Crowdfunding Campaign
Why Gamers Back Crowdfunding Campaigns
Audience, Behind the Business, Crowdfunding Campaign
The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss why gamers backed Deliverance on Kickstarter from a recent question and answer. You will be able to leverage these reasons for your own Kickstater or Gamefound campaigns!
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How To Write A Kickstarter Update
Audience, Crowdfunding Campaign
Want to write a Kickstarter update for your board game but don’t know where to begin? Well the Crowdfunding Nerds give some needed tips on project updates.
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How To Get Better At Marketing Your Game
Audience, Behind the Business, Crowdfunding Campaign, Facebook Ads, Personal Growth
The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss several resources that will help you market your game!
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Troubleshooting Your Mid-Campaign Slump With Galen McCown
Behind the Business, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign
The Crowdfunding Nerds are joined by Galen McCown of Galen’s Games to talk about troubleshooting the mid-campaign slump of Super Snipers.
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Listen to this Podcast Before Making Stretch Goals
Audience, Behind the Business, Crowdfunding Campaign, Distribution & Fulfilment
Andrew Lowen describes a mistake he made with stretch goals on the last day of his Kickstarter campaign. The Crowdfunding Nerds talk about obligations to delivering to backers, even when it hurts!
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Board Game Industry 2023 Predictions
Board Gaming, Crowdfunding Campaign, Crowdfunding Nerds, Facebook Ads, Video Games
The crowdfunding nerds discuss their 2023 predictions on economics, manufacturing and board game demand.
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Let’s Talk Zombicide With Ross Thompson
Behind the Business, Board Gaming, Crowdfunding Campaign, Distribution & Fulfilment
The Crowdfunding Nerds continue their discussion with Ross Thompson on marketing big games while diving into the Zombicide Kickstarter campaign.
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Reflections On 100 Episodes of Crowdfunding Nerds + Bonus Behind The Scenes Stuff
Behind the Business, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Facebook Ads, Landing Page
In this special 100 episode celebration the Crowdfunding Nerds discuss the top 5 game changer moments since launching the podcast. The episode also includes a miscellaneous bonus episode.
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Surveying Your Community – Why & How You Should Do It
Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign
The crowdfunding nerds surveyed the Deliverance Board Game community and share valuable insights and tips to survey your own community.
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Playing Around Intellectual Properties with Max Dennis
Audience, Board Gaming, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign
The Crowdfunding Nerds interview Max Dennis of Millian Games to discuss his campaign Sauria: The Dinosaur Park Survival Game, while navigating a product that includes many references to a larger Intellectual property.
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When To Spend $10,000 On A Kickstarter Video With Ori Kagan of Kagan Productions
Audience, Crowdfunding Campaign, Facebook Ads
The Crowdunding Nerds are joined by Ori Kagan to discuss Kickstarter video production.
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How To Come Up With Shipping Estimates With Kirk Dennison of Thunderworks Games
Behind the Business, Crowdfunding Campaign, Distribution & Fulfilment
Kirk Dennison explains tips for shipping and fulfilment in the US, EU and Australia. He also covers some very important changes to German imports you need to know about!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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