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Creative Funding Show
by Thomas Umstattd Jr.
a podcast for creators who want to make a living doing what they love using Patreon & Kickstarter. Hear the stories of Authors, YouTubers, and Podcasters who are funding their creativity using platforms like Patreon, Kickstarter. You will also learn about making money with advertising, sponsorships, merch, and other creative ways to make a living as an artist.
Episodes
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028 Patreon vs Kickstarter (a Crosscast with Funding the Dream)
In this episode, I do a crosscast with Richard Bliss from the Funding the Dream on Kickstarter Podcast. The episode will go out on both feeds and if you haven’t checked out his podcast, you really should. We talk about what it takes to lose your Patreon followers, how to get them back and a whole...
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027 Crowdfunding for Creatives with Jamie Jensen
Announcement: The Creative Funding Show will be going on indefinite hiatus soon. If you have a question you want me to address in a wrap up Q&A episode feel free to leave it as a comment below. In this episode, Jamie Jenson from the Creatives Making Money Podcast interviews me about crowdfunding....
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026 How to Get Advanced Patreon Analytics with Graphtreon
Tom Boruta (Baruta) is a Software Engineer who created Graphtreon because he wanted to follow the progress of Patreon creators. Questions: For our listeners who did not listen to episode 4, what is Graphtreon? Why are analytics so important? What is new about the new system? Links: Graphtreon The...
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025 Finding Your Courage and How to Handle Haters
Michelle Kopper has helped thousands of creatives, small business owners and entrepreneurs embrace self-promotion and selling as serving. Michelle’s combines her journey overcoming crippling stage fright, with her performance background and her ability to intuit aligned marketing language to help...
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024 How to Reduce Stress & Increase Creativity with Kim Sutton
Stress and busy work are the biggest enemies of creative people. And today we have someone on the show to help solve that. Kim Sutton is the host of the Positive Productivity podcast, runs a team of 10 people and has 5 kids. So you can say she knows a thing or two about productivity. (Twitter...
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023 Pricing with Janene Liston
Your time, energy, and money are valuable, but many people struggle to assign a dollar amount to each. Creators running crowdfunding campaigns often need help deciding what to offer backers and how to price each reward level. Janene Liston helps her clients build value and know what and how to...
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022 Crowdfunding Psychology
Why do people back crowdfunding campaigns and creators on sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Patreon? What makes them want to support creators they don’t know personally? Two words: social triggers. What is a social trigger? In marketing psychology, a social trigger influences a person’s...
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021 The Anatomy of a Successful Crowdfunding Page (Deep Dive)
Creating a solid sales page is the key to success. In this episode, you will discover the necessary secrets for: storytelling and the value of vulnerability and for crafting a sales page that sells. Introduction This is the meat and potatoes of your Kickstarter campaign. If you do your promotion...
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020 What Creators Need to Know About Email Marketing (Deep Dive)
Today we are going to talk about email. But first, I would like to say we are not going to have an episode next week. I will be at the New Media Summit all week and won’t have a chance to record an episode. Why Email is So Important for Creators Platform Independent, if YouTube or Facebook keeps...
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019 How to Break Past the Patreon Patron Plateau
Welcome to the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love. I’m Thomas Umstattd Jr., your fellow companion on the journey of making money doing the creative work you love, whether that’s video, audio, or the written word. In this...
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018 How to Host Your Own Membership Site on WordPress with Ravi Jayagopal
There are two schools of thought when it comes to membership sites, one is to use a 3rd party platform like Patreon, and one is to do it yourself on your own website. I want you to hear from people from both schools of thought, which is why I’ve invited Ravi Jayagopal to the show. Ravi Jayagopal…
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017 Creative Funding With Info Products (Deep Dive)
In this episode, we talk about how to make money by creating informational products. I also share an example of how to do it from Novel Marketing. Thank you for your kind reviews. I was feeling very low yesterday and for some reason I stumbled across the reviews for Creative Funding Show (which I...
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016 How Mary DeMuth Doubled Her Patreon Backing in 4 months
This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love. I’m your host, Thomas Umstattd, Jr., and with me again is Mary Demuth. She’s an international speaker and podcaster, a novelist of both fiction and nonfiction, and has…
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015 Profiting from Podcasting With Steve Olsher
The Creative Funding Show is a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love. I’m your host Thomas Umstattd Jr., and with me today is Steve Olsher, who’s known for helping individuals and corporations get exceptionally clear on the one thing they were created…
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014 How to Email Patrons a Thank You Automatically
In today’s episode, I’m going to take a deep dive on Patreon and Email. Why this is important. For the Novel Marketing Patreon, there are several rewards that we want patrons to get automatically. The biggest is a series of coupon codes that give them discounts on our courses and plugins. Right…
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013 How Bryan Cohen Built a Business Around His Podcast
This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love. I’m Thomas Umstattd, Jr., and with me today is Bryan Cohen, the dashingly handsome co-host of the Sell More Books Show. Bryan helps authors sell more books and make more money…
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012 How to Boost Book Revenue With Audiobooks
James Rubart is a bestselling author, audiobook narrator and podcaster (Novel Marketing). He is also our intro guy, so his voice may sound a bit familiar to you. Audiobook sales are the fastest growing segment of books. If you have ever thought about writing a book, you need to also think about...
