Wishing you all a safe holiday season and good times with friends and family. 2014 was another big year and I wanted to think about some of the highlights for me. Edition 3 of Crowdfund it! published. A lot of work goes into updating and my thanks to my Publisher Charlotte … Continue reading
Category Archives: crowdfunding
INITIATE: Crowdfunding Summit, Sydney
UPDATE: This event is only a few days away now! Leave a comment if you would like to have a $15 discount on ticket prices. I’ll send you the promo code by email. Anna I am looking forward to a fantastic day at the first full-day summit on crowdfunding held … Continue reading
Learn about crowd sourced equity funding
Although creative and entrepreneurial crowdfunding projects tend to receive the most media coverage, when it comes to people-powered business, equity-based crowdfunding has attracted much interest. The Australian Government’s Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC) took in feedback for a discussion paper about crowd sourced equity funding and held meetings with … Continue reading
Your Christmas Crowdfunding Guide
As we venture closer to Christmas we face the inevitable task of dolling out huge amounts of cash for Christmas presents. If you’re anything like me then at some stage of the process you may feel a bit uneasy about spending so much money when there are serious issues of … Continue reading
Your Crowdfunding Project Page
Today on Crowdfund it! we are featuring a guest post by Camille McClane. You can find out more about Camille at the bottom of the post. Setting up a crowdfunding project page isn’t terribly difficult. In fact, a lot of the third-party crowdfunding sites make it incredibly easy for you to do so. … Continue reading
Hello Indiegogo and Kickstarter: the explosion of Crowdfunding
What a busy week in the world of crowdfunding in Sydney! Seminars for Arts Professionals: Giving and developing emerging donors On Monday 28th October I spoke at the SAMAG event about emerging donors and where crowdfunding fits in this context. With an amazing line-up and experience on the panel I … Continue reading
Crowdfunding for kids with Village Raised
If you’re a busy working parent then perhaps you’re a bit like me: More comfortable behind a computer than behind the cake stall at the school fete? If that is the case, then Village Raised may be the perfect way to fundraise for your school or kindergarten. I spoke to … Continue reading
Win a Crowdfunding Skype Session!
Would you like to win a one-hour Skype session to speak about your crowdfunding project? In November I will be speaking at the Sutherland Shire Writers’ Festival – known as Writers’ Unleashed – on crowdfunding for writers. It’s often quite tough for festivals to get funding and this year they … Continue reading
The evolution of crowdfunding?
A sign of the global trend in crowdfunding, Wattpad – a social writing platform – announced a few days ago that they have launched ‘Fan Funding‘. They describe this as a new experiment to: “…connect with your favorite writers in an entirely new way. Pledge money to support their projects … Continue reading
Crowdfunding Platforms For Your Book or Writing Project (Part 2)
In my last post I talked about some great general crowdfunding sites for your writing project. By general I mean they host a variety of project categories – but have great success with writing or publishing projects. Today I’m writing about two publishing-only crowdfunding platforms. Unbound I’ve worked in publishing … Continue reading