Ever since Kickstarter added the pre-launch feature I’ve asked myself, how many followers do you need in order to fund? Today I would like to share the stats from The Isle of Cats: Don’t forget the Kittens and a few calculations!

When it comes to shipping games we often talk about fulfilment and how to get individual products to customers. This is certainly a critical part of the process but before fulfilment can happen, we must get our games to the fulfilment centres.

Today I would like to share my approach to mid campaign updates and talk about how I plan my updates and the frequency I like to send them. Over the years I’ve found the frequency of updates to be very important, if you send too many people will stop reading them, they’ll get frustrated with the spam, and it can be a negative. Yet, if you don’t send enough, it can cause your project to dry up and lead to concern from your backers.

Over the past year VAT has become a big topic in the crowdfunding space and today I’d like to share my experience and help make sure you get it right.

A good Kickstarter page can be the difference between funding and failing, and all too often I see people rushing something together just before they launch. Today I’ll be sharing my framework for creating the perfect Kickstarter page and telling you everything you need to include.

There are 2 dates that need to be decided when running a crowdfunding campaign, the launch date and the end date. Both of these dates are incredibly important and if you want to have the best chance of success, I strongly recommend using the suggestions below.

It’s April 2021 and I find myself looking at a spreadsheet, in a few weeks I’ll be announcing my next Kickstarter and all that’s left to do is make the numbers work. 12 months later and my predictions worked out pretty well, yet I lost nearly $200,000 and here’s why.