Six Tips from BackerKit’s Creator Success Team
A member from our Creator Success team shares some tips on how to use BackerKit effectively.
Post-Campaign Tips
Six Things to Know About International Shipping
Every project creator knows that meeting your funding goal is the first milestone in a crowdfunding marathon. Many more hurdles abound in the fulfillment and sh...
Save the Date: So You’re Funded. Now What?
We're holding a panel on everything you want to know about fulfillment (but were afraid to ask).
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...
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...
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...
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...
Crowdfunding Fulfillment with BackerKit Postage
BackerKit Postage: Origin Story
We noticed that a large percentage of our customers were handling shipping themselves, but they were overwhelmed by the shippin...
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...