Tags for Money-Related Matters

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crowdfunding has several tags relating to money, sales, etc.

Cyberfunded Creativity -- Use this to mark posts that deal with cyberfunded creativity/crowdfunding as a business model, or individual CFC projects that people can visit and support.

Economics -- This covers broad issues of finance, the bookkeeping side of home business, national trends, and so forth.  Frex, sometimes haikujaguar's series about "The Three Micahs" gets tagged this way.

Print On Demand -- POD publishing creates one book at a time when a customer wants to buy it.  Some POD publishers let the author buy in big batches for a discount.  red_trillium requested the addition of this tag, so I added it.  I know plenty of other folks here use POD and I wanted to make sure you'd see the new tag.

Shopping -- Any post about stuff you're selling can go here: jewelry, coffee cups, prints, etc.  Lots of people use sites such as Cafe Press, Etsy, Zazzle, etc. to market their crowdfunded projects. 

The etiquette of pimping stuff in this community:

1) People come here to look for projects, so it's okay to pimp your crowdfunded goods and services.  Don't overdo it, but updates for ongoing projects are okay.  (See also our Project Update tag.)  As a general guideline... For erratically updated or monthly projects, pimp when new material appears.  Weekly projects can be pimped weekly, although that's probably best reserved for popular ones; otherwise once or twice a month is probably enough.  Daily or otherwise very frequently updated projects should not be pimped more than weekly unless something unusual is going on.  Frex, I usually mention my monthly Poetry Fishbowl in this community.

2) People come here to look for ideas in crowdfunding models, so highlight the details of crowdfunding when you pimp your stuff.  If you want to try something that nobody has tried before, that's okay, but you'll have a higher chance of success if you explain how it relates to the overall concept of crowdfunding.

3) You can help put the "crowd" in "crowdfunding" by pimping projects that aren't yours but that you support.  This includes linking to things on someone else's LJ (check to make sure it's not Friends-locked), on another blog service, an independent website, or one of the big crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter or IndieGoGo.  Long-running projects may be updated over time, especially if comments indicate audience interest here.

4) Followup reports are welcome!  If you do a print sale, fishbowl, icon day, etc. that you pimp here, please consider posting a followup report or a link to such a report on your own LJ so that people can see how it turned out.  This helps show what approaches work well.  It also gives you an opportunity to thank  your sponsors.

Comments

[red-trillium.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this post. I find it very helpful. And thank you for adding the POD tag.