prep for 2021 SKIP book kickstarter

I think it might be time to start making some of the banner stuff.  Once the kickstarter is launched, then we will want to create a referal code for each banner.

Building a Better World in Your Backyard, Instead of Being Angry at the Bad Guys was my 8th Kickstarter. This book is a rich collection of things you can do at home that make a huge, positive, global difference. Without politics or being angry at bad guys. This book focuses on adding luxury to your life instead of sacrifice. And the frosting on the cake is saving a lot of money. I believe that if 100 million people read my book, most global problems would disappear.  



"Ponds" is one of three movies in the World Domination Gardening DVD set. The cool thing is that we weren't even done building the pond when it rained on the second night of the workshop - and we woke up to a full pond. We finished the pond the next day, and there wasn't another drop of rain for four months - but there was still water in the pond.



"Building a Cob Style Rocket Mass Heater" is a 2-hour movie from the 8-DVD Better Wood Heat: DIY Rocket Mass Heaters set. It features the build of the cob-style rocket mass heater at Cooper Cabin, and another cob-style rocket mass heater at the tipi. The coolest thing about the tipi footage is the interview with its occupants in the tipi at 26 degrees below zero (F). Spoiler: they were warm and toasty.



Join our past Kickstarter supporters in a place where you can talk about stuff without the prying eyes of google or "them.

Nicole Alderman wrote: We have a BUNCH of banners made up for SKIP event as well as SKIP forum. During the kickstarter, should I made all the SKIP forum ads (and any relevant SKIP event ads) link to the kickstarter instead?

Nicole Alderman wrote:
I'm also assuming I need to make graphics for the Backer Levels, too.

I'm assuming I'll do it like I did last time, just with fonts /colors/items to match the SKIP book.

Why can’t more stretch goals help folks at the $10 level?
https://permies.com/w/160/108403/World-Book-Kickstarter#899116

How to up your pledge a reward level
https://permies.com/w/360/108403/World-Book-Kickstarter#912390

International shipping and the Virgin Islands option
https://permies.com/w/600/108403/World-Book-Kickstarter#917236

BWB kickstarter support thread:
https://permies.com/t/bwb-kickstarter-support

What is a gift code:
https://permies.com/wiki/145304/access-Digital-Market-Goodies-Gift#1135611

The language rating will be: Perfect! We even made up some new words! Like “VORP!” Vorpitty vorp vorp.

One of our reviewers was contemplating giving the book to people that choose to fear and hate certain words. He counted every spec of potential hate fuel in the book.

To gauge how we did, we looked to the IMDB parental guide stuff for the top 10 (in monies) movies of 2018. It looks like we would be rated “mild” - same as the Disney cartoon “Incredibles 2.” “Deadpool 2” was rated “severe.”

The reviewer’s report points out that we say “own your own shit” twice, “damn” four times and we quote an older document that says “The second observation is that most people find folks one level back to be ignorant and people two levels back seem like assholes.“ That’s it. That’s everything. Apparently, “shit”, “damn” and “assholes” don’t have the punch they had 40 years ago. Since there are about 20 times more total words in our book than the disney movie, I wonder if we score “milder” than the Disney movie. Which is the mildest of the top ten movies of 2018. So we would probably be rated “too mild.” If we want to reach a wider audience, I suppose we should bump the spice and excitement up a few notches just to get to “popular Disney movie level” (or to prove that this book is not under the thumb of some hate group), but I choose to focus on this kickstarter instead.

Of course, if you ask me to come speak to your group, I promise I will use the FULL beauty of the English language. Word police be damned!

paul wheaton wrote:As for "What will the language rating be?"  

I think the SKIP book doesn't have any of "the full beauty of the english language."   Or am I just not remembering?

T Blankinship wrote:Video looks good!
Question about the "knights who say free". Could the "knights who say free" use eBook gift codes in addition to physical books?  

michael beyer wrote:how high would one of the stretch goals have to get to turn the SKIP system into an app?

Ash Jackson wrote:The professional pie chart of awesomeness still shows the budget stuff for the Greywater Greenhouse project ($5k videography, $150 talking thermometers)

Kate Downham wrote:Looks great.

Descriptions are really good - they explain it well enough without too much scrolling. Nice pictures too.

Under rewards there's no option for a single physical book, no description for 'glory', and jumbo doesn't say how many books. I think it would look better with pictures for all of the reward options too.

paul wheaton wrote:

michael beyer wrote:how high would one of the stretch goals have to get to turn the SKIP system into an app?

I think that would need to be a whole different kickstarter.

Jay Girardot wrote:Are you able to upload a bigger image for the table of contents, or link to somewhere where it can be viewed larger? Even doing "view image" on my browser, it's still almost too small to read.

Other than that, it looks fantastic, and I've clicked the button to be notified when it goes live!

Kate Downham wrote: Nice pictures too.

Under rewards there's no option for a single physical book, no description for 'glory', and jumbo doesn't say how many books. I think it would look better with pictures for all of the reward options too.

paul wheaton wrote:

Ash Jackson wrote:The professional pie chart of awesomeness still shows the budget stuff for the Greywater Greenhouse project ($5k videography, $150 talking thermometers)

Good catch!  I put in the wrong chart.   Will fix soon!

paul wheaton wrote:

paul wheaton wrote:

Ash Jackson wrote:The professional pie chart of awesomeness still shows the budget stuff for the Greywater Greenhouse project ($5k videography, $150 talking thermometers)

Good catch!  I put in the wrong chart.   Will fix soon!

better?

Mike Haasl wrote:Good question John!  The badge is actually titled Rocket.  It encompasses RMH's, rocket ovens, rocket water heaters and a variety of other rocket related activities.