Meet the Panelists: Rich from Onyx Path Publishing
BackerKit will be moderating a panel at GenCon 2016 with game creators who have run successful crowdfunding campaigns. If you’ve ever been curious about what it...
BackerKit at GenCon 2016
The Best Four Days in Gaming
It’s true, BackerKit will be back at GenCon this year!
Over a fifth of the 1,786 crowdfunding projects that have used BackerKit...
Inflection Point: Fleye Personal Flying Robot
Inflection Point is the BackerKit blog series that studies crowdfunding campaigns to discover tactics that other creators can use mid-campaign. Subscribe to the...
Why You Should Post Regular Updates and How to Write a Good One
Your campaign has been successfully funded, congratulations! Your backers, curious and excited as they are, are going to start asking you a lot of questions. He...
Inflection Point: Kings of India and Drumi
Inflection Point is the BackerKit blog series that studies crowdfunding campaigns to discover tactics that other creators can use mid-campaign. Subscribe to the...
Best Practices: Survey Add-on Items
Studying the Best Sellers
We studied sales data from 1,568 projects with 15,525 different add-on items to determine the best practices creators should follow w...
Princess Awesome: The Secret of Our Success
Eva St. Clair and Rebecca Melsky are the co-founders of Princess Awesome, a girls’ clothing company that puts a different spin on girly - think dresses with din...
BackerTracker: How Do Projections Work?
The BackerTracker prediction model compares the active campaign to all of the past campaigns to find the projects that had the most similar funding performance ...
Crowdfunding Creator Visit: Slinging and Packing
On-Site Packing Party
Last week we visited our friends (and longtime BackerKit customers) Jason Hui from Prometheus Lights and Joe Wu from Scout Leather Co. fo...
Managing InDemand Backers with BackerKit
Handling Backers from InDemand
We’ve supported InDemand for Indiegogo campaigns since it first launched, but late last year we noticed that a few of our Kickst...
Alternative Uses for BackerKit
Using BackerKit without a Campaign
BackerKit had a fantastic 2015 by all measures. We helped 711 projects create surveys and manage pledges for 1,258,564 backe...
Custom Packaging for DIY Shipping
First Impressions Matter
The shipping package is the first physical interaction the backer will have with your product. You worked hard to create the perfect p...