Grassroots Agenda-What should we do for the next month?

The eyes of the world will be upon St. Paul and we have a brief window of opportunity to represent our message to a global population. I strongly urge that the most talented and personable of us begin to initiate constructive relationships with the media... whether that be local, regional, national or international... print, radio, television or internet... these are our conduits to the people and they are the ones that will "REPRESENT" the story to the rest of the world... before and especially after the week of events is over.

We need to embrace the media as aggressively as we have challenged them during the past year. Many producers, editors, reporters are fed up with having not been able to get the truth out and having so much of their investigative work go unreported. I think we may find many sympathetic individuals who if approached in a kind and caring manner (I'm a concerned citizen, not an overly-enthusiastic Paulite) would be very open to dialog... and that's the secret... be nice... treat them as the authority... and prepare your information in a simple to explain format so that when given the opportunity you have very good questions and properly researched reference materials. But remember, you're asking them to teach you so act accordingly, but use this conversation to introduce the reporter to new information and to let them know about our activities in St. Paul and how that is going to be the real story as events unfold.

Adopt a Reporter - determine the medium you are most comfortable in and then identify who you think would have the most influence within that medium, or the reporter, editor or publisher that you would feel most comfortable getting to know, and then determine the best way to introduce yourself. For local/regional I like to invite them to lunch. I call, write or email to introduce myself and tell them that I've been getting increasingly interested in politics (or a specific subject you want to explore) this year and I was hoping he/she would let me buy them lunch and maybe they can give me a good overview of things from their perspective.

They need to see and hear you as a person... not a political activist. Good luck and don't be afraid to try... you just may make a friend in the process... not to mention that the reporter that YOU adopt... could be the one to break the story in your area. Go get 'em!

Does everybody who voted for Ron Paul know about this event?

Probably not. How can we get the word out?

I am gonna try and make a YouTube Video.

But time is short.

(besides buying a ticket and getting there)

operation st. paul: $15,000 of $50,000. Can we bump that up to a respectable number-maybe a donation of $17.76 from 2000 people? http://www.dailypaul.com/...

Send your signs, materials to St. Paul- http://www.dailypaul.com/...

Here's a thought for those that financially cannot make this trip; can you get a group together to march in front of your states' capitol building? Even a quick pass by one or two at a time with a Campaign for Liberty sign wearing your R3volution t-shirts?

PyraBang for Liberty

Get as many there as we can.

Blanket St. Paul with "Ron Paul Supporters welcome GOP Delegates" signs and ads. (Cabs, billboards, news TV (Fox and local news stations) a Blimp would be nice if there is a real Daddy Warbucks or just some airplanes with banners) There are some other ideas too. Like receipt tape for local restaurants and bars with CFL and Rally for the Republic on it. Valet tickets. Also pay cabbies to hand out cards. Get Four editions of the Ron Paul News paper and get them at the hotel room doorsteps near and around the GOP convention. And I can keep going here.

Man was born to be free and independent

curiosity and hook them into giving FREE coverage before, during , and after.

Some special announcements...??? secret guests, international leaders?? I just don't know what that could be. Any ideas?

I like Geeksneek's idea of breaking it into two parts. There was another poster who had the advertising idea of focusing on getting as many Ron Paul people to attend and advertising in the local area. An outline of my thoughts:

Advertising
Local
Focus on free advertising first
Community bulletin boards
Event postings in local papers/online
Contacting local papers with a press release (mailed and e-mailed)
E-mailing local, small papers asking them to talk up the event
Develop a newspaper/radio campaign
Begin work on a template newspaper ad (later radio if money allows)
Make a simple website to explain the ad process and solicit donations
Focus on small, local papers or radio stations
Create a chip-in to raise money for the ads
National (online)
Push the people running the Rally site for banner ads/buttons asap
Get those buttons on the Revolution sites
Contact blogs (even "lefty" ones) with press release
E-mail campaign to sites and blogs to talk up the event
Public Relations
This needs to be coordinated with the campaign
I like the idea of multiple sample editorials
We can push the announcements when they come online at the site

I'm no graphic designer or anything but I'd be more than willing to build an e-mail list of the local papers to make e-mail campaigns more effective.

