crowdfunding

Perks It’s not easy to find a perfect balance between offering something that will be exciting and attractive to your potential supporters as well as affordable. A few ideas to get your imagination going: – Before you start working on your perks, check out what other/similar projects are offering. Sounds obvious but to be able…

Everyone who has run a crowdfunding campaign before will share a different story of how they found their audience. For me, the following actions worked and helped me find the right audience for my campaign: – Reach out to all of your friends and family members, and simply ask them for any kind of help…

Setting up your campaign First and foremost, give yourself time to build your campaign page. You can create your campaign over a few days or even weeks. You must remember that this is going to be your calling card and, if you are serious about your project, you must put a real effort and time…

Target Audience No product is for everyone, and it applies to films as well. Knowing who to direct your campaign to is part of your future success. Time is the only commodity we can’t get back, so focus your efforts on getting through to people who will be interested in your offer instead of trying…

Before I embarked on my 2nd crowdfunding campaign, I knew I needed a much simpler, compact script that was going to fit the non — to low budget model. That left me with two choices; either to re-write one of my scripts, which after many attempts I found really impossible to do, or to come…

In the summer of 2011, I started working on my social media outreach. By then, it was clear to me that without a strong and solid social media presence, I wasn’t going to get very far or achieve what I was aiming for with my crowdfunding efforts. In the late 2000s, I signed up for…

Back in 2010, I was desperate to make a feature film. I wanted to grow as a filmmaker and move on with my career. I was hoping and dreaming that making a feature-length movie would help me to accomplish just that. You may already know, but if you don’t, beware, filmmaking is a costly endeavour…

I’ve been making up stories ever since I can remember. I use film, video and a variety of writing outlets to express my creativity. After making a few short films (some of them won awards at film festivals, some were watchable and some were simply made for practice, to put it mildly, ‘cos no one…