SEEKING SUBLET: 4 Days to Go Tips & Social Media Parties
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 11:40 am
Hey everyone!
My name is Katie and I'm the writer, director, producer and co-creator of the new comedy web series SEEKING SUBLET, about two roommates in search of the perfect third roommate in New York City. (ie. Think you've had bad roommates? Tune in!)
So far, in addition to casting and writing several episode of the show, we've self-financed filming 4 episodes, as well as teaser materials and a photo shoot, and we're now in the last week (ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT!!!!) of our Kickstarter campaign to raise the rest of the funds we need to finish Season One.
Check out our Kickstarter page here: http://kck.st/1l8VjjJ
And our website here (which also includes all our social media links): http://www.seekingsublet.com
As you'll see, in addition to our main Kickstarter video that intros the series and features us talking about the show, we've also posted 15 additional teaser videos (and 2 backer exclusive videos) during our campaign so far, with more to come in our final 4 days, to help promote the campaign and get people excited about the show. So far the videos have gotten especially great responses -- every one getting over 4,000 views in the first day just on Facebook alone, and adding a lot of followers to our various social media sites, etc.
However, we still have a ways to go if we're going to reach our 20k goal in the next 4 days as currently we are only just past 10k. So we're open to any and all suggestions of how to do that! Things that we're planning/trying to do in these last 4 days include:
-Sending out lots of personal emails
-Regular posts across all our social media with new content (a new creative teaser video a day, article links about the series, etc.)
-GoogleAd for our Kickstarter page the last 6 days of the campaign
-Daily updates to our backers
-Trying to get more press to feature the series (so far Script Magazine, Spidvid, Digital Chick TV and a comedy podcast have interviewed or written about the series, which you can find links to on our website under the News tab)
-Personal videos the last 4 days to backers and friends
-Reaching out to as any larger possible donors or people who's shown interest already in the series, just want to see the finished season first
Would love to hear any thoughts you have! Especially if you have advice on how to get sources to cover our 15 video teasers more,, as I feel that is a real standout of our campaign and seem to be what people are responding to the most, along with the roommate concept.
We are also going to have social media parties most evenings until the campaign ends on Friday at midnight (so technically 11:59pm this Thursday), starting tonight (Sunday). With as many of our cast and crew joining in as possible in person or online to hopefully get them especially involved with our campaign these last few days, and therefore their followers, as well as just have more hands to help all in one place.
In addition to things mentioned above that we'll be doing, we're also thinking of doing the following at these social media parties:
-Doing Twitter q&a's
-Doing online live chat q&a, were we can also potentially improv together for people
-Doing special requests for donations together, that we can then post online afterwards
Has anyone else done social media parties before? Any tips for how to best engage with people during them to get the best results? Or if there are any especially good sites, Twitter folks, etc. to interact with to publicize them and our campaign before and when they're happening?
Any advice or help would be amazing! And I really hope you will check out our campaign!!
Thanks so very much,
Katie
My name is Katie and I'm the writer, director, producer and co-creator of the new comedy web series SEEKING SUBLET, about two roommates in search of the perfect third roommate in New York City. (ie. Think you've had bad roommates? Tune in!)
So far, in addition to casting and writing several episode of the show, we've self-financed filming 4 episodes, as well as teaser materials and a photo shoot, and we're now in the last week (ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT!!!!) of our Kickstarter campaign to raise the rest of the funds we need to finish Season One.
Check out our Kickstarter page here: http://kck.st/1l8VjjJ
And our website here (which also includes all our social media links): http://www.seekingsublet.com
As you'll see, in addition to our main Kickstarter video that intros the series and features us talking about the show, we've also posted 15 additional teaser videos (and 2 backer exclusive videos) during our campaign so far, with more to come in our final 4 days, to help promote the campaign and get people excited about the show. So far the videos have gotten especially great responses -- every one getting over 4,000 views in the first day just on Facebook alone, and adding a lot of followers to our various social media sites, etc.
However, we still have a ways to go if we're going to reach our 20k goal in the next 4 days as currently we are only just past 10k. So we're open to any and all suggestions of how to do that! Things that we're planning/trying to do in these last 4 days include:
-Sending out lots of personal emails
-Regular posts across all our social media with new content (a new creative teaser video a day, article links about the series, etc.)
-GoogleAd for our Kickstarter page the last 6 days of the campaign
-Daily updates to our backers
-Trying to get more press to feature the series (so far Script Magazine, Spidvid, Digital Chick TV and a comedy podcast have interviewed or written about the series, which you can find links to on our website under the News tab)
-Personal videos the last 4 days to backers and friends
-Reaching out to as any larger possible donors or people who's shown interest already in the series, just want to see the finished season first
Would love to hear any thoughts you have! Especially if you have advice on how to get sources to cover our 15 video teasers more,, as I feel that is a real standout of our campaign and seem to be what people are responding to the most, along with the roommate concept.
We are also going to have social media parties most evenings until the campaign ends on Friday at midnight (so technically 11:59pm this Thursday), starting tonight (Sunday). With as many of our cast and crew joining in as possible in person or online to hopefully get them especially involved with our campaign these last few days, and therefore their followers, as well as just have more hands to help all in one place.
In addition to things mentioned above that we'll be doing, we're also thinking of doing the following at these social media parties:
-Doing Twitter q&a's
-Doing online live chat q&a, were we can also potentially improv together for people
-Doing special requests for donations together, that we can then post online afterwards
Has anyone else done social media parties before? Any tips for how to best engage with people during them to get the best results? Or if there are any especially good sites, Twitter folks, etc. to interact with to publicize them and our campaign before and when they're happening?
Any advice or help would be amazing! And I really hope you will check out our campaign!!
Thanks so very much,
Katie
