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

[dusman]

How can you tell which version? Sorry don't know much of this. Please explain to me. I promise I'll reply back to you.

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It looks like you are seeing this on IE7, no?

What a hack job that browser does with code sometimes. Ehh..

I'll work on a fix for it, but I highly recommend switching to http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/, also.

 

[dusman]

A bet I'm not willing to take!

Smart man. lol.

 

[mstrmac1]

Does anyone feel a PPC campaign on google would help BTO when people search RP? I think it would! Currently, when you search him, there is ZERO ad word campaigns. It would literally cost .01 a click? Just an idea. The landing page would be the BTO site. I would be willing to fund it if someone wants to take the lead.

 

[1stAmendguy]

Go to Help > About

It looks like you are seeing this on IE7, no?

What a hack job that browser does with code sometimes. Ehh..

I'll work on a fix for it, but I highly recommend switching to http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/, also.

Internet Explorer 7 it is

The inserted Ron Paul picture blocks out most of the text. All I see is the word "BLACK" at the top.

 

[trey4sports]

by my count we had 639 pledges just on Facebook today!~

3316 - 2677 = 639

 

[JamesButabi]

Hot off the press

 

[Sentinelrv]

GREAT NEWS TODAY, 636 new attendees! This is a large boost in activity. Keeping our current pace with no further boost in activity, we should reach 18,577 attendees on the Facebook event by the end of the 19th.....but it will only multiply!

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)

 

[mstrmac1]

Does anyone feel a PPC campaign on google would help BTO when people search RP? I think it would! Currently, when you search him, there is ZERO ad word campaigns. It would literally cost .01 a click? Just an idea. The landing page would be the BTO site. I would be willing to fund it if someone wants to take the lead.

Have we ever tried this?

 

[dusman]

Does anyone feel a PPC campaign on google would help BTO when people search RP? I think it would! Currently, when you search him, there is ZERO ad word campaigns. It would literally cost .01 a click? Just an idea. The landing page would be the BTO site. I would be willing to fund it if someone wants to take the lead.

This is a pretty good idea. Also, Google Adwords accounts usually start you out with $75.00-$100.00 in free credits for starting an account.

 

[NickOdell]

This is a pretty good idea. Also, Google Adwords accounts usually start you out with $75.00-$100.00 in free credits for starting an account.

How hard is it to make an account?

Could we all collectively come up with an advertisement and then each start an Adwords account and use the free credit to run the ad?

 

[mstrmac1]

This is a pretty good idea. Also, Google Adwords accounts usually start you out with $75.00-$100.00 in free credits for starting an account.

We have 23 day left. The nice thing with PPC is you can set your budget. We could try with a couple hundred bucks and use a pledge as a conversion with HTML code. If it works we will keep it going. I dont have the time to run it but I can start it with the couple of hundred.

 

[jordie]

Does anyone feel a PPC campaign on google would help BTO when people search RP? I think it would! Currently, when you search him, there is ZERO ad word campaigns. It would literally cost .01 a click? Just an idea. The landing page would be the BTO site. I would be willing to fund it if someone wants to take the lead.

I'm currently running PPC Facebook ads, see here: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...s-how-you-can-help-the-BlackThisOut-moneybomb!

This is a pretty good idea. Also, Google Adwords accounts usually start you out with $75.00-$100.00 in free credits for starting an account.

I have considered doing Google Ads. I've already got an account so I've used my free $100 that I got. But what I can do is spend about $20 over the next two days to see whether we can get $0.01/click To test the waters. And if it's successful, then someone else can take over if they can get a free $100.

 

[dusman]

How hard is it to make an account?

Could we all collectively come up with an advertisement and then each start an Adwords account and use the free credit to run the ad?

It's pretty easy. Yes, we could certainly do that.

 

[mstrmac1]

How hard is it to make an account?

Could we all collectively come up with an advertisement and then each start an Adwords account and use the free credit to run the ad?

Ad words is fairly simple its atatching the code to track the conversion is where I get lost?

 

[dbill27]

Don't know if anyone's mentioned these:

Obviously we should get every page on facebook about Ron involved such as "New Hampshire for Ron Paul" and so on times at least 50.

Groups, forums, markets to target be it on facebook or websites:
C4L and YAL
Free state project members, I believe they have their own forum.
economic groups like the forums on the LVM academy website
Reason magazine has a ton of people on facebook and by clicking on a few commenters under their posts i've noticed that most don't have anything in common with me such as attending BTO, I'm guessing their are a lot of libertarians that subscribe to reason but don't have the RP contacts on facebook so they are oblivious, if we can find a way to contact that audience somehow....

MEETUP groups, particularly tea party ones if added up across all the states you're talking about a large number of people, it's worth joining them to post about BTO.

The Facebook ad that targeted those who "liked" ron paul that we had up for the may 5th one were crucial, if I remember we had a chipin and it only took about 600 total.
I almost wonder if it would be worth having a mini bomb on RPF to raise funds to advertise all over the internet on websites like maybe INFOWARS or ANTI-WAR.com, we still have time to really advertise this.

 

[mstrmac1]

Sample Ad:

RON PAUL MEDIA BLACKOUT
Pledge to make history. Donate to Ron Paul.
On October 19th to raise 6Million
www.blackthisout.com

or something like it...

 

[NickOdell]

It's pretty easy. Yes, we could certainly do that.

Ad words is fairly simple its atatching the code to track the conversion is where I get lost?

I'll look into it then. It might be a good idea to type up some instructions so more people can help out with this effort.

 

[jordie]

Oh man, guess what I just found in my Google Adwords account, looks like I had the same idea back in 2007

 

[mstrmac1]

Ad words is fairly simple its atatching the code to track the conversion is where I get lost?

Anyone want to take the lead... ????

 

[NickOdell]

Don't know if anyone's mentioned these:

Obviously we should get every page on facebook about Ron involved such as "New Hampshire for Ron Paul" and so on times at least 50.

Groups, forums, markets to target be it on facebook or websites:
C4L and YAL
Free state project members, I believe they have their own forum.
economic groups like the forums on the LVM academy website
Reason magazine has a ton of people on facebook and by clicking on a few commenters under their posts i've noticed that most don't have anything in common with me such as attending BTO, I'm guessing their are a lot of libertarians that subscribe to reason but don't have the RP contacts on facebook so they are oblivious, if we can find a way to contact that audience somehow....

MEETUP groups, particularly tea party ones if added up across all the states you're talking about a large number of people, it's worth joining them to post about BTO.

Just some thoughts...

I agree with you. C4L and YAL can't help with this however.

I'm starting to think that, at this point, our time would be better spent trying to get the Admins of the bigger Ron Paul Facebook pages and websites to help out with this than trying to invite every Ron Paul supporter on Facebook by ourselves. I just think more focus on getting the admins on board would be a good thing.