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First Kickstarter - What I Have Learned

Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 4:23 pm
by sbriggman
Read the full article here: http://pootability.wordpress.com/2014/0 ... ed-so-far/

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Re: First Kickstarter - What I Have Learned

Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 9:47 pm
by Lifeinabox
Thanks for the advice ! I think when you launch your first project its always a learning curve

Re: First Kickstarter - What I Have Learned

Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 9:16 pm
by sbriggman
Definitely agree. I consistently hear people saying how much they learned from their first Kickstarter and also how they can apply that to other areas of their business.

Re: First Kickstarter - What I Have Learned

Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 3:35 am
by jennysolar
Great post! Thanks for sharing!

Re: First Kickstarter - What I Have Learned

Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 1:52 am
by Out of My Hand Team
Thank you for your advice!

Re: First Kickstarter - What I Have Learned

Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 11:37 am
by paolability
Thank you for the positive feedback! My next post will be "What I learned next", about promotion and writing campaign updates.

Re: First Kickstarter - What I Have Learned

Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 4:38 pm
by MsQuickTrick
This is great sharing.. Thank you! We are just waiting for the go from KS to launch after much learned from the first

Re: First Kickstarter - What I Have Learned

Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 8:13 pm
by sbriggman
@paolability - Definitely thanks for writing it!

Re: First Kickstarter - What I Have Learned

Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 1:36 pm
by DOG BUTTON
This is very useful, especially since I've just finished my page and video and am looking at what to do in the 'pre-launch' window of about a month...

Thanks so much! (PS. Your project sounds excellent!)

Re: First Kickstarter - What I Have Learned

Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 4:28 pm
by paolability
Thanks, @Dog Button.

My campaign successfully ended a few minutes ago.

I kept track of everyone I plugged the campaign to. 640 people in all - Facebook, e-mail to friends, LinkedIn and mostly tweets on my two Twitter accounts. I had varying degrees of success (two book reviews). I need to blog about it because it's interesting and (hopefully) useful.

The summary is it's more time-effective to create relationships with the media and bloggers *before* a campaign rather than a splatter-gun approach during a campaign for small returns. That's not counting my personal network. Only by contacting them before my campaign was I able to get 35% funding within 24 hours.

I'm going to have a lie down now.