{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 0010 | \u201cThe Crowd Whisperer\u201d Evaluates Projects","description":"In this episode, we\u2019re busting out our secret weapon. There\u2019s even a bit of some \u201cwater cooler talk\u201d going on at Funded Today, that this guy is \u201cTHE Crowd Whisperer.\u201d If there\u2019s anyone in the entire crowdfunding universe who has an eye for a great product and how to create one yourself, it\u2019s this man, our very own Director of Client Specialists at Funded Today, Mr. Curtis Child. ---------------------------------------------------------------- \u2b50 During this episode, we detail these takeaways:  1. Learn as much as possible from your competitors\u2019 campaigns about what helped render their products and\/or presentations successful.  2. Before you ever launch a campaign, back some campaigns, both to familiarize yourself with the crowdfunding process and to establish yourself as part of the crowdfunding community.  3. Crowdfunding backers constitute a community with certain commonalities, and you can expect most of your project\u2019s backers to be repeat not new.  4. The crowdfunding community seems to notice campaigns more readily when they use attractive uncluttered thumbnail images created from high-quality soft photographs of trendily-colored products on white backgrounds.  5. Crowdfunding campaigns raise funds better anytime they\u2019re the first to offer the crowdfunding community a desirable innovation to a ubiquitous product, rather than marginally improving upon a previous project, although the latter can also enjoy success.  6. Rather than marginally improving upon someone else\u2019s original idea, campaigners might succeed better by applying an already-successful innovation to an entirely-different product.  7. Many crowdfunding campaigners expect to raise $1,000,000 but don\u2019t\u2014but short-term success does not correlate with long-term success. \u270d\ufe0f Click here for this episode\u2019s complete show notes! ---------------------------------------------------------------- \ud83d\udc49 We want to help as many people as we can; so, if this podcast helps you, then we urge you to please\u2026  \u2022 Subscribe to it on our website so that you don't miss an episode!  \u2022 Discuss it in our private Facebook group with us and fellow entrepreneurs! Join this group to network for success and to get personalized answers to all of your business questions!  \u2022 Review it on iTunes to help us reach more people who need it!  \u2022 And tell all of your associates who might benefit from it! We rely on YOU to help spread the word!!! ","author_name":"Get Funded Today: The Funded Today Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.funded.today\/podcast","html":"