Help Launch Television History!
Our friends at RA Motorsports have been shopping around their Mustang based television show, American Pony Builders, and have been meeting lukewarm response. They're looking to create a full project episode and are soliciting help from the Mustang community. Check out today's blog for more details on how you can help make a television show about OUR favorite car a reality.
As most of you know we have been working on the idea of doing a Ford focused, Mustang specific TV show. We have solicited the following: ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, SPEED, VERSUS, Discovery (and all of their stations), HDNet, Fox Sports, Powerblock TV, and several others. Along with this we have also reached out to individuals like Stacey David (Gearz), Adam Carolla (who is a huge car fan and does his own webcast) who also produce. As of today we have no takers. There is a bright side.
To date we have made a 2 minute trailer that has had nearly 14,000 hits! It can be found at www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyCLaDhW0tI. Tons of comments from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Americanponybuilders.com, r-amotorsports.com, enthusiasts at shows, who have all cheered loudly for what we are trying to do and said: “WE WANT THIS SHOW!” In the spirit of not giving up on something we all think is a good idea, we have decided to give this 1 more effort. Here is what we have decided:
We are using a website called Kickstarter.com to help us raise some funds. Kickstarter is focused on creative projects and is powered by people making pledges to projects they like and believe in. Kickstarter is a great way for artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers, writers, illustrators, explorers, curators, performers, and others to bring their projects, events, and dreams to life. The word “project” is just as important as “creative” in defining what works on Kickstarter. A project is something finite with a clear beginning and end. Someone can be held accountable to the framework of a project — a project was either completed or it wasn’t — and there are definable expectations that everyone can agree to. This is imperative for every Kickstarter project.
Kickstarter is all or nothing funding. Why did we choose this?
1. It is less risk for everyone. If you need $5,000, it's tough only raising $2,000 and a bunch of people expecting you to complete a $5,000 project. If we don’t meet our funding goal you are out nothing.
2. It allows people to test concepts (or conditionally sell stuff) without risk. If you don't receive the support you want, you're not compelled to follow through. This is huge!
3. It motivates. If people want to see a project come to life, they're going to spread the word and pledge support.
www.americanponybuilders.com
If you ever have questions that the website doesn’t answer, or just a question in general, please contact me anytime.
Thank you for your inspiration and support.