Getting Smart With Pre-Orders
If you’re a project creator with a successfully funded campaign, you’ve probably noticed that the steady stream of visitors you’ve built up through social media...
Crowdfunding Tips
Three Best Ways to Prepare for Your Campaign: DM1 Wallet
In September of 2014, Erik Moon raised $91,893 on a $5,000 goal to create to create a sleek, minimalist aluminum wallet that’s about 1/3 of an inch thick. After...
Expand Your Reach with Kickstarter’s New Google Analytics Integration
Kickstarter recently rolled out a new Google Analytics feature so that you can keep track of user visits to your campaign page. It’s an awesome tool to get star...
3 Good Reasons to Create Crowdfunding Pre-orders
Your original Kickstarter (or IndieGoGo) backers will always hold a special place in your heart. They’re the trailblazing early-adopters who got on board early ...
Make Pledge Levels More Convenient for You and Your Backers
If you make things as clear and convenient as possible, you’ll inspire more pledges and prevent future problems at the same time. In our last post, we discussed...
How to Optimize Your Pledge Levels To Gain Momentum
In the world of crowdfunding, momentum is a powerful force. Rapid growth in the first couple of days will raise your project’s ranking on Kickstarter and Indie...
Make Your Kickstarter Backers Happy with Add-Ons
What is an Add-On?
An add-on is an optional item that can be added to a Kickstarter pledge without changing pledge levels. Adding-on isn’t actually a Kicksta...
Harness the Power of Spotlight with BackerKit Pre-orders
Last week, Kickstarter released a new project page layout called “Spotlight” for successfully funded crowdfunding projects. Spotlight displays each project in a...
Winding down your BackerKit project
Last week, we talked about how to get a project set up on BackerKit, but getting set up is only half the battle. To get a project to completion, it’s important ...
Understanding the BackerKit flow
BackerKit is the creators’ toolkit to post-crowdfunding fulfillment. Below, is a simple overview of how BackerKit works for both project creators and backers; e...
Putting your BackerKit project together
Here’s a secret: there’s no one-size-fits-all method to how a project creator should get things done. Different projects take different approaches; there are di...
Shipping Your Rewards 101: Quick Tips
Last month, we asked a slew of crowdfunders how they chose to fulfill their projects and ship rewards to their backers. We found out that over 50% of Kickstarte...