How do you successfully start a Kickstarter campaign?
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How do you successfully start a Kickstarter campaign?
10 Tips For Marketing Your Kickstarter Campaign
- Make sure your idea is a good fit for Kickstarter.
- Create great rewards.
- Follow the rules.
- Set your goal as low as possible.
- Make a great video.
- Don’t bank on press.
- Use social media, but don’t rely on it.
- Hold something back as an upsell or a stretch goal.
Can you run a campaign on Kickstarter and Indiegogo?
Kickstarter will not allow you to launch on their platform if your product is already available elsewhere. If you want to launch on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter, your best option, and really only option, is to launch on Kickstarter, and then AFTER your Kickstarter campaign is over, transition to Indiegogo.
How do you make a successful crowdfunding campaign?
We at ROAR for Good ran a successful crowdfunding campaign that exceeded our expectations. Below are the top tips we learned along the way:
- Target your message.
- Learn what makes a good campaign and a bad one.
- Build a community before launching.
- Speak to experts.
- Know your launch target.
- Use multimedia.
What makes a Kickstarter campaign successful?
A Kickstarter project with a video is 50\% more likely to succeed, while a project without has only a 30\% success rate. Also, your video thumbnail is the first thing that people see when they visit your campaign page. So, make sure that it’s strategic, inviting, and piques the visitor’s curiosity.
Should you launch your campaign on Kickstarter or on Indiegogo?
On Kickstarter, people can afford to spend a bit more to get the best products as long as they stand out from their competitors and not only have great functionality but also a great aesthetic design. The number one thing that will help you understand whether you should launch your campaign on Kickstarter or on Indiegogo is doing your research.
What is Indiegogo’s success rate?
If Kickstarter reckons around 36\% of its campaigners are successful, then the digital world puts Indiegogo’s success rate somewhere between 17-18\%. It sounds terrible, but it does have a few other things going for it.
How many Kickstarter campaigns have raised $5 billion?
Kickstarter campaigns have already raised nearly $5 billion. It’s hosted over 180,000 successful projects, and has a total of nearly 18 million backers — of which one-third support multiple campaigns. Over 400 campaigns have broken the $1-million mark.
How many indindiegogo campaigns have been successfully launched?
Indiegogo has successfully launched over 800,000 ideas with its 9-million-strong community. At any given point it has around 1,200 live campaigns and 1,800 InDemand campaigns (Kickstarter has 3,000+).