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====== Loss of Warehouse Spurs Donations ====== | ====== Loss of Warehouse Spurs Donations ====== | ||
+ | **//Axanar moves for the second time in two years, again to an ever-smaller facility// | ||
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- | Axanar moves for the second time in two years, again to an ever-smaller facility. | + | ===== Rise in Donations ===== |
Daily Patreon signups climbed into double digits for the first time since January 23. The 11-donor uptick followed Axanar producer Alec Peters' | Daily Patreon signups climbed into double digits for the first time since January 23. The 11-donor uptick followed Axanar producer Alec Peters' | ||
- | Monthly earnings rolled past $1,500 on Sunday, thanks to a single-day $72 boost from donors. That likely makes it possible for Peters to afford the new 3,000 square foot facility. He expects that to cost $2,500 per month. | + | {{page> |
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- | The encouraging upswing, however, doesn' | + | ==== Topping |
- | Why It Matters: We've seen all this happen before, the last time Peters turned | + | Monthly earnings rolled past $1,500 on Sunday, thanks |
- | In a 2017 Indiegogo campaign, Peters also announced he would instead use donations to move into a new, smaller warehouse. | + | The encouraging upswing, however, |
- | What happened the following day? Donations rose. Within days, however, the effort ground to a halt yet again. | + | |
- | Barely more than 300 supporters contributed to that Indiegogo. | + | |
- | What does this bode for the future? Stay tuned. | + | |
- | Sputtering Support: Is this quote from then or now? You be the judge. | + | |
- | “Peters’ update did give a small jolt to the moribund campaign. A few days before, the campaign had literally ground to a halt.” | + | ===== Why it Matters ===== |
+ | We've seen all this happen before, the last time Peters turned to Axanar fans to save a building he could no longer afford. This time, though, he lost his corporate sponsorship for reasons he's had trouble explaining. | ||
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+ | * In a 2017 Indiegogo campaign, Peters also announced he would instead use donations to move into a new, smaller warehouse. | ||
+ | * What happened the following day? Donations rose. Within days, however, the effort ground to a halt yet again. | ||
+ | * Barely more than 300 supporters contributed to that Indiegogo. AxaMonitor' | ||
+ | * What does this bode for the future? Stay tuned. | ||
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+ | ===== Thanks ===== | ||
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+ | On Facebook, Axanar surrogate Jonathan Lane [[face> | ||
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+ | > I would like to personally thank Carlos Pedraza for helping to increase donations to the Ares Studios Patreon by writing blogs pointing out how //slow// donations had gotten. We couldn' | ||
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+ | ==== No Thanks ==== | ||
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+ | Pedraza replied that Lane was only looking at half the Patreon metrics: | ||
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+ | > Indeed, your numbers continue to climb, and I clearly acknowledge that you're on track to raise quite a bit of money — just not enough to keep the current warehouse. By focusing solely on total dollars pledged, you're ignoring the other half of the story, which I show in this graph: The number of new donors and amount donated each day is very low, often flirting with zero. So far, even with what you call my remarkable assistance in spurring donations, giving remains right on track with what statistical analysis projects.(([[face> | ||
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