Kickstarter is a funding platform made for all creative projects. Everything from games, films, technology, design, and music to art, Kickstarter is actually full of imaginative, innovative, and ambitious ideas that are brought to life through the support of other people. Everything on this platform should be a project with clear goals like making a book, album or any kind of work of art. Projects will be completed and something would be produced by this. However, before you create your own Kickstarter account, you should read their rules first and you have to know some basics.
The Basics
- Generally, a project is a work with a clear goal that you would like to bring to life. Think films, books or albums.
- Funding goals are the amount of money that the creator has to complete their project.
- In Kickstarter, funding all or nothing. Nobody will be charged for the pledge to any project unless it reaches the funding goal. Through this, the creators will have the budget they’ve scoped out before they move forward.
- Creator is the team or person behind the project idea, working to bring this to life.
- The backers are the ones who pledge money to join the creators to bring projects to life.
- The rewards are the chance of the creators to share a project with their backer community. Usually, such are one-of-a-kind limited editions, experiences, and copies of a creative work that is being produced.
If you like to know more how Kickstarter works, try browsing and looking at several projects on the site.
How to Create Your Kickstarter Account?
A kickstarter account will help you with your campaign. However, make sure to set it up properly to avoid some problems in the long run.
To create a Kickstarter account, here are some of the steps you should follow:
- Click the Start link.
- You may play the introductory video to know how a Kickstarter account works.
- After watching the introductory video, you may proceed to starting your project and verify if you meet the Kickstarter’s eligibility requirements, which are listed on the page. Once done, you will be required to set up your password and username or if you have your Kickstarter account, proceed to login.
- You can also log in using your Facebook account. When setting up your campaign through the use of Facebook Connect, it will help you save some steps. You’d also be better off making your own unique account and login on Kickstarter. You’ll have the chance to link your campaign to your Facebook, so you could link it there if you prefer to use Facebook in promoting your campaign. After that, proceed to the page of guidelines.
- Kickstarter will direct you to your own project dashboard that shows some steps to get your profile up and running. The guidelines section will provide you a quick access to Kickstarter guidelines anytime. The Preview option will let you see how your campaign would look to your targeted backers.