Next Possible Money Bomb Ideas/Theme

[No Free Beer]

i'm telling you "a bomb for peace"

who wouldn't give to a peace bomb!!!?!!?1

I will try and add that.

 

[Liberty74]

I think we should have a title that is issue oriented toward the masses:

Bring The Troops Home

What percentage of people want the troops to come home? 60% plus? I think such issue could easily be spread on the internet grabbing people's attention and getting more people aware of who Ron Paul is for those that don't know. People are sick of wars and really don't want another according to a recent poll. Previous 2008 Obama supporters showed up in this week's rally supporting Ron Paul because of his anti-war stance. Heck, about half the Republicans don't want another war. "Bring The Troops Home" money bomb has mass appeal.

 

[carterm]

I will try and add that.

thanks, the play on words is good AND here we could stress that paul truly is the only peace candidate this election cycle!!!

 

[pcgame]

Revolution vs. Romneycare - Round 2

this is good

 

[IterTemporis]

I think we should have a title that is issue oriented toward the masses:

Bring The Troops Home

What percentage of people want the troops to come home? 60% plus? I think such issue could easily be spread on the internet grabbing people's attention and getting more people aware of who Ron Paul is for those that don't know. People are sick of wars and really don't want another according to a recent poll. Previous 2008 Obama supporters showed up in this week's rally supporting Ron Paul because of his anti-war stance. Heck, about half the Republicans don't want another war. "Bring The Troops Home" money bomb has mass appeal.

Except that we already had a support the troops moneybomb.

 

[wgadget]

Um. Is this an OFFICIAL poll?

 

[CanadiansForLiberty]

GOOGLE RON PAUL MONEY BOMB

 

[IterTemporis]

Hmm.. Since I voted for it, I might as well explain why I like it.

Even after RP is gone, which hopefully will be far from today, his message will live on within all of us, the message is immortal. It cannot be extinguished.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

Maybe we can have a money bomb to donate to a good, respectable charity? Raising 1 million for a charity should get some news coverage eh? =P

 

[goldpants]

It is time once and for all for Americans to know what their money is backed with, where it comes from and how the fed is destroying our country. Those that already know how things work with the fed system will be eager to donate, spread message and those that don't know need to be informed now. Sure the topic would scare off some members and of course many others but the ones it connects with will give a lot of money, spread the message organically and would add depth to our grassroot brigades.

I fear some here will say things like this subject is too exotic or conspiratorial but it is neither. When people approach me about Ron Paul (because of blue ball cap or bumperstickers) the first subject the jump to discuss is gold or end the fed or sound money or income tax or national debt. I don't have people approaching me about marijuana or guns or civil liberties or even the wars. Perhaps I attract the oddballs or perhaps this federal reserve system and unsound money is a lot bigger issue than our MSM tells us it is.

 

[No Free Beer]

Um. Is this an OFFICIAL poll?

I am not that pretentious

 

[orenbus]

Whichever theme is next I just hope everyone that is so excited about the "planning phase" of picking a theme and date actually does the promotion efforts not just the day or two before the MB but the weeks before the MB date (which seems to be the biggest disconnect ever since BTO, TP07, 11/5), that includes many of the people that will most likely will be posting in this thread.

 

[orenbus]

"NOBP" was a fantastic theme, we just didn't have enough time to promote it.

This isn't entirely correct, as others pointed out in previous threads there was a full three weeks that the grassroots had to promote NOBP, in 2007 grassroots had about the same length of time to promote those money bombs, the issue wasn't that there was not enough time to promote it. The NOBP site was originallly completed with the core functionality, ready to be used to promote the MB on Jan 23rd.

Why do Moneybombs Take So Long?

My post in the Promo thread on Jan 23rd

This point needs to be stressed because if you want to identify what the reason is for not reaching the intended money bomb goal targets you need to understand the cause.

The truth is, is that both members in the grassroots as well as leaders, moderators, admins, etc. did not care enough to promote the event until the last couple of days before the money bomb date. I'm not going to sugar coat this point, because whichever theme or date is chosen this issue will creep up again even if you have six months to promote the money bomb if people only start to promote it three or four days prior to the date, regardless of how much lead up time there is, the ramp up time won't matter much.

