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Hi Don, welcome to the KickstarterForum!




Firstly, I think your campaign page is good. It is detailed enough to explain to your audience exactly what you have created, while maintaining its ability to be understood by the average person.


My main concern for you is that I see you have a funding goal of $85,000. While you do hear about alot of campaigns hitting numbers like these, they do spend months and months growing their audience and readying them for launch. And remember, you want to set your goal to the absolute minimum amount of money you will need (keeping in mind you can achieve more then this, most successful campaigns do). Again, this is just something to think about.


Do you have an estimated campaign launch date? Have you already started building a following?


Here are 2 things I would recommend you do mate:

1. Create a landing page (website) with an email subscription form. You can start gathering emails now and when you launch you can easily let everyone who signed up know.

2. Improve your social media presence. I see your Facebook page has 25 likes which is a good start. Regular posting and interaction on Facebook and Twitter alike will help you get more likes and followers. When you launch your campaign you will hopefully be able to convert a few of those fans into backers.


If you have any questions about anything at all, reply to this thread or send me a private message. I am here to help!



All the best Don.

Team Backertree!

Nice writeup from Don, thanks!

Although what you're suggesting to him is 2 streams of capturing potential backers - social and email (via his site).

- His campaign is pretty much close to launching, so those two suggestions might be a bit late...

But you're suggestions are pretty much what all campaign owners should do, as it "tests the waters" see who are interested and then know who to target.

I actually find social backing not that relevant. People just like to click like/favorite without actually looking at your site or engaging with you...but if it's something you want to try, go ahead

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Overall, I think my suggestions about focusing on his campaign page are useful too - because he has strayed away from the actual product by offering all the extra stuff, when seeds should be his main focus and then explain why his seeds (and cool box) should be backed...rather than spending time collecting emails and posting on social.

Hi,



Yes my advice was quite generic it seems


I think your point should be a lesson to all creators as well. When I see people offering branded merchandise as rewards it really is a turn off.



Thanks giftsandcoupons,

Team Backertree!

Yep you're right! I'm just seeing email notifications, which are coming from you haha. I had a look at Backertree.com - but it's an empty site.

Hey,



I'm excited to announce the website should be up tomorrow. I plan to offer more handcrafted solutions, as opposed to the websites offering to spam press releases, give campaigns fake views, etc. I will keep you updated with how it goes



Cheers!

Team Backertree!

The actual cost of samples shipped within contiguous United States:

one sample 9.09
two samples 14.60
three samples 16.00

so...

So that's ok! Backertree got their site up I see

sportnchance wrote:The actual cost of samples shipped within contiguous United States:

one sample 9.09
two samples 14.60
three samples 16.00

so...

Here we go! Boxxers will be clicking submit on Kickstarter in about 1 minute. Yee haw!

Don and Yvonne