Patent ID: 7885887

Claim:
A system for marketing and funding one or more projects of an artist comprising a server having applications programs operable from a remote site for: providing software tools to an artist or Account Manager to manage at least one project, the project comprising at least one creative work; receiving information from the artist or Account Manager regarding at least one Sales Container associated with the at least one project, each Sales Container including at least one of a product, a service, and a patronage, while the artist retains outright ownership of the project and the creative work; transmitting offer data from a server to a client via a network, the offer data comprising an offer to Fans concerning the at least one Sales Container associated with at least one project, wherein the offer is for a Sales Container at a predetermined level of patronage in exchange for funds for the project; receiving at the client such offer data and presenting the offer to the Fan; transmitting acceptance data back to the server from the client accepting the offer; processing the acceptance data by the server; registering contact and marketing information regarding Patrons in a database; and providing the artist or Account Manager software tools to manage communications, through said Patron database, to Patrons regarding the sales and marketing of one or more projects.