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

[WD-NY]

Just make sure to change the days remaining on the email before you send it out.

the days remaining AND the pledge/rsvp totals

 

[mstrmac1]

Does anyone think there is a way to tie together BLACK THIS OUT w/ Occupy Wall Street/The Fed? Seems like a great opportunity to pull these together and really use it to our advantage to build hype.

They have a facebook page for discussion... Right now they are confused on what it is they want and are trying to define it. I think we can certainly shape the discussion. Just dont mention RP on it. They ALL get corporatism and capitalism mixed up. They have no Idea that if you ended the fed it would solve the problem. If you go there you have to look at it as a process.

For example, act like you just learned something.. "hey I just found out that the federal reserve isnt even federal. Then link them to a video. Take them through the process you went through to get here today.

So in short.. YES, if done properly I think this could be a huge net gain for the movement. We must talk like 2 yr olds to them to start though. They are searching for the truth.

 

[trey4sports]

I sent him a message to come to this thread and join in the conversation, but I haven't heard anything back. Maybe you should try getting in touch with him.

Also, can't wait to see details about this leader board. Once it's up, maybe we can finally get something going with the campaign. I still haven't heard anything back about the "Spend a day with Ron Paul" idea as a reward for coming first in promotion.

Creating unique referral links and having a leaderboard for the top affiliates would be awesome. I think it would really push this thing into overdrive!

Momentum is building again. We almost broke our one day record!

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)

incredible day. Did Josh send out an email to RPF? I ask because i don't use the email associated with my account anymore. If so, i would guess that is probably the biggest reason we spiked.

I believe it could be over 1,000 people a day during the last week of promotion.

yeah, i completely agree.

Have somebody go out there and hand out Black This Out flyers to everyone, but put more information on them and explain a little bit about how the Federal Reserve is the real culprit behind the financial collapse, that the Fed is what's keeping Wall Street banks running the way they do and how only Ron Paul is trying to put an end to it. Then explain that the media is trying to dismiss him as a contender because he's for real change. I don't know, something like that. It would be great to get them informed about the Fed and have them make the connection that Ron Paul is their only way out of this mess.

remember, we don't have to sell them on libertarianism. Just rail agains The FED, and how it makes the RICH, RICHER! No need to waste energy talking about libertarian theory or anything.

Just a quick update, we decided to send the email out tomorrow - wanted to give today's email to all ronpaulforum members time to work its way through the community.

Awesome day today - the pledge rate on blackthisout.com has been STEADY all day.

I'm a bit confused... I thought you were working on the RPF email? If not, then i guess your blasting an email to everyone currently on the mailing list, to encourage them to promote the moneybomb.


I have to say, Dusman, Sentinel, WD, QWERTY, nick, and the rest of you guys are kicking some serious ass, marketing this thing. I think it's going to be enormous.

 

[Sentinelrv]

I'm a bit confused... I thought you were working on the RPF email? If not, then i guess your blasting an email to everyone currently on the mailing list, to encourage them to promote the moneybomb.

I have to say, Dusman, Sentinel, WD, QWERTY, nick, and the rest of you guys are kicking some serious ass, marketing this thing. I think it's going to be enormous.

I typed up the email and Josh sent it out last night. It will be sent out tomorrow to the BlackThisOut pledgers.

 

[mstrmac1]

Guys.. I hate to keep beating a dead horse but i keep getting asked what a moneybomb is ? Are we working on this? Remember there are people who have never done this before. They might have discovered RP yesterday! JMHO...

 

[mstrmac1]

can we at least link them to wikipedia?

Moneybomb (money bomb, money-bomb, fundraising bomb) is a neologism coined in 2007 to describe a grassroots fundraising effort over a brief fixed time period,[1] usually to support a candidate for election by dramatically increasing, concentrating, and publicizing fundraising activity during a specific hour or day. The term was first applied to a supporter-led fundraiser on behalf of presidential candidate Ron Paul, in which context the Mercury News described a moneybomb as being "a one-day fundraising frenzy".[2] The effort combines traditional and Internet-based fundraising appeals focusing especially on viral advertising through online vehicles such as YouTube, Myspace, Meetup, and online forums. In the case of lesser-known candidates it is also intended to generate significant free mass media coverage the candidate would otherwise not receive. Moneybombs have been used for grassroots fundraising and viral activism over the Internet by several 2008 presidential candidates in the United States.[3][4][5] It continues to emerge as an important grassroots tool leading up to the 2010 midterm elections and 2012 presidential election in the United States.[6]

 

[dusman]

Guys.. I hate to keep beating a dead horse but i keep getting asked what a moneybomb is ? Are we working on this? Remember there are people who have never done this before. They might have discovered RP yesterday! JMHO...