In your previous thread asking "why do money bombs take so long", I'm assuming you had not heard about the money bomb until the week prior to the date, if I'm not correct about this then I apologize. But it does seem to me that if we do not have enough promotion and backing from some of the major Ron Paul sites weeks leading up to the date the word of the money bomb would not reach potentially those that would otherwise spend some time in promoting it or generate creative assets; videos, printed materials, widgets, images, etc. Although I agree some time is needed in order to generate these the more important point is that individuals and those in the position to get the word out quickly whether through email lists or through a website do so early on in the process so that a snowball effect can occur, the longer people wait until a few days before the money bomb date the more likely not as much money will have been raised as could have been.

The amount of time past two to three weeks doesn't matter from a logistical point of view if people choose not to promote it because they would rather gossip about the latest news about the current primary/caucus or latest nugget of speculation about the horse race in other threads. There will always be competition for resources when it comes to grassroots projects and the pool of Ron Paul activists and volunteers is finite, no matter how much some want to believe that the total numbers spans hundreds of thousands that are willing to lay down on tracks to get him in the White House. And to be honest you don't need a huge number to have a very successful money bomb to get the snow ball effect rolling but you do need at least 50-100 individuals determined to do promotion every day for three weeks, with the backing of RPF, DP and some other sites in order to get things moving early on and the major sites need to be persistant in their support for the money bomb through visible communication that people will see every day over the course of three weeks. For sites such as RPF not to have a money bomb banner for the entire promotion time up until a couple of days before the event or for Daily Paul not to have the MB promo video stickied until one or two days before the event is just beyond the pale, and is an insult to those of us that worked hard in trying to raise money for Ron Paul to continue this campaign, in some ways honestly I feel certain people should be ashamed of themselves.

As was said in the movie V for Vendetta if you want to find someone to blame you need only look into a mirror. If people are not willing to at the very least change their Avatar, as recently mentioned blog post; Ron Paul supporters leave millions of dollars of free advertising on the table, this will be a recurring problem. Instead of spending so much time trying to figure out the perfect date or perfect theme we should be addressing the issue and getting to the root of the question why don't people proactively promote money bombs any more like they did in 2007? Why is it that people in positions to promote money bombs to literally tens of thousands decide to wait until the last possible second? And more importantly how can people be motivated to promote the money bomb regardless of theme? What types of techniques can be used so that a person with the least or very little time can do simple actions to promote the money bomb that influence the most people to do the same? Do we really need to spam 10 threads constantly bumped on the front page of grassroots central and have inflammatory titles in threads in order to get peoples attention to promote the money bomb?

Finally (and this is directed to everyone reading or writing in this thread) I wonder how many of you writing in this thread about specific themes will actually commit to spending an hour or so each day during the promotion time leading up to the money bomb? My guess is not many, if you are reading this thread you need to do more than just be involved in this brainstorm "planning" phase if you truly want a successful money bomb it is going to take more than words, you will need to take action. Even if we pick the best most perfect theme if there are not people to promote it the effectiveness is lost.

It's one thing to talk the talk, it's another thing entirely to walk the walk. How dedicated of a Ron Paul supporter are you? Just enough to B.S. on forums or will you actually take action to change the course of the campaign and help Ron Paul get the funding to spread the message? Some of you spend hours and hours on this forum, but I saw very little effort from all but maybe five or six people this past money bomb doing actual promotion work the weeks leading up to 2/14. Why is it you only involve yourself enough to talk about the direction of a money bomb through a theme or date but not actually do anything beyond that? For many of you the excuse of not having enough time can't be used because you post in other threads to gossip about other things going on, why do you not see the importance of raising money for the campaign but are willing to spend hours talking about it's impact after caucus and primaries are lost by only a couple hundred votes where the money would have been used for media buys that could have swayed enough voters to win? Why is it people are willing to travel hundreds of miles to see Ron Paul speak, but then not spend that same amount of time to do actual campaign volunteering work? Why do people feel it's more important to be entertained then to participate?

Why?

 

[KMX]

"We Are The People" Money Bomb!

 

[justatrey]

So far I like "Bailout Liberty" or "Bailout Freedom" the best.

Just bumping this because we still need to decide on something. The campaign is running on fumes, I'm sure...

 

[gorgonzola]

something with a founder theme may be effective.

 

[DonovanJames]

something with a founder theme may be effective.

Shot Heard Around the World

The line is originally from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837), and referred to the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. This 1775 proverbial first shot was fired during an armed stand-off between British forces and local militia in Lexington, escalating into engagements at the Old North Bridge in the battles of Lexington and Concord.

 

[wgadget]

No One But Paul...*

*Note the ellipsis.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?362793-quot-No-One-But-Paul.....