Crowdfunding Shipping Deadlines
Holiday Deadlines
UPS, FedEx, and the USPS have all posted their Holiday 2015 schedules complete with deadlines on the last day to ship to make sure that packa...
Shipping
The Back-End for Your Campaign
Keep Your Project On Schedule
Campaign management services can be divided into two categories: “front-end” services that backers interact with such as the back...
Re-thinking Survey Tools
Sending surveys is easy. The hard part is collecting information, getting backers to respond, making sure that everything is accurate, organizing it into useful...
What Happens in the BackerKit Setup Review?
One of the services we provide to project creators is a final setup review before sending out survey emails. Most project creators are able to build fantastic s...
BackerKit Digital Distribution
We’re happy to announce that we’ve upgraded our BackerKit digital downloads system! The new version makes it easier to upload and distribute digital rewards to ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Top 5 Things to Know When Your Campaign Ends
Now that you’ve revved up the last week of your campaign, and everything’s coming to a close, it’s time to prepare for the next steps.
1. Wait to send out your...