Sharing our crowdfunding experiences

A few days ago I published a blog post about crowdfunding in the film industry on my other blog, and I also talked about our current campaign. Unfortunatly I only published it in German, but here are some excerpts: After we published the campaign page, we announced the news on FilmTiki and in the FilmTiki blog. Then we incorporated it on our Facebook fanpage, which is quite easy due to IndieGoGo's widget, that allowed us to add  a separate tab to our fansite. Of course we also posted the news as a status update message on Facebook. Then we tweeted the message to all our Twitter-followers using the standard-text from IndieGoGo:

"Help make it happen for FilmTiki-Platform-Development on #indiegogo http://www.indiegogo.com/FilmTiki-Online-Film-Community"

We also sent a couple of direct messages to selected Tweeple, to inform them about our campaign and further platform plans. Furthermore we used Facebook's update feature to let all our fans know what we're doing at the moment and asking them to contribute. At the same time we began to write personalised e-mails to all our private and business contacts. This effort should not be underestimated, but after several hours it's done and it definitly pays off :-) The result of those first steps: impressive $ 755, -, a reference in the Zeppelin Orchestra blog and a post on web'n'foto, also a mention in an article by Michael Lee and many Tweets and Retweets. Above all, we made it to the home page of IndieGoGo, where we are presented as a Featured Project: But that's not all, further measures are planned: in a few days we're publishing a new video, telling you more about what we're planning with FilmTiki and why we need your support. We will also draw up another blog post, presenting some of the planned features etc. So stay tuned! And please spread the word and contribute, every penny counts!