Why isn't this moneybomb doing better?

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[trey4sports]

So that wouldnt be counting offline donations? If that number was not a cache issue.

i'm not sure, it very well could be a technical error, but my guess is that it is the money raised from the end of the last moneybomb until the start of this moneybomb. We raised roughly 1 million through all of last quarter in non moneybomb situations. So 400K for one month this quarter seems very reasonable.

If you are talking about todays MB I recall seeing the slow creep from below 100,000

I meant the day before the moneybomb. I wasn't implying that the 400K was included in the moneybomb.

 

[justatrey]

Some people are literally 100% broke and do not have $5 to donate. We can't blame them for anything. Let's say that 25% of Paul supporters fall into this category. That still leaves millions of Ron Paul supporters. 15,000 supporters donated. I still don't get it. All I know is we're doing it wrong!

Maybe we need to really emphasize how big a difference $5 can make? Most people can afford a happy meal, right?

I mean $5 * 1,000,000 = $5,000,000.

For Black This Out, I suggest we don't try to encourage big $100+ donations but instead focus on improving the number of donors.

 

[pacelli]

Unless I am seriously mistaken, the average amount donated today was about the same as the one where we got $6 million dollars. The difference is the number of people that donate. On this site all I see are that people are split all over the place working on different things. We only had one money bomb at a time last time and had no plans for future ones, so we ALL worked together on each one.

This time, I see people saying they are working on this money bomb or that one...For this one, people made suggestions and were told to get lost. I know. I was one of those people, so...I got lost. So did a lot of others.

For a long time, this moneybomb was promoted as an end of quarter push and the date on facebook was 2 weeks long. People had no idea what day they were supposed to donate.

It isn't about the economy. It is about organization, and help. I don't know if traffic is down on this site, but it sure feels like it. I remember when threads were gone off the front page in a matter of seconds. I also see people talking about food recipes on the chat room rather than doing anything to help Ron. Not making any judgments, but it seems to me that is taking focus from the hard work.

I think we need to really work together to make the Black this Out moneybomb THE BIG ONE. We need one million people to donate, not 10,000. We need to ALL work on that moneybomb and that one only. If others are working on one in November, then we won't be able to do what needs to be done.

We need thread after thread about how to get more people to pledge to donate. We need to have folks share ideas about where they are posting this moneybomb and how effective their strategy is. When I work 9 hours straight and send out as many messages as I can on Facebook, I see around 60 or so click attend each day. When I take a day off, I see two or three added to the total.

However, I can't do this alone. One person getting 60 people a day is not very effective. One thousand people getting 60 people a day is. How about we just try to get one hundred people all working to get 60 people a day to join up?

If we don't get Ron a ton of money and very soon, he might be out of funds and the race by November. If we can really work hard to make a difference on the BTO bomb, we might get others to join in the help.

And one last thing...I know I will get blasted to hell for this...but this forum needs focus. I have seen so many people run off of this place because of the things in Hot Topics, or things that get sent to Hot topics. We need to be attracting people to this site so we can get workers. And the bashing each other, or anything, or any group has to stop. We are being destroyed by it. I don't like to be here because people seem like it is ok to attack people and they love to attack me for saying what needs to be said. Well, I am human and I don't like to sit here with my heart pounding, filled with feelings of dread. Being told I should just leave if I don't like the way it is. If we can't speak up and say what needs to be said, we have no chance.

I hope people take the time to read Monique's post above.

 

[ItsTime]

Monique is awesome! She has helped lay the ground work for a huge Black This Out moneybomb. Now that the one day, Constitution, event is moving into the end of the quarter push, we need to focus on getting Black This Out as big as we can!

 

[RonRules]

I'll be here for the "Black This Out" moneybomb. Please stop bickering, donate and encourage others to donate too.

Meanwhile the Constitution moneybomb ticker is still ticking and we will exceed $900K in a few seconds. We can get this over one Million.

Thank you for all that donated.

 

[William R]

The economy.

 

[pacelli]

By the way, if anyone from the campaign is reading this thread (and I know you are), could you please politely suggest to Dr. Paul that perhaps he can also help plug these moneybombs by mentioning them during interviews?

There's been 2 moneybombs so far where Ron has done either a national radio or TV interview on the day of the moneybomb, yet he mentioned nothing about them. However, he or his campaign surrogates sent out an email asking for existing supporters to donate.

If Dr. Paul sees the benefit of doing a phone interview on the moneybomb radio program on each moneybomb day, surely he can see the benefit of plugging the moneybomb during national interviews.

Please ask Ron to mention the Black This Out moneybomb.

 

[Sjmfury]

If we could break 1 million in the next 12 hours, I'd be happy

 

[hubze]

I donated twice and donated in the last one as well, but do agree I think so many people are tapped out. There is also the Super PAC coming Monday. It is sad that this is driven more by money than anything, which I know is no fault of Ron's. And if Ron would sell out to a couple lobbyists, he would stand a better chance...but his principles do not let him do this...which is even MORE reason to want to help him...so even if times are tough think of it this way...if Ron Paul does not get into office in 2012, they will be even tougher...so much so that I feel the middle class will all but be wiped out...so even if you have to do what we did and have a garage sale...I sold my guitar...my pride and joy yesterday because I KNOW how important this is...and that once things are on their way to getting fixed I can get another one...

So it depends on how serious you are. If you can sell something for $20 and turn around and donate the $$ then do it...where there is a will there truly is a way.

 

[hubze]

I hope people take the time to read Monique's post above.

I totally agree! We are trying to organize by creating social media marches to do just that...on these days have it organized so people know what they need to do...we can all work together and promote together. It seems that people need to get re-motivated and I think some ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT would help. I talked to Ron Paul's official social media staff, because that is our expertise and they are going to use us to do all of their Facebook stuff and one thing I have been suggesting to them is to POST MORE OFTEN on the official pages and to engage the people more who are posting...I know realistically they cannot respond to every post, but even if they responded to several per day they would create a new wave of excitement...

So let US work together to help organize. I am sorry to keep promoting our site but http://socialmediamarch.org is where we are trying to organize social media marches...and we NEED mass numbers to make an impact so TELL ALL YOU KNOW and let's pick up the ball where it even seems that the media staff for Rons official campaign is...I mean when I was on a conference call with the whole team...they just do not seem excited enough in my opinion...so let's do it ourselves!

I am in no way knocking them because I KNOW they are very busy...but I know if they implemented what I have suggested to them, they would have close to a million fans right now...anyway that is neither here nor there. LET'S GET THIS DONE!!!!

RON PAUL 2012!!!