Crowd funding Made Simple

By Prince Adams

The new JOBS ACT created favorable laws to raise money via crowdfunding. However, more than half of all crowd funding projects don’t reach their funding goals. While a minority of projects get over-funded by 100 to 300 percent. Why the disparity? What are your odds? If you want to succeed at crowd funding, we've written this guide with you in mind. We'll walk you through each step of the crowd funding process.

Crowdfunding Made Simple will help you create, launch, and manage a successful crowdfunding event. It covers everything you need to know to succeed, in an easy to read, informative, actionable, plan-as-you-go style.

At a time when small businesses can’t find capital, more and more entrepreneurs are turning to the “Crowd” of social media for free funding. Crowd Funding Made Simple is a guide that gives the sponsor of a crowd funding event a true competitive advantage in this emerging market.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Prince Adams
• Release date: Nov 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301108015

Prince Adams

Prince Roger Adams is a well-rounded very experienced small business startup professional with over 20 years of experience starting, growing, and consulting small businesses. He founded several successful diverse startups ranging from NYC brick and mortar, online media and ecommerce, and an award winning restaurant and guest house that consistently rates high on TripAdvisors. Prince is a hands-on marketing professional with an eye towards new media social marketing, especially the undeniable power of crowdsourcing. This great selling book is a timely concise instructional guide to successful crowdfunding. Visit him on facebook at facebook.com/crowd-funding-made-simple for more up-to-date information, and tips.

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Crowd Funding Made Simple

An Easy Plan As You Go Guide to Succeeding

Roger Adams

Copyright 2012 by FundMeFundYou.com

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Table of Contents

Preface

Dedication

About this guide

Introduction: How we got here.

What is Crowd funding?

Crowdfunding life cycle / understand it to increase your funding

7 attributes of a great campaign / essential to winning.

The Crowdfunding outline / your check list to succeed.

7 Steps to a Winning Sales Pitch.

The video pitch / why you need it.

Set your timeframe / timing is everything.

Marketing to the crowd / publicize it!

Social Media Strategy / Build and grow your Fanbase.

Good salesmanship skill / the first impression.

Rewards / what you need to know.

Budgeting / how much will you need?

Assess your crowd's worth / how much can you raise now?

Determine your funding goal and funding option / getting paid!

Partner with experts / attract talent... free.

How to handle objections.

Power points / close the deal.

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Preface

At a time when small businesses cannot find capital, more and more entrepreneurs are turning to the Crowd of social media for funding. Crowd Funding Made Simple is a guide that gives the sponsor of a crowd funding event a true competitive advantage in this emerging market.

It aims to equip the entrepreneur with the necessary skills for creating and managing a crowd funding venture to take advantage of their own, individual crowd funding opportunity.

This guide will help you develop the right crowd funding strategy, and properly develop each element of your crowd funding campaign to ensure success.

Dedication

I dedicate this book to all the entrepreneurs out there who are trying to make the magic happen. Entrepreneurship requires vision, creativity, drive, and great commitment. All the reasons why I admire you. Never give up on your dream!

About this guide.

More than half of all crowd funding projects don’t reach their funding goals. While a minority of projects get over-funded by 100 to 300 percent. Why the disparity? What are your odds? If you want to succeed at crowd funding, we've written this guide with you in mind. We'll walk you through each step of the crowd funding process. While, at points, there are overlaps that may seem repetitive, it is in fact good; since that repetition helps you learn the process and retain the important key information.

We created this guide to show people how to succeed at crowd funding; by this, we mean to properly develop your campaign, strategically publicize your project to as many potential backers as possible, and ultimately get funded. Yes to ultimately get funded is the basic premise of this guide and also our crowd funding web site Fundmefundyou.com.

Crowd Funding Made Simple gives the sponsor of a crowd funding event a true competitive advantage in this emerging market. This guide will help you develop a successful crowd funding strategy, and properly develop each element of your crowdfunding campaign.

Crowdfunding Made Simple will help you create, launch, and manage a successful crowdfunding event. It covers everything you need to know to succeed, in an easy to read, informative, actionable, plan-as-you-go style.

This guide also shows you how to perfect your crowd funding salesmanship, an all important component often forgotten in other crowd funding books and resources.

This guide will refer to your Crowdfunding event