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...
During Campaign Tips
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...
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 ...
Get Your Tabletop Game Ready for Manufacturing
After experiencing slowdowns during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the manufacturing industry is ramping back up. While factories are resuming produ...
How to Get Repeat Kickstarter Backers
Repeat backers can give your campaign the boost it needs to reach its funding goal early. But how do you build a community that’s willing to support you time an...
Crowdfunding and Taxes: What Creators Need to Know Before Filing
Whether you’re planning to launch a crowdfunding project or you’ve already hit your goal, it’s critical that you think about the tax implications of your campai...
Take full advantage of Kickstarter’s Pre-Launch page to promote your upcoming project
How top crowdfunding creators in 2020 are using BackerKit to unlock the full potential of Kickstarter’s newest feature
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...
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...
Adventures in Facebook Advertising
Email marketing and public relations outreach top the list for free marketing channels, but when it comes time to spend money, many creators recommended Faceboo...
Supporting Your Backers: Tips for Creators
Fielding thorny questions from backers can flummox first-time project creators and veterans alike.
Mastering the Art of the Project Update
The crowdfunding journey spans many months: from mass outreach conducted well before the launch of a crowdfunding campaign to the fulfillment and shipping phase...