[Lnc-business] Website presentation - Time Sensitive

[Gary Johnson]

1. Arvin, are these people friends of yours?


2. Geoff and Carla, does the party ever receive proposals from other companies wanting to redesign our Web site? What do you think would happen if we sent out a request for proposals?


3. What is the name of the company?


4. What does "top tier" mean? What does "designers of this caliber" mean?


5. How much money do they want?


6. Why am I learning in the past few days about "a proposal for lp.org" "a top tier design and branding company has been working on" "over the last several months"?


7. Why do I have to be available for an online virtual "meeting" on a certain day at a certain time to watch a "presentation"? 
Why cannot these people prepare a video, post it online, and send us an e-mail with a link to it? Then we can watch it at our convenience, just like we watched that sexual harassment video?


8. What's the rush? Why must something that has been worked on by this company for several months be decided on the LNC in a matter of days?


Gary Johnson
512-441-6378
sedition at aol.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Arvin Vohra <arvin at arvinvohra.com>
To: lnc-business <lnc-business at hq.lp.org>
Sent: Wed, May 22, 2013 6:51 pm
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Website presentation - Time Sensitive


One more note - the pitch is confidential by request of the design team.


-Arvin




On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Arvin Vohra <arvin at arvinvohra.com> wrote:

LNC -


Over the last several months, a top tier design and branding company has been working on a proposal for lp.org. I have seen a couple mockups, and the design is outstanding. They have quite a few things to offer, including backend and front end development. In visual terms, a blind man can tell that they are the best we have seen so far. They have some branding and content notes that are pretty solid as well.


This is something that transcends the IT committee, because it deeply involves branding strategy, not just design and backend. What they have to say could potentially revolutionize what we're doing, or be a terribly foolish proposal.


This is not something that we should sit on until the July meeting, which is highly compressed as it is. Their schedule is also very tight, and unless we can do the presentation before the 29th, we'll have to wait for several more weeks (designers of this caliber are in heavy demand). 


Jorge, who runs this team, is Libertarian, with decades of experience. The team has worked on high level political campaigns, top end commercial stuff, etc. They have already done quite a bit of work for us for free on facebook, and has done the initial, and very thorough brand analysis for us for free because of their passion for the Libertarian cause.


Our website is our most important form of outreach. Even if we decide not to go with this team, I believe we should hear them out in a timely manner. 


To put some possibilities out there: How do next Monday, Tues, or Wed at 8, 830, or 9 eastern sound? We don't have ways to hold official meetings outside of executive committee, but can we get at least a majority of the LNC and the ED to attend a proposal on something that could literally transform the political map of this country?








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