3 Ingenious Ways to Get Money for Your Crowdfunding Proposal (And Keep People Coming Back For More)
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Crowdfunding is one of those ingenious ways to get other people to pay for stuff that is cause-worthy or charitable…
…or sometimes it’s just to pay some expensive medical bills.
I just learned about it this morning and a light bulb went off in my head and I knew I had to share some cool tactics to get money quickly for your crowdfunding proposal AND…
…keep people coming back.
First off, if you don’t know what crowdfunding is, Wikiepedia defines it as…
the collective effort of individuals who network and pool their money, usually via the Internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations. Crowdfunding is used in support of a wide variety of activities, including disaster relief, citizen journalism, support of artists by fans, political campaigns, startup company funding, motion picture promotion, free software development, inventions development, scientific research, and civic projects.
Some very noteworthy causes there that must have AMAZING stories behind them…
…and everyone LOVES a good story, right?
No one really cares about the actual disaster, but when they talk about an individual’s life before and after the disaster, emotions are brought to the surface, and wallets are thrown in desperation to be one of the worthy ones who helped…
…get it?
3 Cool Ways to Get Money For Your Crowdfunding Proposal and Keep Them Coming Back
1. Use pictures to tell your story.
Everyone LOVES pictures. Do you have a cause that is worthy of telling through pictures. Use Instagram or Flickr to share your pictures, sending interested investors to your account.
Another great source that becoming popular fast (if it hasn’t already by now) is Pinterest. And considering that Pinterest is becoming a place for people to shop through pictures, you can be assuring that the market you are looking for is ready and willing to pull out a wad of cash to throw in your cause-worthy way.
2. Who’s the doggie on the TV?
Here are some facts about YouTube that will STAMP the point home about finding crowdfunding resources:
- Over 800 million unique users visit YouTube each month
- Over 4 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube
- 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
- 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
Are you putting yourself in front of those eyes for your crowdfunding proposal? Video is becoming a go-to marketing resources for many businesses and individuals. Make a video and optimize your channel to receive viewers for your crowdfunding proposal.
3. Blog about it.
Google is STILL the number 1 most trafficked site in the world. If you were to put yourself on the first page of Google (and possibly the first slot of the search), then you could expect to see thousands, if not millions of eyes on your crowdfunding proposal.
Tell your story about why you are looking for money for your crowdfunding proposal and you will happily get people to donate to your cause.
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