#IAMSISYPHUS

 The Kickstarter campaign for Low Expectations has stalled at 5% of target with three weeks to go. On the bright side we've now managed to raise more then we ever did for Vinton's Lot (2019) Although that doesn't mean much considering Kickstarter is an all or nothing format, we don't get anything unless we reach the target by the deadline. 

Sharing campaign link in Facebook groups is somewhat harder than you'd imagine. Admins and moderators in many cases seek approval before a post will be shared. Many groups prohibit what's defined as "self promotion". 

Much to the horror of my teenage daughter, I joined TikTok to try and generate traffic to the campaign page. I ran an ad via TikTok and let them select target audience. BIG MISTAKE!

My 1st ad was targeted at mainly girls between the ages of 13-17 which I found creepy as fuck. At least I was only exposing them to Greek philosophy. 

I tried running other ad's on TikTok but they were rejected, so I relaunched same ad but excluded 13-17 year olds in target audience. 

The two ad's together netted 15k views and a couple of hundred likes. Only a hundred or so actually clicked the link. Compared to how much the ad's cost to run it cost close to £1 per click but none of those clicks translated into actual backing for the campaign. 

Have also taken a punt with the Fiverr platform and will get a mention               on DTong Radio tonight at 02:30am (GMT) and again tomorrow. No idea if                                             it's going to make a blind bit of difference but it's worth a shot. 

Thankfully it's not all doom and gloom. Hiraethu (2021) officially went into production last Friday. Although the campaign seems set to fail at this point all of our current backers will be sent an invitation to watch the film for free as a thanks for their support. 

The frustration born of this crowdfunding malarkey has generated some momentum via Hitrecord 30 people and counting have submitted voice overs for the "I am Sisyphus/Spartacus" parody. 

Our illustrator Martin Gimenez is currently working on a special variant cover. Exclusive signed copies will be offered to our current backers at no extra cost should we have to re-launch the campaign. If by some miracle we get funded 1st time around all backers will get option to upgrade to this signed variant cover FREE of charge!   

This is a variant but not the new variant...