Kickstarter — What's working and what's not

Comic Lab

Today's show is brought to you by Wacom — makers of the powerful, professional, portable Wacom One! This week, we've devoted the entire show to Kickstarter — what's working, what's not, and how you can improve your campaign!

Questions asked and topics covered...

• Kickstarter is the most tangible, real-world, evidence-based way to show how impossibly HARD it is to reach people, even with a focused message
• Kickstarter Self-loathing vs “people not hearing about it”
• Traceable Kickstarter links
• Managing Kickstarter money
• Kickstarter post-mortem
• Kicktraq is almost always hyper-optimistic... here's a better way to project earnings
• Instagram's is nearly useless
• Is TikTok going to be better?

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Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the editor of Webcomics.com Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.

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Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the author of The Webcomics Handbook. Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.