Squatch Kick - Tips & Articles for Crowdfunding

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Well, it's Thursday, again, and that means that it's time for another Squatch hunt.

This time around, we look at four projects from the Crafts section of Kickstarter, one of which is under the sub-category of Woodworking and another that is under the sub-category of Glass.

Kickstarter project creators are always on the prowl for advantages, in order to help their crowdfunding project succeed. However, where a lot of project creators go wrong is that they hit the launch button on their project too soon.

These Squatch Hunts continue to encounter a lot of projects launched prematurely. A lot of projects make the same mistakes as many crowdfunding projects that came before them. This indicates that many project creators are not really bothering with doing even a cursory amount of research, prior to hitting the launch button. This approach can easily lead to a crash trajectory, from a funding standpoint.

This week's Squatch Hunt selections are notable in that none of the four projects selected had project videos, at the time that I posted my predictions for them. If you're out there and you're reading this, keep in mind that your project can't get any kind of a backer of pledge boost from a video that doesn't exist.

If you're nervous or apprehensive about making a project video, while you never want to have a bad project video, what you want even less is to have no video, at all. A good project video can not only help you to meet your crowdfunding project's funding goal that you set for it, it can help you to exceed that goal. What that translates into is extra money for you, when all is said and done.


Section: Woodworking
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: Black Market Guitars


0 Backers
0% funded
$0.00 pledged of $10,000 goal
59 days to go 

Prediction: FAIL
Actual Outcome: FAILED

Section: Crafts
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: Scorpion Custom Engraving - Motorcycle casings & parts


0 Backers
0% funded
$0 pledged of $1,519 goal
29 days to go

Prediction: SUCCEED
Actual Outcome: FAILED

Section: Glass
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: BustedBegonias seeks kiln


1 Backers
0% funded
$0 pledged of $6,000 goal
29 days to go 

Prediction: FAIL
Actual Outcome: FAILED

Section: Crafts
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: Fablossom Craft Kit: Design/Create Fabric Flower Accessories

 

0 Backers
0% funded
$0 pledged of $6,000 goal
31 days to go 

Prediction: SUCCEED
Actual Outcome: SUCCEEDED

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