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hovercharge wrote:Understood! Thanks for the prompt reply! I really think you guys are the real deal, just hoping to see how everything turns out.

Still have to give you guys 10/10 in customer support. The replys are prompt, havent had to wait more than 2-3 minutes to get a response from you guys regardless of the time of day. Looking forward to the upcoming results

thegadgetflow wrote:Thanks for your feedback! Happy to help.

Our dashboard displays the total clicks we've sent you and we track everything on a first-click basis. Please keep in mind that Indiegogo doesn't trigger Google Analytics on their app which means that while we track app sessions from our side since the tracking happens before they open the app you won't see that number grow on your GA.

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hovercharge wrote:Hello everyone!

I wanted to share my experience with Gadget flow since we just purchased the Platinum package (highest one) and are a week into it, here it goes:

We first had our product, the HoverCharge, on Kickstarter, only for 2 weeks (rookie mistake) and all the traffic came from Kickstarter. We had a conversion rate of around 20%, based on the people that played the video. The dashboard showed us that 6,200 people hit play on the video, 22.5% finished it (1,395) and we ended up with 1,185 backers. The creator of the Travel Jacket reached out to us and told us that rate is amazing. I think that came down to the video (we worked really hard on it). We raised $40k+ in 14 days, while making all the rookie mistakes.
http://kck.st/2LuMT6K

No facebook ads, no email list, no preparation before launch, a short campaign, we did however do a little cross promotion here and there which gave us a great boost. Realizing we have a great product and an awesome conversion rate, instead of going straight to inDemand, we started a fresh Indiegogo campaign, 60-days this time.
https://igg.me/at/hovercharge/x/18886404

22-days into this campaign, we are at $17k+. Few hundred spent on facebook ads, instagram ads.There was a great boost when we first launched, but the momentum died out. This is when Gadget flow reached out to us, and we decided to opt-in for their highest package, the platinum. We will post live results of all their promotions here:

It's been 6 days since they started promoting us, and so far we have only seen $554 in pledges (13 backers) & 572 visitors. This info is from the custom link we provided them with and is displayed in the Indiegogo dash.

There dash differentiates and states that they have sent over close to 4,000 visitors, which may be a glitch since total visits on our campaign are at 7,359, (most of these during the beginning of our campaign) and that number has only increased around 2,000 since we joined Gadget flow, and 65% of our funds and visitors are still coming from Indiegogo. I will continue to post updates throughout this process.

Thanks for reading

On the fence for using GadgetFlow since one creator of a product in a similar category to ours had a -ve ROI. Might try if our project goes above a certain threshold.

We are reviewing the top package from Gadget Flow: heres a continuation of the review from our main thread:
post44861.html#p44861

Sorry its been a while since I posted an update. Since the last post a lot has happened with the campaign. We were sitting at $14k+ about 20-some days into our campaign, around 275% funded, and then we paid for the highest package at GadgetFlow. =

After a week of having GadgetFlow promotions running (the major ones weren't ran yet, we ended up at $17k, less than a $1,000 brought in by GF. The 8th-day in promotion was July 4th, where we only saw a one $62 pledge (but that has more to do with the fact it was July 4th). Then on July 5th I made this thread, reached out to GF on jumpstarting the bigger promotions, so GF started rolling them out, one of them was the dedicated direct email of my product, the holy grail of GF promotion, and my campaign took off.

In the next 7-days, we were sitting at $37,000. That's $20,000 in 7-days, while around this time, the campaign was at the middle of it's 60 day length. Now through the dashboard we could see that directly GF only brought in around 1X ROI of what we paid them . We don't break even on an investment unless it's at least 2X ROI, but with Indiegogo you have to understand that the clicks, pledges, and backers, GF drove us up on the ranks and we ended up with 64% of our backers from Indiegogo. At the peak of our promotion (which was about 1-3 days) we ended up as the 4th most trending campaign on the front page of Indiegogo. That drove us the most backers. This was all done by GF, no instagram, facebook, cross promo marketing at this period.

They helped with promotions practices, kept a healthy dialogue throughout, they fixed my GIF for me, they displayed a GIF on the homepage, any errors were handled in minutes, man it was a great experience.

Even a step further, GF introduced us to people at Indiegogo and we got selected as an Indiegogo Team Favorites Selection. That brought us even more backers. Currently, we are sitting at $47,000+. Their promotions has slowed down, the traffic and pledges have too. I am still not done with the promotion but I have to give a verdict. Is GadgetFlow the must go to for promoting your Crowdfunding campaign?

