I'm trying very hard to come up with ways to raise awareness for my own Kickstarter campaign. But it's slowly dawning on me that I'm out of ideas and out of places to post the link.
Now, we've got over a hundred likes on Facebook, but less than 40 backers. So... I'm starting to think something might be wrong. If so, can anybody point this out to me, so I can fix it?
I really want this project to go through, but I truly suck at marketing. Any and all help would be really, really appreciated!
Thanks!
-Fred
Now, we've got over a hundred likes on Facebook, but less than 40 backers. So... I'm starting to think something might be wrong. If so, can anybody point this out to me, so I can fix it?
I really want this project to go through, but I truly suck at marketing. Any and all help would be really, really appreciated!
Thanks!
-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
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I don't know what to tell you than other than make a name for yourself. People with big names have it at their fingertips. I suppose give people some visuals.
I'm not sure how to advertise it either. However, my thought is based around you guys creating an update to announce a new tier.
In your video, you mention that there are 150 pages to your comic. I'm assuming that the art may have been drawn by pencil and then scanned, colored, etc. via computer. If this is the case, you have 150 uncolored, possibly untexted pages that can be offered as an incentive. You have openings at $100 & $250 to throw things like these in as a limited reward ($250's probably a better choice than $100 given they're one-of-a-kind). And, if each panel was a separate drawing, you could have more to give away than 150.
So, the way I see it, it all comes down to how you define "a piece or original, commissioned art" at your $500 tier. Does that mean what I just described above? Or, does that mean the commissioned piece is a fully colored page?
Hammerhead
In your video, you mention that there are 150 pages to your comic. I'm assuming that the art may have been drawn by pencil and then scanned, colored, etc. via computer. If this is the case, you have 150 uncolored, possibly untexted pages that can be offered as an incentive. You have openings at $100 & $250 to throw things like these in as a limited reward ($250's probably a better choice than $100 given they're one-of-a-kind). And, if each panel was a separate drawing, you could have more to give away than 150.
So, the way I see it, it all comes down to how you define "a piece or original, commissioned art" at your $500 tier. Does that mean what I just described above? Or, does that mean the commissioned piece is a fully colored page?
Hammerhead
As far as I know, the fully commissioned piece is a stand-alone commission from the artist. Meaning you ask him to draw whatever it is you want drawn, and he does it for you. Colors and all.
Ben is working on some Reddit stuff, but he's at a comicon thing in Philadelphia this weekend, so I'm sort of running this solo until he gets back.
I do know there will be an update video next week, along with one or two new tiers as well.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think Ben does all his work digitally. So far as I know, there's no paper involved. I could remember wrong, though.
-Fred
Ben is working on some Reddit stuff, but he's at a comicon thing in Philadelphia this weekend, so I'm sort of running this solo until he gets back.
I do know there will be an update video next week, along with one or two new tiers as well.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think Ben does all his work digitally. So far as I know, there's no paper involved. I could remember wrong, though.
-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
Pace yourself with ideas - have updates planned now and release them slowly as the time goes on.
Don't ask your friends and family to donate - tell them to donate. If you have more backers it attracts more backers.
Find everywhere you can speak about your project to encourage support. Don't forget that Tex got a number of Jane supporters because people supported Jane too. Maybe wait until Tex hits target and in the comments section encourage people to go and view a project that Chris and Aaron are supporting - yours.
The reason I say do it when Tex hits target is because the Jane supporters told us to wait until Jane's project was finished and it was only then that people started to come over.
Get your local comic shop to support you, and find something that you can give in return - maybe limited edition signed copies?
At the higher tiers, even if you could make tons, have a very limited number of some things - so that people want to snap them up before they sell out. Oh, and release a few more tiers as the project goes along to encourage existing backers to increase their current pledges.
Don't ask your friends and family to donate - tell them to donate. If you have more backers it attracts more backers.
Find everywhere you can speak about your project to encourage support. Don't forget that Tex got a number of Jane supporters because people supported Jane too. Maybe wait until Tex hits target and in the comments section encourage people to go and view a project that Chris and Aaron are supporting - yours.
The reason I say do it when Tex hits target is because the Jane supporters told us to wait until Jane's project was finished and it was only then that people started to come over.
Get your local comic shop to support you, and find something that you can give in return - maybe limited edition signed copies?
At the higher tiers, even if you could make tons, have a very limited number of some things - so that people want to snap them up before they sell out. Oh, and release a few more tiers as the project goes along to encourage existing backers to increase their current pledges.
David