This week on Art of the Kickstart, we interviewed Mary Lowe Bailey of BackerKit. Tune into this episode to learn more about how to keep momentum up after a crowdfunding campaign ends and why frequent, transparent communication with your backers post-campaign is crucial. Key Crowdfunding Takeaways

What BackerKit can do to help project creators after their campaign ends How to keep a campaign going after your Kickstarter or Indiegogo project ends How to streamline your data as you work toward fulfilling Kickstarter or Indiegogo orders How to handle backers’ inquiries after your crowdfunding campaign ends Why it’s important to be transparent about shipping to your backers Why communicating with your backers frequently is critical

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BackerKit on Facebook @BackerKit on Twitter @BackerKit on Instagram greetings@backerkit.com

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Art of the Kickstart is honored to be sponsored by BackerKit. BackerKit makes software that crowdfunding project creators use to survey backers, organize data, raise additional funds with add-ons and manage orders for fulfillment, saving creators hundreds of hours. To learn more and get started, click here. Transcript View this episode's transcript

Roy:

Welcome to Art of the Kickstart, your source for crowdfunding campaign success. I’m your host, Roy Morejon, president of Enventys Partners, the top full service, turn key product development and crowdfunding marketing agency in the world. We have helped startups raise over $100 million for our clients since 2010. Each week, I’ll interview a crowdfunding success story, an inspirational entrepreneur or a business expert in order to help you take your startup to the next level with crowdfunding.

Art of the Kickstart is honored to be sponsored by BackerKit and the Gadget Flow. BackerKit makes software that crowdfunding project creators use to survey backers, organize data, and manage orders for fulfillment by automating their operations and helping you print and ship faster. The Gadget Flow is a product discovery platform that helps you discover, save, and buy awesome products. It is the ultimate buyer’s guide for luxury gadgets and creative gifts. Let’s get on with the show.

Welcome to another addition of Art of the Kickstart. Today I am honored to be joined by Mary Lowe with BackerKit. Mary Lowe, thank you so much for being on the podcast today.

Mary Lowe:

Yeah, thanks for having me, Roy.

Roy:

So you are part of the creator outreach team dealing with all of these thousands and thousands of creators that are putting together crowdfunding campaigns, Kickstarters, Indiegogos. You’ve worked with thousands of makers and creators across all these different industries to help bring these projects to life. So if you would, give our audience a little bit of your background, and then a brief description of BackerKit as well.

Mary Lowe:

So basically I work for BackerKit, which is built on the backbone of Kickstarter and Indiegogo. We work with projects that have successfully funded. Basically where we step in is post campaign once they’ve received their funds. They have this really enthusiastic community of backers that want these products and in the process a lot of things come up like people move or people change addresses, they get new credit cards, stuff like that. We basically handle all of that type of stuff and fulfillment details, but it’s like really interesting, so each project we work with has an extremely unique timeline, and I guess delivery in terms of … They have all ...