70% of campaigns meeting funding goal have between 3-8 perks. Perks are rewards, incentives, and gestures of thanks that you can create to help give possible funders incentives to fund your campaign. Creating the right amount of perk options, at the different contribution amounts, is… read more
Campaign owners that provide an update at least once every 5 days raise 218% as much money as campaign owners that update less often. As we’ve shown before, the more updates you send out the more money you raise. In fact, campaigns which send… read more
Eric/Founder & CTOTECHNOLOGY – XStylus Touch for the iPadGreat example of inventor and maker projects which are normally high in funding. These campaigns tend to go viral very quickly making it important amidst the early adopter crowd. Kate/Customer HappinessMUSIC – Beat Jazz SystemThis guy has… read more
I know some people who literally can't wait to get their hands on this smart design innovation. After a year of drafting, designing, tweaking and prototyping, campaign owner Elton Leung came up with a design for a comfortable stylus which can be stored in the… read more
After email, Facebook is the most powerful ‘share’ tool you have in your arsenal. It is responsible for eliciting more contributions to campaigns on IndieGoGo than any other social networking tool. However, some of us fear “blasting” our friends and family repeatedly with the same… read more
One of the street dogs Founding Hand hopes to help. A little personal story here. Three years ago my husband and I spotted a giant mastiff wandering lost and hungry in our alley. Being dog lovers, we checked to see if the animal had tags,… read more
WAR The Human Cost Okay, we know we missed 24-Hour Comics Day by at least a week. But we wanted to make up for it by highlighting some of our favorite current comic projects on IndieGoGo. If you're like me — or at least how… read more