FreeMe.tv spinoff

[tangent4ronpaul]

as to the squatters, is Free-Me.tv available?

When we did fairs in IA, we got a great payoff but didn't have enough people to staff all of them.

I loved FreeMe.tv and thought the ratio of fun clips to political ones 3:1 was perfect! Was actually thinking of doing something like that, but bringing the streaming to the public. Now how do you plant a cheap big screen (actually a bunch of them) in front of a bunch of people waiting in line? Well, you throw a carnival and offer free rides.

Hay, come back here! This IS NOT a blimp type project! In fact it's close to free!

http://www.midwayoffun.com/brass_ring_answers.html

How much will it cost us to have a carnival?
Nothing. In fact, Brass Ring Amusements carnivals have been successfully generating significant income for community and charity groups for years. A percentage agreement will be negotiated with you as a sponsoring organization and will be designed to give your committee maximum return for your fundraising efforts. You may be required to obtain the appropriate license and/or permit for the event, but we'll discuss that beforehand so we all know what to expect.

These usually go town to town and stay at each location for a week. OK, it wouldn't actually be nothing. On our end a crew to travel with the carnival and their expenses, a bunch of older big screen TV's ($100-$200 each), license and permit costs, land rental, if necessary, serious advance advertising, a booth, bulk t-shirts, security (rent a cop) things like that. Maybe custom themed prizes for the game booths.

In exchange for free rides and admission, let them keep 100% of games and food revenue. But they provide a booth for us and our peeps get free food. Probably have to rent a RV for the summer.

Because rides are free, the place is going to be packed! That means longish lines and tons of people being exposed to our propaganda. (a big screen by every major/popular ride)

Now on T-shirts... campaigns usually print them up and sell them for fundraising. Lets not do that. They also usually say something like "Rand Paul 2016". The kind of thing people that are already supporters usually wear to a Meetup or a rally and get as campaign memorabilia. Not the kind of thing likely to spur a conversation.

Instead of raising funds to buy billboard and TV ad space, embrace that a person wearing a t-shirt is a walking billboard and give them away or sell them at cost. There are two important additional parts here. First design them so that they will promote discussion and second each one comes with a short form version of what Rand stands for - dead tree version.

Promote discussion, hu?

A light bulb in every commode! (get um curious)
Rand Paul 2016

What would Rand Do? (take off on WWJW? or Who is John Gualt?)

If you drop a bomb on a pregnant woman (mess with their mind a bit - 2 issues with one slogan)
is it still considered an abortion?
Rand Paul
Anti-War
Pro-Life

I bet David Dees would let us use his artwork, for free or for a commission...
http://www.deesillustration.com/index.asp

Rand Paul can fix this!

ugh - blocked images...

http://www.deesillustration.com/artwork.asp?item=443&cat=satire
Rand Paul can fix this!

http://www.deesillustration.com/artwork.asp?item=1208&cat=satire
Want a real choice? Vote for Rand Paul!

He's got some good surveillance state stuff too.

The Propaganda Remix Project might be willing to do the same, though the artist is a leftie. There are issues in common and it would be publicity for him.

http://propagandaremix.com/

-t

 

[orenbus]

Hey Tangent,

The domain with the dash is available, but not sure we would want that one. Most likely if we don't end up getting the original, will just rebrand with another name.

I loved FreeMe.tv and thought the ratio of fun clips to political ones 3:1 was perfect! Was actually thinking of doing something like that, but bringing the streaming to the public.

Thanks! Yea that was the whole idea around FreeMe.TV to make the information sharing about the candidate, message, and the campaign be an enjoyable experience of discovery. That's awesome you picked up on the ratio, that's exactly the mixture we were going for.

Honestly for FreeMe.TV it all started originally from the opening words in this video:



"because saving the country should be fun"

Motivation comes easy when your doing something you enjoy and the experience becomes a contagious fun time for supporters and those new to the candidate as well, which ends up being a great way to promote.

The carnival idea may be a good one if it can be done right, I would be interested to hear Deb's opinion as I don't really have a lot of experience with event organizing, and I know she does. Screens with playing video in the background would be amazing. I didn't know this until recently, but during 2007 FreeMe.TV was being played in some of the official campaign offices on TVs in the background, which was really cool to hear. There was a lot of good, and bad, ideas that came out of 2007, but I think many of the good ones may have been lost over the years mostly because of not having the resources to implement. I think we're totally open to new ideas or spin-off implementations of some of the old ones, although like anything else it boils down to resources, time, and how much support there is out there. I think we'll know more in two weeks.