Your draft doesn’t have to be 100% complete, but it’s best to give us a full picture of your materials at this stage so you can get the most out of the feedback process. Allow yourself time to digest our feedback and make changes to your project as needed. Seed&Spark requires a minimum of 5 working days to review a project, provide feedback and approve it for launch, given your project meets our launch requirements.
After reviewing our first round of feedback, polish up your materials and make sure they meet our bare minimum requirements to launch.
Then, check off that you acknowledge each section of feedback and click the “re-submit for approval” button. As long as your project meets these requirements upon re-submitting for final approval, we’ll approve you for launch within 1 business day.
Once you hit ‘submit,’ give us a couple working days to review your project and provide personalized feedback. We ask that you allow up to 5 business days for this (because we’re a tiny team of real humans!), but historically we deliver between 1-2 business days.
Our Crowdfunding Experts review every project submitted and make suggestions for improvement based on our years of experience. It’s because of our thorough review and feedback process that we have the highest success rate in the biz: over 80%!
All of our feedback comes from wanting you to succeed in your crowdfunding efforts, and our feedback is based on years of studying what works (and what doesn’t.) This feedback comes from studying the hundreds of campaigns that have come through Seed&Spark, as well as campaigns on other platforms. It's the reason Seed&Spark has the highest success rate in the crowdfunding business - over 80%!
We’ve even experimented with our process and allowed projects to launch whether or not they incorporated any elements of our feedback and 90% of them were unsuccessful. Additionally, 90% of folks who've grown frustrated by our process and launched on other platforms have not met their goals either.
This isn't meant to scare or intimidate you, but rather to share where we're coming from and why we provide this feedback: it's about sharing everything we can with creators to assist them in reaching their goals.
That said, you’re not required to follow all of our advice! We’ve whittled down only the most important best practices into a set of bare minimum requirements to launch, which we’ve also included in the campaign page breakdown from earlier, and will remind you of during feedback. As long as your project meets these requirements upon re-submitting for final approval, we’ll approve you for launch on Seed&Spark.
There are 7 areas our Crowdfunding Experts have identified that are instrumental to the viability of your campaign; these are the 7 areas we give you feedback on.
There’s a misperception that crowdfunding is an “if you build it, they will come” endeavor. Targeting and developing a relationship with your audience before you launch is essential to crowdfunding success, and e-mail is still the most effective way in getting people to support your project. Social media posts convert 1-2% of people who see them into pledges, but direct email outreach converts 20-30%!
To help determine whether you have the network to support what you’re asking for, we’ll be looking at: