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Post by thedevonfox on Jun 21, 2011 0:13:32 GMT -5
CHA-CHING! Hey, guys! I was talking to Jon on Skype just now, and he's forcing me to post the ideas I shared with him on here. Uuuuhg... Alright, so, I hope you've all heard of Kickstart! www.kickstarter.com/ I propose that we start a Kickstarter fund to raise money for EVERYTHING that we need, which includes: - New uniforms
- New equiptment
- Future travel expenses
- Team merchandise (shirts, stickers, posters, those neat-o broom pens, etc.) and advertising supplies (business cards, new banners, post cards, etc.)
- I dunno... I'm sure there's more.
If we make a Kickstarter in the range on $1000-$5000 (which means if we have to raise at least $1000 by whatever date we set), we'll be able to tend to all of the expenses that we have! Possible thinks to offer to those who donate: - $100-$200 - their own personalized team jersey
- $25-$50 - signed picture by the WHOLE TEAM, and/or a personal video of us saying thanks
- $1-$25 - A pre-order of future team merch
Let me know what you guys think! LET'S ROCK THIS SHIT! (BTW, I still want a nick name! As of now, the leaders of the running are Trouble, and The Sailor. Team, get on that shit!)
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Post by danceswithbludgers on Jun 21, 2011 0:23:44 GMT -5
Hey, sounds like a good idea to me!
And my vote goes to "The Sailor"
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Post by Jonathon Rosenthal on Jun 21, 2011 9:33:50 GMT -5
Nickname? How about we go Doctor Who and call you "The Coming Storm" ;-)
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Post by behemoth on Jun 23, 2011 16:10:09 GMT -5
When I first read about this site, I thought it was pretty nifty. How do we go about starting this?
I could make my sister draw something cool for contributors. (Actually, she's supposed to be working on our trading cards...)
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Post by smartpenguin78 on Oct 27, 2011 16:28:48 GMT -5
We should definitely still work on this: here is a link to the Syracuse Team's Kickstarter-
The big thing we need to do is make a video appeal to post on the site. Basically we can just walk around in our old iron-on shirts with our broken hoops and look sad and talk about how we have to travel for every tourney etc.
We can't do this for the world cup, but now, but we can use the $ to pay for future travel, merchandise, the uniforms we just got, and to buy/repair hoops.
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Post by Jonathon Rosenthal on Oct 27, 2011 16:36:47 GMT -5
I am going to have some down time after the QWC. I am going to build a framework for our kickstarter. Particularly the give aways and such.
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Post by caitlin on Oct 27, 2011 17:39:43 GMT -5
I am so for a kickstarter campaign. I want us to have a ridiculously successful one.
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Post by Jonathon Rosenthal on Oct 27, 2011 19:32:43 GMT -5
Caitlin: exactly. If Syracuse can earn $1000, I want us to earn $3,000 and our prizes will be cooler
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Post by Eddie on Nov 5, 2011 17:54:33 GMT -5
Who's thedevonfox?
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Post by Jonathon Rosenthal on Nov 5, 2011 18:29:16 GMT -5
Devon Bennett
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Post by violenthippie7 on Nov 9, 2011 21:07:13 GMT -5
so- if i make y'all a better stencil, which won't get soggy after a bit, would that be good to make patches to sell? once i am back in VA i can get template plastic and make some sturdy ones.
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Post by violenthippie7 on Nov 14, 2011 17:16:08 GMT -5
hey guys, another idea of something to sell, iron ons! one of my friends who stayed with me was asking about them. (emily, the tall one with really short hair if y'all managed to run across her at the cup). besides the kickstarter, what about having a webshop of sorts? stenciled patches, iron ons, t-shirts and such... or just having a booth at some events? maybe some of the bigger events that TGTSNBN goes to?
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Post by Jonathon Rosenthal on Nov 14, 2011 18:07:15 GMT -5
We are starting to have booths at more and more events. And we will of course sell Blisks merch along side any TGTSNBN merch. I like the idea of patches, iron-ons and such.
We will have to hold off on selling online for a bit though. I tried this out via t-shirt sales and its just way too much work to deal with shipping.
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Post by caitlin on Nov 20, 2011 19:48:46 GMT -5
I can make wizard hats and scarfs to sell in team colors
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Post by smartpenguin78 on Nov 20, 2011 21:45:41 GMT -5
Couldn't we sell online for a higher cost to over overhead? I doubt our actual sales will be high enough to make it that time consuming overall.
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