Kickstarter Info-Session

Some of the 3rd Ward work spaces.

About 60 people assembled in a medium-sized auditorium to hear five Kickstarter staff members talk about the procedures to build a campaign and their advice for making the effort a success.

The KS people are highly articulate and magically optimistic. Surprisingly, the attendees were, too.
Many of those there weren't artists, but creators of off-beat products, mostly concerned with their manufacture.

This is evidenced by stretch goals being discussed at length, something I believe I won't have to worry about. Stretch goals are set when funding goals exceed the initial project's objectives; contingencies must be planned since the production of the product as one of the rewards could turn into a project itself.

Its location at the end of a creek.

Back to the meeting. Five successful project creators were there, one of them, a writer who said that his project--a novel--was 60% funded within a few days of launch. He told me later that much of his network supported him in the lead-up to the launch and also, that he writes a blog.

Another creator works with games and gaming, and he's created and advised many, many gaming projects, some which exceed the $100,000 funding goal. Wow!

Anyway, I offered my little unsuccessful project's video for comment. It got an applause at the end, yet, some good advice: to keep all the content but to rearrange the order of it to engage the Backer (more so than the viewer) since the goal is to get them to come along on the SIS journey.

So fascinating.