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While we are not live yet for our project, I can't speak to how well it will work. That said...

We are using Kickbooster two ways:
1) Gathering email signups for our KS campaign (launching on 3/4/2019) in the form of a pre-launch countdown email capture landing page. (as a gauge, we are at approximately 700 email sign-ups due to us pushing people to the landing page, not organic traffic from Kickbooster)
2) Once our campaign is live, using it as a referral tool for [mainly] publishers and bloggers to incentivize them to post about us.
--- This is done through hours of research and outreach pitching these people, and not done organically or expectantly through the Kickbooster home page (although if anyone randomly picks it up, we'll be appreciative!).

Feel free to follow along with our campaign at http://ecofriendlyshoe.com

It seems as though a lot of the naysayers on this forum are people that aren't approaching the potential of this platform with the right lens. Kickbooster is simply an intermediary to provide incentives to friends/family/bloggers/publishers/etc. to get them to share your product with their audiences. It's primary ROI should not be based on how many people back your campaign that find it randomly on Kickbooster's website, it should be based on how efficiently you gather leads and convince people to link to your KS page through Kickbooster. It should be viewed exactly as you'd view any other traditional affiilate partner.

The success of a campaign is completely up to you, your preparation, research, and your connections and not on Kickbooster (it's also why it's dirt cheap: you're paying for the tool, not the connections).

All that said, I'll update after our campaign concludes with performance metrics. If I was a betting man, I'd bet that this tool will have insane ROI for us.

Thanks for sharing the info!

Thanks for the heads up as well

Are you talking about kickbooster.me or kicksbooster.com?

kicksbooster.me,not kicksbooster.com

Yeah wrong site!

Sure some people might not like Kickbooster, but I would recommend Kickbooster for a few reasons:
- word-of-mouth marketing is the best method for promoting a product. It's 5x more effective than paid advertising in converting people. I'd more likely go to a restaurant a friend recommends than an ad recommends. Online referral programs like Kickbooster are (currently) the best way to replicate word-of-mouth marketing.
- you have full control of what "incentive" to provide to people who support you. And this financial incentive is kind of like a "thank you" to those who want to tell others about you.
- people who haven't backed your project (but like your mission) can still refer friends. Your project might not be the best for them, but they know exactly the right person in their network to send this to.
- Kickbooster takes everything in-house and does the legwork for you. You could create unique URLs for everyone who wants to refer your project, but that will take a long time. Even a longer time if you have thousands of backers.
- companies and outlets who typically look for things to write actually browse Kickbooster for the most novel products. If they think your project is pretty cool AND see a financial incentive to write about it, a writeup will be a no-brainer

Thanks for those that have posted. It looks like an interesting program. But I'm struggling to see if there is a why to have kickbooster.me work along the lines of Kickstarter's referral guidelines, i.e. max out the reward at the item they backed. Is the 10% or whaterver is mentioned as incentives, as a violation of kickstarter guidelines? Is there any way to make kickbooster have such a limit?

dr_innovation wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:20 am Thanks for those that have posted. It looks like an interesting program. But I'm struggling to see if there is a why to have kickbooster.me work along the lines of Kickstarter's referral guidelines, i.e. max out the reward at the item they backed. Is the 10% or whaterver is mentioned as incentives, as a violation of kickstarter guidelines? Is there any way to make kickbooster have such a limit?

That's a good question! Yes, Kickstarter has that guideline about capping referral rewards up to the amount people have pledged. However, it really is just to deter anyone from blatantly abusing the referral programs and Kickstarter has not cracked down on it (so far).

There are people who have thriving businesses just sending Kickbooster affiliate links to a hungry email list and they for sure make beyond what they pledge to a project (usually zero).

Hope this helps!

I've actually had good results from Kickbooster so far with over $600 raised on my current campaign.

Several boosters found my campaign through the listing on kickbooster.me, so there must be some kind of community behind it. The rest I brought onboard through reaching out to my backer community and social media following, and by emailing Instagram influencers directly.

Yes, it can be quite a bit of work but can be worth it too, it doesn't cost much to get things started either, as most of the money is paid out only when you've already made a sale, meaning less risk.

Also, having an affiliate link system in place can sweeten the deal for blogs who might be on the fence about featuring you, or who are looking to charge upfront.