Shameless Plug - Kickstarter

Just wanted to share an update - I'm beyond fully funded - 412% to be exact... it ends in a bit less than 3 hours.

For anyone making a calendar this year, Kickstarter is a great way to get pre-sales, and get the funds to print without an upfront investment out of pocket.
Worked for me well beyond my funding goals 2 years in a row now. Worth a shot for anyone thinking about it.

make that 422% now... love love love Kickstarter.

Congratulations Heather that is great!! I think using Kickstarter to sell images is a genius idea. I am a big fan of that site. Congrats again!!!

Great Heather! Way to go.

Heather, that's great! Love your little marshmallow vignettes. Very clever. I have friends who have participated in Kickstarters, but I'd never considered it myself. Can I ask where most of your backers come from? Family, friends, social media, other artists? I'm just wondering how to go about gathering support for such an endeavor.

A handful are friends and family. The vast majority are total strangers. My first few backers were strangers. I also messaged all my backers from my previous year and let them know I was doing another one, and a few came in that way. In your stats it tells you which ones came from outside sources, and which came directly from Kickstarter (there are a ton of folks on there that just browse through the projects and back them.)

Heather. Great post and congrats! I friend of ours got a CD Music production project 100% funded via Kickstarter. How will you produce he calendars? Cheers!

I think I know who I'm printing with this year, but still looking around. Last year I used Vistaprint (upgraded to cardstock paper - absolute must, very good quality) - but don't think I can get the same deal. Year before that I used Lulu, but also can't get the same deal.

Congrats to you Heather that is awesome!! I also want to say thank you for turning me on to Kickstarter where I'm trying to fund my new calendar project :)