Here’s a step-by-step guide to preparing your crowdfunding campaign page, with lots of useful resources to get you started on setting up a successful project.<\/p>\n
There are a range of different crowdfunding platforms to choose from (eg Kickstarter<\/a>, IndieGoGo<\/a>, Crowdfunder<\/a>) – choose whichever will best suit your project. Make an account if you don’t have one already. While you’re there, back an existing campaign or two (even just for a low pledge of \u00a31 \/ $1) – this will give you the opportunity to follow other creators’ work and see how they have set up their crowdfunding campaign pages and manage their campaigns.<\/span><\/p>\n Starting a draft project page \/ campaign page\u00a0will give you a ‘preview link’ to share with friends, advisors and collaborators when you’re ready for feedback – you’re going to need as many eyes as possible to look at your campaign to suggest improvements & additions BEFORE you launch.<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s a list of the project basics<\/strong> you’ll need to set up a successful project page. You will need to generate all of the following:<\/p>\n To help you to get going on this, I have collected together lots of useful resources below.\u00a0Explore the links to see what you\u2019ll need and how to generate the different elements of your crowdfunding campaign page.<\/p>\n You might also find my other posts\u00a0on\u00a0Designing great crowdfunding rewards<\/a>,\u00a0Creative Crowdfunding Reward Ideas<\/a>\u00a0 &\u00a0Building a crowdfunding team<\/a>\u00a0useful at this stage too…<\/p>\n Crowdfunder (2016) Bootcamp 2016: Making your video<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSTEP 2: <\/b>Start a draft project<\/span><\/h2>\n
STEP 3:<\/b> Start to populate your crowdfunding campaign page<\/span><\/h2>\n
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A project image<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/li>\nA project pitch video<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/li>\nA short project description<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/li>\nA longer project pitch text<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/li>\nSome images related to your rewards<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/li>\nA list of rewards with prices<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nMaking Your Video <\/b><\/h2>\n