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Great post. Thanks for sharing.
In regards to point 3, "My project was different....special...so awesome it will go viral!", I think everyone is guilty of this, but unfortunately there are 6,000 projects on kickstarter at any given time...thinking the same thing.
Congratulations on hitting your target.

Thank you for the post! Very encouraging and helpful. Will follow the advice you mentioned on the post for my own kickstarter project, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2119762475/cancelbox-the-free-app-that-saves-you-money.

Marcus

I launched my campaign yesterday and I'm sort of panicking that its not going to go to plan after months of work. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/97 ... escription I know its only a day in but I was hoping for more than 2 backers

Hey all!

I just woke up from a week-long hibernation after finishing the Kickstarter. Boy did that take it out of me.

I took a look at all of your projects and backed the ones that I genuinely believed in. The biggest mistake I'm seeing from so many is not getting your initial round of backers which should come from pre-marketing and talking to friends, family, and other personal connections.

As someone who is now a Kickstarter browser looking to fund projects I find interesting, I can tell you that it gives me a "red flag" if you don't at least have 10% of your funding established pretty early. If your personal network doesn't believe this is a good project, why should I?

I know it's REALLY awkward talking to friends and family asking for money, but if you are genuine and passionate about your project, they will be happy to support you. I wouldn't have saved my project if I didn't get a good 20% or so of my project funding from my personal connections.

I hope this helps. I wish you all the best!

Wow! We thought we had done everything right. we built a website with content with what our audience would enjoy, we blogged, we sought out followers on twitter in our niche, we built up a small newsletter following, we found bloggers willing to write articles. and then we hit opening day, and aside from some initial generosity from a few key players, we haven't done much. most alarming is just that we don't have anyone outside of our circles backing us. we've had several articles written about our concept, it seems to have been well received, but no one is putting their money where their mouth is. Hours and hours and hours of work, and mostly dead air now that it's time for the rubber to meet the road.

Part of what we felt initially is that maybe unlike niches that my wife works in (running) where the community is very involved and supportive, golf is kind of a unique sport in it's snobbery. I wonder if anyone else has struggled with this? Maybe we are way off base. any suggestions would be extremely well received. we are here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/89 ... obile-golf

Great story Colin. I'm sure that transparency always pay! I backed some project with no luck, but I always put me money where I find the heart of the people!

wow definitely a good read.

i have also only just launched my indiegogo campaign at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stel ... /8496561#/ and it's definitely not picking up steam.

i still think i have a lot to learn too in terms of giving more first.

So guys/gals do let me know if I can help with sharing your project too! Cheers!

Great advice! I just started mine https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/20 ... ory_newest and I wondered why I wasn't getting much support but this will help!

Huge congrats on the funding, and for this awesome post.

Reading your post gave me inspiration to not give up on trying to get our campaign funded. I know that there is still hope for us. Please take a look at at our campain and let us know what you think. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/11 ... wood-produ
Thanks