Projects => The F Plus => Topic started by: Lemon on July 14, 2015, 07:58:15 pm
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: Lemon on July 14, 2015, 07:58:15 pm
https://thefpl.us/episode/181
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on July 14, 2015, 10:30:35 pm
Now I know everyone has their phone set up to alert them when free petting zoos are nearby (and I know I can't live without my ZooPScoop app), but here's a customized sound file just for you! http://tinyurl.com/pd697bq (http://tinyurl.com/pd697bq)
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: advancedclass on July 14, 2015, 11:24:07 pm
When I saw on twitter that a gofundme episode was coming to us, I didn't think it would be so confusing.
I recognize that people were asking to be given money, possibly for stated reasons, but I feel like the comparison to a crazy street person really applies to most of what was heard. Almost all of them gave off less a vibe of 'give me money for cause' and more 'if I confuse/frighten you enough you will give me money to escape'.
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: TheCrawlingChaos on July 15, 2015, 12:29:51 am
Come on guys, can't we just get beyond the geodesic Thunderdome?
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: A Meat on July 15, 2015, 02:41:50 am
Searching for stuff for this doc was emotionally draining, since for every crazy garbage project that made its way into the doc, there were nine important causes and people who do deserve charity (as well as a bunch of causes I don't think deserve charity, but are wrong for the F+ format or personal opinion).
Also the site is garbage and is formatted like garbage, and you couldn't copy and paste the backer rewards for some stupid reason, so the once or twice it's in the doc, I had to peer into the source and copy the text from there.
It is a good site if you want to accidentally stumble upon people making accidentally public requests for money that are clearly intended for a very small and selected audience.
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: LINDA on July 15, 2015, 12:42:16 pm
Portaxx is killin it this episode
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: goombapolice on July 15, 2015, 01:56:18 pm
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: Geremy Tibbles on July 15, 2015, 06:08:08 pm
Johnny Rollit Ministries: 420 Praise It
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: Spacebat on July 15, 2015, 11:48:31 pm
So just how much money has Kumquat paid for fake spaceships?
I mean, I didn't know they were fake, but what's his excuse?
Edit: how was I supposed to know that was actually a homeless person and not a lost alien monarch that needed to raise funds to make a ship to get home?
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: Sun Smasher on July 16, 2015, 05:30:34 am
Here I thought I could go the day without anger, but then "unschooling" reared its head. Thank god it was just in passing.
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: Spoop on July 17, 2015, 04:03:29 am
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: Sherman Tank on November 19, 2015, 09:44:54 pm
Another amazing gofundme: I blow $106k in Vegas, ouch. (https://www.gofundme.com/jwb55h38)
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: Sherman Tank on February 08, 2016, 07:08:00 am
Look who has a new GoFundMe! (https://www.gofundme.com/closerthanyouthink)
Dear Friends,
Earlier this year I posted on FaceBook that I was almost done writing my first book, getting ready to upload it to CreateSpace. After considering my pro writer/editor sister Tracy’s feedback that it seemed like I was leaving out some of the juiciest stuff, I realized to my dismay that she was right, and that if I was serious about the project, I would have to set my shyness and self-consciousness aside. So I dove back in and started filling in the gaps.
With little things.
Things that I don’t talk about to most people.
Like, well, the times I was visited by radiant and loving ET’s.
And the conversation I had with Jesus that changed EVERYTHING.
Like the things I learned about being an empath and how to take care of myself while deepening my relationship with my creativity.
Like my evolving journey with suicidal urges, and strategies I discovered for allowing the intensity of these feelings to deepen my passionate commitment to life.
And this was just a start.
When I decided to share some of the stories about how my perspective formed for the intuitive work I do and the music I make, I embarked on a whole new journey. It has taken me a while to come back up for air. But this time when I put down the pen 120 additional pages later and shared the new manuscript with Tracy, her response came back: “polished gold”.
I was about to hit the button again to publish with CreateSpace when I had a well-timed conversation with another friend and ally, Karen Stuth with Satiama.com . Karen has been in the business of publishing award-winning books and products that help us to expand consciousness. She has helped me to promote my music and reach a much broader audience than I ever would have by myself.
During our conversation, she gave me super strong and well-researched advice to avoid CreateSpace, and gave me some suggestions for how to self-publish successfully. I realized that I wanted to hire her to help me get the book out to a wider audience, helping me to raise the necessary funds to print, market, organize book tours, get professional reviews, connect with major distribution channels, and all other kinds of things that I couldn’t do alone. All of this costs money; Karen's fees are only a small percentage of the budget. She's willing to wait until after funds are raised to get paid for much of her work; however I will need some help to raise the initial funds to get started working with her.
Would you consider buying a book in advance of publishing?Quote from
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: Zekka on February 09, 2016, 11:22:12 am
Yes I would buy that.
But the catch-22 is that I only buy stupid self-help books from people who are poor, weird and hopeless. Getting 16k from anonymous internet strangers so you can distribute your book makes you neither.
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Post by: TurkeyPopulationGuessingMan on March 07, 2016, 02:46:47 pm
The latest episode of the Dollop covers One Taste. It is quite something.
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: Sherman Tank on May 13, 2018, 02:53:03 pm
Noodles Levenstein raps:
Title: Episode 181: Go Fund Yourself
Post by: Jam on November 26, 2019, 06:15:15 pm