meta: help plan the triumphant return of HTTV
Hello, folks. Maple Street Press exploded recently, taking Hail to the Victors and all their other mags down in flames. We are planning to take it indie this year. In order to defray some fairly intimidating up front costs we are starting a Kickstarter.
If you don't know what a kickstarter is, you can find out:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1895600797/conquest-tactics-a-strat…
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nickd/distance-long-essays-about-de…
One of the features of a kickstarter campaign is graduated levels of reward for donations. We have two certainties:
$10 - you get a copy of HTTV (probably priced at 12.50) when it comes out.
$10,000 - I show up at a kid's birthday party in a Terrelle Pryor jersey.
We are also likely to have a level at which you get a signed copy and a couple levels where there is a thank you page in the magazine. We need help pricing those and are soliciting ideas for other rewards. Fire away.
January 27th, 2012 at 7:11 PM ^
I've seen these before, but I have a question. Will this help alleviate our beveled guilt, or is this a totally seperate enterprise?
January 27th, 2012 at 7:13 PM ^
Stupid double post.
January 27th, 2012 at 7:24 PM ^
For donations from $10 to $1,000 give 10 Mgopoints for every dollar donated. At $500 you have to bump something from them to the front page (you get 6 months to make good) and at $1,000 or more six-zero has to work the person into a Blockhams strip.
And you need to set a threshold you want to meet or exceed. If he hit it you have to bring back the pos/neg votes like the good old days.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:09 PM ^
Great. Since this is for HTTV and not the blog, however, the strip should appear in the magazine
January 27th, 2012 at 10:48 PM ^
I don't have the $1000 to throw around right now, but I'd be very tempted as a family gift to work my grandfather's time with the UM football team into a comic. I'm guessing I'm not the only one.
About $30 would be my sweet spot on a signed copy. I'd probably go $100 for some kind of standing "Sponsors Circle" type thing that let's you make a donation with your name or someone elses and stays on a permalink up there with the MGoStore, and Useful Stuff. I'd also go $100 to have a listing towards the end of the magazine, a la highschool football program, so that I could have a copy of the magazine with a dedication in the back.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:16 PM ^
Can we work that in reverse?
January 27th, 2012 at 7:20 PM ^
I think you want to hit a sweet spot between a signed copy being cheap enough to be worth it for the buyer, but expensive enough so that it's worth your time and you (and the other authors, yes?) aren't signing thousands of mags. I'm thinking something in the $25-$35 range.
EDIT: At $30, I'd buy a signed copy. At $40, I'd be thinking about it, but most likely wouldn't.
January 27th, 2012 at 7:25 PM ^
I'm guessing we're talking about signed by all the authors of HTTV? I need me some signed Brian Schwag.
Maybe one level could also come with a shirt from the MGoStore? Like $50 or something?
January 27th, 2012 at 8:20 PM ^
I suspect that getting copies signed by all the authors is completely impractical since they don't all live in Ann Arbor or even Michigan and the only time they would have any chance of all being in the same place at the same time is during a Michigan home game.
Who wants jamie mac's autograph anyway?
January 27th, 2012 at 10:15 PM ^
I'm just worried about Ramzy getting ahold of them and hiding a "go bucks" somewhere in all our magazines.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:36 PM ^
On a lunch check. Virginia has beaten Indiana twice in football. smh #sour
January 27th, 2012 at 7:28 PM ^
100 dollars and you can party with the blog crew before a home game
January 27th, 2012 at 7:28 PM ^
The surgeon will stitch your initials into Brian's ACL.
January 27th, 2012 at 7:48 PM ^
January 27th, 2012 at 7:55 PM ^
Blasphemy. I'll give up one meal for my kids.
PS: I'm in college and have no kids,
January 27th, 2012 at 8:02 PM ^
that the more people drink, the more they are willing to throw money around. And dance.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:12 PM ^
January 28th, 2012 at 9:19 PM ^
Would make a lot of people cringe, actually
January 27th, 2012 at 8:06 PM ^
Yuri Wright/Lemon thing.
