{"id":22,"date":"2012-03-08T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spblog\/2012\/03\/08\/diy-crowd-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:59:30","slug":"diy-crowd-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/diy-crowd-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Crowd Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After my Spindrift Commissioning Guild fundraising efforts this year, I like to see what other fundraising efforts are out there and what&#8217;s working. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.discmakers.com\/2012\/02\/fan-funding-9-steps-to-find-patrons-completely-on-your-own\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheryl B. Engelhardt&#8217;s Fan Funding blog post <\/a>makes a good case for DIY crowd funding, with specific ideas for what you need to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Update October 2025:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Although that original article is gone, the <a href=\"https:\/\/profitablemusician.com\/cheryl-b-engelhardt-on-building-your-following-by-engaging-through-an-email-list\">Profitable Musician has an interview with Cheryl<\/a> that discusses ways to connect with your fans and get their support for your important projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2019-12_MG_4579-900x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2019-12_MG_4579-900x577.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2019-12_MG_4579-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2019-12_MG_4579-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2019-12_MG_4579-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2019-12_MG_4579-1536x985.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2019-12_MG_4579.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alternative to all those big-business crowd-funding options (link).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,129],"tags":[2,42],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-links","category-music-business","tag-crowd-funding","tag-spindrift-commissioning-guild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}