Creative Funding Show

In this episode, I do a crosscast with Richard Bliss from the Funding the Dream on Kickstarter Podcast. The episode will go out on both feeds and if you haven’t checked out his podcast, you real...

Announcement: The Creative Funding Show will be going on indefinite hiatus soon. If you have a question you want me to address in a wrap up Q&A episode feel free to leave it as a comment below. ...

Tom Boruta (Baruta) is a Software Engineer who created Graphtreon because he wanted to follow the progress of Patreon creators. Questions: For our listeners who did not listen to episode 4, what is G...

Michelle Kopper has helped thousands of creatives, small business owners and entrepreneurs embrace self-promotion and selling as serving. Michelle’s combines her journey overcoming crippling stage fri...

Stress and busy work are the biggest enemies of creative people. And today we have someone on the show to help solve that. Kim Sutton is the host of the Positive Productivity podcast, runs a team of 1...

Your time, energy, and money are valuable, but many people struggle to assign a dollar amount to each. Creators running crowdfunding campaigns often need help deciding what to offer backers and how to...

Why do people back crowdfunding campaigns and creators on sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Patreon? What makes them want to support creators they don’t know personally? Two words: social t...

Creating a solid sales page is the key to success. In this episode, you will discover the necessary secrets for: storytelling and the value of vulnerability and for crafting a sales page that sells. ...

Today we are going to talk about email. But first, I would like to say we are not going to have an episode next week. I will be at the New Media Summit all week and won’t have a chance to record an e...

Welcome to the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love. I’m Thomas Umstattd Jr., your fellow companion on the journey of making mone...

There are two schools of thought when it comes to membership sites, one is to use a 3rd party platform like Patreon, and one is to do it yourself on your own website. I want you to hear from people fr...

In this episode, we talk about how to make money by creating informational products. I also share an example of how to do it from Novel Marketing. Thank you for your kind reviews. I was feeling very l...

This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love. I’m your host, Thomas Umstattd, Jr., and with me again is Mary Demuth. Sh...

The Creative Funding Show is a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love. I’m your host Thomas Umstattd Jr., and with me today is Steve Olsher,  who̵...

In today’s episode, I’m going to take a deep dive on Patreon and Email. Why this is important. For the Novel Marketing Patreon, there are several rewards that we want patrons to get automatically. T...

This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love. I’m Thomas Umstattd, Jr., and with me today is Bryan Cohen, the dashingly...

James Rubart is a bestselling author, audiobook narrator and podcaster (Novel Marketing). He is also our intro guy, so his voice may sound a bit familiar to you. Audiobook sales are the fastest growin...

This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love without selling out. I’m Thomas Umstattd Jr., and with me is Bremner Morri...

This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love without selling out. I’m Thomas Umstattd Jr., and with me today is Bremner...

This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love without selling out. I’m Thomas Umstattd Jr., and with me today is Jacquel...

Rachael Herron is the bestselling author of the novel The Ones Who Matter Most (Affiliate Link) (named an Editor’s Pick by Library Journal), as well as more than twenty other novels and memoirs. Her l...

Joanna Penn is an award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers under J.F.Penn and also writes non-fiction for authors. She’s an award-winning creative entrepreneur, po...

This is the Creative Funding Show, a podcast for authors, YouTubers, and podcasters who want to fund the work they love without selling out. I’m Thomas Umstattd Jr., and with me is Mary DeMuth, ...

Shemer Kuznits is a LitRPG author who is using Patreon to fund his writing. He was recently able to move from working 5 days a week to 4 days a week giving him another day dedicated to writing.  Links...

Tom Boruta is a Software Engineer who created Graphtreon because he wanted to follow the progress of Patreon creators. In this episode, we talk about how to use Graphtreon to track your Patreon’...

In this episode, I am going to sign up for a Patreon Account and share about the process and what I’ve learned along the way.  Links: Creative Funding Show Patreon Patreon Affiliate Link (we bo...

Merchandise is hard to get right, especially for podcasters. It is easy to waste a lot of money on boxes of shirts that collect dust in your garage. In this episode, I break down the recent fundraisin...

In terms of creative funding, I see authors, YouTubers, and podcasters making money in 7 primary ways. This episode will be a broad overview. In the future, we will have deep dive episodes on each of ...

In this episode, I introduce myself and the show. Thomas Umstattd is an author, speaker, and podcaster. The Creative Funding Show is a podcast where you will hear the stories of Authors, YouTubers, an...