If you want the rest of the broadcast money
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M.Bellmore
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I'm confused. Money for what?
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Look at the campaign website. We are not going to meet the fundraising goal by midnight tonight! www.ronpaul2008.com
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What? We are $120,000 from reaching our goal. We have to make that by midnight tonight.
I'm just saying, we have had good growth this quarter. Every week is getting bigger and better.
I'm not too big on this goal-within-a-goal Broadcast Freedom idea.
We have an overarching goal of $12m by Dec. 31st, which we're doing well on (on pace to raise about $7m but it's trending upward), and a sub-goal of earning $4m in October which was probably ambitious (should have been 3,4,5 instead of 4,4,4as Jonathan Bydlak himself acknowledged).
So what do we need this sub-sub goal for? So my message to the Ron Paul campaign would be, you just tell us how much money you need online and when you need it by and let us figure out how to raise it!
Decentralization, the secret to success.
We have an overarching goal of $12m by Dec. 31st, which we're doing well on (on pace to raise about $7m but it's trending upward), and a sub-goal of earning $4m in October which was probably ambitious (should have been 3,4,5 instead of 4,4,4as Jonathan Bydlak himself acknowledged).
So what do we need this sub-sub goal for? So my message to the Ron Paul campaign would be, you just tell us how much money you need online and when you need it by and let us figure out how to raise it!
Decentralization, the secret to success.
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Yes, but we really need to reach this goal set out by the campaign.
No, we don't. They should follow their own principles and not micromanage the online fundraising. They gave us a goal -- $12m by the end of Q4, and subgoals of $4 per month -- and they're doing an excellent job transparently conveying as much fundraising data as possible to the supporter network. This transparency allows incredible things like RonPaulGraphs.com and the Ron Paul Money Bomb to sprout spontaneously.
That's all they should do. They shouldn't throw sub-goals in! Let the market decide what the best way to raise money is. And look at the havoc it's playing with the Ron Paul Money Bomb, people deciding whether to give now or then. As with government intervention, central planning does not lead to the market choosing the best ideas.
Good stuff! The money bombs and November 5th are doing well, although I would like to raise 3million this month!
Would you like to make a wager with me? $16,000 per hour is not do-able yet. Its not going to happen, as much as I've been working to get it done.
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OH Puhleese. Other people on this board were begging for the campaign to set shorter term goals. They listened. Now, we're bitching about it.
Yes, it's up to you when you want to donate, or whether you want to donate at all. I guess it all depends upon whether one is more interested in helping the campaign, or in furthering a pet project.
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Nice attitude. Let's just all lay down and quit on the entire campaign. The odds are just too high.
OH Puhleese. Other people on this board were begging for the campaign to set shorter term goals. They listened. Now, we're bitching about it.
Yes, it's up to you when you want to donate, or whether you want to donate at all. I guess it all depends upon whether one is more interested in helping the campaign, or in furthering a pet project.
I don't have a dog in the ron paul bomb vs broadcast freedom fight. but i think it would be both mor profitable and more consistent to do this the libertarian way!
Nice attitude. Let's just all lay down and quit on the entire campaign. The odds are just too high.
as much as I've been working to get it done. You work as hard as you can, but clicking your heels and squinting your eyes shut and wishing on pixie dust is not going to make it so.
NOBODY LISTEN TO THIS!!!
Lets not fight the official campaign!
I will graciously submit to them!!
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Well, I'm not a libertarian. I am an AMERICAN and I say, NEVER SAY DIE!!! The campaign asked us to meet a goal and we damn sure had better do everything in our power to reach it!
OK but Liberty Eagle, how do you counter my argument that the campaign setting sub-sub goals like Broadcast Freedom will lead to LESS money earned in the long term?
I mean, let's say we make the 430K goal tonight. How much more did BF bring in over what would normally have been brought in? Maybe 100K? But, as with top-down decision-making in general, what's lost is harder to calculate. Did it undercut enthusiasm for the RPMB? Stifle another idea?
It's the same principle why the Politburo shouldn't have decided how many shoes the Soviet people needed produced on an annual basis: you let the market make these decisions. Same with shoes as in fundraising!
Did I just compare the Ron Paul Campaign to the Politburo? Yes, but only to make a point!
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F'in brilliant. I love Liberty and the Libertarians.
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