Yep, we were just talking about this yesterday and I'll be putting it on the web site tonight.

 

[trey4sports]

The beat is building - momentum

 

[eaglesfan48]

I believe it could be over 1,000 people a day during the last week of promotion.

Right. I believe we get 5K+ in the 48 hours leading up to the money bomb... not including the 24 hours OF the money bomb.

 

[eaglesfan48]

Some new places I have been promoting on Facebook, we have been doing great at covering the Ron Paul pages, but its time to expand our greatness

Raw Milk
Hemp
Free Talk Live
Libertarian type pages
Abolish the TSA
Abolish the IRS
Abolish the FDA
Abolish the minimum wage
Abolish the Federal reserve
Anything to do with Texas
John Stossel
Juan Williams

Good idea Amber. I'm going to hit Facebook and I'll try to create a Secondary list that we can cover.

 

[Birdlady]

I'll drop a few BTO comments on some of the health freedom websites I visit. We should see if Dr. Mercola would get on board. That would be HUGE! His subscriber list is probably in the millions and I know he already supports Ron Paul. Just a matter of him writing up an article specifically for BTO.

 

[pacodever]

And the pages I've been hitting up on FB:

1. CNN American Morning
2. CNN
3. CNN INTL
4. CNN Politics
5. CNN Situation Room
6. CNN State of the Union
7. Anderson Cooper 360
8. Morning Express with Robin Meade
9. C-SPAN
10. ABC News
11. CBS News
12. NBC News
13. CNBC
14. MSNBC
15. Fox News
16. Fox Business
17. The Fox Nation
18. PBS Newshour
19. PBS.org
20. Yahoo
21. WND
22. Slate
23. Hotair
24. TownHall
25. Politico
26. Huffington Post
27. Huffington Post Politics
28. Drudge
29. AlterNet
30. Common Dreams
31. CounterPunch
32. Daily Kos
33. DisInfo
34. Kicking Ass
35. In These Times
36. Media Matters
37. Mother Jones
38. NarcoNews
39. The Nation
40. Political Wire
41. ProPublica
42. Raw Story
43. Salon
44. Slate
45. Smoking Gun
46. The Onion
47. Talking Points Memo
48. Truthout
49. Village Voice
50. Young Turks
51. Disclose.tv---
52. Godlike Productions
53. Rogue Government---
54. Reason.com
55. Anitwar.com
56. Crooksandliars.com
57. Cursor.org
58. Democracynow.org
59. freespeech.org
60. accuracy.org
61. mediatransparency.org
62. mediachannel.org
63. projectcensored.org
64. spinsanity.org
65. Judge Andrew Napolitano
66. Freedom Watch
67. Neil Cavuto
68. Your World w/ NC
69. Al Jazeera English
70. RT
71. Alex Jones
72. Infowars
73. Jesse Ventura
74. John Stossel
75. Peter Schiff
76. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
77. CATO Institute
78. Ludwig Von Mises Institute
79. Campaign for Liberty
80. Young Americans for Liberty
81. Blue Republicans
82. End War on Drugs
83. Occupy Wall Street
84. Occupy Together
85. Occupy the Federal Reserve
86. Occupy the Fed
87. Occupy the Mainstream Media
88. Occupy DC
89. Occupy Boston
90. Occupy Chicago
91. Occupy Philadelphia
92. Occupy Seattle
93. Occupy Dallas
94. Occupy Columbus
95. Occupy Madison
96. Occupy New Orleans
97. Occupy Orlando
98. Occupy Denver
99. Occupy Florida
100. Occupy San Francisco
101. Occupy San Diego
102. Occupy Houston
103. Occupy Nashville
104. Occupy OKC
105. Occupy Tampa
106. Occupy Sacramento
107. Occupy Buffalo
108. Occupy Cincinnati
109. Occupy Miami
110. Occupy Tulsa
111. Occupy Arkansas
112. Occupy Michigan
113. Occupy Baltimore
114. Occupy Portland
115. Occupy Richmond
116. Occupy Omaha
117. Occupy Pittsburgh
118. Occupy Milwaukee
119. NY Times
120. LA Times
121. Dallas Morning News
122. Washington Post
123. Wall Street Journal
124. USA Today
125. San Jose Mercury News
126. New York Post
127. Chicago Tribune
128. Chicago Sun Times
129. Houston Chronicle
130. Denver Post
131. Heritage Foundation
132. Freedomworks
133. Legalize Marijuana NORML
134. Marijuana is Safer
135. Students for Sensible Drug Policy
136. CNSNEWS.com

