Escuro Bicycle Bag - What am I doing wrong?
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    Escuro Bicycle Bag - What am I doing wrong?

    by Alina » Sun May 07, 2017 5:34 pm

    Hi there,

    I know you probably hear frequently this kind of stories, but I think this is the only place where I can find an honest and valid answer.

    Friday, 5th of May, I have started my very first Kickstarter campaign. It is called Escuro Bicycle Bag and it's a nice, stylish and practical bike bag (we think :) ). You can see our project page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robertodesimone/escuro-bicycle-bag-stylish-and-functional

    We had our Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, we had the confirmation of several bike shops that our idea is really good and the bags look cool so we were convinced we won't have difficulties with our campaign. But, surprise, our campaign is really slow. We had had 3 backers in almost 3 days. We had about 270 video plays until now. Is that normal? What do you think about this project?

    I know the most successful project hires Pr agencies and influencers, but what's the chance that someone who hasn't all this money to spend on promotion to have a funded project? What's your opinion about that?

    Thank you, guys


    Escuro Bicycle Bag - An innovative, stylish & functional bike bag
    Kickstarter campaign: http://bit.ly/escurobicyclebag
    [youtube]http://youtu.be/W9Y4UqjWxKU[/youtube]
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    Re: Escuro Bicycle Bag - What am I doing wrong?

    by hyperstarter » Mon May 08, 2017 1:49 am

    I think the campaign page looks very professional, congrats.

    Perhaps the problem is you should focus it more on being a bag then as an attachment to a bicycle, rather than the other way round - so the campaign page needs a few tweaks.

    Next, there's a ton of images and not much text. If you run the url through our site, it'll explain other problems in detail.

    The main thing is you launched based on specific interest, but you didn't follow up on that interest. I would of ran a prelaunch campaign, collected emails of people who *really* wanted it (rather than said they'd like it), followed up on the shops that expressed interest and marketed it in other ways.

    If you need further advice let me know as I've worked on a couple of overfunded bag campaigns.
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    Re: Escuro Bicycle Bag - What am I doing wrong?

    by sbriggman » Tue May 16, 2017 9:26 pm

    Hey man - Are you using FB ads? Seems like a cool product. Shoot me an email: sbriggman@crowdcrux.com

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    Re: Escuro Bicycle Bag - What am I doing wrong?

    by Alina » Wed May 24, 2017 10:39 am

    sbriggman wrote:Hey man - Are you using FB ads? Seems like a cool product. Shoot me an email: sbriggman@crowdcrux.com

    Sal


    HI!

    Thanks, but I have seen your message just now! Mail sent!
    Escuro Bicycle Bag - An innovative, stylish & functional bike bag
    Kickstarter campaign: http://bit.ly/escurobicyclebag
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    Re: Escuro Bicycle Bag - What am I doing wrong?

    by Alina » Wed May 24, 2017 10:45 am

    hyperstarter wrote:I think the campaign page looks very professional, congrats.

    Perhaps the problem is you should focus it more on being a bag then as an attachment to a bicycle, rather than the other way round - so the campaign page needs a few tweaks.

    Next, there's a ton of images and not much text. If you run the url through our site, it'll explain other problems in detail.

    The main thing is you launched based on specific interest, but you didn't follow up on that interest. I would of ran a prelaunch campaign, collected emails of people who *really* wanted it (rather than said they'd like it), followed up on the shops that expressed interest and marketed it in other ways.

    If you need further advice let me know as I've worked on a couple of overfunded bag campaigns.


    Thank you for the advices. I was already checked our campaign page on your site. It actually says "Number of Words: Great! This campaign has the optimum recommended number of words on the page. " Then " Number of Images: The campaign may need more images on the page."

    We were more focusing on the visuals than on the text. Is it wrong?
    Escuro Bicycle Bag - An innovative, stylish & functional bike bag
    Kickstarter campaign: http://bit.ly/escurobicyclebag
    [youtube]http://youtu.be/W9Y4UqjWxKU[/youtube]
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    Re: Escuro Bicycle Bag - What am I doing wrong?

    by hyperstarter » Thu May 25, 2017 6:26 am

    Actually you're not wrong and the Hyperstarter site isn't either. Let me explain - in terms of visuals, you're right - it should stand out. But text is all clumped together at the top and there's alot of info at the bottom in Risks. If you could space out the text, it'll help.

    In terms of where you've been featured already, you should be more popular. As mentioned, if you want us involved - let me know.
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    Re: Escuro Bicycle Bag - What am I doing wrong?

    by project2017 » Mon Jun 05, 2017 12:22 pm

    you simply need traffic and the right audience to visit your project, im guessing at the moment the project is only getting less than 50 people to visit a day?
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    Re: Escuro Bicycle Bag - What am I doing wrong?

    by hyperstarter » Tue Jun 06, 2017 2:40 am

    Yeah I would of loved to of worked on this campaign, it had great potential but looks like there's no traction.
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    Re: Escuro Bicycle Bag - What am I doing wrong?

    by lowkey » Tue Jun 06, 2017 3:43 am

    Presentation : 8.5/10
    Backers Preparations : 1/10
    Novelty : 4/10

    Its hard to decide if its a good or bad project. Because you can still sell shits with good presentations but doesnt mean it solve anything. In your case, I think you should've prepared your own community before you launched your campaign. Ask Hyperstarter. He might think you already know this but you dont, so you should learn. You can go through my posts on the importance of Landing Pages to collect leads and learn your way through.

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    Re: Escuro Bicycle Bag - What am I doing wrong?

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