Kickstarter - Quoted in Des Moines Register

Made the Des Moines Register today, talking about our Kickstarter t-shirt project from last March.  We'll do another Kickstarter project sometime down-the-road.  It is an awesome way for artists and non-profits to gather support for their projects.

  http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120119/BUSINESS/301190081/Kickstarter-Funding-site-helps-entrepreneurs-roll

 

Pre-order your DMPulse T-Shirt

Get your DMPulse t-shirt! Click on the widget above to pre-order your DMPulse t-shirt!  

Show your love of DMPulse by sporting a stylish, sweatshop-free t-shirt! We've already reached our vendor's minimum order so we're getting shirts made in March.  

To pre-order, go here and be sure to click the green "Back This Project" button.   The shirts are available in black and feature the new DMPulse "headphones" logo in white/grey lettering! These aren't your ordinary t-shirts! They are high-quality, sweatshop-free, American-made shirts from American Apparel. 

Cost:

$20 gets you one of these high-quality t-shirts, in any size, shipped free to anywhere in the USA or Canada! ($29 for the shirt and free shipping internationally).  Want two shirts?  $39 gets you two shirts shipped free to the USA or Canada ($58 international).

Support the music you love by wearing your DMPulse shirt with pride!

A Great Radio Station needs great t-shirts!

Go here for our new Kickstarter project!

We want to order DMPulse t-shirts for giveaways, contest prizes and for great listeners like you! Show your love of DMPulse::Indie Rock internet radio by sporting a stylish, sweatshop-free t-shirt!

Help us reach our vendor's minimum order ($425) by backing our project and choosing one of the rewards. In fact, by backing our project, you can "pre-order" one of the t-shirts. Available in black, these DMPulse t-shirts will feature the new DMPulse "headphones" logo in white/grey lettering! These aren't your ordinary t-shirts! They are high-quality, sweatshop-free, American-made shirts from American Apparel. $20 towards backing our project gets you one of these high-quality t-shirts, in any size, shipped free to anywhere in the USA or Canada! ($29 for the shirt and free shipping internationally). Support the music you love by wearing your DMPulse shirt with pride!  Here's a picture of the "prototype" shirt we printed...it features the DMPulse logo with the "swirls" and clouds from the background of our website.

DMPulse Kickstarter project!

Kickstarting begins now!

Our project to launch a commercial-free audio stream you can access without a subscription to Live365 is live! During the next 30 days, we will attempt to raise $2,000 to launch this new stream in 2011.

Recall over the past year that you have help guide and shape our path forward, from continuing the station at this time last year, to our organization as a non-profit. This next project is another step forward for DMPulse. Based on listener's interest in having a DMPulse stream free of advertising, we are launching this project via Kickstarter.com.

Click here to go to our project!

Please view the video, read through the project description and rewards. I hope you will considering supporting this project, and take advantage of the rewards we are offering our backers.

Please note, funding for Kickstarter projects is all-or-nothing. Backers credit cards are only charged if and when the $2,000 goal is reached. Thank you for supporting the station, being such loyal listeners and helping us continue to discover great music together!

Let's get this party Kickstarted!

-Jay

New Listener Survey! Kickstarter Project Rewards!

We are launching a project on Kickstarter.com to create a commercial-free audio stream you can access without a subscription to Live365! 

In exchange for backing the project, you can choose to select specific rewards. Rewards are items or unique experiences that inspire support for the project. Here's where you come in...help us determine what rewards to offer and at what dollar amount we should offer the reward!

Click Here to Take the Survey!

It is important for these rewards to be fun!  Based on previous listeners surveys, I think we have several creative reward ideas that allow you to be actively involved with the station.  For example:

 

Pay for a Day: choose 24 songs from our music library to be played during your day, with your backing being recognized on-air throughout the day.

Buy the Hour: program an entire hour of DMPulse, choosing all songs played that hour from our music library of more than 1,600 songs!  Imagine having control of one entire hour of our radio station!

Music Meeting:  attend our virtual music meeting where you will be able to hear songs being considered for airplay.  Have you ever heard of a radio station opening the meeting where the music decisions are made to listeners?  DMPulse is breaking new ground here!  Have access to new music before it is heard on the station, and share your input!

In Your Voice: record yourself saying "This is (your name) from (your city) and you are listening to DMPulse!" We'll then put your voice on-air in rotation for one year, so you will be able to hear yourself on the station. Imagine, slaving away at your desk at work, and hearing your own voice say "This is Bob from Duluth, and you are listening to DMPulse!" 

Click the red link above to go to Survey Monkey and take the six question survey!