I’m happy to announce that we removed the paid subscription option and made all the content at CrowdsUnite.com free for all users. In the past few months we experienced with different monetization strategies. One of them was to charge a monthly subscription for our mostly used content like access to all the reviews and mostly used activities like filtering, sorting, and comparing. This experiment wasn’t meant to last forever since we believe that content should be free and we want to help as many people as we can. At the same time we wanted to see just how much our…
Last week we hosted a donation crowdfunding class, part of our monthly educational classes in our NYC crowdfunding meetup. Dana Ostomel, founder and CEO of Deposit a Gift shared her knowledge to over 60 people in the audience of how to successful raise money for donation projects. The presentation covers everything from picking the right platform, planning the campaign and executing it.
This is a guest post by Dana Ostomel who is the founder and Chief Gifting Officer of Deposit a Gift, the crowdfunding platform that lets you raise money for anything that matters to you.
#GivingTuesday is less than a month away. Are you ready for the 3rd annual day of giving on 12/2? Coming on the heels of the commercial craziness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday is an opportunity to do some good amidst the commercialism of the holidays, and it’s practically built for crowdfunding . You can run any type of donation campaign, from kicking off a year-end appeal to…
I have been running NYC Crowdfunding Networking meetup since it’s launch last summer. I have seen it grow from a handful of members to over 800 as of today. Not only am I excited that the community has grown tremendously but I also appreciate how much the meetup has helped me personally. I have been able to network with the key crowdfunding players from all over the world. The original goal for launching the meetup was to bring the NYC crowdfunding community together. All of us were in the same boat trying to learn from one another and move the industry forward. What…
After launching consulting services 6 months ago, I have personally talked to hundreds of people wanting to crowdfund and have noticed a pattern among the majority of them. Here are the biggest misconceptions that I’ve found.
Type – The majority are only familiar with one type of crowdfunding. No matter if they want to raise a few thousand dollars or one million dollars, they are mostly interested in reward crowdfunding. Why pay interest or give equity away when you can get the money by giving t-shirts? They do not now that other types of crowdfunding exist like lending or equity.
Crowd – When…