EDIT-Wait. HTTV stands for Hail To The Victors? I always thought it was for Hot Topic TV, where they just played a bunch of My Chemical Romance videos. Huh.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:00 PM ^
fearless leader as my wallet is ready for the challenge!
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<br>Idea- If someone contributes $50 or more they can earn a vote for special focus groups that will decide general things over the next year for the blog. I.e. how many points it will require to start a thread in and out of season.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:08 PM ^
It's spelled HDTV.
EDIT: and for a $1000, you should get one of those Denard action figures. The Big Ten Offensive POTY 2000/1500 club one, not that early Heisman crap version.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:05 PM ^
you should surveymonkey this to see how much people would pay for a signed copy, etc. i don't know what percent of this blog is post-college. it used to much more than it is now. obviously that affects what users can afford.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:06 PM ^
$500 and aquaman gets to interview you for the front page.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:27 PM ^
six zero.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:15 PM ^
Definitely. I'd put in a $100 for that. Do it before a home game. As an added bonus, it would also be representative of the communal nature of the whole effort. You and the rest of the goddamn hippies on this blog could appreciate that
January 27th, 2012 at 8:17 PM ^
January 27th, 2012 at 8:18 PM ^
I'd be down for more than $10, incentive or not.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:36 PM ^
January 27th, 2012 at 8:43 PM ^
January 28th, 2012 at 1:05 AM ^
even if it's mostly self negating to do so. But also self affirming. Anyway, I like the $50 for a book and a t-shirt idea.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:53 PM ^
Maybe for $20 you get httv and a hail shirt. Then at $50 you get the signed copy. Maybe at $100 or some higher number those people get to party with the authors.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:17 PM ^
Nothing's going to motivate this blog's readers more than bringing back real neg/posbands
January 27th, 2012 at 10:26 PM ^
$50 and I get my 2,000 points back
January 27th, 2012 at 11:51 PM ^
kickstarter is a very cool idea/site.
How much to show up at the next coaches clinic in a Dantonio mask?
January 28th, 2012 at 12:16 AM ^
Brian, my niece, for her bachelorette party (not really) would like to know at what dollar level would you personally appear with Pop Evil to sing I am a Big House Inmate and Brady Hoke has Just Made made Me His Girlfriend?
Fifty bucks?
January 28th, 2012 at 12:28 AM ^
January 28th, 2012 at 1:23 AM ^
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
January 28th, 2012 at 1:26 AM ^
How much to get this pic on the cover?
January 28th, 2012 at 1:43 AM ^
My signed copy is going to be worth so much money when Obama namedrops HTTV 2012 in a campaign speech.
1. "Where's Brian Cook? I hear your book's coming back, man."
2. ?
3. Maximum profit
January 28th, 2012 at 6:47 AM ^
I'd be willing to pay ONE THOUSAND Korean Won for 24 hours of root access.
January 28th, 2012 at 7:35 AM ^
$20-25 for a signed copy of HTTV, or
$40-50 for a signed copy, plus an "I kickstarted the return of HTTV. Go Blue!" t-shirt.
January 28th, 2012 at 8:15 AM ^
For $500, you get to pick your favorite entry from the 'Kork Coupons' thread to appear in the book. For $1000, you get to pick your favorite entry from the Brian photobomb thread.
January 28th, 2012 at 10:01 AM ^
I'm guessing from the lack of any response our dear leader found our suggestions a bit underwhelming.
I'm telling you though - tie the donations total to the restoration of real pos/neg bangs and you'll have enough money to start two magazines and have enough left over for a cushy expense account.
January 28th, 2012 at 11:25 AM ^
How much would you charge for a small baggie of hair and fingernail/toenail clippings?
January 28th, 2012 at 3:10 PM ^
$50 - Signed copy of HTTV and one of Auburn's 2008 recruits will murder your boss/person of your choosing.
January 28th, 2012 at 3:11 PM ^
Dammit double post.