Save money and be your own crowdfunding consultant! Don't spend hundreds on consultants and crowdfunding promotion. Follow this crowdfunding checklist for everything you need on your crowdfunding campaign page to raise more money online. The checklist works for small business and fundraising ideas and is the first of our four-part checklist series. Click through to Crowd101.com for the other checklists in the series and everything you need to raise money crowdfunding.

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Save Money! Be your
own Crowdfunding
Consultant
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Crowdfunding consultants charge a minimum of $50 an hour
and upwards of thousands to help you raise money.
I get emails weekly by crowdfunding campaigns asking me to
look over their project and help out. I’m glad to help but
people are reluctant when I quote $50 an hour for consulting
services. Worse yet, I am not even one of the more expensive
crowdfunding consultants out there. I get just as many emails
from people that have hired a crowdfunding consultant, paid
out hundreds of dollars and then feel like they’ve got very little
in return.

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Helping people with crowdfunding is my business and I need to
pay the bills, but I also want you to be as successful as possible
raising money from the crowd. I realize that many people
cannot afford a crowdfunding consultant so take a look at the
checklist below.

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Think like a Crowdfunding Consultant
Crowdfunding is about the connections you make, through your
campaign message and through your pre-launching activities.
A crowdfunding consultant is going to
look at your campaign and try to find
the easiest things to fix.
The checklist below shows what I look
for when analyzing a crowdfunding
campaign page. Most of the easiest
and most important ideas are at the
top. Check these off first and work
your way down the list.
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Crowdfunding Consultant Campaign Page
Checklist
1.Does the campaign have a title that gets your attention and is informative?
2.Do you have a video and are you in it?
3.Have you linked your website to the campaign?
4.How many updates have you made?
5.Are the best points in the first two paragraphs?
6.Does the campaign have any images? Are they interesting or evoke
emotions?
7.Does the campaign content have bulleted points and a quick-read layout?
8.How many reward levels do you have and what are the levels?
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9.Do your rewards let people get
involved in the project?
10.Do your rewards boost someone’s
ego?
11.Does the campaign have any
stretch funding goals?
12.Does the campaign have a team
behind it?
13.Do you detail your budget?
14.Do you detail a realistic timeline?
15.Did you do more than just pay lip-
service to your FAQ section?
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