012 – Righting Riverdale: A Better Blueprint for Archie Kickstarter Success

Last session, we detailed all the things that went wrong with the Archie Comics Kickstarter, and the major lessons creators should take from that failed launch. In this session, Tyler James and co-host Jeremy Melloul, rebuild the Riverdale relaunch Kickstarter from the ground up, and discuss ideas for crafting a more successful launch.

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Kickstarter News

Something cool… The success rate for comics on KS went above the 50% mark… 50.1% to be exact. First time I’ve seen that!

Clearly ComixLaunch is working!

Number fluctuates, around that 50% mark for years… but as far as I’m concerned, no where close to where it can and should be… so we’re not resting on our laurels here… We’re DOUBLING DOWN!

What would we have done differently if we were running the Archie Kickstarter

Join the KS Community 1-2 Months before Launching

Back 10 projects

Do your homework

Run a strong Pre-Launch Campaign

KS got off to a very slow start…

Social Media Teasers

Emails to List

Narrow the Focus of the Project and the Lower the Goal

ex. Life with Kevin digital campaign

Lower the goal to something more reasonable

Simplify… Everything

Simplify the reward structure

Improve Transparency

Obviously transparency & more realistic goal are two good things to do.

Clarify the costs

The Target/ Wal-mart deal not relevant to this campaign

ComixLauncher

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Come up with at least three ideas for what would you have done differently to build a better Archie Comics Kickstarter?

Tyler mentions his email, I give mine

Email us your ideas at [email protected] & [email protected] using subject line: ComixLauncher #12. and let us know… how would YOU have righted Riverdale?

Bonus Content: Lessons from Archie E-book

It’s a PDF presentation meant to dive deeper into the merits & failings of the Archie Kickstarter in order to extrapolate as many lessons as possible. It includes:

An explanation of the Archie Kickstarter & the controversy surrounding it
A bonus lesson in light of the cancellation of the project
An alternate Kickstarter strategy: How Archie could’ve put together a successful campaign, based off Kickstarter best practices.
A post-mortem, discussing what might come next from Archie and where they could go from here

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