Made a Kickstarter, and did it wrong .. 0_o

[iShane]

ok, so i am super new to this type of online stuff, but my manager says its something i need to know. My music career has taken me to a few good places, and in the near future it is taking me to more. The representation I have isn't a big music label, so alot of funding comes from myself and my music counterpart. We both just got off of deployment so it made things a little easier for the first few shows, videos, etc. but now it seems our demand is getting higher, and more people want us in different places, and we have been invited to a tour in July, Well to help accomplish this I made a kickstarted, but one of the things i messed up on (everyone learning something brand new will always have a few hiccups) is promoting that kickstarter BEFORE it was launched.I thought the website releases the project to the public for you because I was always getting emails about every one else's project. Honest mistake. Well now its been 3 days and I havent gotten a pledge. Aside from feeling stupid, I finally learned how they were successfully funded. Well now with 25 days left, I am reaching out the correct way and asking for anyone's input/help. All the info for the July tour is in the website itself. Thank you guys/gals...

here is the link :

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sandw/shane-and-walt-deez-music-tour

[Orlando_the_Technicoloured]

I'm afraid this board is for gaming related (however loosely) KS projects,

 

but good luck

[Shakandara]

As Orlando pointed out, this project is a little out of the scope of what is normally listed here. I would offer the following, however:

 

While it is great that you've been offered the opportunity to tour, it seems like you may be ahead of yourself, at least where it comes to Kickstarter. It seems like the musical funding projects that have been successful have come off of artists with fairly large grassroots support to begin with, While it sounds like people are digging your stuff, it seems like you may not have enough of that grassroots support to spread the work for your KS to the right people. Coupled with a fairly lofty funding goal ($75K), I think you are going to find it to be a long uphill battle to get where you want to go.

 

Perhaps you should consider cancelling this campaign and take some time to restructure things. Rather than one huge goal, start a bit smaller. Ask for pledges to help complete your album. The set stretch goals for adding videos (perhaps just 1 at a time, to keep the progression manageable). Finally, use the tour as the "dream" goal down the line. It is still entirely possible that a new campaign like this would not reach the funding necessary to send you on tour, but with lower, more reasonable goals, you should be able to build enough support to accomplish some things. That may then give you the springboard to try a tour again later, with more grassroots support.

 

Best of luck to you, and thank you for your service!

 

~v

[JackMann]

Yeah, gonna agree that you might be a bit ahead of yourself. Do hope it goes well for you.

 

By the way, what's your AFSC? 1A852 here.

[Qwyksilver]

Thank you to those of you who offered some sound advice and suggested this may not be the best forum for the OP.