Crowdfunding Consultant and Editor for Hire

Crowdfunding consultant & Editor FOR HIRE Crowdfunding Consultant and Production Manager I bring over 40 years of work in printing and graphic design, 30 years in e-commerce and internet marketing, and 15 years of success in crowdfunding to your project, helping raise millions of dollars for others and over $400,000 for my own work. The sweet spots of what I offer are structuring a project’s details, developing a budget, and managing logistics. I project managed the all-time #1 Kickstarter tech book (and #14 overall out of nearly 70,000 publishing campaigns), and crowdfunded my own book on comic history in February 2024, which finished in the top 150. On press at Penmor Lithographers in Maine withShift Happens(Photo: courtesy Marcin Wichary) The Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule How Comics Were Made On press at Hemlock Printers in Vancouver, BC, Canada, withHow Comics Were Made Delivering a talk about type history Contact me to discuss my involvement. I offer a free 30-minute discovery call to talk over project details, explain my rates, and figure out how we might work together. On press at Penmor Lithographers in Maine with Shift Happens (Photo: courtesy Marcin Wichary) If you’re looking for help with your campaign, the best time to reach out is several months to two years before you think you want to launch. I can work with you on manufacturing bids, modeling revenue, deciding on rewards, writing the project story, and assembling a video story, as well as give you insight into how you need to prepare from a business perspective (taxes, licenses, credit card fees, chargebacks, returns) and anticipate fulfillment costs. My social media presence and acumen, along with industry contacts, contribute to a campaign’s success. I can take a book all the way to printing and distribution. This includes traveling to a printing plant to oversee page as they come out of a press-I spent 100 hours on press with an author client on their book in 2023, and 12 for one of my own books in 2024-and working with fulfillment warehouses, including pre-processing data to meet their quirky needs. My Crowdfunding Expertise After acting for five years as the editor of Shift Happens for author/designer/photographer Marcin Wichary, I took on its project management, bringing the three-volume book through crowdfunding, printing, and fulfillment. We raised over $750,000 at Kickstarter in February 2023 for nearly 4,500 sets of books (totaling 1,376 pages in a slipcase), and sold out of the rest of the printing within a year with effective post-Kickstarter marketing. You can read a detailed essay about our journey on that book and lessons learned in “ How We Crowdfunded $750,000 for a Giant Book about Keyboard History .” Marcin offers this endorsement of our work together: “Glenn’s decades of experience are matched by curiosity and an excellent problem-solving attitude; he was a helpful and attentive partner during the few critical moments of the campaign. “The book was a success both in terms of writing, producing a well-made object, backer interest (#1...

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