CREATIVE TOOLS & TIPS
(Fort Collins, Colorado and National)
FUNDING TOOLS
- Create a Patron Account to allow people to donate to you
- Create a Venmo or Paypal Account so people can give you donations directly
- Loss Calculator Tool – from Performing Arts Readiness
- Nonprofit Finance Fund (tools and resources)
- Amazon Smile – a fundraising tool for nonprofits to have your fans use when shopping on Amazon
- Facebook fundraisers Register your nonprofit to be an option for fundraising efforts
LIVESTREAMING
- LIVE-STREAMING: See all the trainings, video breakdowns, tutorials, live-streaming tips and resources
- “Livestreaming + Fundraising: A Community Case Study (kinda)” by Julie Sutter of the Music District
- Liven up Your Livestream with The Launchpad from the Music District (Designed for musicians, but applicable to all artists)
- Article on different live streaming options: (Platforms evaluated: Facebook Live, Periscope, YouTube, YouNow, ConcertWindow, StageIt, and Gigee)
- PLATFORMS & RESOURCES:
- HOW LIVE, Twitch TV, Vimeo, Periscope, Facebook Live, Timbre Streaming and Instagram Live
- Muse Performance Space – Live streaming for concerts, patrons can watch and musicians get the proceeds
- Stage It (online pay to watch concert venue)
- Stay At Home Fest – Calendar and Festivals Online
- PROFESSIONALS & PRODUCTION HELP:
- Need help producing a Livestream show? Local expert Doug Usher of The Via Company can help you!
VIRTUAL EVENTS
- VIRTUAL EVENTS
- Sched offers advice for virtual events
- EventBrite webinar: Best Practices for Communicating with Your Attendees (Video)
- Top 10 tips to plan a successful virtual event (Eventstant.com)
- HOW TO:
- How to Plan, promote, and host a profitable virtual event (HelloSeven.co)
- How to host a successful virtual event: tips and best practices (Hootsuite)
- 7 easy steps to successful virtual event planning (SocialTables.com)
- RESOURCES:
VIDEO LEARNING & TRAININGS
- PIVOTING:
- “How to Start in E-Commerce” (step by step video by Startup Week Fort Collins)
- “Getting Started With Teaching Online“ (step by step video by Startup Week Fort Collins)
- Digital Tools for Running an Art Career Remotely During COVID
- Creative Capital – lots of national webinars, video, workshops
- The Launchpad podcast – The Music District, takes you step by step through different topics confronting musicians and independent artists. See the entire video series:
- Episode #3 Level up Your Livestream – tune into this workshop to learn more about accessible tech and tactics to improve your livestream game.
- Episode #5 Play it Safe! Evaluating Today’s Live Music Opportunities – Join us for a discussion between local and regional musicians and music workers about how artists, hosts, talent buyers, and promoters are evaluating live performance opportunities, keeping themselves and their audiences safe, and navigating new types of challenges to playing live.
- Makeshift Studios – A series of how to videos created by Fort Collins Public Media to help creatives set up affordable studios in their homes to produce quality video content