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

[trey4sports]

just realize that by extending this by 3 days, you effectively deflate anything from upcoming Nov 5. Which is fine with me, Ron needs the money now. PLEASE lets not start promoting the next moneybomb until this 3-day event is over, ok?

Pretty sure Nov. 5th is not going to end up being a moneybomb.

 

[parocks]

We need to set up mass rallies all over the country the next time we go for such a bold number.

We need to expect some type of on the ground component to every money bomb. When the dates and the themes are picked, what goes along with that is the on the ground action.

No matter what the on the ground action is, it should be announced, right then.

What is the next money bomb, and what are the on the ground actions?

We need to hurry, quickly, for the next money bomb.

 

[Sentinelrv]

I'm talking about this picture. It's the main picture on the entire page. We need to either edit the picture or completely change it so that it reflects "72 HOURS: Oct 19th - 21st" so that everyone visiting the page will realize we're extending it...

 

[Sentinelrv]

I see somebody made these two banners. Maybe we could use them or create new ones...

 

[Sentinelrv]

I actually like the top one better. They're pretty good because they say "It's Time! Donate Now!" as well as relaying the fact that it's now a 3 day event. it might be a good idea to put the website address under "Donate Now" though.

 

[MJU1983]

I see somebody made these two banners. Maybe we could use them or create new ones...

Like

 

[JamesButabi]

Sooooooo many first time donors. I've never seen so many people post that this is their first time ever. Had to have seen at least 1000 today. Republicans take notice! NO ONE BUT PAUL!

 

[NickOdell]

I see somebody made these two banners. Maybe we could use them or create new ones...

I sent him a message. He is offline so probably wont be updated till tomorrow.

 

[JustinL]

I wonder how effective the money bomb strategy really is... it definitely pulls in nice totals for a day, but what is lost? Between each one we seem to lose steam and people hold onto their money for it when they could give it earlier. Perhaps a shift in strategy is in order after this one. A more steady promotion of Dr Paul and his message and a more general overbearing urgency to the need to promote his message and donate to him that is continuous and not in these bursts. Promote the idea of breaking yesterday's donation record each day with a graph showing the day's donations and the previous two and perhaps on the same graph a quarterly total with the bigger number as well (with the daily $ on the left, quarterly $ on right).

Promote the wider message of the urgency of getting Paul the nomination and how with all these silly move-ups in the primaries we're being squeezed for time. I mean we've specifically told people to not donate yet and then people have to be reminded to donate on the right day and their are server load issues. Just get people to donate everything they can now and get them to promote the message as wide as possible. Can this work or is it a bad strategy shift? I don't know, but with this new strategy special days would still be promoted with a theme, but people wouldn't be encouraged to wait to donate, but to simply spread a themed message of support for Dr. Paul... perhaps foregoing a specific day even and each month having a donation theme to target different audiences for donation. Like anti-media one month, for the soldiers and veterans the next, and so on. Having a monthly graph if we did it that way. Just tossing out the idea of doing things a bit differently to see what you guys think. I don't like having to do double work to get them to pledge and then donate weeks later. Especially when they could have donated right then and there. Get people to donate more not on the allure of a donation ticker, but more on principle per se, that it's needed as much as possible as soon as possible.

 

[LibertyEsq]

I wonder how effective the money bomb strategy really is... it definitely pulls in nice totals for a day, but what is lost? Between each one we seem to lose steam and people hold onto their money for it when they could give it earlier. Perhaps a shift in strategy is in order after this one. A more steady promotion of Dr Paul and his message and a more general overbearing urgency to the need to promote his message and donate to him that is continuous and not in these bursts. Promote the idea of breaking yesterday's donation record each day with a graph showing the day's donations and the previous two and perhaps on the same graph a quarterly total with the bigger number as well (with the daily $ on the left, quarterly $ on right).

Promote the wider message of the urgency of getting Paul the nomination and how with all these silly move-ups in the primaries we're being squeezed for time. I mean we've specifically told people to not donate yet and then people have to be reminded to donate on the right day and their are server load issues. Just get people to donate everything they can now and get them to promote the message as wide as possible. Can this work or is it a bad strategy shift? I don't know, but with this new strategy special days would still be promoted with a theme, but people wouldn't be encouraged to wait to donate, but to simply spread a themed message of support for Dr. Paul... perhaps foregoing a specific day even and each month having a donation theme to target different audiences for donation. Like anti-media one month, for the soldiers and veterans the next, and so on. Having a monthly graph if we did it that way. Just tossing out the idea of doing things a bit differently to see what you guys think. I don't like having to do double work to get them to pledge and then donate weeks later. Especially when they could have donated right then and there. Get people to donate more not on the allure of a donation ticker, but more on principle per se, that it's needed as much as possible as soon as possible.

