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Live Events
Live Campaign
Display Real-Time
Contributions
Instant Perk
Fulfillment
Provide Contribution
Assistance
Accept Off-line
Contributions
Add Attendees to
Your Mailing List
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Stretch Goals
• Concrete with
specific purpose
• Reasonable
• Added value to
previous contributors
• Message with urgency
• Be a “winning” campaign
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Campaign Updates
Sharing your campaign is key to getting your
funding campaign started. Updating your funders
and followers with progress is the best way to
maintain your campaign’s momentum.
Campaign owners that provide an update at least
once every 5 days raise 218% as much money as
campaign owners that update less often.
• Builds trust
• Builds Community
• Builds the gogofactor
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Tips for Sending out Effective
Updates:
• Send out 2 updates per week.
• Keep them interesting!
• One update per week should focus on building
a deeper connection between the contributors
and the campaign.
• The second update should focus on
encouraging contributors to stay involved and
make a second contribution.
• Always include a call to action at the bottom of
every update
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Direct Email
• Contributions made in response to
a direct email are 34% higher than
contributions made in response to
other forms of outreach.
• The average
contribution amount in response to
a direct email is $90 where as the
average contribution in response
to other forms of outreach (i.e.
facebook
post, email blast) is $67
• Most campaigns raise at least
20% of their funds from Direct
Email
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10 Places to Promote Your
IndieGoGo Project Online
Facebook:
• create funding event,
• share posts,
• connect with other
organizations/projects
• boost your post
Twitter:
• popular hashtags
• tag people/organizations who would be
interested in your campaign
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10 Places to Promote Your
IndieGoGo Project Online
Reddit
• Rally your friends to upvote a post
• Start a conversation on a related
popular post
• Do a Reddit AMA
Your Email Signature
Vine, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn,
Google+, YouTube, Tumblr
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Top Actions to boost
campaign
• Post updates
• Send out direct emails
• Call to action in every communication
• Add sense of urgency to all
communications
• Make sure there are at least three
people on your team
• Post daily on your social media
networks
• Add one new perk