Constitution Day Moneybomb, Sep 17th. Planning, promotion and more promotion thread.

If you think that is effective, great. I think people get excited when they see the ticker fly by in a matter of seconds. When you are getting 2 grand a minute or more it galvanizes people to donate more than they could. You don't have that if it comes trickling in.

But I was here last time and that is what worked then. What do I know?

Then you must remember that there was the end of the fourth quarter push last time also, with counter going up to over 17 milions. It certainly wasn't achived in one day. And if you don't remember, there is pic below ;)

http://grahamglass.blogs.com/main/2007/12/ron-paul-money.html
 
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If you think that is effective, great. I think people get excited when they see the ticker fly by in a matter of seconds. When you are getting 2 grand a minute or more it galvanizes people to donate more than they could. You don't have that if it comes trickling in.

But I was here last time and that is what worked then. What do I know?

What is your background? I see Aug 2011. But you were apparently helpful last time. What exactly did you do last time?
 
Monique
I do not get it man. Everything is working just fine, promote the 17th.
No we wont get 9 Million in one day, but hopefully a couple million plus a million more during the push and we end up with a great quarter.
No one is going to change anything, its not that difficult, help if you want to, don't help if you don't want to.
I feel as if you have been going on for pages trying to get people to accept your way of doing things, I don't think people are getting it.
Why don't you work with what we have?
 
I worked 90 hours a week, every single week from August to the end of the campaign. I sent out I don't know how many emails to people pushing money bombs - somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 contacted directly. I contacted hundreds of people on websites and got them to post things about Ron Paul. I contacted Mercola, and Jim Rodgers, and Lew Rockwell with items for his blog, I contacted groups that I knew Ron had some sort of bill that would make them happy, like small business owners, and health food stores, and whoever else I could think of. I made thousands of phone calls to people in my district. I became a Republican. Then I was a precinct leader. I helped Meetup groups. I made Ron Paul signs. I posted signs all over town. I donated more money than I could afford. I donated money to the spam campaign. I donated on just about every hair brained scheme we all came up with then. I sent links to major websites so they would report about Ron Paul. I called news stations to thank them when they did run stories on him. I called to demand retractions when they posted falsehoods. I went on site after site to explain Ron's views to people. I had a huge success rate too...nearly everyone I spoke to who was a registered republican in my district agreed to vote for Ron. I organized money bombs and other things with other precinct leaders and other meetup groups.

Frankly, that is just a fraction of what I did. I can't remember the half of it. I worked night and day for Ron. It didn't stop. Whatever needed doing I did.
 
Thank you for all your hardwork Monique.

I agree with you fully. A two week money bomb just doesn't have any appeal to it. When the ticker is flying up like crazy it gets people excited and people donate where before they wouldn't have donated or donate more than they would have originally. Promote the money bomb on the 17th and we will get residual donations for the next two weeks just from having a huge 17th.
 
I worked 90 hours a week, every single week from August to the end of the campaign. I sent out I don't know how many emails to people pushing money bombs - somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 contacted directly. I contacted hundreds of people on websites and got them to post things about Ron Paul. I contacted Mercola, and Jim Rodgers, and Lew Rockwell with items for his blog, I contacted groups that I knew Ron had some sort of bill that would make them happy, like small business owners, and health food stores, and whoever else I could think of. I made thousands of phone calls to people in my district. I became a Republican. Then I was a precinct leader. I helped Meetup groups. I made Ron Paul signs. I posted signs all over town. I donated more money than I could afford. I donated money to the spam campaign. I donated on just about every hair brained scheme we all came up with then. I sent links to major websites so they would report about Ron Paul. I called news stations to thank them when they did run stories on him. I called to demand retractions when they posted falsehoods. I went on site after site to explain Ron's views to people. I had a huge success rate too...nearly everyone I spoke to who was a registered republican in my district agreed to vote for Ron. I organized money bombs and other things with other precinct leaders and other meetup groups.

