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

trey4sports · Sep 23, 2011

Are you guys linking to the official website or the FB page more?

dusman · Sep 23, 2011

Sentinelrv, since you have taken the lead on the promotion efforts, I was wondering if you would mind staying up on the statistics and reporting them in your first post? If you have a Google account, I can add you to the analytics for blackthisout.com. ItsTime, if you have a Google account, I'd like to add you as well.

WD-NY · Sep 23, 2011

dusman said:
You guys are doing awesome. You are starting to create a snowball effect. Today's numbers look to be 4x that of just Wednesday. I'll post the numbers this evening sometime, to review.

Direct Referral: 1,746 (These have to be YouTube comments/videos)
Ron Paul Forums: 1,163
Facebook: 530

So, I'm assuming from these numbers that Youtubers are picking up your promotion stuff and re-commenting it through other videos or are most liked on popular videos. It also looks like we aren't getting many translating from Facebook to the web site.

Yes, they and everyone else posting comments and sending out invites are doing awesome -

Have any specifics on where the website updates stand? I mean, is a new pledge form going in tonight? If not, can you AT LEAST fix the friggin position of the "$"?? I promise it should only take all of 3 seconds to fix

:

Code:

.pledgeAmountField {left: 167px;}

Also, what's the conversion rate been the last few days?

Sentinelrv · Sep 23, 2011

I haven't caught up with this thread yet. I just got home from work, but if this question has already been answered, just ignore it as I'll get to it within the next hour...

Dusman, I wanted to know if you have a time table for when the website will be updated with the new pledge form and Facebook counter or attend buttons, etc... I also need to know if you're close to finishing with whatever will go at the top of RonPaulForums. The reason is because I've been waiting to write up an email for RonPaulForums to send out until everything was updated and ready. I don't want to have people sent to an incomplete website. The email will have a lot ways to promote the event as well, but I need to know when these things will be up so I can send it to Bryan. Again, if you've already answered this then I'll get to it in a little bit.

Crotale · Sep 23, 2011

trey4sports said:
Are you guys linking to the official website or the FB page more?

I'm linking to the facebook page on facebook and the official website on YouTube. I don't have twitter but if I did I'd link to the official site on twitter too, as well as using the #BlackThisOut hashtag.

MJU1983 · Sep 23, 2011

Just tweeted this if you all want to RT: http://twitter.com/#!/mju1983/status/117365021822033920

edit: new link

dusman · Sep 23, 2011

WD-NY said:
Yes, they and everyone else posting comments and sending out invites are doing awesome -

Have any specifics on where the website updates stand? I mean, is a new pledge form going in tonight? If not, can you AT LEAST fix the friggin position of the "$"?? I promise it should only take all of 3 seconds to fix :

Code:

.pledgeAmountField {left: 167px;}

Also, what's the conversion rate been the last few days?

Can you send a screenshot of the misplacement and also what browser you are using? I'm not seeing that.

I'll be posting new numbers here soon. I'm working on a form with your recommendation of having radio options instead. I should have this finished up tonight.

dusman · Sep 23, 2011

Sentinelrv said:
I haven't caught up with this thread yet. I just got home from work, but if this question has already been answered, just ignore it as I'll get to it within the next hour...

Dusman, I wanted to know if you have a time table for when the website will be updated with the new pledge form and Facebook counter or attend buttons, etc... I also need to know if you're close to finishing with whatever will go at the top of RonPaulForums. The reason is because I've been waiting to write up an email for RonPaulForums to send out until everything was updated and ready. I don't want to have people sent to an incomplete website. The email will have a lot ways to promote the event as well, but I need to know when these things will be up so I can send it to Bryan. Again, if you've already answered this then I'll get to it in a little bit.

I'm just waiting on Justin to get back with me on a few things before posting an update. I suppose for now I could do a generic theme for the widgets and update them later. I have them functional at least!

I also just added a real simple share feature on Twitter for when someone pledges. I'm working on building this up for Facebook as well. As for the event data, like attending, event invites, etc., will take a bit more time as that requires jumping into the Facebook API. I've sent out an inquiry to the web developer group to see if they might help. If any of you have worked with the Facebook API, that's something I'd like to pass off to someone else.

archlinux · Sep 23, 2011

I was just the 666 pledge... creepy.

http://i.imgur.com/m6iLD.png

dusman · Sep 23, 2011

archlinux said:
I was just the 666 pledge... creepy.

http://i.imgur.com/m6iLD.png

lol, that is creepy.

Thanks for the screenshot though, you helped identify a glitch with the share buttons line breaking.

Can you go back and check to see if it is corrected on your screen?

Crotale · Sep 23, 2011

archlinux said:
I was just the 666 pledge... creepy.

IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!!

Anyway, it's getting late over here in Britain, almost midnight. I dunno what time it is where you guys are in America but I'm off to bed. I'll be back up to be a keyboard warrior for this when I wake up in the morning.

Good night.

archlinux · Sep 23, 2011

dusman said:
lol, that is creepy.

Thanks for the screenshot though, you helped identify a glitch with the share buttons line breaking.

Can you go back and check to see if it is corrected on your screen?

It is fixed on my screen.

dusman · Sep 23, 2011

ItsTime · Sep 23, 2011

How to invite facebook friends

1. Go to this page and select "yes" to attending (if you have not already)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471

2. Click "Select Guests To Invite" on the left hand side under the Black This Out Picture

3. Check the people you want to invite.

4. Click "Submit"

Easssssssy.

I suggest if you are just inviting a few people to follow up with a private message asking them to RSVP and to invite their friends.

Sentinelrv · Sep 23, 2011

dusman said:
You guys are doing awesome. You are starting to create a snowball effect. Today's numbers look to be 4x that of just Wednesday. I'll post the numbers this evening sometime, to review.

Direct Referral: 1,746 (These have to be YouTube comments/videos)
Ron Paul Forums: 1,163
Facebook: 530

So, I'm assuming from these numbers that Youtubers are picking up your promotion stuff and re-commenting it through other videos or are most liked on popular videos. It also looks like we aren't getting many translating from Facebook to the web site.

I think you're not getting as many referrals from Facebook because people there are linking the Facebook event more than the main site, but that could change when you introduce reporting, that is if people share the stories on Facebook. That would help draw people onto the website.

Sentinelrv · Sep 23, 2011

dusman said:
Sentinelrv, since you have taken the lead on the promotion efforts, I was wondering if you would mind staying up on the statistics and reporting them in your first post? If you have a Google account, I can add you to the analytics for blackthisout.com. ItsTime, if you have a Google account, I'd like to add you as well.

Would it be possible if ItsTime could take care of that? He has the second post on the thread. The reason is because I'm running out of room on the first post (Character Limit) and I still have more important things to put up there. I can put something at the end of my first post telling the viewer that more information is continued onto the second post.

Magicman · Sep 23, 2011

Does anyone have the code to invite ALL your facebook friends at once??!!

dusman · Sep 23, 2011

Sentinelrv said:
Would it be possible if ItsTime could take care of that? He has the second post on the thread. The reason is because I'm running out of room on the first post (Character Limit) and I still have more important things to put up there. I can put something at the end of my first post telling the viewer that more information is continued onto the second post.

That is fine. Would you like access to analytics still?

ItsTime · Sep 23, 2011

dusman said:
That is fine. Would you like access to analytics still?

PMed you

Sentinelrv · Sep 23, 2011

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