Using robocalls to grow your Meetup and win straw polls

[rp08orbust]

What kind of 'robocalling' service was used for this? Correct me if I'm wrong but this seems like something that could be developed with a basic computer and a landline or internet connection. You could even tell someone to text the answer to an email address and then follow-up from there.

I use Google Voice for receiving the text messages. The robocalls require an awesome amount of CPU power and bandwidth, so using a professional service provider is a must.

 

[TexMac]

What if we become a professional service provider? I wonder what it would take.

 

[rp08orbust]

What if we become a professional service provider? I wonder what it would take.

Probably more money than we'll spend on robocalling by the end of the primaries.

 

[gerryb]

What if we become a professional service provider? I wonder what it would take.

I looked into this in May before everythign got started..

It's doable, if you want to invest, and learn telecom, and have $10,000 in volume a month to get good telecom pricing per minute.

 

[TexMac]

Can it be done with VOIP? What's the expensive part? Bandwidth?

 

[Eric21ND]

I tried, your message box is full.

Sorry, I cleaned it out now.

 

[TexMac]

What robocalling service was used for this?

Correct me if I'm wrong but this seems like something that could be developed at the cost of the watt hours of a running computer and a DSL internet connection. If there are SMS costs involved you could instead ask someone text the answer to an email address and have a script follow up with the response.

If there is no will or means to build and test an in-house robocalling framework, and this is going to be emulated in future straw polls, it would be far more financially scalable to contract the procedure out via elance.com and run it on your own machine or cloud service. I bet the contract for the entire framework and the operating costs for one poll combined would be no more than half of what was paid for robocalling services in the single GA poll.

Surely there must be costs I am missing or underestimating here. Perhaps the robocalling service had dozens of servers calling people nonstop? How many total phone calls were made?

I missed this post. This is exactly what I want to know as well. Anyone? Can we do robocalling?

 

[FriedChicken]

Gerryb,

you're saying that $10k a month will make us our own robo calling company? That seems like the most worth while investment the rev pac could be doing at the moment.
Can you imagine the amount of good we could do with 10grand of phone calls per month??? The chances of RP winning IA, NH and NV would move from being maybe to probably.

 

[gerryb]

Gerryb,

you're saying that $10k a month will make us our own robo calling company? That seems like the most worth while investment the rev pac could be doing at the moment.
Can you imagine the amount of good we could do with 10grand of phone calls per month??? The chances of RP winning IA, NH and NV would move from being maybe to probably.

No, I'm saying that's the total volume in sales you would need to bring the telecom costs per minute down to being competitive with what rp08 already gets. You'd also need to invest in capital infrastructure such as the servers and etc., and also marketing, sales, etc... certainly not out of the realm of possibility.. but at this point not a commitment anyone I'm aware of can really make.

 

[rp08orbust]

Let's repeat this success in California: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...o-boost-Ron-Paul-in-the-California-straw-poll!

 

[eaglesfan48]

Let's repeat this success in California: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...o-boost-Ron-Paul-in-the-California-straw-poll!

Lets do it. If we win this the media CAN NOT ignore it, it also shows just how 'electable' Ron Paul is for all those who want to say he is 'unelectable'.