People kept telling me "Try the crowdfunding thing!"
So I am now trying the crowdfunding thing!
Sponsorships for The Monolith from Beyond Space and Time as well as The God that Crawls are open!
Here!
(woops, fixed the wrong word I'd used there :D)
It sounds cool, James, but the first 3-4 options looks pretty much as "preorder + your name in the book somewhere". Not that there is anything wrong with that, if that is what people want, but in general it's the extra/limited/special stuff that draws people to these project, I think. These books will, after all, be for sale "normally" and even at a lower price, thanx to this funding.
ReplyDeleteFridge magnets, post cards, rub on tattoos. anything :)
I'll grant you the first two are that way, but the third and fourth options definitely have extra stuff attached.
ReplyDeleteBut you may have a point.
Hmmm. Think people would like a LotFP bookmark?
Green Devil Face #5 added as a perk of sponsorship.
ReplyDeleteWill GDF5 be print by any chance or PDF only?
DeleteNever mind, ignore me. I found my answer in the update on the funding site (for others, the answer is "yes but only for sponsors").
DeleteNot to derail things, but this implies there is a GDF #4 out there somewhere? Where can I get it? I recently purchased #1-3 from rpgnow and LOVE them. I'd love to add #4, and eventually #5 to my collection!
DeleteGDF #4 is PDF-only, available from the LotFP Webstore, RPGNow, and Paizo...
DeleteThanks for the info, I must've missed #4 when I was shopping, I'll go get it now!
DeleteHow about we brainstorm for suitable perks? I imagine you'll be needing them if this crowdfunding thing becomes routine; people like to be appreciated in the form of cheap but distinctive paraphelia.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing that comes to mind is a cardboard sleeve the like of which is sometimes used as a DVD box for a single or multiple DVD cases. You could have it printed with your trade dress and design it to be usable as an envelope backer in its flat folded form. Fitting about half a dozen distinctive A5 format Raggi modules and providing a clearly recognizable spine, I imagine that anybody with a substantial gaming library would like to have one to help keep the spineless booklets in order. Probably wouldn't be too expensive if you printed a few hundred and used them over time as perks with your fan club and crowdsourced projects.
I think don't think an item to be used across multiple projects is useful, because I suspect many of the contributors would be the same project-to-project.
DeleteIt occurs to me that you should post threads about your new products and money drive on forums, Jim. It seems to be the etiquette in these things to post at eg. Story Games and ask people to spread the word. After all, those who don't hear about it can't participate in it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, another idea for a perk: free shipping and a modest discount (a discount code for your webstore, essentially) for anything else a person might want to buy from you, to be shipped all together once the modules are ready. Might be good in that crowdfunding drives seem to attract new customers. I often encounter folks who have been thinking for a while about checking out your stuff, so this might be a good opportunity to throw a few hooks out there to get people to take a concrete step on the matter.
Too bad it is not Kickstarter. I would love to contribute, but not with another platform and especially not something that seems to be facebook integrated... :(
ReplyDeleteYou need to be a US resident to use Kickstarter. I am not.
DeleteKickstarter allows signing up using a Facebook account same as IndieGoGo so I don't understand why there would be a problem with one and not the other...
You don't need to use Facebook. It's just an option if you don't want to create an IndieGoGo account.
DeleteI didn't know that you have to be an US resident to use Kickstarter. I am going to check IndieGoGo out.
DeleteHey Mr. Raggi, I finally went to contribute to the project today (sorry for taking so long), but there was no paypal option for it. Would it be possible to enable it as a payment option? I will use my credit card directly if I must, but I imagine enabling it would allow you to reach a greater audience.
ReplyDeleteTaking Paypal on this sort of campaign... it becomes riddled with fees and extra effort to the point where I'd be better off not using IndieGoGo at all.
DeleteWith the credit card payments, at the end IndieGoGo takes its cut and then does the bank transfer (which will have a one-time fee involved).
With Paypal payments, they send each payment to me individually, minus IndieGoGo's 9% cut. Which means each and every contribution has Paypal's fees taken out on top of that, and the payments are in dollars so I lose money to Paypal's conversion rates (which are always worse than bank rates on a transfer). And if I meet the goal at the end, IndieGoGo's cut is only 4% so the remainder of the original 9% taken (JUST from Paypal payments) then gets transfered to me, so I'm paying 2 bank transfer fees (and I suspect that second transfer would get all but wiped out by the transfer costs) + all the Paypal fees and ARAARRRRRGGGHHHHH.
So no Paypal on this one.
I would activate Paypal for any "all or nothing" campaigns I would attempt though since they would hold all payments until the end.
HAH.
ReplyDeleteI emailed IndieGoGo about the problems of how they handle Paypal for "flexible funding" campaigns... their response?
"Use the Credit Card payment option."
Brilliant.