Exploding Kittens’ Witt Godden Talks Crowdfunding
The Exploding Kittens booth at Gen Con 2018 was unlike anything I've ever seen at a convention. Large crowds surrounded an extremely large kitten display that a...
Crowdfunding Tips
Gen Con 2018: Interview w/ Feudum Creator Mark Swanson
**NEW Expansion Feudum: Rudders and Ramparts LIVE on Kickstarter**
During Gen Con 2018, I had the pleasure to sit down with tabletop game designer Mark Swans...
Gen Con 2018: Expert Tabletop Game Advice From Crowdfunding Creators
During Gen Con 2018, we hosted a panel called Engaging Your True Fans Between Projects featuring expert creators sharing advice and trading stories about their ...
Become an Active Member of the Kickstarter Community
Kickstarter is the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. It’s a place where you can bring your passions and ideas to life and support others t...
How to Spot a Crowdfunding Scam
It's an unfortunate, if somewhat unavoidable, reality: not all crowdfunding campaigns are what they seem. While the majority are run in a transparent, honest fa...
Who Are Your True Fans?
"To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To ma...
How to Find Your Community of Crowdfunding Champions
Behind every successful crowdfunding campaign is a legion of loyal supporters. When it comes to raising money, there's strength in numbers: the more backers in ...
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...
Getting Creative with Digital Rewards
The most memorable rewards of a crowdfunding campaign aren’t necessarily physical – and they're not always costly, either.
Digital and experiential rewards can...
How to Deal with Survey Stragglers
So you’ve sent out a BackerKit survey. Now what?
It’s a common misconception that all project creators need to do is wait until the responses roll in. While mo...
Shipping with BackerKit: DIY with Scale
Experimenting is an integral part of product development process at BackerKit. It helps us figure out ways to improve our services for creators and backers, and...
Have You Started Building Your Pre-Launch Email List?
Guest post by Mark Pecota, co-founder and CEO of LaunchBoom.
62.2% of Kickstarter projects fail to reach their funding goal. Why? Most focus on trying to get t...