Swim with the Sharks
How can influencers help your crowdfunding campaign stand out? This article explores how strategic partnerships with authentic voices can amplify your reach, build trust, and turn your campaign into a movement that inspires backers to take action.
How do you reach Gen Z backers for your crowdfunding campaign? This article reveals how TikTok ads—powered by creativity, authenticity, and smart targeting—can turn your idea into a viral movement that inspires action and builds a loyal community.
How can you turn your email list into a crowdfunding powerhouse? This article explores best practices for crafting, timing, and personalizing emails that inspire action, sustain momentum, and transform subscribers into passionate supporters of your campaign.
Wondering when to reveal your next stretch goal? Timing is the secret weapon of successful crowdfunding campaigns. This article explores how to perfectly pace milestone announcements to maintain energy, spark renewed enthusiasm, and turn every goal into a moment of celebration for your backers.
How do successful crowdfunding campaigns stay fresh and exciting? By evolving their tier structure as they grow. This guide explores how adapting tiers throughout your campaign can boost momentum, deepen engagement, and transform first-time backers into lifelong supporters.
What’s the perfect price for your crowdfunding perks? Discover how A/B testing reveals the ideal balance between value, psychology, and strategy—helping you refine your tiers, boost conversions, and connect more deeply with your backers.
Stop guessing your way to funding. This playbook shows the analytics stack top creators use—Kickstarter’s dashboard as truth, ironclad referral tags, off-site tracking that follows clicks to pledges, and simple forecasts that tell you where to spend next. Turn metrics into moves, tighten conversion, and turn launch surges into sustained momentum.
Stop guessing and start steering. The GoFundMe Analytics Dashboard shows who’s visiting, who’s giving, and what moves them—by source, hour, and update. Learn to boost conversion, raise average gifts, time your posts for surges, and forecast your finish instead of hoping for it. Turn charts into choices and choices into donations—faster, calmer, and more confident.
Raising money is easy—taxes are not. This guide decodes GoFundMe’s gray areas: when donations are tax-free gifts, when they become income, how 1099-K forms work, what donors can deduct, and why clean records protect you. Learn organizer vs. beneficiary rules, avoid costly mistakes, and step into tax season confident, compliant, and calm.
Before you launch, know every slice of Indiegogo’s 2025 costs—platform, processing, transfers, InDemand, and the quiet 5% reserve. This guide turns fee tables into plain math, with scenarios and tactics to protect margins, set smarter goals, and avoid cash-flow shocks. Price with precision, plan your payouts, and ship on schedule—without surprises.
Ready to turn generosity into real help? This step-by-step guide demystifies GoFundMe verification—what to prep, how to pass ID checks, invite beneficiaries, avoid holds, and move money fast. Learn what reviewers look for and how to keep donors confident from launch to withdrawal, so every dollar lands where it’s needed most.
Ready to launch a tech dream that actually ships? Dive into Kickstarter’s Tech category playbook—working prototypes, pricing that survives reality, certifications, launch momentum, and manufacturing that won’t melt down. Learn how to design clean perks, manage batteries and freight, and turn updates into community fuel so backers become believers and your product makes the leap from render to real.
