Behind the Business

How Playing Tabletop Roleplaying Games Will Make Your A Better Marketer With Dina Said So Studio

Behind the Business, Community Growth, Facebook Ads, Pre-marketing

The Crowdfunding Nerds are joined by Dina of Dina Said So Studio to talk about how understanding tabletop games can make you better at marketing!

Manufacturing – How Many Games Should I Print?

Behind the Business, Board Gaming, Distribution & Fulfilment, TTRPG

Hersh Glueck joins the Crowdfunding Nerds in part 2 to discuss tabletop manufacturing.

Mastering the Art of Manufacturing with Hersh Glueck

Behind the Business, Distribution & Fulfilment

The Crowdfunding Nerds sit down with manufacturing expert, Hersh Glueck of Hero Time to discuss all things tabletop manufacturing!

Shelfside’s List Of Things You Need For Board Game Influencers

Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth, Emails

Ashton of Shelfside fame joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to talk about reaching out to Board Game influencers.

How To Stop Amazon Crushing Your Post-Campaign Sales

Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Ecommerce

The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss the latest Kickstarter update that has announced a partnership between Jellop and Kicktraq. They also dive into post-campaign strategy and how not to be pwned by Amazon.

Reddit Ads? Yay or Nay?

Behind the Business, Community Growth, Facebook Ads

The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss alternative advertising methods outside Facebook ads. Do Reddit Ads hold up against the many options out there?

Oh Boy, Let’s Talk AI

Behind the Business, Crowdfunding Campaign, Nerding Out

The Crowdfunding Nerds talk about how developments in AI could impact the Crowdfunding space. Buckle up because everything from SEO, idea generation, image creation and content moderation is covered. It’s about to get nerdy.

How To Grow A Community With Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier Games

Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth

Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier Games joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to discuss the most effective methods of communication for growing communities online.

How To Know If People Want Your Game Before Spending Time & Money On It

Behind the Business, Board Gaming

The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss a community questions about research and development.

Listen To This Podcast Before Creating A TTRPG

Behind the Business, TTRPG

The Crowdfunding Nerds sit down with Chris Birch of Modiphius Entertainment to talk about the Open Gaming License controversy, the 2d20 World Builders Program and how to stand out in the marketplace as a TTRPG developer.

5 Dangerous Assumptions That Can Kill Your Crowdfunding Campaign Before It Begins

Audience, Behind the Business, Crowdfunding Campaign

The Crowdfunding Nerds seek to help you think critically about your game development by pondering 5 dangerous assumptions that can kill your crowdfunding campaign before you even launch.

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Why Being Positive Will Make You More Money

Audience, Behind the Business, Personal Growth

The Crowdfunding Nerds talk about being positive when things are mostly negative and how it can aid you in winning favour with your backers!

Self-Promotion Without Andrew Lowen

Behind the Business, Community Growth

Uh oh ... Andrew is away and someone thought it was a good idea to allow Rick and Sean to do the podcast by themselves! They talk internet privacy, censorship and self-promotion done wrong.

Pitching Your Game With Willem Delventhal (Indie Game Academy)

Behind the Business, Facebook Ads, Video Games

The Corwdfunding Nerds are joined by Willem Delventhal of the Indie Game Academy to discuss video game marketing and the benefits of publicly pitching your game to peers.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.