Frankly, that is just a fraction of what I did. I can't remember the half of it. I worked night and day for Ron. It didn't stop. Whatever needed doing I did.

Then, please, start acting constructively again, or if you for whatever reason can't, then at least stop acting destructively. Please!
 
I worked 90 hours a week, every single week from August to the end of the campaign. I sent out I don't know how many emails to people pushing money bombs - somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 contacted directly. I contacted hundreds of people on websites and got them to post things about Ron Paul. I contacted Mercola, and Jim Rodgers, and Lew Rockwell with items for his blog, I contacted groups that I knew Ron had some sort of bill that would make them happy, like small business owners, and health food stores, and whoever else I could think of. I made thousands of phone calls to people in my district. I became a Republican. Then I was a precinct leader. I helped Meetup groups. I made Ron Paul signs. I posted signs all over town. I donated more money than I could afford. I donated money to the spam campaign. I donated on just about every hair brained scheme we all came up with then. I sent links to major websites so they would report about Ron Paul. I called news stations to thank them when they did run stories on him. I called to demand retractions when they posted falsehoods. I went on site after site to explain Ron's views to people. I had a huge success rate too...nearly everyone I spoke to who was a registered republican in my district agreed to vote for Ron. I organized money bombs and other things with other precinct leaders and other meetup groups.

Frankly, that is just a fraction of what I did. I can't remember the half of it. I worked night and day for Ron. It didn't stop. Whatever needed doing I did.

That sounds like diverse experience. I was mostly wondering, I think, if you were closely associated with any particular project. Were your activities coordinated in any way with any type of organization. Were any of your activities considered "volunteering". Precinct leader is official, right?

I'm really just asking these questions because I'm curious. Provides data to analyze. If you are working 90 hours a week, you could be leading a complex project, if there is some organization. 90 hours a week is a lot of time. And if you're doing that, all the time, you could be on a project. But maybe I'm completely missing the picture.

I could just be expressing my interest that the grassroots be more organized.

Last time around, by the end of August, were all the states organized? We should get state organizations in place as quickly as possible. I have no idea what the campaigns time schedule is for organizing states, but certainly there will be some later states that won't have too many people in them real soon. If we could determine the campaigns needs, we could find people to do that work. Acting interim district whatever. Or has this been done already?
 
The 9/17 Constitution Day money bomb is on! Let's all make it a big success. This is the most important money bomb of the campaign, because it's the next one, and because it will count toward the 3rd quarter total. We can't be sure of media coverage for later money bombs, but the FEC Q3 numbers WILL be a big story.
 
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I am sorry people think I am trying to hurt anything. All I wanted to do was to make this MB a huge success. That's why I suggested it be on one day and not 14 days. And if some people think it is 14 days and others think it is one day I thought that would be confusing. I have spoken to people already who are confused which is why I said that. From the facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=166449466757113 it is really hard to know what day people think they are going to contribute.

But, somehow my enthusiasm is seen as a me being destructive. That really hurts, because I want to help Ron more than anything. And to me at least, it seems like a no brainer to change the date to just the 17th. I don't get the objection to that. Maybe we have different ideas of how a MB works. I think it builds on momentum and I think people give that never planned to give when they get excited. I think that one huge day carries with it tons of good publicity and recognition. And if you have one huge day, people sit up and take notice and this is better than having a bunch of scattered days. If I am wrong, I am wrong, but I am not doing a thing to try to hurt Ron Paul and it hurts that people think that.
 
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The campaign just plugged the moneybomb on their Facebook! I take it they are on board!
Ron Paul
Looks like the grassroots in planning another big fundraiser for Constitution Day, September 17th! How exciting!
 
The campaign just plugged the moneybomb on their Facebook! I take it they are on board!

Very nice to see them on board this early! I think one of the big reasons the last money bomb was a sucess, was because the campaign promoted it more then they usually do.
 
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Someone posted Gage's new video for the moneybomb on the forums.


Why haven't I seen this before? It's incredibly well done.
 
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