2nd project - Almost funded after 2 days.
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    2nd project - Almost funded after 2 days.

    by IRONATE » Fri Sep 23, 2016 7:35 pm

    Hi guys.

    This is a great forum with tons of great information. I am really sorry I just found it.

    So, recently I decided I want to change a career a bit, and I became a full time product designer and inventor :)

    I launched my first KS project this spring. I gor around 185% funded which is great, but the total amount was not that great, only around 8000$.

    A few days ago I launched my 2nd KS project, this time a bit more serious, with bigger apetite and a long term plan to turn this into a real company.

    My project is IRONATE. It's a kitchen gadget that lets you make a perfect pizza in just 3 minutes on your kitchen stove. No oven needed. It's much faster than a regular oven and it reaches high temperatures, so you can make some really good pizzas.

    Project link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/68 ... -3-minutes


    At the moment, we are in our 3rd day of campaign, and we raised $18,500 of our $20,000 goal.

    I still have some aces up my sleve and we are hoping to get some media coverage during the campain to properly boost our pledges.

    I will write more about our marketing strategies and the milestones in this thread.

    One of our strategies is doing a lot of co-promotions with other KS projects through direct messages or project updates. So, if you have a project with at least 150 backers and want to do a promo, please let me know.

    Comments welcome :)


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    Re: 2nd project - Almost funded after 2 days.

    by hyperstarter » Sun Sep 25, 2016 4:16 am

    Congrats on being overfunded and you're thinking outside the (pizza) box.

    If you want to get in touch with us, perhaps could help out? Best of luck
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    Re: 2nd project - Almost funded after 2 days.

    by johnabides » Wed Oct 12, 2016 12:43 am

    Impressive! As someone who's interested in what motivates people to contribute to projects, I think yours provides a great example- a cool product with clear features, that people want.
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    Re: 2nd project - Almost funded after 2 days.

    by IRONATE » Sat Oct 15, 2016 6:27 pm

    Hi. Just a quick update.

    We have raised over $108k by now and we still have 12 days left (1/3 of the campaign). Campaign is trending towards 160k. I don't know if we will reach that, but we reached our internal goal with 100k, so everything past that is a bonus.

    Here are a few tips on what I learned so far.

    1. We gor VERY little press. Nothing in major media outlets. We tried to send out press releases and we tried using a "PR agency" that guaranteed us 4 spots in major media, but they didn't do anything except waste a lot of time. Try to reach out to journalists yourself, using a PR agency is a waste of money IMHO.


    2. We didn't want to spend a lot of money on advertising. I think that goes against Crowdfunding spirit. Because we had a very limted budget to operate on, we had to choose wisely what promotions I want to use.

    I decided to try backerclub and gadget flow. Backerclub has one more e-mail blast scheduled, so more on that when the promo finishes.

    Gadgetflow was one of the best decisions I made in this campaign. They brought in almost $20k in pledges. I used their premium package that includes dedicated e-mail. I think that is the key and I think it has the best price/performance ratio.

    Here is the screenshot from the dashboard. Pledges are still comming, slowly. Also, their customer service is great and you can negotiate with them a bit :)

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    Link to gadgetflow: http://bit.ly/2dOzW8A
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    Re: 2nd project - Almost funded after 2 days.

    by wkp123 » Mon Jun 19, 2017 6:59 am

    We're still deciding on our marketing tool we want to use but it looks like gadget flow is the way to go?
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    Re: 2nd project - Almost funded after 2 days.

    by EpicWebs » Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:21 pm

    Congratulations - 2 days?!? That's amazing, definitely going to check out Gadget flow, see what they have to offer.
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    Re: 2nd project - Almost funded after 2 days.

    by dltlfh » Sat Jun 24, 2017 1:40 pm

    oh It looks interesting
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    Re: 2nd project - Almost funded after 2 days.

    by allocacocproduct » Mon Jul 03, 2017 2:43 pm

    Nice, I would love to crosspromo with you guys and learn from you.
    We are launching our new product as well: Would you like to know more about this convertible bag? We will be launching it soon on Kickstarter. http://flip-by-allocacoc-kickstarter.launchrock.com/ What do you think of it? Stay tuned!

    please contact us and we can help eachother out.
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    Re: 2nd project - Almost funded after 2 days.

    by miklos » Tue Jul 04, 2017 8:58 am

    thats impressive it seems that kickbooster has become mainstream, I'll def use them in the future :)
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    Re: 2nd project - Almost funded after 2 days.

    by spiceup » Tue Jul 04, 2017 4:29 pm

    Does anyone have used kickbooster before? or similar services...any recommendations?

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