The LibertyPAC Money Bomb - Analysis for future use:

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First off....

Thank You All!!

With out everyones support of spreading the message, creating video and graphics, and of course donating as my $20.12 would not have meant much.

Now on to work.....

The LibertyPAC money bomb was born on February 8th, That gave us 12 days to promote it. This was the biggest downside of the event, and we still pulled through with an amazing day. The other downside was the fact the Dr. Paul has not yet announced. Both of these issues should be eliminated in future money bombs.

Facebook
I found that using a Facebook event was extremely effective. It allows a much easier "reach out" then typical means of getting someone to visit a website. I think any money bombs should at least include, if not use an event page as its main core.

One thing I did not implement was a separate group for the event. My thinking on this would be that the group can be used for prep work such as graphics, videos, and tools to be used in promotion of the event. the advantage of a group over a event page for this is that you have a inner discussion board where things can be easily organized.

An aspect that we need to better consider and take advantage of is FB Ad buys. know several people did these out of there own pocket and accord. In the future we need to coordinate these efforts to have several ads that target different focus groups. Also if we pool our money we can purchase a much larger ad buy for core targeted audiences.

Reaching Out
Facebook was great for reaching those we already are connected with. We need to always be trying to bring in new people. Any moneybomb we create needs to have an educational impact; about Ron Paul, and hopefully some history as well.

We need to better coordinate twitter so we are able to crate a trending event. We should compose templates for several different tweets, make sure they all link to a singular place (yesterday links were to the forums, the event page, and to LibertyPAC) and that we are consistent with # tag use.

We also should pre-format templates for us to send to our personal friends, family, and others via email and other messaging. This is something that could be valuable to brining in those that don't normally donate to politicians but want to be a part of something thats going to be newsworthy and record breaking.

Bomb in a Bomb
Last night at 9:00PM I proposed a mini-bomb that was to hopefully bring in 100k in a single hour. Part of that idea was to drive donations, but also as an experiment. I wanted to see how rapidly our connected universe could coordinate a money bomb, and discriminate information. I have not had a chance to see raw data, or interactive graphs but the following graph does seem to show a measurable steeper incline during the 'power hour'

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What I take form this is that we can mobilize very rapidly. This could be used throughout the campaign for "mini-bombs" that have little to no planning in advance. These type of events could be done as responses to media bias, other candidates statements, and during debates.

Conclusion
With pulling off nearly 400k with less then two weeks of planning I know that we will have a TEN Million dollar day moneybomb during the campaign. We have to work at it and we well coordinated. We have to reach out even further to those that our nor necessarily within out circle.

Again Thank you. I would love to hear everyone else's analysis and thoughts. 2012 has Begun and this was just a muster call to action.

~Damon
 
LibertyPAC has $733,176 as of 1:30pm February 22nd, 2011. I believe this is a fantastic amount, as it means there is very strong support for the man already. If he announces, he will certainly multiply this amount in a very short time.

According to http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-12-30-1Agopprez30_ST_N.htm, here's where the others stand:

PHP:
Haley Barbour $1.1 million	
Mike Huckabee $1.8 million	
Newt Gingrich $705,279
Sarah Palin	$5.4 million
Tim Pawlenty $3.3 million
Mitt Romney $7.4 million
Source: CQMoneyLine; Federal Election Commission

I donated my $20.12. I sure hope Ron runs!
 
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I think you are pretty much spot on with this. Especially with the twitter point. Trending topics on both google and twitter can have a HUGE effect and if we are coordinating and uniform with our delivery of our tweets, it could help the next bomb immensely.

We need to look at other alternative strategies as well. I have been talking to people I play with on Call of Duty when using my RonPaulPres2012 account and explaining to them the principles behind the Liberty movement (to people I realize are old enough to vote). There were a few people who liked Paul who didn't know about this moneybomb and me talking about it reminded them. I've also reached a few new people. While this may not have the largest impact, it is something fairly easy to do when you are playing games.

Another thing that I'm not sure has been done is "desktop bombing". I just came up with that actually, but a few days ago I posted the link to a background I made to remind people of the money bomb. You could slap these on a thumb drive and whatever computer you use whether it be at school, a friends house, the library, you set the background to the reminder. I will be posting a thread with an updated version for every big event.

Even the smallest measures can help the cause.

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3077/moneybombbackground.jpg
 
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What if we implemented some sort of phone calling system? Right now, we are completely immersed in the internet side of things. We have some great ideas for Facebook and Twitter. We also have a pretty strong Reddit system going (could probably use some work though). It seems to me that we could reach some more people, and even generate more interest in future Money Bombs/Barrages/Liberty Strikes by focused use of a phone bank. I am not sure of the logistics, but something like Schiff had might work well. If we do end up looking into this, I would suggest ignoring youth all together, since we are so connected through the internet, and put more effort into the older generation. Besides letting them know, it might sway them to support Ron Paul simply because a 'nice young man' called them on the phone...

Just my .02 cents.
 
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