{"id":3517,"date":"2017-03-02T20:04:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/blog\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2018-05-02T10:17:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T17:17:58","slug":"does-paid-advertising-in-crowdfunding-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/blog\/does-paid-advertising-in-crowdfunding-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Paid Ads in Crowdfunding Pay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\"><p>Every day, your social media feeds are home to countless digital ads, each one vying for your eyeballs and cash. Project creators might wonder whether paid advertising is worth the cost \u2014 if it can give their crowdfunding campaign a significant boost without losing money.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paid advertising should not be seen as a silver bullet. A slew of ads won\u2019t help a campaign with a soggy narrative or ill-defined target market. What\u2019s more, not all crowdfunding campaigns need paid advertising to succeed. However, it appears that many high-profile, large-scale projects have enlisted help from agencies to ensure their PR and marketing strategies are primed for success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some project creators work exclusively with one agency; others collaborate with a number of agencies. Eddie Lee, co-founder of Podo Labs, has conducted successful campaigns with and without paid advertising. Podo Labs didn\u2019t undertake any paid advertising for its first Kickstarter campaign, but it did partner with agencies for subsequent campaigns. Lee says the impact was significant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor the Podo v2, we wanted to grow the numbers as large as possible. As long as you&#8217;re covering the costs \u2014 even if maybe you&#8217;re not covering the cost of your BOM, you just want to grow your campaign \u2014 that&#8217;s one of the best ways to do it,\u201d Lee says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paid advertising can be effective, so long as it isn\u2019t spammy. \u201cFor the second campaign, we were referred to a few different paid advertising firms, and that worked out well for us,\u201d Lee says. One strategy included cross-promotions with other crowdfunding campaigns. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSome people have mixed feelings about that \u2014 it might turn off your backers \u2014 but it\u2019s also free advertising,\u201d he says. \u201cIt depends on how you frame it. We make it clear to people: \u2018This is the end of our announcements. Following ahead are promotions if you&#8217;re interested.\u2019 And then we list them there \u2014 so far we haven&#8217;t gotten any backlash.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>A Helping Hand<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roy Morejon, president of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/enventyspartners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enventys Partners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, says partnering with an agency gives project creators more time and resources to run a prosperous campaign. \u00a0\u201cRunning a crowdfunding project is not the sort of thing where you set it up, launch, and then come back 30 days later to collect your money,\u201d Morejon says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a vertically integrated product development, crowdfunding and inbound marketing agency, Enventys handles \u201cevery aspect of campaign management\u201d, Morejon says \u2014 \u201cgathering leads before launch, writing copy for the campaign page, photography and graphic design, social media, emailing marketing, Facebook Ads, public relations and more\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to the effort involved in running and maintaining a crowdfunding campaign, most agencies choose to work with a projects larger funding goals. The duration of engagement can cover a period of six months, covering pre-launching efforts to post-campaign services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark Pecota, COO and co-founder of full-service agency <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.launchboom.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LaunchBoom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, says the best time to engage his services is \u201conce you have a functional prototype\u201d. In addition, LaunchBoom requests a lead time of three months before launch. Morejon concurs. \u201cAs soon as you have a marketable product ready to go, enlist an agency. Don\u2019t wait until a week before you\u2019re ready to launch the project.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Nailing the Pre-launch Campaign<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A project creator\u2019s pre-launch strategies are a crucial determinant in their campaign\u2019s success. Yet these activities \u2014 which include email marketing, social media promotion, lead-gathering, and so on \u2014 are often the most time-consuming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne of the biggest places we feel people do not put enough emphasis on is in the pre-launch, so most of our system is focused on properly preparing the project by building all the marketing assets you need,\u201d Pecota says. This includes making hundreds of digital ads \u2014 crafting the headline copy, body copy, and imagery \u2014 and defining the audience that the project creator should be targeting. LaunchBoom sends traffic down two to five funnels and makes different landing pages to test different hypotheses to determine the campaign\u2019s ideal target audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LaunchBoom builds lead generation campaigns designed to get email signups from the target demographic, and \u201cfrom there we send an automated follow-up response, which essentially welcomes them to the community\u201d, Pecota says. LaunchBoom\u2019s approach to email marketing is highly personalized\u2014 any correspondence is tailored to come directly from the project creator, lending a more authentic touch. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Social Media Advertising<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere\u2019s basically two big players in the ad world right now: Facebook and Google,\u201d Pecota says. \u201cWe found that the highest return has come from Facebook itself. \u201c He says LaunchBoom\u2019s strategy to \u201cput more money into the pre-campaign and spend it on Facebook to build an audience basically to collect emails\u201d.Building your email list ahead of launch produces a \u201chigher return on investment in the long run rather than waiting to spend all of your ad budget during the campaign\u201d. Facebook Ads are also the weapon of choice for Morejon. \u201cThe targeting is really good,\u201d he says, \u201cso we can reach a ton of people who would be interested in the product we\u2019re advertising at a low cost.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ease of setting up Facebook Ads allows project creators with smaller budgets to experiment with paid advertising without hiring an agency. Arthur Maitre, e-commerce manager at Native Union, ran paid advertisements through Facebook to bolster an email list in the lead up to the launches for the JUMP and Eclipse cable campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did three different images and four different taglines, which gave us 12 different possibilities for combinations,\u201d Maitre says. The winning ad was the one with the highest click-through rate. \u201cThe hero image and tagline you see on the Eclipse campaign page came from a data-driven decision,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, not all clicks on Facebook and Google ads will convert into pledges \u2014 project creators\u2019 experiences will <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crowdcrux.com\/advertising-guide-for-your-crowdfunding-campaign\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Adespresso has a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/adespresso.com\/academy\/blog\/facebook-ads-for-kickstarter-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">useful guide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Facebook ads that breaks down outcomes based on ad spend, and highlights how such ads can be used to build email lists and generate pledges. It offers the example of\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bestself.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Self Journal<\/a>. Its creators\u00a0<\/span>spent\u00a0$92.89 on Facebook ads over a period of a few days to garner\u00a0172 emails.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The efficacy of social advertising will largely depend on how targeted and relevant the ad is to a particular audience. As Native Union\u2019s experience demonstrates, this process involves some trial and error. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What Makes an Ideal Client?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A harmonious working relationship between an agency and project creator requires both parties to be honest with each other about campaign expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee says project creators should do their research, particularly when it comes to cross-promotion of other campaigns. \u201cWe made a mistake once where a paid ad firm told us to do a cross-promo, and we didn&#8217;t vet them, and then some backers found that they weren&#8217;t having very good experiences with that campaign,\u201d he said. \u201cWe wouldn&#8217;t have done that if we&#8217;d vetted them better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From an agency perspective, project creators should have a product that demonstrates strong market appeal. Most crowdfunding marketing agencies are very selective about the projects they take on: at LaunchBoom, Pecota says &#8220;less than 10% of applicants qualify&#8221; to work with the agency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe two things we look for is a great product and a great team,\u201d Pecota says. \u201cThe best ones to work with are those with a very clear problem they\u2019re solving. If they have some type of validation in the market beforehand, it\u2019s going to be a more ideal client for us.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morejon says an ideal client \u201cneeds to have done a lot of market research, and need to know who their product is meant for\u201d. 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