Kickstarter Checklist: Create a Plan for Crowdfunding Success
Managing a crowdfunding campaign may be time-intensive, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. To understand everything that goes into a Kickstarter campaign a...
Marketing for Kickstarter: How to Smash Your Funding Goal
Are you wondering how to drive more pledges to your campaign? It all starts with marketing. Let's take a look at how marketing for Kickstarter and Indiegogo wor...
How to Start a Kickstarter Campaign: Hard-Won Lessons From a First-Timer
Mario Waugh has worked as a graphic designer, app developer, and mobile website designer for years. But he always had an interest in writing. He decided to run ...
BackerKit Webinar: Performance Marketing Secrets
Are you trying to figure out the best way to promote your next project? Facebook Ads can be a powerful marketing tool. However, there are special considerations...
Launching the Most Successful Kickstarter Product in Fitness
OYO Fitness launched their first product, the DoubleFlex Black, on Kickstarter in 2017. While you’d probably expect a portable gym that incorporates technology ...
Relaunch a Failed Kickstarter Campaign in 3 Steps
Nearly 500,000 projects have launched on Kickstarter since the company was founded in 2009. Only 186,821 of those projects have been successfully funded. Failur...
Support the USPS: A Special Offer for BackerKit Postage Users
Getting ready to ship out rewards to your crowdfunding project’s backers? We’ve got you covered. We’re excited to announce that from August 20, 2020 until Decem...
How to Build Your Indiegogo or Kickstarter Email List in 10 Steps
Your crowdfunding platform won’t serve up backers to you — you have to find them. So, before you launch your Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign, you need to buil...
Building an Email List: How to Ensure Kickstarter and Indiegogo Success
You’re getting ready to launch a crowdfunding campaign. You’ve got your prototype and you’re getting ready to set up your Indiegogo or Kickstarter campaign page...
The Secrets of Crowdfunding Tabletop Games
When you look at the top tabletop creators on Kickstarter, and see them hitting — and even surpassing — their funding goals quickly, it's inspiring. Like them, ...
Rap Godz Co-Creator on Building a Brand
In 2018, brothers Omari Akil and Hamu Dennis launched Rap Godz. This unique board game in which you play as a rapper, trying to live your dream as a hip hop art...
Crowdfunding Insights: June 8 – July 5, 2020
We head into our fifteenth week of crowdfunding pledges tracking above better than the average amount of pledges raised. The total amount pledged continues to t...