It's definitely good for the type of grassroots support Paul has. He can't gather 100,000 of us in a fundraiser to collect small checks of $50.00 each, Perry and Romney get their money from small get-togethers with bankers. We've raised far more than any candidate not named Perry or Romney

 

[freejack]

We can extend the black this out moneybomb indefinitely. How about we make it so that each time Ron gets blacked out, we donate X dollars? dusman can make some changes to the site to track the blackouts as they occur.

It keeps the money flowing and we get to take out our frustrations productively.

 

[Monique]

I personally think our next push should be for delegates. It takes time to join a Republican group, attend meetings, and then become a precinct captain. Then you have to try to become a delegate. Remember, voting is only a suggestion to the delegate who they should vote for at the Republican convention. The delegates decide who the nominee is.

I don't know how we could have worked harder than we did for this one. I know I am tapped out for the year. I can't give another dime. I think we need to start pulling in a lot more supporters for Ron Paul. Instead of getting the blackthisout total up, we need to get the number of supporters for Ron up from 500,000. We have been stuck there for a long time. It doesn't matter if it is on facebook, but I do think facebook reflects to some degree what is going on in society. We also need to start focusing on calling people for the early caucuses. That is what I will be doing.

Oh, and fyi...I could have sworn I once knew a way to email people who were on facebook. It had to do with finding their facebook account and then sending them an email to facebook.com or something like that. I could be misremembering, but if that is the case, then can we somehow take that list of 20,000 or so that clicked attend and figure out their email addresses? That would be a huge help to our database.

 

[jasonxe]

 

[JustinL]

I think that's more of what I'm getting at Monique. Focus on expanding the base and get more voters. Spread the message and candidate and create a general mentality of give as much as you can as soon as you can while spreading the message. Get more people supporting Dr Paul and the general idea of how we're in a fight for our liberties and freedoms and the constitution. We really need to convert people that seem to be so against him. The media has done a real number on Ron Paul, not just by ignoring him, but by making the people that do know of him not really know about him and end up being anti-Ron Paul. Even sometimes as they promote a pro-Ron Paul message they'll denounce him and offer up some other phony who is anti-their message and they don't even realize they've been totally fooled. We need some stronger poll showings.

Perhaps a bit less 'money bombs' and more activism style bombs where everyone goes out and spreads the message as much as possible and let the money come in on its own accord with the new support to then spread the message further. We need to get people talking more and discussing more and break people free of all their misconceptions of Ron Paul. Also drive home how he'll be a constitutional president and won't abuse his powers to his own ends (like as it relates to pro-choice for example). Let people know which issues are truely relevant to a non-abusive president as far as what they can and can't do is concerned. People have gotten this hugely over-inflated idea of what it is the president does and part of that is due to how they've stretched the powers of the executive branch in unconstitutional ways.

 

[Monique]

I completely agree Justin. What kills me is that we spent so much time on this to the exclusion of other things and it seems they got just as much as they do without any of this work. Perhaps we wouldn't have done nearly so well if we hadn't been here, (broken window fallacy) but still, I think you are completely right that now we need to turn our efforts to other things that might have more of an impact. If we had raised 6 million we would have made a huge splash in the media, but they are used to him raising a couple of million in a day. Right now we really need to figure out a way to get Ron's name said regularly in the media. No matter what we think, unless he is a household name we can't win. So, we need to find a way to get that to happen.

 

[pauliticalfan]

Urgent: Shouldn't someone change the event time on FB so it doesn't end??????????????

 

[justinpagewood]

It's going to be very easy to carry this theme into the coming months. I think after this moneybomb, is where things can get really exciting.

We are standing up to those who stand for the STATUS QUO.

 

[bolidew]

Come on we shouldn't let it end until hitting
$6,000,000

It's doable!

 

[Monique]

I do think everyone should keep the black this out bar across their face. It really helps spreading the message about Ron. I see a lot of people ask what the bars are about and that opens the door to discussing Ron.

 

[gls]

Urgent: Shouldn't someone change the event time on FB so it doesn't end??????????????

There isn't the option to do that unfortunately