Day Fourteen - 15% Charity. It begins Online.

Another backer? I'm afraid to say that it was due to a bit of arm twisting... but they all count eh? Eh?

We are still waiting on some good news from the t-shirt manufacturers and the creative collaborators... but in the meanwhile we did move along a couple of other potential happy encounters!

A talented TV voice over artist is on board and agrees to record their own rendition of my poetic offering - https://soundcloud.com/glen-cooper-4/be-present-take-a-bow

Which means we can put together a feel good [hopefully viral] YouTube video to go with our Kickstarter campaign. Got a good feeling about that. Speaking of which, how about we take another look at our 30 second Star Wars video. Seems a shame to waste an opportunity like this ;)

Finally we manage to make contact with a lovely charity so we could give offer them our support through free advertising using HappiJar. They love our idea and once we have final confirmation from their founder - we will announce the charities name and the new button design! Making progress.

Lessons Learned:

1. Pick up the phone, speak to people. Make things happen. Rattle some cages.

Lots of loose ends. I feel dirty.

Day Twelve - 14% Bank Holiday Juggling

Our first and last bank holiday Monday! We also had one backer too!

There was no way that I was going to get any rest today. My better half was sick [poor baby], I had a photo puppet film to create, emails to answer, tweets to re-tweet and projects to research. Oh and help my very good friend to complete our website. So here's what I got up to, in detail:

1. I built a 30 second Star Wars spoof in PhotoPuppet on my iPad JUST so I could impress the creators of one of my favourite Kickstarter projects; Crowd Funding Alliance X-Wing Squadron. With my master piece I was hoping to get a bit of late promotion for my campaign... unfortunately I am still waiting to hear from them. This is not news to me though. Most of my Kickstarter experience so far has been thinking up creative ways to make contact with people and never hearing back from them. 
2. I also managed to contact two of my really nice connections via LinkedIn to tell them all about what it was I was doing. It was met with a mixed response. They love me, but don't like what Kickstarter is doing. Bit late for that, but I had a fantastic chat with them anyway. Always good to catch up with friends.
3. Whilst on LinkedIn I also managed to finally give a friend a well deserved recommendation in the hope that he would spread the word about HappiJar as a favour. Let's just say we'll check back on that one at a later date ;)
4. One of my best friends uploaded our website and we are now represented using our domain www.happijar.com! This is fantastic and major kudos to him for helping me :) Please check it out.
5. Finally made the decision to research and draw up budget costings for some more physical rewards to balance out the digital ones. I finally relented after yet another request for me to consider it. So far I have approached a local t-shirt company to help us design and draw up a plan. More on that soon.
6. Local business social group have written a new article about our project in their blog. Apparently it will be published tomorrow - so we got that to look forward to :)
7. I spent 3 hours combing Kickstarter projects for possible collaborators... more about that soon - but one find was quite exciting. Think HappiButtons with not only limited edition artwork, but sound clips attached too!

Lessons Learned:

1. Grow a very thick skin. Preferrably one with many additional arms and heads. You'll want a built in computer monitor too and smart phone recessed into your chest.This is what a successful Kicksterter probably looks like.....
2. Keep surfing Kickstarter. If you don't find any help you may atleast get inspired by someone elses pitch enough to make yours stronger too. 

Busy, busy. Keep sharing.