Angel Adams Presentation from 2013 Social Media Tulsa aka #SMTULSA Conference. Grandma’s not the only one with the checkbook.

1. CROWDFUNDING
Grandma’s not the only
one with the checkbook.

2. What is crowdfunding?
Crowdfunding describes 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.

3. What crowdfunding ISN’T…
Woe is me… Begging…

4. It’s ALL about people, folks.
•connections
•balance
ationships

5. KICKSTARTER.COM
• Raised a total of $220 million so far.
• Launched 61,000 projects.
• Crews evaluate your form and determine whether to accept you or not.
• Backer rewards. (Rewarded ONLY if the project is successful.)
• All or nothing.
• Fees – Kickstarter charges 5% for every successful project.
• Amazon Payment with a processing fee of 3-5% of your raised funds.
• DOWNSIDE: You have to be a U.S. resident with a Social Security number to use
Kickstarter.
• Usually accepts all kinds of creative projects but NOT for causes, awareness
campaigns, charity, or vacations.
• Super straight forward and user friendly.

6. The Video.

7. INDIEGOGO.COM
• Similar to Kickstarter…user friendly
• Helps ANY type of project including donations for
charity.
• Backer rewards are known as Perks.
• Anyone can receive funding.
• Paypal is the payment option.
• “Flexible Funding” – you receive the fund even if the
project has failed to reach the funding goal.
Indiegogo charges a 9% of funds raised fee for that.
• Fees – Indiegogo gets 4% and there is a 3% fee for
credit card processing.

8. ROCKETHUB.COM
• Super simple 3 step process to upload your
project.
• Easy tracking.
• Opportunity to work with top-notch brands,
companies and marketers to help raise interest
and seek more potential opportunities.
• Fees – Rocket Hub charges 4% for a successful
project and 8% for projects that missed their
financial goal. Plus a 4% credit card processing
fee.

9. GOFUNDME.COM
• Based solely on the idea of raising money, for a
cause or even yourself .
• Has crazy amount of opportunities to share
your project.
Donation pages, widgets, dashboards,
social media integration.
• Fees – 5% goes to GoFundMe and uses PayPal
as the payment process. PayPal charges 2.9% -
3.5%

10. RAZOO.COM
• Has helped to raise $97,000,000 for thousands of
worthy causes.
• Divides fundraisers into 4 major categories:
1. Nonprofits
2. Individuals
3. Corporations
4. Foundations.
• Widgets galore.
• iPhone app that enables you to manage your project
and ENGAGE your donors.
• Fees – 2.9% flat rate of your total fund.

11. CROWDRISE.COM
• Funding for animal welfare, arts, cultures, diseases,
education, and even religion.
This is a platform that helps raise money for charity.
• You can also raise money for personal activities like birthday,
weddings, even college.
• Crowdrise uses “points” where the more people who donate,
the more points the fundraiser receives. Based on the points,
Crowdrise members will then know which fundraiser or
organization has made more “impact to the world”; it helps
the organization raise their opportunity and improve their
reputation.
• Fees – Gloriously complicated.

12. PLEDGEMUSIC.COM
• Focus is solely to bring in new talent to the
music industry.
• PledgeMusic’s interface is VERY similar to
Kickstarter and Indigogo.
• “Backers” receive rewards…the more you back,
the greater your reward.
• Fees – 15% of what you raise will go to
PledgeMusic.

13. SELLABAND.COM
• This site is dedicated to crocheting.
• MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC.
• This platform has the flair and changeability of
MySpace.
• Stand alone webpage can act as a blog, bio page,
photo or video page.
• Through this site, you are offered special prices for
professional 3rd party services.
• CD printing and promotion.
• Fees – 15% out of the budget to support their full-time
staff.

14. APPBACKR.COM
• Nothing but Apps.
• Backers buy an app listed with a lower price.
• The money you pay funds the development of
the app.
• Once the app makes earnings in the app store,
Appbackr will pay the backers back with the
sales price of the app.
• Fees – No fixed percentage. The amount will
depend on your app price and it still could vary
based on several factors.

15. CITIZINVESTOR.COM
• Only local government entities can post projects that raise
money on Citizinvestor.
• A citizen can not build a park, put in speed bumps or
renovate a city pool by themselves; they need to partner
with government. Citizinvestor makes that partnership
easier than ever.
• Petition to Project platform. Projects raise money while
petitions raise signatures. Successful petitions have the
opportunity to turn into projects in the future.
• Unlike taxes, Citizinvestor gives you the power to tell your
local government exactly where you want them to invest
your hard-earned money.
• Fees – 5% to Citizinvestor and 3% to credit card processing.

16. Now…it’s time to just freaking do it.
Nothing you can’t handle. You can do it
and you know it. Go for it. Buckle down
and push forth. Put your game face on.

17. Thank YOU!
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Thanks for Alvaris Falcon for the
research.