Community Growth

How To Craft Your Kickstarter Offer

A deep dive into your crowdfunding offer. When it comes to your offer, buyer’s remorse, shipping, and manufacturing must all be considered when crafting your Kickstarter landing page.

Marketing With Gabe Barrett Of The Board Game Design Lab

Board Gaming, Community Growth, Emails, Pre-marketing

The Crowdfunding Nerds are joined by Gabe Barrett of the Board Game Design Lab this week. They discuss email lead generation through cold calling, how to engage a Facebook group community, and more!

Kickstarter Mental Health: What You Need To Know & How To Prepare

Behind the Business, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Personal Growth

On this week's episode of Crowdfunding Nerds Andrew, SEO Wizard Rick and Sexy Irish Sean talk about the important topic of Mental Health during a Kickstarter campaign.

The Virtuous Cycle Of Kickstarter Marketing

Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth, Emails, Facebook Ads, Landing Page

The Crowdfunding Nerds cover the most important element of Kickstarter marketing, the Virtuous Cycle and automation.

Organically Engage A Facebook Community With Your Board Game

Audience, Community Growth, Facebook Ads

The Crowdfunding Nerds interview Thomas Covert and admin of The Board Game Revolution Community Facebook Group. Tom shares tips on how to engage a Facebook community naturally with your board game. The effectiveness of giveaways is also explored!

Interviewing Ant Lab Games: What To Look For In Content Creators Who Review Board Games

Behind the Business, Case Study, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign

Anthony and Frances of Ant Lab Games join the Crowdfunding Nerds to give you an inside look into the process of Kickstarter board game review videos.

Interviewing Ant Lab Games: Part 2 – Dealing With Community Toxicity

Audience, Behind the Business, Case Study, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign

Anthony and Frances of Ant Lab Games join the Crowdfunding Nerds in part 2 to discuss dealing with community and social media toxicity as a board game publisher.

Major Kickstarter Mistakes You Need To Learn From

Audience, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Emails

On this weeks episode the Crowdfunding Nerds go over some real life blunders Kickstarter hopefuls have fallen prey to.

Facebook Ad & Convention ROI For Kickstarter

Audience, Community Growth, Conventions, Emails, Facebook Ads, Pre-marketing

Andrew explores the return on investment from his various pre-marketing efforts for Kickstarter and how it impacted his campaign's success.

The Sunk Cost Fallacy And How To Craft A Welcome Email

Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth, Emails, Facebook Ads

In this episode, the Crowdfunding Nerds discuss the sunk cost fallacy and how it relates to Kickstarter marketing, as well as giving tips on how to craft an effective welcome email!

5 Areas of Your Kickstarter Business You Should Be Focusing On

Audience, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Emails, Facebook Ads, Landing Page, Pre-marketing

The Crowdfunding Nerds dive into 5 things that every successful business needs to focus on.

You Have To Bring A Crowd To Crowdfund

Audience, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign

The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss the necessity of going to Kickstarter or Gamefound with a highly engaged community.

Gamefound: Behind The Scenes With CEO Marcin Świerkot

Audience, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Facebook Ads

The Crowdfunding Nerds are joined by Marcin Świerkot, CEO of Gamefound to get a behind the scenes look into their plans for the future within the Board Gaming and Tabletop space.

The Crowdfunding Nerds Facebook Community Is Now A Thing And You Need To Join It Like Right Now

Audience, Community Growth, Distribution & Fulfilment, Facebook Ads

The Crowdfunding Nerds answer some questions from the Crowdfunding Nerds Facebook Group that you now need to be in if you are a regular listener; otherwise, you will be labeled a loser.

Bonus Episode With Andrew: How To Engage Your Board Game Community

Audience, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign

In this Christmas special Andrew goes solo mode and tackles the important topic of how to engage your community before your crowdfunding event!

Looking Back – A Year Of Crowdfunding Nerds Podcasting

Community Growth, Crowdfunding Nerds, Nerding Out

The nerds look back at a year of podcasting while highlighting their favorite moments!

Opportunity Cost – Fact Or Fiction?

Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth

The Crowdfunding Nerds take about opportunity cost, is it something your need to consider or is it a ... myth!

Instagram Marketing: How Kristen Made 7 Figures On Instagram Via Hairstyling!

Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth

The Crowdfunding Nerds are joined by the least nerdy person they have ever had on the podcast to talk about leveling up your Instagram marketing!

How To Launch Your Second Kickstarter Project With Joe Slack

Audience, Board Gaming, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Distribution & Fulfilment, Nerding Out

Joe Slack joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to talk about transitioning from game to game on Kickstarter!

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...

How To Run A Board Game Booth At A Convention

Audience, Community Growth, Conventions, Emails

The Crowdfunding Nerds give you some convention tips to promote your tabletop project with our without a booth!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

How To Interact With Fans In Real Life

Audience, Board Gaming, Community Growth, Conventions, TTRPG

Andrew is back from a small convention where he interacted with many super fans. He shares some tips and advice when interacting with fans face to face.