A Filmmaker, Trigonis is
Indiegogo's head film campaign strategist, working behind the scenes on
successful film, video, theater, comic book and gaming campaigns.
He has helped thousands of filmmakers, artists and authors world wide create compelling crowdfunding campaigns that reach or exceed their goals.
I was surprised to see that
70% of funding came from strangers.
What are your three biggest
pieces of advice for someone creating a crowdfunding project?
Three Ps: Pitch, Perks,
Promotion
Strategy?
How do you decide on the
platform. You focus on Indie gogo and kickstarter. What about others?
Need two stories--project and
creator
Offer something for present
and future?
Thank people via Twitter
How is crowd funding for
movies different than other crowdfunding projects?
What does a crowd funding
campaign team look like and do? How do you build one?
Interns? Cooperative
Education dept representative at Univ.
How do you decide how much to
raise?
What is the money paying for?
Things not to include?
How do you identify your
audience. Where do you find them?
Using Facebook? Like facebook pages with potential, then
interact
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)