Kickstarter For Dummies

Learn to use Kickstarter to make your great ideas a reality

As a crowd-funding website for creative projects, Kickstarter has the power to make creative ideas come to life. This helpful guide walks you through the potential of this amazing tool, which has helped project creators successfully launch their projects since 2009. You’ll learn how to create a Kickstarter account, set up your first project, and effectively use social media to bring awareness to your project and build up the community around it to hopefully reach the goal of 100 percent funding.

• Explains how to determine if you meet the requirements to create a project
• Gets you started with creating your first project, choosing a great project image, and write a compelling project title and description
• Helps you establish rewards for project backers
• Zeroes in on deciding a funding duration and funding goal

Whether you have an idea for a movie, video game, gadget or anything in between, Kickstarter For Dummies is the fun and friendly guide to help you get the funds to make your idea happen!

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introducing Kickstarter
Chapter 2: Laying the Foundation for Your Kickstarter Campaign
Chapter 3: Deciding How Much to Ask For
Chapter 4: Creating a Realistic Timeline
Chapter 5: Setting Up Your Campaign
Chapter 6: Managing an Active Campaign
Chapter 7: Kickstarter for iPhone
Chapter 8: Seeing the Light at the End of Your Campaign
Chapter 9: Ten Unique Reward Ideas
Chapter 10: Ten Resources to Help with Your Campaign