Uncover the Mysterious Power of the Ladybug Effect with Greg Porper – SYS Podcast Episode 535 Exclusive!
Greg Porper
So, again, from an individual standpoint, not the smartest, but there was a lot of out-of-pocket expenses even that I had, you know, as a writer, director in a movie, there should be a line item for what I’m doing. There was no line item for that. The investor would get their money back before I got my money back for the work that I did. And for a good amount of people, that, like, spoke volumes to them. Is it the smartest thing for me personally? No. No. If there was someone who shouldn’t have invested in that movie, if you’re just looking solely at finances, it should not have been me. But the other thing I was doing at the same time was I was proving to people that I was serious about this. So, like, I sold my car. I changed up my lifestyle. Like, there was actual sacrifices that I had made to show people how serious I was. And while going through this process of pitching people, I would constantly keep the people who said no or maybe very involved. I was treating them as if they were yeses. I was treating every person as if they were a yes to just give not to bombard them constantly, but to give them updates and to show excitement and enthusiasm. And in a few cases, there were people who originally said no, who changed their mind. And honestly, it’s like people were just like, I just, like, respect the hustle. That was part of it. And then the other thing we had done later on, there was a lot of people who said, I really wish I could, but I can’t because you need it when investing. And a tip I would give is, like, you need to have, like, a high enough minimum because for every investor, there’s hours of paperwork and tax work that you’re going to have to do over the years that I’m now learning the hard way on. And you want to minimize the number of investors if you can, just because it’s a lot to keep track of. And to, first of all, when you’re always updating them and you’re dealing with the paperwork and everything related to taxes and legal stuff, like, it’s just a lot of work there. But for people who wanted to give money but couldn’t, but maybe want to get 25 bucks or 50 bucks, that’s when I set up a GoFundMe for that. And that, you know, we ended up getting, like, another, again, it wasn’t much. I would say it was maybe, like, 8 to 10 grand initially. But through that GoFundMe, it actually got to a wider audience than through Facebook people saw. And then I also prefaced that as saying, well, for those who want to invest, let me know. And some people saw that and actually got additional investors because they were just people who saw the pitch video version, but, like, for donations. We had a version we had for investors, then we actually made some tweaks and edits to have, like, a more friendly version for, you know, you want to donate 10 bucks. That’s perfect. Thank you so much. And that people were sharing that and spreading that, and that’s how a whole new slew of people saw it.
