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...
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 ...
Introducing BackerKit Postage
One thing we hear from DIY project creators of all sizes is that making labels for shipping your crowdfunded project is harder than it should be.
BackerKit P...
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...