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...
Top 5 Kickstarter Tips From The Doubleclicks
In January of 2014, Portland-based musical duo The Doubleclicks raised $80,923 on Kickstarter with an initial project goal of $18,000. When all was said and don...
Maker Faire Bay Area: An Epic Tech Extravaganza
We spent Saturday checking out some of the awesome, crazy, fantastic projects at Maker Faire. From drones to 3D printers to full size working R2D2 models, every...
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 ...
The New Face of BackerKit
At BackerKit, we’ve been helping crowdfunding project creators for nearly three years now. In the past few years, we’ve grown a lot, with the help of project cr...
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...
A Million Reasons to Celebrate!
We’ve been working pretty hard and reached a solid milestone this past week! So far we’ve served 100 project creators (and counting) and over 165,...
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...
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...