Boy its good to see and old face! GHoeber, Any idea on why we cant get as many pledges now as in 07? This just doesnt make since to me.
Alright, here's my take:
I think there's many reasons why pledging and promoting isn't going as fast as in 2007:
- By far biggest reason: the majority of Ron Paul supporters has moved from RonPaulForums and DailyPaul in 2007 to Facebook-supporters in 2011/2012. And these people are rarely being contacted to promote moneybombs!
We simply don't seem to be able anymore to reach our fellow supporters!
- Facebook-group owners are out of touch with grassroots-people. And not only out of touch with grassroots, these people don't even respond to the official campaign....
- The decline of Meetup.com: in 2007 there were 100.000 active Ron Paul supporters on meetup.com: they were extremely important spreading the word in the 2nd stage!
- And a minor reason is that even RonPaulForums isn't supporting moneybombs as hard as they used to. (I've just sent a message this morning to ask them to promote it more)
So far for the period before the moneybomb; during the moneybombs itself there is also some things lacking. First of all, there have been two very successful moneybombs in the 2012-cycle (TeaParty11 had a total of 2,99 million in one day ($4 mln with weekend included) and BlackThisOut had 2,16 million in one day ($3 mln with weekend included), but we are missing:
- Ron Paul Graphs (this had a really huge impact, often overlooked)
- Ron Paul Radio of DJ Loti
Having said that, if we can promote No One But Paul on Youtube-channel Ronpaul2008dotcom and the biggest Ron Paul facebook-groups,
we can definitely make the €3 MILLION goal for No One But Paul.