Sustainable crowdfunding : research-based analysis for communication campaigns

1. Defining Crowdfunding 2. Crowdfunding as Experience Architecture 3. Assessing Platforms 4. Planning and Running a Campaign 5. Discrete Campaigns 6. Interconnected Campaigns 7. Sustaining Crowdfunding

This book analyzes the communication and writing strategies necessary to craft and maintain ongoing crowdfunding campaigns to support businesses, non-profits, artists, and others. Drawing on theory from technical communication and user experience, as well as mixed methods research, and text mining, this book takes an evidence-based approach to understanding the successes and failures of crowdfunding campaigns. It examines campaigns across a range of platforms including Kickstarter, GoFundMe, IndieGoGo, and Patreon. The book breaks down successful exemplar campaigns that have proven long-term success to showwhat has worked and why, giving readers a solid foundation to research and create a campaign of their own. Sustainable Crowdfunding serves as a supplemental text for courses in technical and professional communication, user experience, communication research methods, and digital marketing, and will be of interest to both communication scholars and advanced crowdfunding professionals.