our radio station beg-a-thon page on indigogo.com<\/a>\u00a0 .<\/p>\nI think my presentation is improved quite a bit from the beginning.\u00a0 But it still isn’t causing people to reach for their wallet in a reflexive way.\u00a0 So we are stuck at under $600 of the $15,000 we are asking for.\u00a0 Not very impressive.<\/p>\n
There is one other Low Power FM station trying to raise funds on Indiegogo and they are asking for $20k and have raised a bit over $300.\u00a0 So maybe the radio station idea doesn’t resonate with the Indiegogo.com crowdsourcing types.<\/p>\n
We have a plan going forward.\u00a0 There are various marketing firms which will try to bump up your visitor count in whatever way the magic marketers do.\u00a0 That will cost us a bit of $$, not very much in the big picture.\u00a0 We think we will go for that in just a few days.<\/p>\n
I have never been good at asking people for money, “closing the sale” they call it.\u00a0 I figured that if you want to do it you should do it.\u00a0 And if you don’t want to do it then you shouldn’t.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And if I presented it right you would see the inherent goodness and want to do it.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, a good salesman can sell you something that you don’t want and don’t need, and even he thinks is a bad waste of money.\u00a0 I think the attitude is, “hey, you have money, I need money, and this product transfer is just an excuse for you to give some money to me.”\u00a0 With that point of view, the junker car is just a kewpie doll, a bit of bling (or, as programmers say, a side-effect)\u00a0 thrown into the real transaction which is the money changing hands.<\/p>\n
I could be wrong about this.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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