Rewards based campaigns

Jon

Has anyone recently tried to raise seed money using rewards based campaigns? We tried fundable.com a couple years ago unsuccessfully. We did some navel gazing, think we know what we did wrong and would like to try again. There are also firms you can hire to help you. Just curious out there what the temperature of the group is and did anyone have a success that they would like to share?

Zachary_SBM

I don't have direct experience with rewards based campaigns and crowdfunding, but I have done some research on the subject. First, here are some great articles from nerdwallet for folks who might be interested in learning more about crowdfunding and rewards based crowdfunding.

From what I've gathered, the pitch and associated marketing materials (Cool video, great photos, testimonials, etc.) can be more important than the actual reward or even product being offered in some cases. In this realm of funding, you really have to _Illustrate _ why folks to buy or support your product. Check out this great article on tips for a crowdfunding video, it actually has a lot of great info.

Julia_SBM

We also published a success story from one of our members on how she successfully used crowdfunding - you can check it here: https://venturize.org/blog/finding-crowdfunding-success-support-community