Okay todays bit of Kickstarter advice may seem like a bit of common sense to most. But for some reason there are several cases of people running projects who cannot seem to fathom this simple idea. It doesn't require a lot of effort even.
Give updates about your project ON KICKSTARTER!
I don't know why some people think we want to keep track of what they are doing on the project by going to their Facebook page. Or having to subscribe to a Twitter feed. Or join a community. Or whatever social network/forum/outdated social network they want to suddenly use. Kickstarter has a place for you to give all your backers updates BUILT INTO THE DAMN PAGE. Every one of your backers have a login for Kickstarter or otherwise they couldn't have backed you in the first place. Not everyone has an account at whatever social network you seem to think is so important.
Give us the updates where you pitched your product, right there on the project page.
Now of course this is all based on the idea that you give us updates in the first place. We all know there are some project managers who can't even grasp that. So, I guess, first you should give us updates and then second put those updates on the 'updates' section of the project page. That is why it's there you know.
Okay this one was a bit more of a rant than I'm used to. Must have had a flashback to giving bad gamers advice on how to play in a group properly or something.
IMO, A lot of people avoid doing it on the Kickstarter Page proper because their goal is to channel any negative communications away from the site so that if they launch another kickstarter, any warning bells that would be triggered by the updates and communications in their last one won't be visible to the average consumer.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, I believe this is basically done on purpose to fuck people over in the future.