Crowdfunding: Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Ecommerce with CrowdCrux | Crowdfunding Demystified

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Today, Daniele asked how I can help with his crowdfunding campaign. Daniele is a member of the CrowdCrux community and has been working on his Kickstarter campaign.

"Hello. I'm Daniele. I'm very curious about how you can help me with my campaign Carbon SUV e-bike on Kickstarter. We have a very limited budget. We are in the middle of the campaign and are not sure if we're going to reach our goal."

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Today’s question was submitted by Erika Hanna, a member of the growing CrowdCrux community!

“Hi Sal. I’m a little concerned about my Kickstarter. I launched it yesterday at 1pm and so far we are at $600 and my goal is set to $20,000.

I was wondering if you think it has anything to do with the market. Do you think that Kickstarter is a good platform to launch a fashion conscious brand?”

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"Hi Sal, my name is Bart and I'd like to know how you go about educating people about crowdfunding on Facebook or Twitter. The other day I asked people on my Facebook wall if they had any experience with crowdfunding and out of 1,900 friends, I got just a couple of responses. I'd be curious to hear what your answer is."

• What it’s like as a female entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.
• The exact strategy they used to get on the Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, and more.
• Why email and Facebook were the MOST important sources of pledges.
• How the team got people on their email list (4,000 people).
• A SECRET goal the team had for the campaign.

• How the changing equity crowdfunding landscape is changing
• What the team did to attract $6 million in test-the-waters reservations
• How David built a hyper growth company.
• Where to start if you’re a beginning entrepreneur

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• How Evan’s helped make self-made millionaires on Indiegogo
• The highest converting source of pledges
• How to build an email list
• How much funding should a creator expect from the Indiegogo marketplace
• The secret of gogofactor
• Insights from over $45 million worth of crowdfunding

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Today's question was asked by HamiltonPerkins.com:

"We have a mailing list of 700 people that we've accumulated prior to launch. Our question is now that we're live, what is your advice for maximizing the pledges with the list and our own network." 

“Hi Salvador. This is Hannah with Sublicious Farms. We’re a mushroom farm in Florida and we’re preparing our Kickstarter campaign right now. We’re trying to set up a distribution center so that we can set up local mushroom farms all over the country.

We’re trying to figure out when’s the best time to launch, how much we need to have prepared, the posts that we’ll need on social media, and what you have to do right then and there after you launch.”

Hope you enjoy my answer and don’t forget to leave your feedback on iTunes!

Recently, Kyle Koster reached out to me about a proven strategy that he developed to launch several successful Kickstarter campaigns.

His email read, "I've enjoyed following CrowdCrux and some of the articles you've posted over the past few years. I started a guitar accessory company called Hogjim: Music Imports on Kickstarter a while back and we were in contact...

I have a bunch of experience from my guitar accessory company and living in Hong Kong for a few years as well as now handcrafting products in the USA!"

Long story short, I invited him on the podcast to talk about his approach to raising money on Kickstarter. Remember, he didn't just do this once. He did it FOUR times with different campaigns in different industries.