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Creator Tips
How to Use Images to Effectively Communicate Your Project's Rewards
Clear, simple images are key to running a successful campaign. Here are some tips for creating images that effectively convey to backers what your rewards are.
Creator Tips
How to Run a Kickstarter Campaign for Your Dance or Theater Project
Here are some tips and strategies you can use to make crowdfunding for your live performance project a creative work in and of itself.
Creator Tips
How to Run a Kickstarter Film Project, Part 1: From Set-up to Launch
Kickstarter’s Film team answers all the most common questions asked by Film creators interested in running a campaign.
Creator Tips
How to Run a Kickstarter Film Project, Part 2: From Launch to Fulfillment
Now that your project’s live, it’s time to broadcast to everyone you’ve ever met that this project exists and needs their support.
Creator Tips
Need some reward ideas? Here are 96 of them.
Offering great rewards is one of the best ways to encourage support for your Kickstarter project. It's always good to offer copies of what you're making, signed prints, show tickets, and things like T-shirts or totes. But extra-imaginative rewards can help make your project all the more memorable.
Creator Tips
An Argument for Projects: Creators Can't Thrive When They're Always on the Verge of Burning Out
Like everyone else, creators need the ability to not be always "on" or working all the time.
Creator Tips
How to Create an Expert Kickstarter Budget
Budgeting may not seem like a sexy topic, but it’s one of the most crucial steps for a successful campaign.
Creator Tips
How to Create a Great Kickstarter Publishing Project Page
Tips and tricks for each element of your campaign, from choosing your funding goal to lining up creative rewards.
Creator Tips
How Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter Project Broke the Bookish Internet
Here's why the author's record-smashing Kickstarter campaign performed so phenomenally well.
Creator Tips
Funding Your Photobook or Art Book
Thinking of creating a photobook or art book? Here's our advice on handling budgets, printing, distribution, and more.
Creator Tips
How To Promote Your Kickstarter Project
Top tips for sharing your campaign with your audience, the press, and beyond.
