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

[Eric21ND]

Just physically handed out 500 of the BlackThisOut business cards at a Ron Paul event in Greenville, NC. Also put them on tables and at the end of the food line, as well as on the vehicles in the parking lot. Gave GunnyFreedom a big stack too

I noticed people were taking the cards off of the tables on their way out.

you rock!

 

[Sentinelrv]

Dusman, could you do something to the Promotion Page for me? I think you should change the word postcards to "Flyers." Also, could you please add the Printable Flyers that Justin made? These are very important and would probably be used more than the ones you have to order. Include the picture too...



Also, is there any way you could host the images on the first post for me and link them here? All the visits to this threadares starting to eat up my bandwidth and I'm afraid it's only going to get worse.

 

[qwerty]

Just physically handed out 500 of the BlackThisOut business cards at a Ron Paul event in Greenville, NC. Also put them on tables and at the end of the food line, as well as on the vehicles in the parking lot. Gave GunnyFreedom a big stack too

I noticed people were taking the cards off of the tables on their way out.

Did you manage to give Ron Paul or the campaign members any ?


GREAT JOB!

 

[qwerty]

Back to work!

Promoting on FB for next 5 hours!

All day all week!

 

[J_White]

I had this idea about BTO promotion video. If you people like it then someone familiar with video editing can do it.
Take some simple Ron videos, like the ones from CSPAN where he is talking about specific issues - specially his old predictions.
Black out his face in that video, and change the voice pitch so that it is unrecognizable but understandable. or do a voiceover yourself.
Arrange the video segments according to issues - or make separate vids for separate issues.
"who predicted the housing and subprime bubble"
1)Start with Economy, including the debt, and Fed - show the year of the video.
"Who predicted the blowback due to faulty foreign policies"
2)Terrorism
3) cutting foreign aid to "enemies" of Israel
4) Bring troops home.

these are some points i can think of.
in the end just write BTO. and give some message to search for it on youtube.
On youtube have the normal video with the same title -
"Who predicted the housing and subprime bubble"

Some videos with the predictions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvlUx5ECD2w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TJK1oNBkK8
on terrorism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxXEkwLqcew

This will draw people to the message and not the false image of Ron Paul that the media has created. probably their rational self will be drawn to the principles he is talking about, instead of being just turned off from him watching his face or listening to his voice.

see if this makes sense.

 

[NickOdell]

We really need to get the campaign involved, and soon.

 

[Oddone]

Who can get them involved? When in the past did they get involved, IE how soon or later before the Money Bombs. I have always seen a Campaign Page and a Non-Campaign page. But we really need the campaign to begin some early E-mails out to the 100,000 people that donated in Q3.

 

[dusman]

Great news. I'm about 70% finished with the leaderboard feature.

As of right now, you can sign up for your own account on BTO, which will automatically generate a unique web page specific to you (based on the username you choose.. no numbers). Anytime someone pledges from that page, it attaches the referral ID to that specific pledge. To the person being sent, they won't recognize any difference from the home page (except for url)... not yet, anyways.

All that is left is to retrieve this from the database, do a count and create a running order of highest to lowest. That should be easy and probably will be done by tomorrow.

What is really cool is that, I'll be able to develop a backend system you'll be able to log into and interact with. The question is.. what should the interaction be? We could do stuff like automatic tweets/facebook updates with your specific URL, or maybe we want to allow each person to choose what main video they want people to see. Or, people might want to make a personal video on why they support Ron Paul (or this moneybomb) and why the person visiting should too. Perhaps, you are only interested in targeting your family and friends and you want to provide them with a personal video message.

Those are just some quick brainstorms, but the key here is that these could be personalized for each person if we wanted.

As we get around to the Veterans Day moneybomb... this will be awesome for Veterans. They could do a video about their military experience in video and to those visiting those links, it will appear they are featured on the moneybomb site.

 

[qwerty]

No offense but i think we should use all of our energy to spread the word not improve the website.

Tea party 07 site was simple and it helped to brought the 6 million.


Letting people know about the event is most important thing not the website! IMO!

But i have to say dusman that thanks for the great site, i think it´s good enough allready...

