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...
Crowdfunding Tips
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...
Why You Should Post Regular Updates and How to Write a Good One
Your campaign has been successfully funded, congratulations! Your backers, curious and excited as they are, are going to start asking you a lot of questions. He...
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...
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...
Re-thinking Survey Tools
Sending surveys is easy. The hard part is collecting information, getting backers to respond, making sure that everything is accurate, organizing it into useful...