Thursday, 2 April 2015

Choosing The Best Crowdfunding Site For Driving Your Project

By Lelia Hall


In the present times, most start-up projects tend to die off without accomplishing its purpose due to funding problems. We are going to look some ways in which you can choose the best crowdfunding site to ensure you achieve your dreams. Every person desires to see their dream come true but devoid of funds, it can be a challenging venture.

The world is full of materialistic people such that most of the time; you need a whole lot of cash for a startup. At crowdfunding sites, you can explain to individuals about your ambitions, and if they are convinced, they will fund your project. Therefore, you ought to learn about persuasive language and how you will use them for the funders to be convinced.

Many people may wonder how these websites work. It works such that persons with common interests fund both business and personal with their money through donation. The advantage of using this method for generating money is that the sites do not charge you anything until you have raised something, so they take the commission. It also gives your idea a great platform for publicity for free hence you have nothing to lose.

One of the websites is Kickstarter. It has helped launch over 60000 projects and helped raise more than 200 million dollars. The site accepts funding for all projects except scholarship, charity, vacations and awareness campaigns. And the people who have benefited from these funding totally deserved it. The process of registering is quite simple because it just needs signing up for an account in which you fill out the information regarding your project. Also, ensure that, all details about your project are right so that the admin can have an easy time reviewing the projects for easy acceptance of applications.

Kickstarter has some special features that make it successful. First there is a backer reward where you make a small prize for backers whom you will reward when you have succeeded in your funding. You are only charged five percent commission for the projects that have succeeded. Afterwards, Amazon Payment processes the funds after the crowdfunding procedure has been successful. The site is exclusively for US citizens since you need a social security number for registration.

Indiegogo is another excellent site that can help achieve your dream by funding for your projects. It means independence and it works almost like Kickstarter. It is easy to use more so when you have used Kickstarter before. It also accepts people who are not from the U. S.

The major difference between them lies in what they accept and Backer reward. The reward is more of a bonus, and they allow donations for charity. It mode of payment is through PayPal. Additionally, they charge some fees for credit card processing, wiring fee for non-US residents and raised fund fee.

In conclusion, you require a good strategy for your project to be funded by these sites. Choose carefully the site that fits your project and take caution especially on fees that sites charge. Also, put up reasonable goals that will help market your project. And lastly, use convincing language that will help your idea to go viral on different social media platforms.




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