Well, that depends on your campaign. If your campaign is trash then you have no luck, but if you have a great campaign then 100%. I believe GF is a Gadget lovers hub first and a crowdfunding promo platform second. I don't think you have to go for the biggest package every time, you can always have your product on their platform for the lowest package, and then even if you don't get a lot of hits and results from them you will at least have your product on a great platform. Adds to the social proof.

That being said, I wanted to share another honest experience throughout all off this. There was a feeling on my end that for opting in for the top package the amounts of clicks could have been more consistent. I was in a way trying to see, hey GF, lets see what's the best you can do in terms of promotion for a campaign that is a proven winner.

I say this because the top package lists that for 17-20 days you will be on the HOMEPAGE Slider, Full-Width Slider, & Featured Product, all on the homepage. We are currently in that promotion right now but to be honest they have so many products in that slider that I don't think any viewers look at ours when they visit the website. I am saying like the 10th position at times. I havent once see it be the first picture on those sliders (although we have seen many times our product show up on featured products, and the better placement the better the hits). Those things are all decided by a combination of priority and randomness, but we really thought that could have helped our campaign a lot more. Better placement in full-screen sliders, and more consistent clicks.

But maybe I am not being fair here, instead of going into slider details, I need to stick to the basics, glass GF directly got me my investment back, and made me popular on Indiegogo, got me a lot more backers. But that's the thing. Although I love GF and will use it with all my future campaigns, I was maybe hoping for a shortcut. Lets say if GF had a $10,000 package, and it promised me all these things, and I would be on the sliders, being shown not hiding in the curtains, like same specs as their top package but really pushed out and promoted heavily, then I along with many other people would by that package instantly. I guess this is a hint for GF to maybe offer a higher tier, but really get them consistent results throughout the promotion.

Other than that, Evan and the team are great, since we last discussed, there customer service has gotten even better. I got directly in contact with a lot of different people reaching out to me from GF, they would randomly check up on me, discuss the results, give tips on the campaign, even point out if a link, or gif isn't working properly on our campaign page, which was really cool.

Hi hovercharge,

Thank you for posting your honest feedback. I have to say I can sympathise with your point re the slider and placement.
I surmise they have a successful product, but to cope with all the products they have to promote, they create sub categories of subcategories, each with their promoted section. The issue with this is this then dilutes the main traffic impact. Yes you are featured but if you are featured 1 tier or 2 below the main headline it will have an impact on eyeballs and traffic.

What your post suggests, is it is not necessarily what GF do for you directly site wise, it is the back doors it opened for you to the platform and direct mail options that are the traffic drivers?

It's great to hear you had a good level of engagement and response to issues with help and advice, not that you would expect otherwise from their top tier offer!

Are you planning any cross promotions with other campaigns, and if so how/ what criteria are you using for selecting them and what response do you hope from that?

Do you think you would have done better with a shorter campaign?

Congrats on the success of your campaign.

I just launched my Campaign about a week ago and hired them about 3 days ago. I paid the Pro package which is around 2500.00 or so.. So far according to my Kickstarter dashboard I've received three backers. Hoping for more momentum soon! Ill keep everyone updated.

edit:

5th day with GadgetFlow: Only bringing in 5 backers, of $177.00. I'm hoping for some better results from them.


Here my campaign:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14 ... ave-car-ac

Please do. Don't expect instant results, it takes some time to build these campaigns. At least you have an option to re run the campaign if it fails so that gives you some peace of mind right?

Hi All,

Heres an update. Im on the 11th day with GadgetFlow, after paying their 2600.00 package.

I did hit my goal! but honestly would have hit my goal without them. I've only received 12 backers, equaling $387.00. Not too happy here.

Congratulations on getting funded well done you! Thank you for the update and looking forward to your end of campaign results

I think with GF its an ongoing building process , you are seeing results, it will be unfair to judge as yet the full picture. Hopefully they will bring you over funded pledges and more than pay for themselves..

Keep pushing and obviously spread your success out there, you should still see a boost at the end of the campaign regardless, so best of luck to you!

I think that your project is the issue, with just a quick google search I could find it on Aliexpress for $5 and you are selling it on Kickstarter for $18 and you call it premium. what many creators dont understand is that companies like gadget flow, backerclub, hyperstarter are not like machines that you put $1 and you get $5, it all depends on your products, these services work just fine, the better your product, the better your ROI.

CarbageCan wrote:Hi All,

Heres an update. Im on the 11th day with GadgetFlow, after paying their 2600.00 package.

I did hit my goal! but honestly would have hit my goal without them. I've only received 12 backers, equaling $387.00. Not too happy here.

Got a paid plan now, hope to see good results after!
I will get a review after the campaign