So today begins a 30 day adventure in Crowd funding! "What is crowd funding?" you say. Well you can follow the link in the phrase or we could just say it is when a bunch of people, strangers and not-so-strangers, get together to back a project that needs more funding that the project creator has or can raise alone.
Our crowd funding adventure actually began a week ago when we started filming a project video so we could show people what our project was about. We walked all over downtown visiting friends in their shops, shooting pretty downtown stuff, trying to find interesting stuff, and stopping for coffee and a peek in the local thrift store:)
Oh! I should tell YOU what our project is! My good friend Marianne and I want to open a local bead store. We have the brains but not the money so we are turning to our online community to see what kind of interest and support we can inspire!
After editing all of our footage we collected, adding a sound track and recording our beautiful voices describing our project, we submitted our proposal to one very well known crowd funding site. We found out a day and a half later that we were not a proper fit or their web site and we could probably find our fit elsewhere. And we did at Peerbackers.com!
We were approved in less than a day and up and running as of last night, January 11, 2012. What's really cool is we have already gotten three backers.
Tonight we will have our video up and our avatar will actually fit the allotted square format provided.
Until next time, here is a link directly to our project:
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