Assembling Your Crowdfunding Team


Crowdfunding

A critical part of a successful crowdfunding campaign is having a strong team behind you. In order to reach your funding goal and beyond, you’ll need a key group of people who are as passionate about your project as you are. Enventys Partners explains who the best team members would be for your Kickstarter or Indiegogo project.

Reach Your Project’s Potential with a Crowdfunding Team

Why Work with a Crowdfunding Team?

Working with a crowdfunding team is beneficial because it will not only break up the workload but will also expand your reach to potential backers. If that’s not enough of a reason to have a great crowdfunding marketing team, note this: team-based campaigns tend to raise more funds.

 

How to Gather the Right Crowdfunding Marketing Team?

As you build your team, make sure you’re choosing passionate people you can rely on. Create a corporate culture around your project or startup, and bring people on board who fit into that culture.

Including your friends isn’t always the best idea, though you can take advantage of your friends’ networks. Focus on finding people who have the skills you need and a passion to match yours. Look for those who fit into your team’s culture and who have crowdfunding experience – and a large, developed network is a bonus! You can use your own personal network to find your team members, go through a recruiting agency, or even place an ad. Just make sure that you determine exactly what skills, experience and requirements you’re looking for before you even start looking.

You’re going to want to focus on both paid media and earned media in order to get traffic to your campaign page and to do so, you’ll need people that understand both. We suggest having a marketing team with at least the following players or skill sets.

 

Team Leader

This can be you, the project creator, or someone else you trust to run the campaign. This person will push the campaign forward, taking on planning the project and making big strategic and financial decisions. They should have a strong integrated marketing background so that they understand how all of the key marketing channels should fit together.

 

Advertising

Facebook advertising has become one of the best ways to immediately draw a large number of backers to your page and determine if your campaign is going to do well. If you can convert visitors from your ads, you have a winning campaign. If you can’t, you’ll want to dive deeper into analyzing why your page isn’t converting.

Regardless, an effective advertising campaign is nearly guaranteed to do more to fill the top of your marketing funnel than any of the other communications channels available to you, so you’ll want an expert running this. Don’t just assume that your social media manager can run ads just because they’re running your organic Facebook campaign—this is a completely different skill set. Spend the time to find someone with solid Facebook advertising experience to perform this function.

 

Copywriting

This role can easily be doubled up with any of the other roles, but you can have a standalone copywriter as well. You’ll need to create quite a bit of written content, including the campaign page itself, crowdfunding marketing emails, backer updates, blog posts, and more. A great copywriter will also ensure your marketing materials are on-brand and cohesive across all channels.

 

Public Relations

Public relations can enhance your earned media strategy. You’ll want to focus largely on online publications that will provide maximum benefit to your campaign in order to perform this function most effectively. If you’re dedicating a person entirely to this role, try to recruit someone with an existing network of journalists that they can tap to promote your campaign. The right article in the right blog could significantly boost your campaign funding amount, but there are no guarantees here.

 

Social Media

You’ll want your social media efforts to focus on two things: attracting new backers to the campaign and being a feedback loop from the campaign organizers to the community.

Attracting potential backers means getting in front of your potential audience. Coupled with advertising, social media is a very powerful tool for attracting new people to your profiles where you can then rely on them to read your content. If your followers are incentivized to share your content or they’re so supportive of your product that they want to evangelize it on their own, you can amplify your message through them.

Communication with potential buyers and existing backers during a crowdfunding campaign is key, and if you don’t answer them on social media, they’re likely going to amplify their negativity about you as a project creator. Make sure you have someone monitoring your online presence to answer questions and concerns as effectively as possible.

 

A Well-Organized Team Works

Depending on your project, you may have more roles to fill than these five, or you may need multiple people filling one role. Conversely, you may be able to combine some of these roles into a two or three-person team. The most important thing to remember here is that it’s hard to run a successful crowdfunding project without a well-organized team that you can count on to back you up.

 

Team up with Enventys Partners

You have two choices to fill these roles – you can staff them yourself, or you can supplement having to build a team by an agency that offers specialized crowdfunding services. At Enventys Partners, we have recognized industry experts in all of these areas on staff, so contact us and find out how we can bring success to your crowdfunding campaign.

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