March 8, 2011
How to raise Crowd Funds
If you have a business idea or a start-up company which is based on an idea that doesn’t accomplish the demands requested by banks, venture capitalists or angel investors in order to be funded, you can try obtaining the necessary funds through crowd funding. This refers to a community of people to be found on the internet which has the same system of beliefs and which is willing to sponsor an idea.
Click here in order to find out more about crowd funding operations <==== In order to make people around the world fund your project, you should firstly make your project visible. This means creating and promoting the webpage on which you present your project. Even though the promotion of the page is to rely on an advertising campaign at the beginning, the word-of-mouth marketing strategies will be very helpful once you already have several persons interested in funding your project. As crowd funding is generally used for small businesses or artistic projects, your strategies of reaching your crowd funders should respect the niche you are following from the beginning. A tags and social media campaign could be the first step in gaining visibility. Afterwards you can also address to related websites in order to develop a site-banners campaign. The advantage of crowd funding is that you can get in touch with all kind of persons around the world that share the same passion as you. Also, it can help you raise money in an easy way, generally without a return rate. Crowd funds are generally seen as sponsorships and investors are not interested in gaining anything back more than the satisfaction of seeing you accomplish the project in which they believe. But there are also some negative aspects in crowd funding. First of all, your business idea cannot be protected. When exposing an idea that is still in the developing part, you can always find yourself being stolen. Moreover, the legislation concerning crowd funding is not as permissive throughout the world. There are states that do not allow crowd funding of any type, so you should be very careful to this aspect before starting up a crowd funding landing page. Click here in order to discover more about crowd funding operations <==== The best advantage crowd funding provides to young entrepreneurs is the possibility of obtaining funds for financing a project they believe in without attaching themselves on some very severe strings. Moreover, it provides the opportunity of always being connected to your target audience throughout the world, which is a way of always refreshing your perspective and finding new elements that can help you satisfy the demands of your market. Another very important detail in crowd funding is that this is probably the best way of starting and managing a word-of-mouth campaign which provides visible and satisfying results. Offering customers the possibility of believing in the same dream and of sharing that information with people around the world may be the way of the future in obtaining external capital for a business.
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Hi.
I would like to know if I should keep in touch with all the investors that crowd fund my project. How should I do that?
Thanks for your answer.
Comment by Nichita — March 14, 2011 @ 9:35 am
Yes, you should keep in touch with all your crowd funding investors. They have the same statute as any other investor, so it is important to provide them feedback and returns on the investment. When building your crowd fund donating page, make sure to ask investors fill fields with all the necessary data you need in order to contact them later on.
Comment by admin — March 16, 2011 @ 11:05 am