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...
Inflection Point: Kings of India and Drumi
Inflection Point is the BackerKit blog series that studies crowdfunding campaigns to discover tactics that other creators can use mid-campaign. Subscribe to the...
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...
Princess Awesome: The Secret of Our Success
Eva St. Clair and Rebecca Melsky are the co-founders of Princess Awesome, a girls’ clothing company that puts a different spin on girly - think dresses with din...
BackerTracker: How Do Projections Work?
The BackerTracker prediction model compares the active campaign to all of the past campaigns to find the projects that had the most similar funding performance ...
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...
BackerKit at GX3
The third annual GaymerX gaming convention, GX3, is this weekend Dec 11-13 in San Jose, California. If you like video games, tabletop games, card games, cosplay...
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...