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It’s important to make sure your project is well on its way by the time you launch your crowdfunding campaign to show the backers you’re serious. They don’t just want to know that you can do it – they want to know that you care about it.  Yes, to a certain extent, crowdfunding is the chance […]

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“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill All of us fail sometimes. That’s just a fact of life and it’s a part of being human. The real question is, are you going to let that failure define who you are? Or will you define your failure? Churchill had […]

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You’re getting ready to launch your Kickstarter. Your love your project, and you know the world will too. So you have a Kickstarter account, click the link to start creating your campaign, and start typing away. You pick a title, a description, write your story, create some rewards, upload a picture, and click launch. Awesome! […]

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“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” —Eleanor Roosevelt What do you spend your time talking about most? It’s a good bet that’s what you spend the most time thinking about too. It’s easy to get distracted by the news – it’s in your face, it’s usually bad, and everyone else […]

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Did you know 9% of Kickstarter projects that ARE successfully funded STILL fail because they fall through during the fulfillment phase? We’ll get to that in a later post where I chastise you for not planning for fulfillment, but it’s relevant here too. Kickstarter is fond of saying that it’s NOT a store, that the […]

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“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” —Henry Ford Do you believe in destiny? Maybe we’re smarter to ask the question what is destiny? If by destiny you mean a pre-determined course of events that will happen whether or not you lift a […]

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“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” —Albert Einstein Einstein’s words are as impactful as they are practical. If you can’t explain your product or service in simple language, how do you ever expect to convey that to a potential customer? Put another way, if you don’t know what it […]

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Are you trying to promote on Facebook? With a billion active users who volunteer their demographic data, interests, and purchasing habits, you’d be foolish not to. You can promote your blog or podcast, your product or service, your book or your webinars. But if you’re just reposting content, or auto-sharing from another social media outlet, […]

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A common Kickstarter misconception is that you make a campaign, and then start telling people about it. Wrong. Your campaign has succeeded - or failed - BEFORE you press launch.

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I used to work as a tour guide at Carthage College. I got really good at it too – I had the timing down perfectly, knew the answers to all the questions. I provided the kind of one-on-one experience that was my college’s claim to fame. And somehow I convinced the parents of all these […]

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