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Hey everyone,

Delighted to join your community. Conor Leen here, I am the founder of a social enterprise called Stampify. We are a loyalty card for charity based in Dublin, Ireland.

At the moment Stampify is a physical cardboard loyalty card that allows users to feed a child in the developing world with every stamp. We are going to launch a Kickstarter to develop a digital loyalty card. The main benefit this will bring is that instead of the money raised automatically going to fight world hunger as is currently the case, the user will be able to choose which cause they donate to. (More information on who we are and what we do can be found at Stampify.ie)

We have begun drafting our Kickstarter page and are currently in the process of developing media assets as collateral. We will be looking to go live in 2 months or so.

Having limited experience with Kickstarter (I've backed a few projects but have never been on the creator side), I was wondering if I could get some help in explaining how agencies or experts work, and if they're something that are worth working with? I find their websites to be quite ambiguous with regards to pricing and value.

Thanks so much for reading, really looking forward to being a part of this community.

Conor

If you are not doing all the marketing yourself, then you will for sure need a marketing agency. Otherwise there would be no marketing happening at all.

Thanks for the reply.

Do you have any advice on using agencies and which one to use?

You should find some kickstarter projects that were similar to what you are doing, and then email them and ask for recommendations on agencies.

Lou Ferryweather wrote:You should find some kickstarter projects that were similar to what you are doing, and then email them and ask for recommendations on agencies.

That's a really good idea!

I got inundated with emails minutes after launch. I'm sure most of them are garbage!

I would take it as a rule of thumb, if people are contacting you with a copy and paste email sent to your Kickstarter contact page, ignore them!

We wrote a free guide on "Crowdfunding Agency Advice: Pay a Fee, Offer a Percentage or Go for it Alone"

https://www.hyperstarter.com/crowdfunding-agency

- Hope it's useful