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Yesterday I caught up with Ben Hamilton and James Bailey at one of the UK’s leading Crowdfunding platforms PleaseFund.us. It’s the first in my third series of podcasts, that I conducted as part of the launch of my new blog. In this half hour interview we discussed a whole range of topics, including:

• Pleasfund.us’ business model and the how they provide help to people looking for funding
• What pledge rewords work well and don’t
• The part that social networks have to play in successfully reaching your funding targets
• Lessons learned from The Pocket Book of Vagina Cakes case study
• The importance of leveraging your own personal social network rather than relying on the crowdfunding platform’s community alone
• The essential use of video for promoting your project
• The use of crowdfunding platforms to finance degree shows, and the grants being offered by Pleasfund.us
• How UK is still lagging behind US with regard to the cultural acceptance of crowdfunding as an interesting participative experience not just a transaction process
• The kind of projects that are successfully getting funded on Pleasfund.us
• Using Crowdfunding platforms to coordinate funding from various sources not just the crowdfunding platform community
• Where crowdfunding meets Indie Publishing
• Ongoing engagement of your project funders and potential funders through social media
• Where equity crowdfunding is at and where it’s heading
• Geographical nature of Crowdfunding platforms, and why there’s no one player dominating market yet
• What’s next for PleaseFund.us