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Backerkit Offers Support for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS)

If you’ve been fortunate enough to wage a successful crowdfunding campaign, chances are you are painfully aware of the coming nightmare that is backer fulfillment... that stage of the campaign where you have to send out the perks to the hundreds of backers who gave money to make your project a reality. In fact, many successful campaigns have either ended up failing, or coming dangerously close to it, because the campaigner isn’t so good at delivering the goods as they are at pitching that perfect project. And that’s where Backerkit comes in... a service that streamlines fulfillment and helps creators focus on what they do best... create.

 

The reality is that, once you finish fundraising, you now have two jobs: keeping your backers happy, and making something they'll love. Plus, you’re now on a deadline to fulfill your promises. Too often, managing a crowdfunding project can become a logistical nightmare.- Backerkit.com

Just when you thought you had it made by making your campaign goals, the reality suddenly hits you that you have to provide for all those perks and rewards. And on top of that, users have special needs – T shirt sizes, adding to their orders, telling others, changing their addresses, and paying for what they want to order. It’s quite a task. And your crowdfunding portals often times can shut down your communication once your campaign is over. That’s a drag, especially if you have to share additional news your backers need to hear.

Like you, I've run a successful crowdfunding campaign. It started out as a small project, but quickly grew into something much larger. And while it’s certainly true that reaching your campaign goal is a feat in itself, I learned firsthand what many people don't realize about crowdfunding: raising money is actually the easy part. - Maxwell Salzberg, BackerKit’s Co-Founder

Backerkit is a service that provides logistical support. It allows you to turn the time-consuming task of backer fulfillment into what they promise is a seamless, simple experience. After you sign up, you can sync your campaign donor information to the Backerkit interface and begin to take your supporters off the crowdfunding portal. Through Backerkit, you can invite your backers to sign up so they can update their information, get answers to questions, pay what they owe you, purchase additional rewards, and spread the word about your project.

With Backerkit you can:

In partnership with Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and others, Backerkit’s service also provides you with custom generated reports with which to begin fulfillment. You can either hire a fulfillment service to send out your rewards from Backerkit reports, or use Backerkit Postage and perform your own fulfillment. With their postage feature, you can print labels, buy postage, handle international shipping,?sends tracking numbers to your backers, and?track it all from one dashboard. It can even manage pre-orders.

And since Backerkit won’t lock you out from your backers, you can stay in contact with them to let them know about upcoming opportunities, or send out surveys to see what new ideas you’re considering that they can get excited about. And since Backerkit was created by people who have themselves dealt with the pressures and pains of campaign backer fulfillment, you have the experience of literally hundreds of campaigns supporting you. ?They’ll even send you unfiltered crow funding tips to help you wage a successful campaign.

With minimal upfront costs, and fees,?Backerkit comes with a free trial. After, users can choose from three different levels:

• Simple: 0% of your campaign funds, 20% of funds raised through Backerkit
• Standard: 1% if campaign funds, 5% of funds raised through Backerkit
• Entrepreneur: 2% if campaign funds, 0% of funds raised through Backerkit

There’s also a $299 setup fee for all plans, plus a transaction charge?on any funds raised in BackerKit. But they’re offering a special at the moment where anyone who signs up before the end of their campaign, will receive their setup for half off. For more information, check out the video below and visit Backerkit.com.

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