Guidelines for starters

  • Preparation
    • Think of an idea for a project.
    • Check whether your idea meets our project evaluation guidelines.
    • For your perfect preparation, let yourself be inspired by several Crowdfunding Campaigns which have already been completed successfully.
    • Set a clear goal that you want to achieve with your campaign.
  • Your campaign
    • Start your project here.
    • Insert all the texts, according to the questions, into the form.
    • Check whether your idea meets our project evaluation guidelines.
    • Decorate your texts with graphics and images.
    • Create an account on Vimeo or YouTube, upload your video and enter the link.
    • Set a term for your project.
  • Rewards
    • Have a look at our tips on rewards.
    • Make a selection of rewards suitable for your project and your target group.
    • Offer, for example, the product that you would like to create.
    • Make sure that you can provide the ordered rewards at every reached sum.
    • Offer rewards of both intrinsic and material value.
    • Make sure that the value of the reward corresponds with the support.
    • Use your contacts and their services or products.
    • Be inspired by other successful campaigns.
  • Financing
    • Create a PayPal account.
    • Set a realistic funding goal.
    • Set interim targets and think about which interim sum can be used to realise a certain interim goal.
    • Consider all costs, including the rewards and their shipping.
    • Contact your tax accountant concerning possible tax levies and considers those also.
    • Keep in mind that you can always collect more than your funding goal.
  • Advertising and support
    • Schedule enough time to take care of your campaign.
    • Activate your network (friends, family, friends).
    • Use classic media such as newspapers, magazines, flyers etc.
    • Use social media like Facebook, Twitter and more.
    • Be creative and think of advertising promotion.
    • Keep your supporters and interested people up to date.
  • End of the campaign
    • You have already received the collected sum during the campaign.
    • Ensure that the rewards are received by your supporters.
    • Note that supporters have a 14-day right of revocation.
    • Inform your supporters about what happens with their money, which progresses and successes you have made while realizing your project – especially if only a partial sum was financed.