A quick phone call and some great ideas helped to triple donations to one fundraising campaign. Apply these lessons for your next fundraising project. When I got an email from the Epitome of Soul fundraising campaign mid-July, things were not looking great for the Patterson, New Jersey non-profit. Their crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise […]
How to Build a Basic Crowdfunding Social Media Strategy
/in Building Crowdfunding Support /by Joseph HogueLaunch a campaign without a basic crowdfunding social media strategy and risk being one of the many that fail to reach their goal. We’ve talked about using social media for crowdfunding in the past but have yet to work through a basic crowdfunding social media strategy from start to finish. We’ll walk through a basic […]
5 Biggest Crowdfunding Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
/in Crowdfunding Goals /by Joseph HogueAvoid these five biggest crowdfunding mistakes to beat the odds and raise more money from the crowd Follow crowdfunding long enough and you start to see common mistakes among campaigns that fail to reach their crowdfunding goal. Researching other campaigns and common crowdfunding mistakes is a big part of making your own campaign a success. […]
Top 10 Tips to Crowdfunding Campaign Page Success
/in Pre-launch Crowdfunding /by Joseph HogueYour crowdfunding campaign page is critical to converting visitors to backers. You’ve only got a few seconds to reach them, do it right with these top ten tips. Frequent readers will know that I’m a stickler for pre-launch crowdfunding as the most important part of your crowdfunding campaign. True as it might be, your crowdfunding […]
30 Minutes Tripled Donations to this Fundraising Campaign
/in Building Crowdfunding Support /by Joseph HogueA quick phone call and some great ideas helped to triple donations to one fundraising campaign. Apply these lessons for your next fundraising project. When I got an email from the Epitome of Soul fundraising campaign mid-July, things were not looking great for the Patterson, New Jersey non-profit. Their crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise […]
3 Attention-Grabbers for your Crowdfunding Rewards
/in Crowdfunding Goals /by Joseph HogueUsing images and graphics for your crowdfunding rewards can help convert casual visitors to motivated crowdfunding backers With more than 7,000 crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter, the campaign that fails to go beyond the simple process is likely to end up with the 60% of projects that fail to reach their funding goal. Nearly everyone has […]