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

[justatrey]

Wait...

Based on these numbers we need much less than 60,000 RSVPs:

Aug 20th - Birthday Money Bomb - 7,840 Attending - 1,363 Maybe Attending - 73,018 Awaiting Reply - $2,000,000 Raised
Sep 17th - Constitution Day Money Bomb - 3,683 Attending - 567 Maybe Attending - 17,364 Awaiting Reply - $1,000,000 Raised

Adding these together, it took 11,523 attendees to raise 3,000,000.

So, doubling this gives 23,046 to raise 6,000,000.

Let's round this to 23,000. This will still be very difficult, but more realistic than 60,000.

Shouldn't 23,000 be our goal? Or maybe 25,000 to be ambitious. Am I overlooking something?

 

[ItsTime]

Historically we have had around 10x the amount of actual donors vs that that have RSVPed. 5000 x 10 would be 50,000 actual donors.

 

[Sentinelrv]

Ok, just to let you know where my 60,000 goal came from, I was told that either the Nov 5th or Dec 16th money bomb had 60,000 pledges, so I figured this was the number we should be trying to reach. Maybe it could be lowered.

 

[ItsTime]

Ok, just to let you know where my 60,000 goal came from, I was told that either the Nov 5th or Dec 16th money bomb had 60,000 pledges, so I figured this was the number we should be trying to reach. Maybe it could be lowered.

Well the hope is to get 5000 rsvps so I can remake the goal to 6k, then 7k and so on.

 

[Sentinelrv]

Well the hope is to get 5000 rsvps so I can remake the goal to 6k, then 7k and so on.

Did you see my post on the last page about this? It should be the last post of the page.

 

[Sentinelrv]

Wait...

Based on these numbers we need much less than 60,000 RSVPs:

Aug 20th - Birthday Money Bomb - 7,840 Attending - 1,363 Maybe Attending - 73,018 Awaiting Reply - $2,000,000 Raised
Sep 17th - Constitution Day Money Bomb - 3,683 Attending - 567 Maybe Attending - 17,364 Awaiting Reply - $1,000,000 Raised

Adding these together, it took 11,523 attendees to raise 3,000,000.

So, doubling this gives 23,046 to raise 6,000,000.

Let's round this to 23,000. This will still be very difficult, but more realistic than 60,000.

Shouldn't 23,000 be our goal? Or maybe 25,000 to be ambitious. Am I overlooking something?

This sounds good to me. Perhaps we should make it 25,000 just in case. This is a much more realistic goal and something people can rally behind. There is more hope of achieving this than 60,000 RSVPs.

What does everybody think about 25,000 RSVPs as the new goal? If everybody likes it and nobody has any objections then I'll have the title and original post changed to reflect this new number. Just let me know what you think about it.

 

[The Dark Knight]

I really hope this Money Bomb explodes. I think we can bring in the highest total yet. Campaign season is here. we got 4 months to make it happen.

 

[KingNothing]

Would it be possible to get information for all of those who donated on the big days last cycle?
Did folks who pledged to donate on Nov 5 and December 16 sign-up at any of the sites? I can't remember. Could be worthwhile to find that list, and send out emails to those folks.

Also, might it make sense to roll through the campaign donations records to find the names of those who donated during the previous campaign?? I'd imagine that most of those folks used their real names, and that they've got facebook profiles today.

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

You think they will be able to BLACKOUT 6 MILLION??? Let's do this!

 

[Sentinelrv]

Well, I'm going to change the 60,000 goal to 25,000 myself. If anyone has any objections please let me know now. We can work around this new number.

 

[qwerty]

The connection between facebook and the official page is bad. There should be some correlation between the pledges on official site and facebook.

Is there any e-mail lists from earlier moneybombs ? Trevor ?

BTW! Commenting on youtube videos is also great way to promote! ust choose your videos well!

 

[dbill27]

Well, I'm going to change the 60,000 goal to 25,000 myself. If anyone has any objections please let me know now. We can work around this new number.

Why change it? The higher the better, we need a challenge.

 

[ItsTime]

The connection between facebook and the official page is bad. There should be some correlation between the pledges on official site and facebook.

Suggestions? Not everyone who rsvps wants to pledge and not everyone who pledges wants to use facebook.

 

[Sentinelrv]

Why change it? The higher the better, we need a challenge.

Yes, but if you set it too far off then it will seem impossible for people. The goal needs to be realistic in order for people to participate. Also, somebody did the math earlier and found out we only needed 25,000 people, so that's another reason why we are resetting the goal.

 

[Sentinelrv]

Alright, I've restructured the original post to get the point across more easily. I also changed all the goal numbers to 25,000. All I need now is for a moderator to change the title of this thread to reflect the new 25,000 number. It's not showing up on the board, so people will still think 60,000 is needed.

 

[Tunink]

I think another thing to bring up is the fact that a lot of supporters are reluctant to donate period.

They support Ron Paul, but we need to engage them. I believe we can do this by putting in perspective how much even a small donation can help.

I'm going to try to talk everyone I know to at least pitch in $20. I will try to put it in the perspective of buying a meal, or going out for fast food or something.

When you ask people to donate, I think they automatically assume large numbers.

 

[KingNothing]

We need to get a list of donors from last go-round. That would make this so much easier. If we had that, we'd know who to target.

 

[justatrey]

For the record, on Dec. 16 2007 when we raised 6 million there were a total of 58,407 donations made according to the old website.

So there couldn't have been 60,000 pledges on facebook or the total would have been much higher. I think 25,000 (or even 20,000) is a good goal. Either of these goals will be extremely hard to achieve. Keep in mind we only had about 3,000 for Constitution Day.

It's time for a gut check. We really need to go all out promoting this, and then all out on donation day. Honestly, I think we half-assed the last one. How bad do we want Ron to win?

If you say you "can't" donate because you're broke, ask yourself if there is really no way you can come up with $5 over the next month. If you're planning on donating, give more than usual.

Remember - We probably won't have another chance to elect someone this honest in our lifetimes.

Let's do this!!!

 

[qwerty]

Suggestions? Not everyone who rsvps wants to pledge and not everyone who pledges wants to use facebook.

Adding the facebook rsvps to website someway...

I´m sure that it would bring more momentum if people see more people attending.

 

[qwerty]

We need to get a list of donors from last go-round. That would make this so much easier. If we had that, we'd know who to target.

Forum member cage could have some e-mail list from earlier moneybombs and ofcourse Trevor Lyman!