TeaParty11.com - Dec 16th Money Bomb - Ron Paul Tea Party

[nathanielyao]

Decentralized sounds good. The first event that is there will be closed as soon as it is close to 5,000.

Facebook page is up:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/TeaParty11com-Dec-16th-Money-Bomb-Ron-Paul-Tea-Party/146300715469380

For the most up to date info, see the first post.

Good idea putting the website address in the title, though this might look a little better...

TeaParty11.com - Ron Paul's Dec 16th Tea Party Money Bomb

Also, what are we going to do with the Facebook strategy TexMac came up with? We haven't really gotten the chance to see its effectiveness yet, since nobody was interested in promoting 11/11/11. If it's impossible to incorporate an automatically updating total of all the Facebook events, maybe we should think about doing a manually updated leaderboard. I actually just noticed today that Gage created this page where people can submit their Facebook event and he can list them, though it isn't a leader board and it doesn't keep track of numbers.

If a page on the Tea Party website could be setup just for this and Dusman or somebody gave me access, I could receive emails from people submitting their Facebook events and add them to the page. I would also manually update the rankings on the leader board and the attendee totals for everyone. The top 10 could be listed on the front page as well as the overall total and there would be a link to the expanded page with the entire leader board, the rules and the explanation of the decentralized strategy.

Maybe we could even run two separate competitions, one for the pledge competition that Dusman created for Black This Out and one for Facebook event attendees. Each top 10 leader board could be listed on the front page side by side underneath the main content. The pledge competition would automatically update and the Facebook competition would be manually updated by me every day.

 

[jtbraine]

Decentralize Facebook has not worked for "support them now" PLEASE don't do this. If people want to create their own page they can.

 

[TexMac]

Decentralize Facebook has not worked for "support them now" PLEASE don't do this. If people want to create their own page they can.

Got a better idea? We're all ears, here.

 

[lucent]

"Support Them Now" hasn't been successful for many reasons.

I would argue for a more centralized method though. Close each official Facebook event when it gets near to 5,000 and then open up a new official one. Keep all of them databased on the website to keep track of how many attendees there are.

 

[TexMac]

"Support Them Now" hasn't been successful for many reasons.

I would argue for a more centralized method though. Close each official Facebook event when it gets near to 5,000 and then open up a new official one. Keep all of them databased on the website to keep track of how many attendees there are.

That's difficult to do. If you have 10,000 people invited and 4,999 confirmed attending, what happens to the 10,000 waiting reply when you "close" the event? Also, how exactly do you "close" it? If you end the event, your ability to message goes poof.

facebook has certain limitations. That's why we went to the decentralized idea.

 

[lucent]

That's difficult to do. If you have 10,000 people invited and 4,999 confirmed attending, what happens to the 10,000 waiting reply when you "close" the event? Also, how exactly do you "close" it? If you end the event, your ability to message goes poof.

facebook has certain limitations. That's why we went to the decentralized idea.

If you decentralize it, you are just going to get a bunch of repeat invites, thus wasting time.

 

[TexMac]

OK, what's your suggestion?

 

[lucent]

Could we get a pledge Facebook app? Might be a good way to establish a way to contact them.

 

[TexMac]

Does one exist? Can we make one? That's a good idea.

 

[lucent]

I would argue that the centralized method's benefits outweigh the detriments. The psychological effect of the large increasing number alone is worth not being able to message them. Knowing you are apart of a larger group is always motivating.

So I vote centralization and then work on a way to message them even if it means setting up a database of attendants as they join and messaging them manually.

 

[lucent]

One thing that could help us is a donation app on Ron Pauls Facebook. Have you seen Cains?
https://www.facebook.com/THEHermanCain?sk=app_238906602829597

We have been shouting for this forever. Whoever runs the campaign's social media is inept.

 

[sailingaway]

I only suggest we get this up as soon as possible. You know there will be copycats, we want it clear we were first, not just in 2007, but this time.

also, please don't ask members to 'slam' someone's web page.

 

[jtbraine]

As you can see I'm new to this forum. have you noticed ron pauls twitter hasnt even mentioned the money bomb. NO UP DATE.
http://twitter.com/#!/ronpaul

One of the things that annoys me is that I can watch Ron paul on TV, record it and upload it in ten minutes. Yet Ron Pauls youtube takes hours if not days to upload.
I'm just about to skype with my girlfriend so will be back in hour.

 

[TexMac]

I only suggest we get this up as soon as possible. You know there will be copycats, we want it clear we were first, not just in 2007, but this time.

also, please don't ask members to 'slam' someone's web page.

Did you delete his post? I thought I was losing my mind.

 

[lucent]

Would there be a way to combine a Fan Page, Facebook apps, and Twitter to accomplish something superior to Facebook Events?

 

[AmberH]

BTO didn't break records but it was our most successful money bomb of this cycle. With time before the Iowa caucuses running out why don't we just follow the same formula that made BTO a success.

We need 1 facebook event, and to agree on a goal of facebook attendees. Having the goal of 25,000 attendees set early last time is what really got the ball rolling. People were more motivated to promote because they had a goal to achieve and a way to measure their efforts daily.

The pledge site and the competition on the site were great motivators as well, the competition started late imagine if it would have started earlier.

Trying to reach the goal of 25,000 attendees motivated me to spend hours everyday promoting on facebook, I know it motivated others to do the same.

Without everyone working towards achieving clear attainable daily goals people won't be motivated to help promote.

 

[TexMac]

BTO didn't break records but it was our most successful money bomb of this cycle. With time before the Iowa caucuses running out why don't we just follow the same formula that made BTO a success.

We need 1 facebook event, and to agree on a goal of facebook attendees. Having the goal of 25,000 attendees set early last time is what really got the ball rolling. People were more motivated to promote because they had a goal to achieve and a way to measure their efforts daily.

The pledge site and the competition on the site were great motivators as well, the competition started late imagine if it would have started earlier.

Trying to reach the goal of 25,000 attendees motivated me to spend hours everyday promoting on facebook, I know it motivated others to do the same.

Without everyone working towards achieving clear attainable daily goals people won't be motivated to help promote.

None of the people who clicked "Attend" on the facebook event got a notification, that's why. BTO would have been FAR better if the facebook part of it had worked.

 

[dusman]

I may have found a solution.



This software looks pretty amazing. It almost seems like you could extract all the e-mails from the Ron Paul fan page with this.

Here is the web page: http://www.massmailsoftware.com/extractweb/index.htm

However, it does cost $79.85.

Now, with that said.. using this tool will piss a lot of people off, as these wouldn't be opt-ins. However, if we used it tactfully we could remain very transparent on what we are doing and encourage anyone who does not want to be added to the list to immediately unsubscribe. This is about the only tool I've seen do what it does. It's quite impressive. There are examples on YouTube of it extracting millions of e-mails from various web pages and such.

 

[TexMac]

I may have found a solution.



This software looks pretty amazing. It almost seems like you could extract all the e-mails from the Ron Paul fan page with this.

Here is the web page: http://www.massmailsoftware.com/extractweb/index.htm

However, it does cost $79.85.

Now, with that said.. this tool would piss a lot of people off, as these wouldn't be opt-ins. However, if we used it tactfully we could remain very transparent on what we are doing and encourage anyone who does not want to be added to the list to immediately unsubscribe. This is about the only tool I've seen do what it does. It's quite impressive. There are examples on YouTube of it extracting millions of e-mails from various web pages and such.

Do you have TechnoRob working with you? Ask him about it.

 

[dusman]

Do you have TechnoRob working with you? Ask him about it.

TechnoRob? Has he used this?