So, how do you ensure you get people’s attention on your crowdfunding campaign? Scanning through successful crowdfunding campaign stories we have a few tips for you.

1. Prepare Your Face off

“People don’t want to back a campaign that’s not going to work,” says writer and entrepreneur Seth Godin on his crowdfunding experiences, and you can’t use crowdfunding as a shortcut to avoid properly fleshing out your ideas.

2. Strategic Social Media

You don’t need a blanket presence on social media, though the wider your reach the better. Pick the networks that best match your marketing and content strategies and where your potential supporters are most likely to be found. Don’t forget to customize your promotion to suit each platform too

3. Produce a Great Video

Video clips give visitors a better idea of your project — they can see you or your product in action rather than clicking through a series of static images. They are also labor-intensive, so don’t attempt to put together a clip if you don’t have the time, resources and expertise required. An amateur-looking video isn’t going to convince anyone to get involved, and at worst, could damage your campaign’s credibility.

It’s usually well worth paying for help to make your video pitch the best it can be because of the investment it will attract. Seth Godin again, on the campaign he ran that reached its goal in three hours: “There’s something about the medium that makes the video even more important than you’d think.”

4. Create a Helpful Media Page (donate-ng portal)

You’ve no doubt seen some of the most popular crowdfunding projects covered in the press, but this won’t happen if you don’t have a solid website and some press materials that journalists can download. Even if you’re a one-man show, don’t rely on your Facebook page to do it all. If journalists can’t find more information about your project and some high-resolution pictures to illustrate their features, they may choose to promote a different project instead.

5. Communicate Often.

Communication in every facet of life is important. Always ensure you communicate often in anyways possible. Who do you communicate with? Your Friends, Family, Colleagues, Public and possible those that don’t like you but equally believe in what you are doing.

How do you communicate, by SMS, Chat, Email, Fliers, Posters, etc.

Am very sure these few tips would go a long way in helping you develop a successful campaign.

Would bring you more tips next time.

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By ‘Segun Olojo-Kosoko

October 19, 2015

TwoCan Solution – Nigerian owned Information Communication Technology Company announced today the launch of one of its portal solutions – Nigeria’s go-to and easiest Social crowdfunding portal till date.

The portal introduces the easiest way to raise funds for Charity Organisation, the easiest way to raise money for an Individual, Group or Community Project/Cause.

TwoCan Solutions expect “donate-ng” to improve the Social Crowdfunding ecosystem in Nigeria and encourage Nigerian to bring to life their dreams and desires with the help of money raised by well-meaning.

About Social Crowdfunding

It’s a known fact that Crowdfunding is as old as time which has evolved as technology evolved. With the evolution of Crowdfunding, of all the models of Crowdfunding, Social Crowdfunding has been and is being the most successful Crowdfunding model.

Source: www.crowdmapped.com

Social Crowdfunding is the collective effort of a large number of individuals who donate small amounts of money to help finance charities, projects and causes raised by an Individual or a Charity Organisation. For example; when an idea (a light bulb moment) is raised to help alleviate and change lives of people, funds for this can be achieved with the help of Social Crowdfunding.

Statistic shows the percentage growth in the number of Crowdfunding Platforms worldwide from 2008 increased by 38 percent in comparison to the previous year. The rate of crowdfunding platform growth continued in all of the following years and the growth rate reached 60 percent by 2012. The total number of crowdfunding platforms worldwide as of April 2012 amounted to 342, the estimated number by the end of December 2012 was at 536.

The global funding volume of crowdfunding platforms is expected to amount to just over 2.8 billion U.S. dollars, a massive increase from the 2009 figure which amounted to 530 million U.S. dollars. We saw $16 billion crowdfunded in 2014, with 2015 estimated to grow to over $34 billion.

By 2016 the crowdfunding industry is on track to account for more funding than venture capital, according to a recent report by Massolution.

The crowdfunding industry is doubling or more, every year, and is spread across several types of funding models including social, rewards, donation, equity, and debt/lending.

“donate-ng” is a social crowdfunding portal and below are things you need to know about donate-ng.

About “donate-ng”

1. “donate-ng” is a home for funding your small or big Charity dreams. Our mission is to help ease the burden of raising funds for your charity project or causes, bringing your dreams to fruition.
2. “donate-ng” supports each dream (Project or Charitable Cause) created by individuals or organisations.
3. “donate-ng” in its capacity has tried to curtail all avenues of fraud and mismanagement of funds raised, making sure all funds are used for the designated cause/charity/project.
4. “donate-ng” will support fund raisers to ensure their big dream is met using the “donate-ng” supervisory framework and ubiquitous advice.
5. Register today at www.donate-ng.com and in summary, you are 3 simple steps to raising funds for that charitable cause of charity.

Contact

To learn more about “donate-ng”, please visit

u: www.donate-ng.com

e: we@donate-ng.com

f: www.facebook.com/donatenigeria

t: www.twitter.com/donate_ng

Donate-NG is a Trademark of  Twocan Solutions Limited RC1258475

u: www.twocansolutions.com

e: we@twocansolutions.com, info@twocansolutions.com

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