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Yes, thank you for all the helpful tips and analysis, Charles. We will review and see what we can do to spice up our page based on your advice. We appreciate your help! Thanks everyone for the replies!!

giftsandcoupons wrote:Wow +1 to Charles for his detailed reply, I think the original thread owner should thank him...although I think he was attracted by her beauty which led him to delve further into the project (which isn't a bad thing if it attracts comments/backers!)

Even if that were the case, which it isn't, what I think that her beauty is may well not be the same thing that you think that it is. That said, even the beautiful face challenges, when it comes to crowdfunding projects. Physical beauty is no free pass, nor ultimate guarantor, to a successful crowdfunding project.

Furthermore, even beautiful people are susceptible to suffering from poor photo resolution and small photographs. What I see are a number of grainy, undersized photographs, which undermine the ability of the project page to visually dominate the eye - regardless of who the human subjects in those photographs are.

I looked at the project page for this project, again, just now. I also reviewed the Kicktraq data, again. Six days ago, the "Share this project" button/link said 7,928 shares on Facebook. Today, it says 7,983. That's a net gain of only 55 new shares, over a span of approximate six days. That averages out to a little over 9 new shares per day. If maintained for the duration of the campaign, then what we are looking at is around one hundred or so new shares between now and then.

Six days ago when I posted in this thread, this project was averaging $106 dollars per day, and it needed to average $314 dollars per day, for each day that remained. Kicktraq now lists those numbers as $109 and $412, respectively. So, the hill to climb has become steeper than it was.

They do have a Thunderclap event coming up. It, alone, will have a minimum of 105 new shares. Will that suffice, when it takes place? Maybe, although I doubt it. Odds are, the project will gain a boost, in the last day or three. How much, though, is anybody's guess. As a general rule of thumb, counting on guesses is an inherently problematic approach to getting funded.

MalorieMackey wrote:Yes, thank you for all the helpful tips and analysis, Charles. We will review and see what we can do to spice up our page based on your advice. We appreciate your help! Thanks everyone for the replies!!

You're welcome, Malorie. If the Wasp-Men from Mars can close its funding gap on an identical funding goal, then certainly, you can, also.

I encourage you to do a major revamp of the imagery on your main project page. You might even want to consider switching out your project image. Some projects see noticeable gains, when they do that. Not all do, but keep in mind that time is beginning to run short for your project.

If it fails, you can tweak it and re-launch it. People re-launch projects all of the time.

Good luck, heading into the home stretch!

Super interesting to read. I'll have to look at implementing some form of QA into my kickstarter. Congrats on a successful campaign

Did you use any promotional services?