Do you have any idea how many people are on a typical ad agencies purchasing team? That is their whole job, purchasing the ads. We are also managing the money, manning the website, looking over possible commercials and brainstorming the editing they'll need, promoting the project to get money. I will try to answer questions but cannot spend this much time when you so obviously want to believe the worst. There is nothing I could say to you or do to satisfy you.
Once again, kickbacks are illegal. There is something called an "Agency Commission" that is standard that TV stations pay to those who connect them with advertisers. That's it, that's the only money we will receive for the Super Bowl Sunday ads.
I am going to have the wording changed because that is what these will be "Super Bowl Sunday Ads". We will try to get the most exposure we can with the money we receive and in some markets that means ad slots during pre-game shows or footage during the 3 hour long meet the candidates political special that morning.
There is no such thing as this project "falling through" by more than perhaps $99. There are multiple time slots and prices for advertising...some as little as $100 for an early morning Super Bowl Sunday show and going up to $225,000 for an ad during the Super Bowl in one of the most costly markets we looked into. As long as ads are available (they are going to be increasingly hard to reserve as the days pass) we can buy more and scale this project to the money that comes in.
Perhaps you missed my last post. I was on your side until you just tried to tell me that for one hundred dollars you too can get an ad on TV. Come on. Give me a break. Where, on Wayne's World?
Why are you being so evasive? You talk about time slots but don't say anything specific. You pretend that you can get TV time for one hundred bucks. And you attack the semantics of the word kickback when you know and I know that "Agency commissions" are the same thing. Call it purple elephants if you like, how much money are you making off of this? Is that tens of thousands or a few hundred? How come you never answer the question? This is why I distrust you. If you were only making a few hundred I would expect that you would say so, but since you have responded to this question about five times with the same evasive answer I have to assume you are taking a large sum. Most of us here would just put that money back into the pot. Whether the money comes directly from the grassroots or indirectly, you are still making money off of the grassroots.
I have no problem with people making money, but I tend to pay people who know what they are doing. I do not think that people who have no experience in something as important as a Presidential campaign deserve to get paid. I make tens of thousands of dollars for Ron Paul. I get tons of people to donate to him. I do this because I believe in this cause, not because I want to have the folks here give me money. Is my work any less valuable than yours? Do I not deserve to get paid? Heck, we all do, but we are not because we are doing something that we believe in.
The more evasive your responses the less I trust you. I had finally gotten to the point where I was behind you and then you pull this kind of stuff. You have lost me permanently.
You want to argue ok, let's argue.
You write: Do you have any idea how many people are on a typical ad agencies purchasing team?
Yes, I do, and you are not an ad agency. Remember? You people have no experience at all doing this, you originally set up the "ad agency" so you could get around campaign finance laws, then after you had collected money for the blimp project you then notified people that you were taking a huge chunk of grassroots money for yourselves. Did you start to believe your own scam?
You stated in an earlier post on this thread that you had a little time to kill and so you all decided to set this up, now you are implying that you have a full staff working night and day to get this ad time. Give me a break! And we all heard about this when? Two days ago? So, if I follow what you are trying to sell right now, you have been working with a full team, purchasing ad time for one TV slot, and now you are asking for people to make the ad for you? That is a little backwards.
What other huge jobs are you doing? manning the website.
You are not the only ones here who are manning a website. No one else is expecting payment for it.
What else? You are looking over possible commercials and brainstorming the editing they'll need. So are all the rest of us and many of us out here have a lot more experience than you folks. In fact, with your lack of any marketing experience at all in your team and your definite lack of knowing what will work for a Presidential campaign, I would prefer if you would leave that part of the project to the folks out here who do have experience, because some people do. Just because you called yourself an ad agency doesn't mean you are one.
And then, you are promoting the project to get money.
Well, so am I. I am promoting Ron Paul to get HIM money and I can promise you I and many others are working a hell of lot harder to get HIM money rather than ourselves. You were the ones who took over the MLK money bomb and you did little to promote it and to help Ron Paul, but you are big when it comes to getting money for yourselves.
