Hi Eric, If one wanted, they could probably put together a Kickstarter campaign in an afternoon. However, the campaign, and its response, would reflect that. For us, it's been really important to present a professional and well thought-out campaign which includes professionally designed graphics, images and research to back us up. We are also producing a video with a professional videographer. In addition, we've been working on forging relationships with the community and local businesses in anticipation of being able to hit them up once our campaign begins. As part of the final touches on this campaign, I've also been sending out previews to business professionals I'm acquainted with to get feedback on the writing and tone of the campaign. So much of my time has been spent making small adjustments to language and design.
Hope that helps! I still totally think it's worth a shot. At the very least, it'll help raise community awareness for our space and maybe bring us a few more members. Best, Karen On Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 8:08:46 PM UTC-7, Eric Lituchy wrote: > > Karen, thanks for sharing! Can you tell me why getting the campaign is so > time-consuming? It is wordsmithing, getting together photos, or something > else? Are you producing a video? It seems straight forward, but I know > from experience that things are usually harder than they seem. > > Eric > > On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 10:57:00 PM UTC-4, Karen Ruane wrote: >> >> Hi Eric, >> >> I am opening a space in August and will be launching a Kickstarter >> campaign on June 1. I've studied quite a few Kickstarter campaigns for >> Coworking space, most of which were successful. It's true, the rewards are >> different because we don't have much of a product to offer. However, >> there's lots of room for creativity in rewards. We will offer things like >> short term memberships, art from members who've already signed up, >> advertising in our space or in our media, Swag with our logo on it... We >> made sure to create incentives for both local potential clients and >> everyone else who likes the idea of promoting the coworking industry. >> >> There aren't many pitfalls to trying to crowd-fund. Of course, you >> shouldn't abandon other avenues for raising capital, just in case you >> aren't successfully funded. And then there's the work of it - I've been >> working on this campaign for over a month and it is still not ready to >> launch. Doing it right is quite a commitment and takes hours and hours of >> work. But other than that, I'd say go for it! >> >> Time will tell if I'd repeat that advice! >> >> Best of Luck, >> >> Karen >> http://www.thewildsbend.com >> >> On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 8:59:43 AM UTC-7, Eric Lituchy wrote: >>> >>> I am new to the Cowork world and find this group to be an amazing >>> resource. Thanks in advance! >>> >>> In July, I am opening a coworking space on Long Island. I am currently >>> working on building the community and already have 6 people onboard. I >>> thought of raising some capital from friends and family, but started to >>> think that crowdfunding (Indiegogo, Plumfund, etc.) might be a better >>> option. Capital will be used for rent, furniture, technology, etc. >>> >>> My questions: >>> >>> 1. Does crowdfunding make sense as a way to fund a startup coworking >>> space? My primary goal of the crowdfunding would be to get new >>> members to invest in our community. >>> 2. I expect to offer membership deals(ex. Contribute $1000 and get >>> 3-months of cowork space), "Hardship" contributions to give out-of-work >>> individuals free coworking space and media/press mentions for larger >>> contributions. Any thoughts on this? Other ideas? >>> 3. Any potential pitfalls of going the crowdsourced route? >>> >>> Any additional advice is sincerely appreciated. >>> >>> Thank, Eric >>> Long Island Cowork (Finaly name TBD) >>> >> -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
