Do you know how much your crowdfunding campaign can raise? If not, welcome to the club! Knowing how much you can raise is the biggest unknown in the whole equation. If you decide to use an all-or-nothing platform like Kickstarter, you may walk away without a dime. To eliminate this possibility, some people decide to […]
Can Music Crowdfunding Replace Your Day Job?
Crowdfunding doesn’t receive much mainstream media coverage so it was groovy to finally see the New Yorker ask, “Can Crowdfunding Replace Artists’ Day Jobs?” A big “right on, brotha” to the author for being a huge proponent of society’s many artists: We shouldn’t forget that a flourishing creative middle class requires good jobs for arts […]
Who Backs Your Music Crowdfunding Project?
Here is a real world, music crowdfunding success story for you… Louder Spaces raised $8470 in January with their music Kickstarter! Their bass player, Oren, kindly took the time to shed some light on who specifically ended up backing their project. VIEW PROJECT | GOAL $7,500 | 30 DAYS | Emails 300 | FB 2530 Here […]
Breaking Down Indiegogo’s Music Crowdfunding Advice: What They Hit and What They Missed
You want to create a bad-ass music crowdfunding campaign that will absolutely crush it. Indiegogo offers help through a Google Hangout Series, How to Run a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign, hosted by John T. Trigonis. Indiegogo breaks a project down into 5 phases: Idea Vetting, Pre-Launch, Launch, Sustaining and Follow-up. At Launch and Release, we’re are […]
What’s a Better Predictor of Backers: Facebook Friends or Facebook Likes?
Does Attempting to Go Viral Make Sense When Crowdfunding Your Music? In talking to musicians about their crowdfunding projects, a very common assumption is that you need to reach as many new people as possible. But in reviewing hundreds of projects, it appears that the most successful projects usually also do the best job of contacting and […]
Does 99% of Jazz Suck? – The Jazz Kickstarter That Seduced 1000 Backers
75% of all music Kickstarters raise less than $10,000, according to Kickstarter. Carsie Blanton raised $9,232 in the first 24 hours of launching her “Jazz is for Everybody” project which ends on Saturday, August 31st. Carsie is not a major touring act with label support or financing. She is a DIY musician who “joined a funk […]
3 Tips on Crowdfunding Your Music from the Douglas County Daughters
They’re a bit of a throwback, no doubt, and the Douglas County Daughters are some very smart, well-spoken women when it comes to their Kickstarter campaign. And though they left for the West Coast, they still exhibit the sort of ample creativity needed by their forebearers in Douglas County, Nebraska that is necessary to make […]
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