Behind the Business

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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...

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.

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.

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.

How To Make An Awesome Kickstarter Video w/ David Diaz

Behind the Business, Board Gaming, Case Study, Crowdfunding Campaign, TTRPG

The Crowdfunding Nerds are joined by David Diaz of Mesa Game Lab to talk about crowdfunding video trailers.

Questions To Ask Marketing Agencies Before Going To Kickstarter

Behind the Business, Facebook Ads

The Crowdfunding Nerds talk about the questions you need to be thinking about before going to Kickstarter and hiring a marketing agency to help you achieve your goals.