# Kick start and go fund me questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 5, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kick-start-and-go-fund-me-questions/790534 "2017-07-05T12:14:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kick-start-and-go-fund-me-questions/790534/1 "2017-07-05T12:14:55Z")
A few years ago because of my significant others cancer I put on hold a tour where I would go around the country and do bow builds with other semi well known bow builders. I do primitive archery bow building. The idea was that I would do videos of the theories and practices that I have written about. Each trip would last about 3 or 4 days and I would be hosted by who ever I was doing the build with. My expenses for travel and materials would average about $1,000 per trip and I would plan about 10 trips over a 1 year period. I am getting older so would need to squeeze it into a tighter schedule than I had originally planned. I am not looking to make any kind of profit but I would like to try and recover all my expenses. The videos would be going on you tube. ``` The field is rather specialized so I doubt the views would produce any money. I have been considering some kind of funding program to help me out with this and am wondering about things I should offer. I was thinking a semi edited version of the you tube video about 1 hour long for a $25.00 donation. How much do I need to say about myself and my qualifications when applying for something like this? I hold several world records for flight shooting and bows I have built for others hold many more records. A chapter I wrote in a well known series of books has been well received internationally and is commonly a topic of conversation in the bow building forums. I have also done some discovery channel work on TV. Any advice would be appreciated. ``` ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kick-start-and-go-fund-me-questions/790534/2 "2017-07-05T12:23:02Z")
I thought I put this in My humble opinion forum, if the mods think it should be moved that would be fine with me. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kick-start-and-go-fund-me-questions/790534/3 "2017-07-05T12:57:03Z")
I can’t comment on GoFundMe, but with Kickstarter the more info the better IMO. For a smaller tier reward, perhaps offer their name in the ‘credits’ of you YouTube videos. A couple of high level rewards might be: - to build a bow with the backer, where the reward level would need to meet the trip costs plus a premium to contribute to other trips. - build and send a bow to the backer. Depending if either of those were something you could do. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kick-start-and-go-fund-me-questions/790534/4 "2017-07-05T13:19:32Z")
> [@GreedySmurf](#): > > I can’t comment on GoFundMe, but with Kickstarter the more info the better IMO. > > For a smaller tier reward, perhaps offer their name in the ‘credits’ of you YouTube videos. A couple of high level rewards might be: > > - to build a bow with the backer, where the reward level would need to meet the trip costs plus a premium to contribute to other trips. > - build and send a bow to the backer. > > Depending if either of those were something you could do. That’s a good idea, I could send the bow in the video to the donator.