 

[qwerty]

Can someone make a video for the oct 19th ? Video that can be freely shared...

We need to have it posted several times on Oct 19th....

Easiest way to get the YT attention on Oct 19th is like that...

 

[eaglesfan48]

That is an awesome job Pacodever

A nice little list of 136 Facebook pages =)

Keep up the good work

 

[lucent]

A focus needs to be put on the OWS Twitter hashtags like #occupywallstreet and #ows

 

[Birdlady]

Another area we can promote that I'm not sure some of you are familiar with are Yahoo Groups. http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=ron+paul

You can find RP, health freedom and many other groups there. For a lot of them, you'd have to join the group to make a post. In Yahoo Groups, people are either sent a daily digest of the posts or they get every single message in their inbox immediately, so even if a group isn't active right now, the members of that group should see it as long as they are checking their email.

If a group is moderated, it's possible your message won't get through, but I figure if it's an RP friendly group, I don't see why they wouldn't approve it. Just be nice on these groups because you are entering a private group and I don't think it's polite to go in there and spam. This is much different than FB pages.

If this was already mentioned then sorry for the repeat. It's hard to keep track of this huge thread. lol It's almost 80 pages and I have the number posts per page turned up in my settings!

 

[pacodever]

That is an awesome job Pacodever

A nice little list of 136 Facebook pages =)

Keep up the good work

Thanks. I've trying to avoid the obvious RP page since there are already promotion efforts going strong. Be advised though, the Occupy crowds are wary/sometimes hostile of the postings, but their response provides a great opportunity to layout some of the common ground.

 

[AmberH]

I'll take 101-110 any takers on 111-120? Thanks!

**UPDATE: 1-110 on the list has been done. We need volunteers to do 111-120, 121-130 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. 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!

As I'm sure you know, a well funded campaign is crucial for Ron Paul in his bid for the White House. He is gaining a lot of traction in spite of a near media blackout on television, in print, and on the radio by the "mainstream media".

Take some time to courteously discuss these important FACTS with the media to explain just why Ron Paul is a serious contender:

1. Ron Paul polls consistently in a dead heat with President Obama (Rasmussen, Gallup, CNN).

2. Ron Paul consistently places in the top three in major Republican Primary polls.

3. Ron Paul is number two in fundraising and number one for individual donations.

4. Ron Paul has more military donations than all other GOP candidates combined, as well as President Obama.

5. Ron Paul is a twelve-term Congressman and has spent his entire career defending the Constitution.

6. Ron Paul is the only candidate to accurately predict the housing bubble, economic crises and the devaluation of the dollar.

As we've seen, sometimes even these indisputable facts are still ignored. We can bypass the media blackout by putting ads on TV, in print, online, phone banking, and with direct mail marketing campaigns. All of these cost A LOT of money to put in place.

For Liberty,
ME

**UPDATE: 1-110 on the list has been done. We need volunteers to do 110-120, 121-130 etc. etc. Thanks!

Give me 110-120

 

[eaglesfan48]

Here are a few more pages we can promote on. I tried to find bigger pages we haven't covered yet that have a nice Ron Paul vibe. It was a little harder than I thought.

The United States Constitution
Small Government
Libertarian Party
Lower Taxes
The Second Amendment
Tenth Amendment Center
Abolish the IRS
End the Fed
End the Fed 2
End the Fed 3
Hemp
Vote Hemp
Small Business against Big Government
Legalize Marijuana
Legalize Marijuana 2

 

[NickOdell]

Give me 110-120

I already did 110-120 yesterday, he hasn't been updating the OP very frequently Hopefully we didn't do the same groups.