Kickstarter Campaign Page Design Secrets
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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...
Adventures in Facebook Advertising: Podcast Follow-up
Our first Facebook ad experiment gave us a lot of great data about what to expect from Facebook advertising but it also left us with several questions about wha...
How to Promote Your Pre-Order Store
A little legwork can help you drive sales to your pre-order store.
Adventures in Facebook Advertising
Email marketing and public relations outreach top the list for free marketing channels, but when it comes time to spend money, many creators recommended Faceboo...
Pre-orders Best Practices
There's a compelling business case for offering pre-orders after your crowdfunding campaign ends.
Do Paid Ads in Crowdfunding Pay?
For some project creators, using paid ads has had a tangible impact on the reach of their crowdfunding campaigns.
How to Relaunch a Failed Kickstarter Campaign
Kickstarter provides the aspiring project creator with some sobering statistics on campaign success rates. Since Kickstarter began in 2009, 334,769 projects hav...
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...
The Hacker’s Guide to Crowdfunding: The Good, The Bad, & The Flexible
A conversation on the Kickstarter Best Practices Facebook group inspired this post. Please comment if you have questions or new ideas to add!
Lesson 1: Your ti...