 

[Birdlady]

Having a leaderboard though will motivate ppl to promote. Making this a competition is a great idea. I actually thought we should have had a BTO video promo contest, but it's probably a little late for that? I dunno.

Anyway, Dusman I think this is an awesome idea. We can also see what method of promotion is the most efficient way to get pledges, so in the future we know what to focus on.

 

[qwerty]

Having a leaderboard though will motivate ppl to promote. Making this a competition is a great idea. I actually thought we should have had a BTO video promo contest, but it's probably a little late for that? I dunno.

Anyway, Dusman I think this is an awesome idea. We can also see what method of promotion is the most efficient way to get pledges, so in the future we know what to focus on.

Yeah but the time promote is getting less and less as we speak...

I think we have enough tools to do this, we allready have MUCH more than we had on 07...

What good does website do if the people don´t know the address ?

And we have much more larger base on the facebook event allmost 9000 people, why don´t we encourage them to spread the word ?

 

[dusman]

No offense but i think we should use all of our energy to spread the word not improve the website.

Tea party 07 site was simple and it helped to brought the 6 million.


Letting people know about the event is most important thing not the website! IMO!

But i have to say dusman that thanks for the great site, i think it´s good enough allready...

Well, inspiring competition among our promoters is the major objective with this update. This is a way for you, personally, to take pride in your own effort and see exactly how many pledges you are actually producing.

Would it not be nice for you to compare your efforts with others? If you are #1 on the leaderboard and someone else is closing fast on you at #2, I'm sure that motivates you to try and hold your spot. So, that is the main point.

 

[dusman]

Having a leaderboard though will motivate ppl to promote. Making this a competition is a great idea. I actually thought we should have had a BTO video promo contest, but it's probably a little late for that? I dunno.

Anyway, Dusman I think this is an awesome idea. We can also see what method of promotion is the most efficient way to get pledges, so in the future we know what to focus on.

Yep, this is also the other objective. We are a creative bunch and some do things differently. It might reveal some really interesting ways to do promotion that is proven to work, which can be carried over into other moneybombs as featured strategies.

 

[dusman]

Yeah but the time promote is getting less and less as we speak...

I think we have enough tools to do this, we allready have MUCH more than we had on 07...

What good does website do if the people don´t know the address ?

And we have much more larger base on the facebook event allmost 9000 people, why don´t we encourage them to spread the word ?

Well, this was partly inspired by you, man. Unfortunately, not a lot of people put as much effort as you do and I want 100-1000 of you. Others simply don't have that same motivation, but if they see that someone is taking the lead and really making a difference.. it forces others to take notice and reconsider their own effort.

Most people are only motivated by a tangible result they can see is working. That's why this will be an interesting resource.

Ultimately, if we were taking bets.. I'm betting that you smoke just about everyone.

Back this up with coordination with the campaign maybe for a chance to spend a day with Ron Paul, we could get thousands of people involved and competing against each other for these upcoming moneybombs.

 

[sailingaway]

Don't we have a BTO video somewhere? I'd bump it (NOT every single thread on BTO) because after Ron's speech I expect new people coming by over the weekend. Usually there is a bump here after a media generating event like the Value Voter Summit. If there is more than one video, we might want to select one particularly attractive to the Value Voter crowd, so to speak.

 

[AmberH]

**UPDATE: 1-160 on the list has been done. We need volunteers to do 161-170, 171-180 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!

I will take 160-180 if no one else has done them.

 

[eduardo89]

Would it be possible to make a 250x250 widget?

 

[Eric21ND]

Yup need more sexy widgets!

 

[badger4RP]

btw... its over 9000

 

[IndianaPolitico]

Don't we have a BTO video somewhere? I'd bump it (NOT every single thread on BTO) because after Ron's speech I expect new people coming by over the weekend. Usually there is a bump here after a media generating event like the Value Voter Summit. If there is more than one video, we might want to select one particularly attractive to the Value Voter crowd, so to speak.

Here is a thread:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...ul-Black-THIS-Out!-Money-Bomb-PROMOTION-VIDEO!
And here is the video: