YouTube Episodes
More Choices, More Problems? Kickstarter Lessons With Scott Pease
Your Kickstarter has thousands of followers, but what’s keeping them from backing?
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Crowdfunding Success Case Study: Snap Ships Tactics | Scott Pease
What does it take to come back to Kickstarter and nearly double your first campaign’s funding? Bigger spaceships help, but there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes!
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Catch Up & Random Marketing Thoughts | Ep. 304
More pledges don’t always mean more money in your pocket. Andrew is back, and between welcoming baby number eight and catching up with Sean, he’s got a few things to say about crowdfunding marketing fees.
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The AI Art Problem in Board Games
What happens when AI can create artwork that’s almost impossible to distinguish from something made by a human?
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Performance Based Marketing Is A Scam? | Ep. 302
Performance-based marketing sounds like an easy win: no big agency fee upfront, someone else handles the ads, and they only get paid when they generate results.
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Assets Needed For Killer Ads | Donnie Chase and Jacob Cecil | Ep. 301
What assets do you actually need to create a bangarang crowdfunding landing page—and ads that convert?
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Game Design & Marketing With Stephen Glicker | Ep. 300
According to Roll for Combat publisher Stephen Glicker, creating a great game is only one piece of a much bigger puzzle.
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SEO For Tabletop Publishers | Ep. 299
SEO is changing. AI is changing search. But does that mean everything you knew about getting discovered online is suddenly useless?
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Timmy, Johnny & Spike | Ep. 298
Why do some players crave big, memorable moments while others obsess over clever combinations or competitive wins?
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Drivers & Catchers: 2026 Edition | Ep. 297
In this episode of Crowdfunding Nerds, Andrew Lowen and Sean dive deep into one of the most important marketing concepts for crowdfunding creators: Drivers vs. Catchers.
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The Crowdfunding Horror Stories Nobody Warns You About
Andrew sits down with Konstantinos Matos of Hive Interactive and Vesuvius Media to unpack the realities of international fulfillment, freight logistics, and why even experienced publishers still encounter unexpected disasters.
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You know what really grinds our gears?!
Andrew and Sean open the curtain on the realities of crowdfunding, publishing, and marketing by sharing the things that truly “grind their gears.”
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How To Stay Productive After Kickstarter
In this episode of Crowdfunding Nerds, Andrew and Sean wrap up their marketing series by exploring the bigger picture: how to build a publishing company that lasts.
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How To Craft Stories For Your Tabletop Games
In this episode, Andrew shares what he learned after writing more than 80,000 words for the upcoming Deliverance: Council of the Fallen campaign.
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Why did Bloodstone Fail
What happens when a professionally produced crowdfunding campaign still falls short of expectations?
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Making Snap Ships Tactics | Scott Pease | Ep. 289
For Scott Pease, it became the opportunity to finally build the game he'd dreamed about from the very beginning.
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What Is The Future Of You Tabletop Business?
Andrew and Sean help you think about the goals of your table top business and how to develop products that markets actually want.
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Making Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcome
Episode 278 - Andrew and Sean interview Marcel Köhler, the designer of the historic board game Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcome
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Making Mint Tin Games
Episode 277 - The Crowdfunding Nerds sit down with Galen McCown of Galen Games to discuss making tiny, pocked-sized Mint Tin Games.
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3 Outcomes of Crowdfunding
Andrew and Sean discuss the 3 outcomes of every crowdfunding campaign that you need to consider and plan for.
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Your Kickstarter Thesis Statement
Episode 275 - Andrew & Sean discuss the layout of your Kickstarter page how your thesis statement impacts the perception of your product offer.
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Discord Alternatives With Simplified Privacy
Audience, Case Study, Community Growth
Episode 274 - Discord has postponed an update to require ID verification through biometric face-scanning which raises privacy concerns for gamers and publishers of games.
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What Made Nimble RPG So Successful?
Audience, Behind the Business, Case Study, Crowdfunding Campaign, TTRPG
Episode 273 - Evan Diaz joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to discuss the success of the Nimble RPG.
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Making Terraforming Mars
Board Gaming, Case Study, Nerding Out
Episode 272 - Jacob & Jonathan Fryxelius of FryxGames join the Crowdfunding Nerds to discuss the making of Terraforming Mars.
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