If you’ve read my article 5 reasons you’re not ready to crowdfund and you’ve come to the point in the process where you’ve done all the stuff I said and stopped hating me, then you are finally ready to make your campaign. Congratulations! It just gets harder from here. Now of course you don’t have to follow all this advice. You’ll find examples of people doing the opposite and being successful. There is no magic formula for any of this. However following these recommendations will make it much more likely that you’ll be successful, and running a campaign is so…
Author: Etta Devine
Etta Devine
Etta Devine is an actor, filmmaker, and writer with a script on the 2017 Blacklist and one of 2017's Movie Maker Magazine's 25 Screenwriters to watch. With partner Gabriel Diani she directed, wrote, produced and starred in the feature film “Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse” which premiered at the 2016 Austin film festival and won awards from the Mill Valley Film Festival, Spokane International Film Festival, Omaha Film Festival, San Luis Obispo Film Festival, and many others. She co-produced and starred in the horror comedy “The Selling,” ruined classic literature by creating “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Robotic Edition” and is a member of the Antaeus Classical Theatre Company in Los Angeles and the Film Fatales. She recently recorded voices for the popular Frederator cartoon “Bee and Puppycat“ and wrote multiple episodes of its upcoming second season.
Crowdfunding is an amazing resource for people who want to make cool stuff but it is not free money. I’ve had two successful campaigns on Kickstarter (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn {Robotic Edition} and Help “The Selling” get a Theatrical Release) and it is a lot of hard work. A LOT of hard work. No, seriously. It’s a full time job. I’ve informally advised or otherwise been involved with many other campaigns and there are mistakes I see people making again and again and it hurts! I want you to succeed! So before I write a post about best practices I’m…