It's been a delight participating here at Kickstarter forum, and we've very much appreciated the amazing resources and great conversations and advice. Unfortunately while our project started strong (38 backers and almost $2000 raised in our first day), we failed to attract the attention we needed ou...
Sidekick is a cool algorithm that measures your likelihood of success. Not only can it help you figure how you're doing (though don't panic if it rates you really low, especially when you start), you can download all the details of how it works, and read the paper that it's all based on. Details her...
Day four now and we're sitting at 67 backers and around 15% funding, with a few really exciting connections getting made with local parent groups, school board, municipal government etc. I'd say the three biggest takeaways for us so far: 1) Message everyone you know. You never know where your projec...
Hi Folks, I love putting these out, but we're not getting much traction (no likes, FB, comments or pledges) so I'll keep checking in and joining the conversation in kickstarterforum.org, but will posptone this series for now. If folks are interested in this series let us know (ideally through a $1 p...
I'm choosing today's Pattern based on what our team is doing tonight: Reflection / Action Cycle http://groupworksdeck.org/sites/default/files/upload/cards/reflection_action.jpg Especially early in the campaign, the urge can be there to simply push, push, push. We're still burning through our Faceboo...
Thanks dreamlandthemov, We're at the end of day 3, and at 15%. Tonight we're stopping the push and taking stock of exactly how we've done with our various networks, spreadsheeting everything out so we understand where the levels of enthusiasm are and which different affinity groups in different loca...
I'm looking forward to continuing this series. It's been a great day on the campaign, less one for getting pure backer numbers and more one for doing some deep one on one session with folks who have a huge interest in Connection Deck. Tonight though, I'm going to have to postpone for a day - I prese...