What is the magic number from core supporters
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    What is the magic number from core supporters

    by sacharya78 » Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:15 pm

    How many core supporters do you think I need in the first 3 days to get a project to be noticed? I expect to raise $8.5K and think I need to reach about 350 people for it!


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    Re: What is the magic number from core supporters

    by sbriggman » Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:19 pm

    The rule of thumb is to shoot for 30% of your goal in terms of funding, so it depends on the price of your reward tiers.
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    Re: What is the magic number from core supporters

    by sacharya78 » Thu Oct 20, 2016 8:54 pm

    Thanks I launched the campaign
    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/19 ... ?ref=email

    and am currently at 20% - hope to keep growing. Thank you for the tips!
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    Re: What is the magic number from core supporters

    by cp1234 » Fri Nov 04, 2016 6:18 am

    Hi @Sacharya78, you can reach out to more potential backers using one of the cheapest marketing tools out there, Facebook :)

    Facebook is still the largest social network that's especially crucial to promote your Kickstarter campaign. I can say this because my campaign (see: http://kck.st/2e4tb2z) gets a lot of traffic and HIGH conversion rate from Facebook (i.e. 10-20%) because:
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    4. Last but not least, we run Facebook Ads, which is a great avenue to for targetted advertising. We can modify the group of audience we want to target.

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    Re: What is the magic number from core supporters

    by Cristina » Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:18 am

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    Re: What is the magic number from core supporters

    by Maestro » Sat Nov 11, 2017 12:37 am

    A good rule of thumb is that you can never have enough supporters.
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    Re: What is the magic number from core supporters

    by littleguy101 » Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:15 am

    Maestro wrote:A good rule of thumb is that you can never have enough supporters.


    I disagree. I say if you have 100 core supporters it will be enough to give you a strong start.

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