Crap.\u00a0 I am becoming a real blogger.\u00a0 Like Carrie from Sex and the City.\u00a0 I need a loft and a Mac and a pack of cigarettes and I’ll be all set.\u00a0 And I am representin’ the business.\u00a0 Whoa!\u00a0 My first thoughts are to edit myself and “stick to business”.\u00a0 *shrug*\u00a0 Where did that come from?\u00a0 One of the reasons I am starting a business is to not have to suppress who I am.\u00a0 So eff that!\u00a0 And if you don’t find me endearing, then don’t read this.\u00a0 I will just annoy you.\u00a0 Seems like there was more I wanted to say about that.\u00a0 Oh, yeah!\u00a0 See below.<\/p>\n
Why am I starting a blog?<\/strong><\/p>\n I am starting a blog because I want to share my crazy\/beautiful journey of WeatherVane Creamery with you, specifically the next 25 days of the “impossible” campaign to raise $100,000.\u00a0 Every day brings amazing things.\u00a0 There is so much behind-the-scenes “going ons” that just can’t be captured on facebook or the indiegogo site.\u00a0 My friend Maikol and I will be writing a book about this thing anyway, so I might as well get a head start.\u00a0 Plus, a few folks out there have asked me about how this works because they want to do something similar for something they are passionate about.\u00a0 The least I could do is share what I learn so all of you don’t have to reinvent my wheel.\u00a0 Lord knows I am a fan of stealing other people’s wheels.\u00a0 And I want it to be real.\u00a0 No suppression.\u00a0 This sort of thing takes an amount of personal fortitude and you can learn from that part, too.\u00a0 And laugh from it.\u00a0 Or cry.\u00a0 Eeek!<\/p>\n \u00a0 Where We Are At<\/strong><\/p>\n We have 25 days left out of 32.\u00a0 Here is what I wrote in my journal on the second day of the campaign:\u00a0 I launched WeatherVane’s viral video and fund raising campaign yesterday.\u00a0 So much has been leading up to it.\u00a0 I launched it two hours ahead of schedule and by hour four I was feeling a sense of failure and rejection.\u00a0 I expected everyone to stop what they were doing to see my cool little nothing that I unleashed to the Universe.\u00a0 I expected everyone to become overwhelmed with inspiration to drop money in $500 increments.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n Today I focused on the Ice Cream a Go Go at the Chamber of Commerce.\u00a0 So focused that I never called IsIt2B to get back to them on the logo winner.\u00a0 The logo contest is so last week.\u00a0 LOL\u00a0 And I also forgot to eat.\u00a0 The event was super amazing.\u00a0 Good turnout.\u00a0 I don’t judge these events by the number of people who attend but the caliber of support present.\u00a0 I feel like some key community members joined Team WeatherVane.\u00a0 I grew my email list by eight or so people from that and I emailed everyone that came and directed them to fb to look at the pics.\u00a0 We’ll see if that results in more fans.\u00a0 Then I got an itch to get the fb “likes” up.\u00a0 So I am making a conscious effort there.\u00a0 We’ll see what happens.\u00a0 Well, I did get some food in me earlier and I am so completely exhausted.\u00a0 I can hardly keep my eyes open.\u00a0 More tomorrow… <\/em><\/p>\n Results: <\/em><\/p>\n Indiegogo $193, 4 funders, 173 indiegogo views, 90 fb fans<\/em><\/p>\n So that was 5 days ago.\u00a0 Here are the updated results.\u00a0 I will leave you with that for now.\u00a0 There is so much to say.\u00a0 We will catch up later, ok?<\/p>\n 335 youtube views, $482 indiegogo, 12 indiegogo funders, 545 indiegogo views, 12 indiegogo favorites, 107 fb fans, $1,000 private loans, $1,482 total funded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crap.\u00a0 I am becoming a real blogger.\u00a0 Like Carrie from Sex and the City.\u00a0 I need a loft and a Mac and a pack of cigarettes and I’ll be all set.\u00a0 And I am representin’ the business.\u00a0 Whoa!\u00a0 My first … Continue reading