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About Indiegogo

Sandy
posted this on October 02, 2011 22:24

What is Indiegogo?

People all over the world use Indiegogo to raise money for all types of campaigns. No matter what you are raising money for, there's no fee or application process.

Browse the thousands of amazing campaigns on our site to find your inspiration. Discover something new, contribute to a campaign and join the tens of thousands of people who use Indiegogo every day.

Below are just a few of the benefits of using Indiegogo:

Completely Accessible: Anyone, anywhere can raise money for anything on Indiegogo

  • You can start creating your campaign right now for free; there is no application process

  • You can raise money for anything, including for profit ventures, creative ideas or personal needs

  • Start your campaign and collect money from any country in the world as long as you have a valid bank account and meet these terms: Terms of Use

Powerful Tools: We have the tools you need to easily create, share and manage your campaign from start to finish

  • Customize and publish a professional online funding campaign
  • One-click social media integration, direct email and announcement features make it easy to spread the word, raise awareness and increase funding
  • Manage contributions with the analytics tools and stay on top of sending off your perks with the dashboard. Track who has claimed perks and how to get in touch with contributors to ensure they receive perks on time.

Global Exposure: Gogofactor promotion and an active community will elevate awareness

  • Campaigns get exposed on Indiegogo based on their gogofactor. It's a unique, merit based algorithm that tracks the level of activity on each campaign based on how much you share, update, and attract funding.
  • Based on your gogofactor activity, you may be eligible for exposure in our social media outreach, community and content creation, and press access.  

Personalization:  Every campaign is personal and we give you the support and options you need during your campaign process

  • Keep all the money you raise, even if you don’t meet your goal. Or, opt for Fixed Funding and only keep your money if your campaign reaches its goal.
  • You can learn as you go from the experts and we always have a 24 hour response time. Our Customer Happiness team and our blog posts will help you along the way.
  • You can customize your campaign page with our step-by-step set up. Write your story, upload videos, create a gallery of images, and offer perks.
  • All campaigns can offer multiple funding types to their contributors, including PayPal and major credit cards.

Want to get started?  Please visit our forum:  How to Create a Campaign

 
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