by: neil
Crowdfunding is an innovativesource for funding your early stagerequirements, but unlike traditionalmodels, everything is not closed witha handshake after the first investorthat agrees is on board.Crowdfunding often involves gettingmultiple small investors to back yourstartup plan and get on board, andthat often means needing apersistent and active online campaign to draw the attention of funders.
Obviously if it would depend on expensive advertising adding to the cost of raising
funds, crowdfunding would lose it’s edge.
Social media
would be the way to gofor your crowdfunding campaign reaching out to believers and turning them intoinvestors. Here are a few tips to get your social media crowdfunding campaigngoing and start drawing funders to your GrowVC startup profile page:
Take Your Funding Request To Facebook:
A public IPO uses business newspapers and mass media to throw open theirsubscription to shares to the public. You have Facebook! Create a Facebook page
exclusively for your crowdfunding campaign
. You could talk about the venture,your funding requirements, why someone should invest, who they are investing in,what is going on and where the funding efforts currently stand. Status updates caninclude the progress, startup updates, current amount raised, customerdevelopments and more. Start with your friends and your teams friends joining thepage and rope them in to help you spread the word. Use your Facebook network!
Call Out To Investors On Twitter: