Recording Studio: Funding Part IV

More crowd funding sites that can help you raise the needed funds for your recording studio time.

Recording Studio: More Crowd Funding

4. GoFundMe

If you’re looking to just raise money online, for a cause, or for time in the recording studio, GoFundMe is the best fundraising option you can use. In here, you get supporters to donate for your personal campaign, and it could be everything from a recording studio time to touring with your music. It’s truly about donation.

Special features

Sharing is caring: Unleash the sharing power of widgets, a dashboard with social media integration, and even multiple donation pages to spread the message to every possible corner of the Internet for greater success.  This will get you into the recording studio sooner

Fees

GoFundMe take 5% from each donation (hence the total donation) you receive. Depending on your preference, you could either use WePay or PayPal to process your payment; they both charge fees ranging from 2.9+% to 3.5%.

5. Razoo

Claiming to have raised more than $97,000,000 for thousands of worthy causes including recording studio time, Razoo is the next crowdfunding behemoth that you, as a fundraiser should seek help from. The site focuses heavily on causes than profitable projects, but they do have a dedicated section for non-profit fundraising projects. Razoo divides fundraisers into 4 major categories: NonprofitsIndividuals,Corporations, and Foundations, and they each have their own benefits.

Special Features

What’s strong about Razoo is obviously its technological advantage that helps you to spread the word about your recording studio projects effectively. With the old school yet incredibly useful Donation Widget and Facebook Widget, you are able to create any donation section in any part of a blog by embedding the widget into it. Razoo even has an iPhone app that enables you to manage your project and engage your donors. Talking about hi-tech social marketing!

Fees

Razoo charges a very low rate, just 2.9% of your total fund. Bear in mind that this an all-in flat rate as other crowdfunding site often charge higher than 4% not including credit card fees