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10 Tips – How to Fund A Self-Published Book

How to fund your self published book

Self publishing isn’t cheap, even if you are just planning to publish an ebook on Amazon. Apart from the hours (unpaid for now) that you put into writing the book, you are going to have to find funds for the

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Crowdfunding Successfully ….. – Interview with The Stormy Teacup

Crowdfunding Interview - find out what it takes to create a successful crowdfunding campaign

Running a successful crowdfunding campaign can be easier said that done. This is evident when you look at the statistics whereby 44% of Kickstarter’s campaigns reach their goals. I featured The Stormy Teacup in a blog post a few weeks

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2 Noteworthy Crowdfunding Campaigns

To finish off this series of posts on crowdfunding, I thought I would share two crowdfunding campaigns with you that are currently running and show you what I liked so much about them. First up is ‘Hello Ruby’ by Linda

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Nine Advantages of Crowdfunding

9 Advantages of Crowdfunding

When one considers crowdfunding for a project, one automatically thinks of the financial benefits – the fact that a successful crowdfunding campaign will lead to sufficient funds to make a dream a reality, to make a project become real, whatever

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5 Things To Do When Your Crowdfunding Campaign Is Successful

Following on from my posts on what to do before and what to do during your crowdfunding campaign, it is equally important that you complete certain things once your crowdfunding campaign is over. If you have been successful, the funds

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Ten Things You Must Do During Your Crowdfunding Campaign

ten things you must do during your crowdfunding campaign

Following on from my post detailing ten things you must do before you launch your crowdfunding campaign, this post is going to concentrate on those essentials to do during the campaign with some tips on what to expect too. Your

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Pros and Cons of Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding has plenty of disadvantages and advantages. It is very easy to think of it as the perfect way to get capital for a new creative or community project but  it requires a good concept, adequate preparation, an existing and

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Crowdfunding Campaigns: It’s All In The Reward

One important part of the preparation when creating your crowdfunding project is to decide on the rewards.  Offering rewards in excess of €100 will really boost your total when pledgers pledge for them.  You also need to have pledges at

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What I’ve Learnt About Crowdfunding – Week 3

National PR for Crowdfunding Project

My crowdfunding project has been running for 3 weeks now with 2 weeks to go. It is on the Irish crowdfunding website FundIt which operates an ‘all or nothing’ principle which means that if a person’s target is not achieved,

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What I Am Learning About Crowdfunding – Week 1

Crowdfunding - Tips for running a crowdfunding project

I decided to bite the bullet and launch my own crowdfunding campaign on Fundit. I’ve been writing a  book (that will be funny yet contain gritty realism) about farming for some time and although the feedback has been great and lots

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