Kickstartery

Do you have a project that costs money?  Want materials like video cameras, printing presses, or all kinds of  livestock for freeeee?

Why sink money into this project when you can get the average dip to pay for it?  At kickstarter.com you can put up a description via text, podcast or video explaining why Mr & Mrs. McBucks-in-Their-Pants should give their dollars towards your new revolutionary, fundraising taco cart.

• Or your soon-to-be multi-platinum album that you could eventually make millions from

• Or a trip to Kazakhstan to buy a screen-printing kit off of a hobo’s truck.

• Or starting your own sport like “donor organ kicking”

• Or for you to "move closer to the internet" so your blog posts can reach your audience faster. 

Whatever it is, you have to raise the amount you asked for or you don’t get any of the money you’ve raised.  How to get to that point?  Fundraisers add incentives to get more donations:  if you pay this much, we make fun of you less.  Try not to think of it as participatory creativity bullying. The more lunch money you give, the better you’re going to look at the end of the project.  People offer still-frames or prints (sometimes signed), lunch with directors, rendezvouses at undisclosed hotels, a character gets named after you, mostly anything that’s highly reproducible such as anything labeled “limited edition”  or 1 of 100(000).


Also, once you’ve reached your goal, you can

• Sell whatever it is you fundraised for
• Still ask for donations
• Still sell those nifty limited edition incentive items for more cash.
• Start another kickstarter program for the sequel / product slant to other media such as tv, graphic novel, super fluffy goat lingerie, commercials, etc.

So hey, if you've got an idea... try one of these crowdsourcing type sites... millions are waiting to give you millions so that you can get millions to get millions and quite possibly make you famous.