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011 How to Avoid Newbie Patreon Mistakes with Bremner Morris
This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love without selling out. I’m Thomas Umstattd Jr., and with me is Bremner Morris, the head of Patreon’s Creator Partnership and Success Teams. Today, we’ll talk about newbie mistakes...
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010 Introduction to Patreon With Bremner Morris
This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love without selling out. I’m Thomas Umstattd Jr., and with me today is Bremner Morris. He’s the head of Patreon’s Creator Partnerships and Creator Success Teams. He helps creators...
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009 Launching a Controversial Book on Indiegogo with Jacqueline Isaacs
This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love without selling out. I’m Thomas Umstattd Jr., and with me today is Jacqueline Isaacs. She is the strategic director of Bellwether Communications, where she crafts measurable,...
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008 From Hobby Writer to Full Time Author with Rachael Herron
Rachael Herron is the bestselling author of the novel The Ones Who Matter Most (Affiliate Link) (named an Editor’s Pick by Library Journal), as well as more than twenty other novels and memoirs. Her latest non-fiction is Fast-Draft Your Memoir: Write Your Life Story in 45 Hours (Affiliate Link)....
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007 Diversifying Your Income as a Creator With Joanna Penn
Joanna Penn is an award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers under J.F.Penn and also writes non-fiction for authors. She’s an award-winning creative entrepreneur, podcaster, and YouTuber. Her site, TheCreativePenn.com has been voted in the Top 100 sites for...
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006 How Mary DeMuth Went From Rejected Author to Crowdfunding Success
This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love without selling out. I’m Thomas Umstattd Jr., and with me is Mary DeMuth, an international speaker, podcaster, novelist, nonfiction author, and more. She lives in Texas with her...
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005 Funding Publishing on Patreon with Shemer Kuznits
Shemer Kuznits is a LitRPG author who is using Patreon to fund his writing. He was recently able to move from working 5 days a week to 4 days a week giving him another day dedicated to writing. Links Shemer’s Website Shemer’s Patreon Page Shemer’s Facebook Questions: What kind of writing do you…
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004 Patreon Stats with Graphtreon Founder Tom Boruta
Tom Boruta is a Software Engineer who created Graphtreon because he wanted to follow the progress of Patreon creators. In this episode, we talk about how to use Graphtreon to track your Patreon’s progress. Links: Graphtreon Website Graphtreon Patreon Graphtreon Twitter Questions What is...
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003 How to Start a Patreon Page
In this episode, I am going to sign up for a Patreon Account and share about the process and what I’ve learned along the way. Links: Creative Funding Show Patreon Patreon Affiliate Link (we both each $50+ with this link) TLDR What is Patreon? Patreon is a rewards-based patronage platform where…
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002 How to Get Podcast Merch Right – Revolutions Podcast with Mike Duncan Deep Dive
Merchandise is hard to get right, especially for podcasters. It is easy to waste a lot of money on boxes of shirts that collect dust in your garage. In this episode, I break down the recent fundraising episode from the Revolutions Podcast for takeaways for podcasters and YouTubers. Mike Duncan is...
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001 7 Ways Creators Can Make Money
In terms of creative funding, I see authors, YouTubers, and podcasters making money in 7 primary ways. This episode will be a broad overview. In the future, we will have deep dive episodes on each of these ways. In short, creators can make money with merch, products, affiliate revenue…
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000 Introducing the Creative Funding Show and Thomas Umstattd Jr.
In this episode, I introduce myself and the show. Thomas Umstattd is an author, speaker, and podcaster. The Creative Funding Show is a podcast where you will hear the stories of Authors, YouTubers, and Podcasters who are funding their creativity using platforms like Patreon, Kickstarter. You will...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
a podcast for creators who want to make a living doing what they love using Patreon & Kickstarter. Hear the stories of Authors, YouTubers, and Podcasters who are funding their creativity using platforms like Patreon, Kickstarter. You will also learn about making money with advertising, sponsorships, merch, and other creative ways to make a living as an artist.
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a podcast for creators who want to make a living doing what they love using Patreon & Kickstarter. Hear the stories of Authors, YouTubers, and Podcasters who are funding their creativity using platforms like Patreon, Kickstarter. You will also learn about making money with advertising,...
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