Here goes:
Let me start be saying how absolutely
overwhelming this Indiegogo process has been. To say that being in a constant
state of asking people for anything (let alone money) is not something any of
us are familiar with. It’s terribly awkward to the point of almost physical
pain and I (personally) have experienced large waves of guilt throughout the
campaign. It’s pretty terrible. But we signed up for it and prepared ourselves
for every possible outcome and I feel like we’ve done a pretty good job of
keeping it somewhat together. Would we do it again? Honestly, I think all of us
can agree that we hope we never have to. Once the time on our campaign clock
runs out, we’ll all be feeling a huge weight being lifted from our shoulders,
regardless of the outcome.
The silver lining of the guilt-waves and
chronic anxiety? It’s kind of insane, the amount of support that we’ve had
throughout these past 53 days. A lot of shocking moments. A lot of gasps. A lot
of, “REALLY?!”’s. Support from people we don’t know. Contributions from long
lost friends we haven’t seen or heard from in years that are simply eager to
help because they believe in us. Parents of students that I teach dance to who
just wanted to help. We even had a reality star-celeb promote our page! This
has been the most rewarding part, I think. The surprise of having the people
donate that we had no idea were paying attention. It has been a beautiful part
of the experience.
Now, if you don’t mind us being candid…
We’re terrified. Our Indiegogo campaign
officially closes in one week. ONE. WEEK. How has it been 2 months already? How
is that possible? To date, we’ve raised $3,825. Damn. That’s a lot of money for
us! We had no idea what to expect going into this and sort of just waltzed
blindly through everything with high hopes. We can’t believe we have 66 funders and enough
people that support us to create that amount of money. We can’t thank you
enough!
So what does it mean if we don’t reach our goal?
It means we won’t be giving up, that’s for damn
sure. And fortunately or unfortunately
for you, we’ll just be bouncing back as aggressively as we came in. We have
some new ideas in the mix as to how to cover another large portion of our cost
for the album, which I will be writing about again in the near-ish future as
more of an announcement. Get excited, because it’s a doozey!
We just want to say, for the record (again) how
much we love all of you. For as crazy as this campaign has been, we’ve always
known we wouldn’t drown in it because of the people behind us. And this will
continue to be the case, because without you, we are nothing. To those of you
that donated, shared, liked our campaign – you are everything to us and there
aren’t enough words in any language to thank you all properly.
Alright, alright. Enough with the mush.
We’ve still got 7 days left of juice in this
machine… let’s keep it moving! If you want to donate and haven’t yet, here’s
our link:
Our campaign ends December 17th
around 1 p.m. Don’t have the cash but
still want to help? Share our link! Tell your friends about us! Spread the
music J. And
wish us luck!
<3,
JOA
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