Episodes
Kickstarter Videos On A Budget With Ori Kagan (Kagan Productions)
Audience, Behind the Business, Crowdfunding Campaign
Don’t have the budget for a professional Kickstarter video? Not to fear! Ori of Kagan Productions joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to give you 3 solid tips to creating videos for your Kickstarter on a budget!
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How To Build Your Kickstarter Community & Delight Fans
Audience, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign
The Crowdfunding Nerds talk about how to engage your community before, during and after your Kickstarter campaign with real world examples that produced results!
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Email Open Rates For Kickstarter
Audience, Behind the Business, Emails
The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss the ideal email open rates that show your community is engaged while sharing tips to improve them.
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Backer & Publisher Entitlement
Audience, Crowdfunding Campaign
The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss unhelpful attitudes to crowdfunding and give tips to rise above discouragement.
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Marketing Tinyfolks On Steam With Pierre Vandermaesen
Behind the Business, Personal Growth, Video Games
Pierre Vandermaesen, indie game developer of Tinyfolks joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to discuss the challenges of developing and marketing video games for Steam.
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The Science Of Pricing Your Crowdfunding Pledges
Behind the Business, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Distribution & Fulfilment, Emails, Facebook Ads, Landing Page
Jasper Gardener Burch of Pine Island Games and the tabletop game Nut Hunt joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to discuss Facebook advertising mistakes and the science of correctly pricing your pledges on Kickstarter!
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How To Leverage TikTok & Reddit For Your Kickstarter
Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Pre-marketing
Jasper Gardener Burch of Pine Island Games and the tabletop game Nut Hunt joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to discuss how to leverage TikTok & Reddit for your pre-Kickstarter marketing.
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What To Do If Your LIVE Kickstarter Has Not Funded Yet
Behind the Business, Case Study, Crowdfunding Campaign
Ben Levy of Strongbox Games joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to discuss co-authoring Mantle of The Keeper and the challenges of running a Kickstarter campaign that has not funded yet.
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Amish Romance Novels & Publishing With Kyle Mann
Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth, Facebook Ads
Board Game enthusiast and Editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee, Kyle Mann joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to discuss publishing and self-promotion.
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Customs De Minimis? And Other Freight Wizardry With Brandon The Game Dev
Behind the Business, Board Gaming, Distribution & Fulfilment, TTRPG
Brandon The Game Dev joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to chop tabletop game manufacturing, freight and fulfilment.
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Project Management, Skinny Jeans, & Cowboy Boots With Brandon The Game Dev
Behind the Business, Crowdfunding Campaign, Pre-marketing
Project management is the topic of this podcast with Brandon Rollins, also known as Brandon The Game Dev. Brandon offers Kickstarter and social media project management services and is collaborating with the Crowdfunding Nerds on a not so top secret project.
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Interviewing Board Game Reviewer Alex Radcliffe of BoardGameCo
Behind the Business, Case Study, Nerding Out
Alex Radcliffe of the BordaGameCo sits down with the Crowdfunding Nerds to talk about his journey of becoming a full time YouTuber who plays and reviews board games.
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Backerkit Crowdfunding? First Thoughts With Alex Radcliffe of BoardGameCo
Audience, Case Study, Crowdfunding Campaign
The popular pledge manager Backerkit, has announced that they will be diving into the crowdfunding arena! Do they have enough buffs to out DPS Gamefound? Or will Kickstarter receive an epic heal and make a comeback?
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Getting People To Care About Your Game
Behind the Business, Board Gaming, Community Growth, Facebook Ads, Pre-marketing
The Crowdfunding Nerds talk about $85 RPG history books, how to use steam to market your board game and getting people to care about your project.
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Secret Update, The Cake Is A Lie & The Critical Path To Crowdfunding Success
Behind the Business, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Personal Growth
What is the critical path you need to take get funded on Kickstarter and manufacture your board game? The Crowdfunding Nerds share some industry news and tips on laying a plan for crowdfunding success.
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How To Run A Board Game Booth At A Convention
Audience, Community Growth, Conventions, Emails
The Crowdfunding Nerds give you some convention tips to promote your tabletop project with our without a booth!
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What Are The Typical Results Of The Crowdfunding Nerds Service?
Behind the Business, Board Gaming, Crowdfunding Nerds, Nerding Out
Stock market crashes, Bitcoin busts, to industry drama and service pricing. The Crowdfunding Nerds comment on current news while answering an email question!
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The Concept of The Magic Circle In Making Amazing Ads
Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth, Facebook Ads
The Crowdfunding Nerds chop board game industry news while giving you some tips on how to run better Facebook ads. Also, Andrew is diffidently not a necromancer, unless he put a spell on us to tell you that...
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Disingenuous Funding Goals
Case Study, Crowdfunding Campaign
The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss some of the latest board game crowdfunding news while addressing the problem of artificially low fund goals.
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This One’s For You Jamey Stegmaier ＜3
Behind the Business, Conventions, Crowdfunding Campaign, Personal Growth
SEO Wizard Rick faces ravenous cougars in the wilderness while Andrew & Sean discuss Kickstarter delegation because Mr. Stegmaier threatened to tell the world how bad Andrew is as Scythe.
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How To Stand Out On Kickstarter With Marco Pecota
Behind the Business, Case Study, Crowdfunding Campaign
Marco Pecota of Raybox Games joins the Crowdunding Nerds to discuss marketing games through combining themes.
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Kickstarter Board Game Metrics Deep Dive
Crowdfunding Campaign, Crowdfunding Nerds, Facebook Ads, Nerding Out
Andrew and Sean go through 10 successful Kickstarter campaigns and talk about the important metrics that can help you frame your crowdfunding launch!
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Social Stretch Goals & Mobilizing Your Crowd
Audience, Crowdfunding Campaign
The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss the importance of engaging social stretch goals while giving some tips to generate your very own!
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The ”Art” of Marketing Board Games
Behind the Business, Board Gaming, Crowdfunding Nerds, TTRPG, Video Games
The Crowdfunding Nerds talk about board game art, where to find great artists and how to know if your art is not up to standard.
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