15 Crowdfunding Tools You can’t afford to Launch your

Campaign without these Resources

The Social Network for

New Product Development

As crowdfunding has expanded around the globe, thousands of

projects have failed to hit their goal.

Many met an appropriate demise, but others failed not because of their

product, but rather their execution.

Raising money is never easy, and while crowdfunding is making it

accessible to entrepreneurs everywhere, hitting your goal isn’t

an accident. It takes work.

So which tools should you be

employing on the way to hitting

your campaign goal?

Your campaign needs a website too.

Build a basic site or landing page to get started.

Attach a blog and get your content and inbound-marketing game on.

Wordpress

Start building your brand.

Give your website an attractive name.

Memorable domains can go a long way in legitimizing your offering.

NameCheap

The master of social is also a powerful tool for crowdfunding campaigns.

Build a page dedicated to your project.

Share it with your friends, family, and prospective followers to start building a community.

Facebook

Just like Facebook, Twitter can be a powerful tool in bringing people to your project.

Send updates to your followers and find more.

Employ attractive messages, engaging video, applicable hashtags, and links.

Twitter

Supplement your blog with a blogging platform.

Provide your information in a way you can’t find anywhere else to attract a new audience.

Upload content from other locations to diversify your posts.

Tumblr

Video is one of the highest converting media types out there, and YouTube is king.

Create a channel and upload your campaign video.

Upload clips of your team, development, and more to personalize your project.

YouTube

Email contacts will drive your pre-launch conversions and communication post-campaign.

Separate your contacts to organize messaging.

Deliver the most applicable updates to your users, based on their involvement.

MailChimp

Not every tool revolves around your backers.

Manage your team from one location.

Set responsibilities and goals, and track progress and milestones to keep everyone moving forward.

Trello

Don’t make your website handle everything.

Set up a “Launching Soon” page to build hype for your campaign.

Increase the size and reach of your network by building a sense of exclusivity.

LaunchRock

Social media can quickly get overwhelming.

Sync and manage all of your channels from one dashboard.

Post updates and schedule messages to streamline your marketing efforts.

HootSuite

Again, email is a huge part of launching your project and communicating with backers.

Set up a drip-marketing campaign to improve your conversion rates.

Progressively sell your offering to supporters.

PersistIQ

Of course Google will make a list of powerful tools for a project.

Create, store, and manage files across your team.

Collaborate on documents when you can’t be together in person.

Google Drive

Where Drive falters, DropBox takes over.

Keep everyone connected from one folder.

Access files, spreadsheets, documents and more from your browser or mobile.

DropBox

Hitting your goal is hard enough, and fulfilling those orders can be even harder.

Outsource logistics and more to the professionals.

Insure everyone gets what they ordered, on-time, without breaking your budget.

Fulfillrite

As a crowdfunding tool, nothing comes close to Crowds.io at any stage of your campaign.

Identify holes in your Go-to-Market plan.

Launch Activities to find the talent, companies, and funding you need to get to market.

Crowds.io

Have you ran a successful campaign?

What were the most useful tools for you and your team?

We would love to share them with our readers!