.revolutionpac.com
4. Tell all your friends to DONATE NOW, invite them to this even on Facebook, email your relatives, call your closest friends!

Yes, this is very good. I'm glad you mentioned that maxed out donors should head to RevPac, as that will be important for them as well.

5. Post your DONATION information on your FACEBOOK WALL. It will alert others, encourage others to donate and maybe lead to some healthy discussion.