Official 11.11.11 Planning Thread - 17,000 Pledges - Decentralize Facebook Promotion

[Sentinelrv]

Wow, it's SO great that we have an email list from BTO!! /s

I've been growing more and more aggravated with this money bomb each passing day. There's a lack of communication with Gage. I still haven't received a reply about my image and pledge banners. I guess I wasted two days making them for my health. I've received no reply about the pledge competition. People are dropping the ball with the email list and promotion. There's been such a careless attitude from so many people on the forum about this money bomb. It's very upsetting to me after all the work I and others have put into this. I didn't even want to come online yesterday because of these issues.

 

[TexMac]

I know. With the website so unresponsive, I've pretty much moved to facebook. There's a huge pool of RP supporters there, it's just a matter of figuring out how to keep them engaged with the moneybomb.

I've already got 60 people here! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ron-Paul-MoneyBombers/169029589855978

 

[radiofriendly]

I've posted about it on the front of www.DailyPaul.com go make some comments to engage people over there.
I say, let's just do the best we can...I did what I could today, passing out some of the cards.

 

[TexMac]

Agree. I upvoted your article on DP.

 

[Bruise_Lii]

Just added a dedicated page for this event on the Ron Paul App!

 

[mikeforliberty]

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141241559309349 Got about 20 attendees. I think there are tons of these little events. As long as we can remind everyone throughout the day on the 11th it should be a success. Is this a 1 day only or are we going to run it for a few days?

 

[dante]

Can the owner of the BTO facebook event post about the upcoming money bomb on his wall daily? This will show up in many people's news feeds. It's not the same as being able to message everyone - but we have to work with what we've got here.

 

[dante]

Can the owner of the BTO facebook event post about the upcoming money bomb on his wall daily? This will show up in many people's news feeds. It's not the same as being able to message everyone - but we have to work with what we've got here.

Can someone answer my question above?

Secondly, has an email gone out yet to the 11k people who pledged on the BTO website?

 

[TexMac]

Can someone answer my question above?

Secondly, has an email gone out yet to the 11k people who pledged on the BTO website?

The answer to your second question is no.

 

[dante]

The answer to your second question is no.

Why not? Who controls that website?

 

[TexMac]

We discussed it here:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?328317-Reality-Check-on-Fundraising

sailingaway got confirmation that an email was being prepared to be sent out on Sunday, but it hasn't appeared yet.

 

[TexMac]

Can someone answer my question above?

Secondly, has an email gone out yet to the 11k people who pledged on the BTO website?

I believe ItsTime had the BTO Twitter account and "official" facebook event page, and he hasn't been on the forum for the past 5 days. http://www.ronpaulforums.com/member.php?3485-ItsTime

 

[Sentinelrv]

I talked to WD-NY and he said that he's getting the BTO email ready to be sent out. Hopefully it will go out by today.

 

[TexMac]

I talked to WD-NY and he said that he's getting the BTO email ready to be sent out. Hopefully it will go out by today.

They need to make it simpler if it's that hard to format and get out.

 

[bluesc]

I talked to WD-NY and he said that he's getting the BTO email ready to be sent out. Hopefully it will go out by today.

Haven't we been asking for that for a week now? I haven't been keeping up to date with the whole situation because it's been a clusterfuck with this whole email list situation, so I've been promoting the official pledge page.

Wtf has been going on with the email list? Why hasn't it been available to the people running this moneybomb?

 

[TexMac]

Haven't we been asking for that for a week now? I haven't been keeping up to date with the whole situation because it's been a clusterfuck with this whole email list situation, so I've been promoting the official pledge page.

Wtf has been going on with the email list? Why hasn't it been available to the people running this moneybomb?

I've been pushing for update type emails regularly like Trevor used to do. Now, we're THREE days out and still nothing. I switched all my promotion efforts over to RP's pledge page as soon as it came out because of this. I hope they put a pledge page up right away for the next bomb so we don't have to go through this again.

 

[bluesc]

I've been pushing for update type emails regularly like Trevor used to do. Now, we're THREE days out and still nothing. I switched all my promotion efforts over to RP's pledge page as soon as it came out because of this. I hope they put a pledge page up right away for the next bomb so we don't have to go through this again.

If my email ends up getting sold, I'm not going to be happy.

There should be a database for the email list that Josh and some other MB planners have access to, so this kind of thing doesn't happen again. Didn't Trevor also do something controversial with the big email list last time?

This kind of thing should definitely be in the hands of the campaign in the future. They have the emails and the pledge site, we spend time promoting instead of getting caught up in all this stuff again.

 

[TexMac]

If my email ends up getting sold, I'm not going to be happy.

There should be a database for the email list that Josh and some other MB planners have access to, so this kind of thing doesn't happen again. Didn't Trevor also do something controversial with the big email list last time?

This kind of thing should definitely be in the hands of the campaign in the future. They have the emails and the pledge site, we spend time promoting instead of getting caught up in all this stuff again.

All I can say is at least Trevor sent out emails. I agree, we should get out of the email list business. The campaign is pushing this with their massive list. I got a moneybomb email from Rand yesterday. If the campaign would put a pledge site up early, we could just push to that and not bother with our own site. The only reason for site is to get email pledges and that obviously isn't working anymore, witness the SupportThemNow site, which has the grand total of 815 email pledges 3 days out from the moneybomb.

 

[bluesc]

All I can say is at least Trevor sent out emails. I agree, we should get out of the email list business. The campaign is pushing this with their massive list. I got a moneybomb email from Rand yesterday. If the campaign would put a pledge site up early, we could just push to that and not bother with our own site. The only reason for site is to get email pledges and that obviously isn't working anymore, witness the SupportThemNow site, which has the grand total of 815 email pledges 3 days out from the moneybomb.

Yep. I'm not sure if the BTO list can be given to the campaign though, and they would have to buy it. I say that's BS, and we hand it over to Josh (if he has time to manage it).

If the campaign is running ads, I think our pledge site is pretty much irrelevant now. Time to go into overdrive with promotion for the official pledge page

 

[TexMac]

Check out the Rand story I just posted. It has a link to the pledge page embedded in it! The campaign did good there, now if we could get a donation button on Ron's facebook.....