Kickstarter Success: Tips and Tricks to Launch Your Kickstarter Campaign

Kickstart 14 days left

By now, you’ve all heard about our Kickstarter for an Oscar® campaign, and if you haven’t, you can learn more here.

Your Kickstarter Campaign

We wanted to collect all the tips, tricks, and resources we’ve put together for you over the first two-thirds of our Kickstarter campaign into one easy to access page.

(We were able to raise over $20,000 in the first 48 hours, broke our goal in just five days and five hours, and are still raising money for our Indie Oscar® Campaign as we speak.)

We’ll add to these over time. Hope these Kickstarter tips and tricks help you raise thousands of dollars for your passion project.

More Facebook Likes and Tweets on Your Campaign

We believe this little tip helped us get 1,810 likes on our Kickstarter campaign…and growing.

Easily Promote Your Kickstarter Project in the Real World

What happens when you want to tell people outside of cyberspace to visit your Kickstarter campaign? Are you really going to give them a link that looks like this:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jokeandbiagio/dying-to-do-letterman-kickstarter-for-an-oscar-and

Try spelling that out for someone! Use this tip to make it far easier to raise money in the real world:

Easily promote your Kickstarter Project in the Real World with Redirects.

Facebook Ads for Filmmakers

Here are the real numbers, facts and figures, dollars and cents, on how our Facebook ads for Filmmakers experiment went.

Better Video Updates

Check out this super-duper top secret tip to make your web videos of any kind shine: How to Fake a Multi-Cam Shoot with Just One Camera.

14 Blog Posts That Helped Us Launch Our Kickstarter Campaign

Raising $20,000 in just 48 hours still has us in shock. How’d we do it? Well, listening to what the good people who wrote these blog posts had to say really helped.

Blog posts that helped us launch our Kickstarter campaign.

Free Graphics for Your Kickstarter Campaign

We made some Kickstarter graphics, along with downloadable Photoshop files, After Effects files, and a tutorial. Here’s the video, and you can download all the supprting files on this post from our Dying to do Letterman Kickstarter campaign.

Supporting files available here.

How to Raise More than Your Kickstarter Goal

Stop raising money once you hit your goal? Of course not!

Right now, we’re 130% funded with two weeks to go, and we believe that’s because we took the time to explain to our audience why we were still raising money. Three reasons we changed our Kickstarter video.

Good Luck!

Hope these resources help you achieve great success on your own Kickstarter or crowdfunding campaign.