Speculating on a Potential Crowdfunding Project

[filkertom]

This is probably a really good time to ask you all about a possible crowdfunding project

Comments

[rickvs]

> Am I being a jerk about this, getting
> you guys to fund my dental work?

No more so than when you want us to fund your, you know, food and shelter. You give good value; please don't kick yourself.

Your goals sound reasonable, and I'll be happy to kick in when this gets set up.

[alverant]

For the most part I think what you're doing sounds reasonable. My main concern is reprinting CDs. I'm not sure about the state of physical media. I prefer it, but I know I'm in a minority. There's no sense in reprinting a bunch of CDs that are just going to sit around and collect dust. I think you should talk to Devo Spice and ask him about how well the FuMP is doing on selling CDs and maybe talk to Bill Roper when you're at Windycon and ask how his sales are doing and if he thinks they'd sell (and give him time to think about it since he is part of the concom). There are probably like a dozen filkers at Windy that you can talk with about it. (Damn my brother for having his wedding reception on Windy Weekend!) I would try to focus on new material and selling recordings of concerts

[alverant]

Good point about house concerts and cons. At Musecon Tom gave me some download cards to complete my collection (I forgot I was missing some of his earlier albums). Those can be sold, but I'm not sure how popular they are. I remember buying the Ookla the Mok mini-album via download card for $5.

[hms42]

When do I start backing your project? :)

[elektra]

You will totally have my support. And I'm another vote for the songbook--printed, pdf, whatever.

Just be sure to do all the math so that you'll end up with the $$ you need after production costs . . .