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Crowdfunding Strategy Template (by Collective Age... Crowdfunding. David Branin's CROWD-FUNDING CHEAT SHEET. 2 weeks ago, we reached our all or nothing fundraising goal of raising $15,000 in 52 days. Thanks to 227 amazing backers, we ended up 108% funded with $16,203 in Post-Production monies for our film Goodbye Promise. As I crunch the numbers I see that 85% of contributions were $50 or less. I have had a number of folks approach me for advice on how we did it. I thought it would be best capture some of my ideas, principles, and lessons learned in one place for all to benefit. ....At long last, here are some of my thoughts on Crowd-Funding. I wish I had read this before I started my campaign.

It isn’t meant as an absolute list but I am hoping there is enough here to help you in your efforts. 1) Believe in your project, LOVE your project. 2) There are NO short-cuts. Here is what I fear, we are going to see a number of folks diving blindly into a Crowd-Funding campaign expecting miracles and magic to happen for them just because their idea is “the most unique thing the world has ever seen.” Million Dollar Ideas. 31 May 2012 It’s the ultimate dream, to earn a million dollars from your creative idea. While not everyone has the fan funding power of US muso Amanda Palmer or NZ filmmaker Taika Waititi, Helen Baxter says every crowdfunding campaign offers earning through learning, profile raising and audience engagement - if you put the effort in. “Without a good promotional strategy across old and new media to back up your campaign, it’s like putting a poster on your bedroom wall and hoping the world will see it.”

Nearly $1.5 billion was raised worldwide through crowdfunding last year, proving that people love to support creative endeavours for the feel-good factor or to get a hot new product before everyone else. Kickstarter has been dubbed the ‘hipster home shopping network’, but the big difference is that hipsters are buying things that haven’t been made yet. RocketHub calls crowdfunding 'an event, that harnesses a network and audience, for funds, awareness, and feedback'.

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