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I have one day left in my campaign as of today and am at %103. http://kck.st/1lVl6Oo I somehow guessed what a proper timeline for my scope of project would be . I used Kicktraq to research what other similar campaigns did for project duration. External blog support was key, Without them I would not have even been close. Only 1/4 of the pledges came from Kickstarter organically. Posting the project on appropriate Reddit threads was also a big source of backers. That is a very active community. I would post there if your campaign has a related thread.

Some learnings
-I should have offered more rewards of multiples. I tried to keep the reward levels too simple.
-There is spike at the end of the project due to the 48 hour email.
-The video was difficult to do and I should have spent more time/money on it.
-Don't get discouraged In the middle when there is slump. Prepare for that.
- Create incentives for people to get in early.
- Save something extra for the end.

Awesome, thanks for the tips!

Yes thanks for the tips, I'm launching next Tuesday www.tinyurl.com/33dayslostatsea and I'm nervous and excited. I will check into the Reddit community, it seems pretty active as you said.

Many congrats on your successful funding!

Great tips, and congratulations on making it! It looks like an extremely cool product. I'll have to tell my neighbour who's a Pi fiend

It's great to hear that you got the funding you needed! Also the feedback was pretty useful. Thanks.

Definitely feeling a little lost in the middle of the campaign, trying to decide on what to post as updates, comments, etc... Thanks for the tips and congratulations on the successful funding!

Congrats on funding. Great tips! Thank you.

Congrats and thanks for the tips. I've posted my project on Reddit too, but didn't get any responses yet, am I doing it wrong? (I don't really use Reddit myself so I was kinda new to it, posted my project in a Kickstarter-place on Reddit, should've been right, right?)

Anyways, good job on reaching your goal!!

Thanks so much I've just launched: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/34 ... ty-scarves
and this gives me hope