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How long did you take to get your first 10% pledged?

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 3:22 am
by Benzene
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How long did you take to get your first 10% pledged?

Re: How long did you take to get your first 10% pledged?

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 5:18 am
by Evan Kitchener
Voted. But we need more votes to help the results people!

Re: How long did you take to get your first 10% pledged?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:32 am
by igeeks

Re: How long did you take to get your first 10% pledged?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:02 pm
by optionalsongs
For me it was only two days, but my goal is only $500, so it wasn't so difficult.

Re: How long did you take to get your first 10% pledged?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:23 pm
by Michael Zahara
When you first started your project, where did you first post to?

Re: How long did you take to get your first 10% pledged?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:38 pm
by optionalsongs
My initial donations have been from family and friends. The majority of my traffic has come from Facebook.

Re: How long did you take to get your first 10% pledged?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:41 pm
by Michael Zahara
What if you don't want to share with family? Whats the best way to pay to get it advertised now?

Re: How long did you take to get your first 10% pledged?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:51 pm
by optionalsongs
Most recommendations I have heard is to get the ball rolling with getting support from people you already know. So I'm not sure what the most efficient way to spend advertising dollars would be! You could always to try to contact local news for some free publicity if your campaign would be of interest to people in your area.

Re: How long did you take to get your first 10% pledged?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:44 pm
by Michael Zahara
Well my project is in Ukraine, so contacting local news like TSN.UA and telling them I am doing a fictional village, I don't think they would understand the humor...

If you remember The Schmenge Brothers, this is what it is about.

Re: How long did you take to get your first 10% pledged?

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:57 pm
by Evan Kitchener
Be careful if you do end up dropping money on advertising I've seen a few people around who with projects of around $5000 target dropped mad cash on advertising, like $1900 and got almost nothing from it. Some likes, some shares no doubt but minimal, minimal pledges. And most of those campaigns failed too and didn't collect any money at all.

I think contacting peoples blogs who might be interested is a safer and cheaper bet.