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Hi everyone,

I've read this article from CrowdCrux (what-blogs-should-you-reach-out-to-t2027.html) and many others about pitching to bloggers and other places, but I can't seem to find any that fit my market.

My kickstarter is having trouble getting off the ground (about 1.5 days in), so far 7 of my 8 pledges are from people through our facebook campaigning, and I'm trying really hard to find blogs to pitch my Kickstarter to.

Here's my Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/54 ... king-games

As you can see, I am trying to raise money to print 3 drinking games. They're board games, and they're Sports themed.
The problem is that I can't find any blogs that relate to this kind of market.

Sports blogs are almost always about actual sports news, and usually quite professional so they wouldn't post about drinking games.

And I haven't found any blogs about drinking games. Only websites that simply list the same usual games (card games, beer pong, etc).

And then there's all the board game sites, which there are many of. But the issue here, which I experienced first hand, is that it is a very "nerdy" market, so they really don't like sports. I spoke to lots of people on these sites before my launch, and time after time, they would tell me how they literally hate sports lol.

Tonight I also tried to hit some really big twitter accounts about sports, that post some fun and humorous tweets, hopefully I can get a response from them. Until then, I will continue to search for anything that could help me gain some traction.

So if anyone has any ideas of where I can try reaching out to, I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks for hearing me out

One tip: If you go to google and click "Web Search" and filter by "past month," and then you input key headlines like "drinking card game" or "new drinking game," you can see all the website and blogs that have written about those topics in the past month.

http://www.drinkinggamezone.com/drinkin ... ardmaster/
http://www.reddit.com/r/DrinkingGames
http://forplayblog.com/tag/drinkinggame/
http://www.fastcompany.com/3029651/the- ... e-creative
http://www.drinkinggamesguru.com/kings-cup/

Tip #2 - Find similar products, plug them into google, search by time, see which blogs they got on (or use google blog search)

Tip #3 - Find the picture of a similar product and do a "google search by image" http://images.google.com/imghp?hl=en

You need to upload an image and then it will find all the websites that feature that image. It will show you which websites certain products are getting on.

Hi Therriaultk, thanks so much for the suggestions. I've taken to Twitter lately, but I love the idea to target the NHL Playoffs specifically. It's a lot easier to market to someone who enjoys 1 of our games themes, than to market to them using all of our boards generally.

And thanks for the feedback on our product also. As for the breakdown, i see your point. We vaguely mention that the money is going towards bigger print orders. But maybe I should mention some amounts or percentages, and be more precise about what will be used for what.

And thank you Sal for the Tips, sometimes the solution is so simple!
I'll get to work on that right away!