Something interesting happened this morning. I launched our Between Two Cities Kickstarter campaign without a hitch at 9:30 am. We got a nice onrush of previous and new Stonemaier backers, and the project reached its $20,000 funding goal in 38 minutes. The next 42 minutes went well too, with the funding level eclipsing $30,000. Then Kickstarter […]
Ever since my experience shipping the Tuscany Collector’s Edition (detailed here), I’ve been looking for fulfillment solutions other than Amazon. While I’m mostly pleased with Amazon, if I’m going to ship a premium product, I want to work with a fulfillment center that properly packs that product. Also, Amazon’s system can be pretty daunting to use, […]
The answer is usually–but not always–no. No, you should not hire someone else to run your crowdfunding campaign for you. It’s not a matter of ethics or my personal philosophy or anything like that. Rather, I believe that crowdfunding projects have the greatest chance of success if the crowdfunder is the same person as the […]
In this series, I highlight some of the interesting choices current crowdfunders have made regarding their project’s reward levels, stretch goals, and overall campaign design (the projects themselves, not the content or product). This isn’t meant as an endorsement of these projects (these creators did not ask for me to promote their work–I disregard all such requests); rather, […]
One of the most popular entries ever on this blog is something I wrote about a year ago called An Open Letter to Small Game Conventions from a Tiny Publishing Company. I posted a follow up to that entry a few months later, The Hard Data Behind Play-and-Win. These posts detailed something called “play-and-win,” which works as follows: […]
The goal of my crowdfunding blog is to help other creators be successful on Kickstarter and other platforms by building community, establishing trust, and being empathetic. But this website isn’t the only resource where you can learn to be a better crowdfunder. Today I wanted to feature some other places that you might want to […]
Back in the spring of ’13, when I was young, virile, and naive, I was busy preparing the Kickstarter project page for Euphoria. Overcome with gratitude for the 942 backers of Viticulture who made it possible for me to even consider another project, I tried to figure out a way to structure the Euphoria rewards to […]
The Board Game Lawyer, Zachary Strebeck, is back with another incredibly insightful post. This is the kind of thing that you hope will never happen to you, but if it does, the following article will help you as you decide the next step to take. *** So, you’ve researched your game or company name before putting […]
I’ve recently discovered that I really, really like Patreon…for what it is. Just yesterday I discovered that GeekDad has a Patreon account, and I was legitimately excited for the opportunity to support them. They joined the list of Patreon campaigns I support, including Funding the Dream, The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast, Cardboard Edison, Starlit Citadel, […]
If this is your first time reading one of my entries about crowdfunding reward fulfillment, it’s probably better to start with these entries, which describe the process in detail. Then come back to this one to read all the mistakes I made this time around and how you can prevent them. Shipping is a humbling […]
