Kickstarter Pre-Order Store Success: A Step-by-Step Guide
You’ve exceeded your funding goal, run a successful Kickstarter campaign, and have decided to set up a pre-order store or late-pledge page. Now what?
Pre-ord...
Add-Ons
Best Practices: BackerKit Survey Add-on Items
BackerKit add-on items are extra rewards that backers can purchase via their survey in addition to the items they receive for their pledge. It's a great way to ...
From Surveyed to Shipped: The BackerKit Project Lifecycle
Visualizing the lifecycle of a crowdfunding campaign can prove difficult for first-time creators. This is particularly the case for the post-campaign phase, whi...
How to Manage Your Fulfillment Workload
The reward fulfillment process is a crucial part of any crowdfunding campaign, but it's fraught with obstacles.
Planning for Pre-Orders: Three Stories
Which pre-order platform is right for you?
Razor-Sharp Strategies for Add-On Sales
Rockwell Razors' Gareth Everard shares his wisdom.
How to Estimate Shipping Costs
Fulfillment occurs at the end of the campaign but you need to get your cost estimates during the campaign planning phase so that you can price your shipping app...
Six Tips from BackerKit’s Creator Success Team
A member from our Creator Success team shares some tips on how to use BackerKit effectively.
How to Run an EU-Friendly Crowdfunding Campaign
The fulfillment phase is a sticking point for many project creators, especially if international backers are involved. The majority of crowdfunding campaigns on...
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...
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...
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...