Become an Active Member of the Kickstarter Community
Kickstarter is the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. It’s a place where you can bring your passions and ideas to life and support others t...
Crowdfunding Tips
How to Spot a Crowdfunding Scam
It's an unfortunate, if somewhat unavoidable, reality: not all crowdfunding campaigns are what they seem. While the majority are run in a transparent, honest fa...
Who Are Your True Fans?
"To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To ma...
How to Find Your Community of Crowdfunding Champions
Behind every successful crowdfunding campaign is a legion of loyal supporters. When it comes to raising money, there's strength in numbers: the more backers in ...
From Surveyed to Shipped: The BackerKit Project Lifecycle
Visualizing the lifecycle of a crowdfunding campaign can prove difficult for first-time creators. This is particularly the case for the post-campaign phase, whi...
Getting Creative with Digital Rewards
The most memorable rewards of a crowdfunding campaign aren’t necessarily physical – and they're not always costly, either.
Digital and experiential rewards can...
How to Deal with Survey Stragglers
So you’ve sent out a BackerKit survey. Now what?
It’s a common misconception that all project creators need to do is wait until the responses roll in. While mo...
Shipping with BackerKit: DIY with Scale
Experimenting is an integral part of product development process at BackerKit. It helps us figure out ways to improve our services for creators and backers, and...
The Seven Steps to Pre-Order Success
You’ve exceeded your funding goal, run a successful campaign, and have decided to set up a pre-order store. Now what?
Pre-orders are an integral part of Backer...
Have You Started Building Your Pre-Launch Email List?
Guest post by Mark Pecota, co-founder and CEO of LaunchBoom.
62.2% of Kickstarter projects fail to reach their funding goal. Why? Most focus on trying to get t...
Sending Out Surveys Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
Sending out surveys can be daunting, especially if your project has a large number of backers. Even the smallest of mistakes can generate confusion and spark a ...
Adventures in Facebook Advertising: Podcast Follow-up
Our first Facebook ad experiment gave us a lot of great data about what to expect from Facebook advertising but it also left us with several questions about wha...