Saturday, January 21, 2012


UPDATE ON WISCONSIN RISING KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN
Thank you and some analytics!

We are so thankful we reached our goal on Kickstarter!! Thanks so much to all of you who helped get us here!

Here are some analytics from our Kickstarter campaign
$41,850.00 in 25 days
755 people backed our project.
$55.07 was the average pledge amount
46% of the pledges came from Facebook
3% came from Twitter
10% came from websites that wrote about our project, in other words, media generated 10% of our pledges
At time of writing 2,666 people "like" our project on Facebook

We had a successful media blitz with articles and interviews about Wisconsin Rising.
There were 13 unique articles that I participated in either via writing or telephone interview. Dozens of blogs drew from that material and posted their own articles.
I was interviewed by the following websites, publications or radio stations.

http://towardfreedom.com/americas/2689-connecting-the-movements-filmmaker-sam-mayfield-discusses-wisconsin-rising-documentary
http://www.progressive.org/wisconsin_rising_needs_support.html">">
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/01/11240/filmmaker-seeks-support-wisconsin-rising-film
http://www.alternet.org/story/153751/wisconsin_rising%3A_grassroots_documentary_film_follows_the_people%27s_movement_in_madison_from_revolt_to_recalls/comments/
http://politicsoftheplate.com/?p=1174
http://vermontdailybriefing.com/?p=1656
http://www.bethkanter.org/mediamakers/
http://filmcourage.com/content/wisconsin-rising
http://towardfreedom.com/special-reports/2676-wisconsin-rising-new-documentary-on-peoples-movement
http://wort-fm.org/
http://matthewf.net/2012/01/17/the-matthew-filipowicz-show-episode-83-with-nan-levinson-and-sam-mayfield/
http://www.7dvt.com/2012mountaintop-film-festival
http://www.7dvt.com/2012vermont-documentarians-want-wake-audiences-one-sundance




Wednesday, January 04, 2012




http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/385001342/wisconsin-rising/posts
I am really happy to report that Wisconsin Rising is one of the most popular projects this week at Kickstarter and we are also a Kickstarter staff favorite!
I am delighted with so much of your feedback.
I have heard from teachers, parents, media makers and many others who support this project and want to see it shine!!!

I hope you will continue to help spread the word to your networks and please continue to contact me if you have any questions or ideas!!

Thank you for getting us over to 18% of our goal already!

We have 16 days left to meet our goal!!!
Please support this work if you are in any position to do so.
Skip buying coffee for the day and help make Wisconsin Rising!!!