Launch and Release

Crowdfunding Tips For Musicians

Is This a Classic Failed Band Kickstarter?

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This band’s Kickstarter has been sitting at $600 of it’s $3200 goal since last Wednesday (six days).  Not only has this thing failed, but nobody is even trying to keep it alive. The difference between this and other failed band Kickstarters is that the project actually looks great. There aren’t the typical signs of a […]

Colleen Nixon’s Kickstarter

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A Kickstarter doesn’t have to be fancy to get the job done.  Take a look at Colleen Nixon’s project to see proof. Colleen uses an honest, real and sincere approach to communicate this project to her audience, but she doesn’t get caught up in trying to perfect her project. Oh, and she creates a killer […]

Allstar Weekend’s Kickstarter

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If you see a Kickstarter that goes for over $96,000, you can be sure that either the band has some rich, obscure uncle pitching in 90 large OR the band has a TON of fans!  Assume, for a moment, that the later is true.  How do you get a TON of fans to pledge to […]

How Lisa Scinta Challenges Fans With Her Kickstarter

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As an artist, how do you take your challenge and coalesce it into your fans’ actions?  Lisa Scinta knows.  And her Kickstarter project description is a masterful example of how to do this. Lisa has cultivated a significant online following (over 95,000 Youtube subs) by posting videos of her musical performances… each one filmed in […]

Clay McClinton’s Kickstarter

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It is always interesting to view Kickstarter projects with a major label influence.  Though Clay McClinton is and always has been an independent artist, you won’t have to look hard to figure out that he is the son of blues legend Delbert McClinton. Clay has grown up around music and watched his father work for […]

Katy McAllister – A Youtube Artist’s Kickstarter Project

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No matter what kind of artist you are, chances are high that when you dream about music, your dream looks something like this… No, of course I am not saying that you want to play pop music to the youngsters!  But what you do want, Katy’s got, and has laid it out very nicely. [button […]