1. Tighten up your meetup groups. Set a solid agenda and meet regularly. Rename the group if necessary.

2. Do not bicker amongst yourselves about the past. Instead, learn from the past and move forward.

3. Brainstorm, strategize, plan, and take concrete actions.

4. Visit paulcongress.com and support a state or local candidate. If you do not have one, select one from another state or district to support.

5. Join organizations for liberty. Join all of them, especially the ones that don't cost you anything.

6. Write your congressmen. Often.

7. Email friends and family. Send them links to liberty sites and videos, and promote your candidates.

8. Write letters to your local newspaper announcing your candidates, clubs and other efforts.

This will happen big. Hope you participate.

http://www.dailypaul.com/...

I wonder if we could come up with a sort of guerilla marketing campaign, similar to the Ron Paul R[EVOL]ution guerilla marketing that was so successful.

Freeway blogging. Sign "bombs." Free literature and DVDs. Marches, walks, protests, etc.

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think globally, but act locally!

Fortune Favors the Bold

for the various CFL candidates running locally and nationally

Pass out any and all left over materials and/or take them with you to the rally.

Purchase the 100 extra "Republic" magazines offered for shipping only and pass them around to businesses where people read magazines.

Get involved with dvds4delegates, at least donate.

I still wish we could put an infomercial on tv with the rally at the end of it telling the people what is happening in this country.

This may sound simplistic, but I would recommend that supporters do everything possible to attend the rally in Minnesota. The best thing anyone can do for Ron Paul right now is make sure that he receives a turnout in Minneapolis that exceeds all expectations. There needs to be a LOT of people at the rally to rocket the campaign to the next level.

Start planning now to attend. Make arrangements for time off, babysitters, travel, lodging, whatever. Prepare some signs, banners, shirts, literature, etc.

Another full page USA Today ad would be awesome too, wouldn't it?

Produce our own vision of the world to be if the global elite win. Illustrate what each globalist candidate has on the table and repercussions and consequences for each prospective presidency. Basically a calender of the forecast globalist agenda. Then link the perceived executive orders to projected milestones that will inevitably shape their agenda. Both candidates have been very forthcoming about their plans for Iraq, foreign policy, and troop movements. Other things like Codex Alimentarius, RFID, and the dollar collapse itself are already on the table slated for implementation. So quite a bit of future fortune telling can be done.

Another thing... The movie IOUSA opens soon and we have no idea how this will be spun. It would be wise to prepare for any kind of negative spin. We can't afford to allow the public to be lead by the media.

Myself, I'm seriously considering passing out DVDs and other FedTruth literature in front of the theater IOUSA plays in.

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...one for Advertising and one for Public Relations.

Develop a press kit containing a brief, organized presentation about the event and include easy-to-use reference materials and several mock editorials of varying length (2 paragraphs, 4 paragraphs, etc.). Make it simple for the editors to incorporate the story into their publications.

When purchasing Ad space in newspapers and local publications you can also negotiate for a small article or editorial in exchange for a larger ad. Determine your ad size and start negotiating with a smaller size ad and inform them that you could budget for a larger ad if the publication would provide some mention or coverage of the upcoming event in an article or two leading up to the conventions. Be sure to get it in writing, as this is a fairly common practice. If this is done with multiple publications concurrently you can pull off some pretty impressive results on a limited budget and the article gives the ad more credibility.

Assemble a contact list of local media and target publications and organize our national network of Paulites to contact them requesting information about the event. If enough interest is generated... they will cover it. This strategy is working pretty good here in Nevada.

What do you think?

I would also suggest you coordinate with the organizers of the event to ensure maximum exposure for all promotions and to avoid any confusion at the publications.

Ticket on Friday and sit back and wait. Or chill.

Set goals ...

Achieve those goals!!!

What else is there?

WAHOR!!!

Do not wait for power to delegate.

Slow down, breathe...at times like this you should ask yourself "What would Bob Marley do?" Well, I don't claim to speak for Bob, but I'll bet he'd twist up a fat one and thoroughly enjoy the here and now.