It's been almost a year since I tried crowdfunding. I started crowdfunding in June of last year, and yet I'm still unable to get my projects fulfilled no matter what platform I used and how much money I spent. Here's my story.
Ever since I was a little girl, I dreamed of playing on a concert grand pedal harp of my very own. To this day I still do! But unfortunately the only thing that's hindering me from buying this heavenly musical instrument is its gross price tag which is ranged to 5 digit status. The concert grand pedal harp costs between $10,000 to a whopping $250,000 depending on make and model. And I come from a very low income background that only allows me to raise funds enough to pay the rent, get groceries, and pay bills. If you want to know more about My Harp Story background, check out this article I wrote which tells you about it.
http://dinoharpist.blogspot.com/2014/03 ... of-my.html
I took to doing fund raising concerts, online fundraising, even trying to build credit to get a loan, I turned to people for help, I post on my blogs asking for help, nothing I do or did gave me any substantial results!
So I turned to crowdfunding for better results. First I turned to Indiegogo and did my absolute best to drum up support for my concert harp campaign. I spread the word about it on FB and spent hundreds of dollars on advertisement... but it didn't work out. I had to use all my donations and monthly checks from social security to pay off all my credit card bills and close them all. I could never afford to use credit cards any more.
Well, after a brief break I decided to turn to Kickstarter for better luck. Since KS only allows temporary projects like making albums and publishing books and is the most popular of all crowdfunding platforms, I had to resort to create a project called The Owosso Harpist - The Harp Album. It's a project to raise funds to record my first harp album in the comforts of my own home. I made out my budget which covers the costs of shipping rewards and paying KS and Amazon fees and came up with $15,000 to be raised, which is enough to do recording sessions, pay for fees, ship rewards, and others.
The $15,000 will allow me to kill two birds with one stone. Buy my own concert grand harp and record the homemade album which is made up of gospel and Celtic tracks played on the harp. Then sell the CD to anyone interested in my music.
As of now I have only 9 days to go in my campaign and only $210 have been raised. I'm offering 11 rewards from free MP3 downloads to a copy of one of my free-handed drawings I made. I can sure use your help to improve my campaign in a big way. I want my campaign to succeed and be done the right way. Here's the URL to my campaign
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... harp-album
You can also find my campaign URL in my banner signature. Check out my KS and tell me what I need to do to improve my chances of getting my campaign fully funded if any.
I'll keep everyone up to date on how my campaign's going.
