What can fundraisers learn from the Music Industry? Ask @amandapalmer

I’ve just watched Amanda Palmer's TEDtalk.  It wasn’t what I was expecting.

When my brother was starting out in his first band (maybe around the year 2000) I wondered if there was a different way.  A way of instead of being ‘discovered’, and selling music through a label, a band could give away their music, and be funded / backed by their fans. They could eat for free because their fans would buy them lunch – things like that.  There would always be a fan to buy it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a fair bit of thinking it over, I dismissed it as just another of my weird ideas. No-one could do that.

 

Turns out they can.

 

Since this blog is my attempt to write on the subject of fundraising, if you’re a fundraiser, there’s a very important thing to take-away from Amanda’s talk.

1.      The need to ASK people to be involved. – You can’t make people help you, but you can ask them to.

2.      When you connect with people, they want to help you.

3.      Don’t ask, how do we make people pay to help, ask how can we LET people help us.

 

For some reason, hyperlinks were acting up.  You can find the talk here:   

 

Now I'm off to look over some more of my weird ideas from back then, just in case!

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