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How do you know if you’re creating effective ads on Facebook? How can you learn from your data to improve your funnel creation ability? In this video, I talk about three of the most important metrics for measuring sales funnel success and what it means for your business. When you do a product launch, you need to have a waitlist of people built up from day one. You achieve this through what’s calle...

Would you like to get a celebrity endorsement or two to help fuel your Kickstarter launch and not have to pay them or give up any equity in your business? How about 13 endorsements?  Well, that’s exactly what Jon “Of The Chords” Ng did to raise over $300K on Kickstarter for “Lord of the Chords: The Punniest Music Theory Card Game in the World”. While doing his research on how to launch a Kickstart...

Gabby Samkova, originally from Australia, was living and working in Bali while surfing in her spare time.  While she thought she was getting as far away from city life as possible and experiencing nature, she was constantly brought back to reality.  Even while 100 meters offshore surfing, she would encounter plastic. Plastic bottles... plastic bags... plastic particles. She even kicked a dirty dia...

➜ Where Kickstarter fits in your product development phases ➜ Should Kickstarter be a part of your product development strategy? Kickstarter, and crowdfunding in general, is a fantastic tool available to entrepreneurs who want to launch new products. It allows people to launch their products without nearly as massive of a burden as they would've had before. BUT that doesn't mean it's an instant or...

Coran Woodmass, the founder of thefbabroker.com , is a specialist ‘Fulfilment By Amazon’ or FBA Business Sales Broker who helps online founders sell their businesses. E-commerce is shifting away from selling exclusively on Amazon and investors are starting to prefer buying a brand. In this episode we’ll dive into that, as well as: The process of selling an e-commerce brand  What investors expect f...

All the free advice on the interwebs can't compare to the actual experience you'll go through while bringing a product to market. Lisa Myers recently launched Ceres Chill on Indiegogo. She hit her launch goal of $15K in the first 12 hours of her campaign, and how she did it was extremely impressive. Ceres Chill is the world's first breastmilk cooler. As a full-time lawyer with two young kids at ho...

What do you do when you launch your product and you think it's failing? In this episode, we explore: * how to know for sure if your Kickstarter is failing * why it might be failing * what to avoid at all cost * how to handle a failed campaign

Bestselling author of Pitch Anything, and sales master Oren Klaff uses his decades of pitching, presenting, and closing long-shot, high stakes deals to create a new playbook on persuasion in Flip the Script: Getting People to Think Your Idea is Their Idea .   No one likes being told what to think, but everyone trusts their own ideas. Rather than pushing your idea on the buyer, in this interview, O...

In this episode, Khierstyn will delve into the wonders of leading with the results and how it can captivate, win, and sustain the right customers. She will highlight the difference between results and features and why the former is the real deal when selling your product online. Finally, she will share a piece of important advice that will protect your products from becoming a mere commoditized pr...

Do you want to be on top of your game? Then paid advertising could be for you! Whether you're launching a new product, an email list, or simply want to drive people to follow your page and turn them to clients, you need a specialist to help you. And what better tool or platform there is but Facebook and Instagram! Why? Because both will give you a volume of traffic that will help get your product...

How much do you set your Kickstarter goal to? What should your public and your private goal be? Here's what you really need to consider before setting these marks to make sure you're covering your funding bases.

In this guest episode with Ryan Daniel Moran, we have a frank conversation about how most entrepreneurs have it backward. It's not about finding the product first, it's about discovering the audience to sell to. In this episode, we uncover Ryan's process for finding and attracting untapped audience potential.

In today's episode, we bring on one of the world's top product licensing specialists, Stephen Key, to discuss this route to market. In this episode, we cover the ins and outs of product licensing, whether it's right for you, as well as how to protect your product IP from knockoffs.

Hiring a videographer for your Kickstarter product video can be one of the more expensive investments you make in your product launch. This is also one of the areas many business owners get wrong. Listen to this episode to learn some best practices when hiring a videographer, including, how to find them, how to select them, and what to look for.

Regardless of where you are in your online journey, at some point, you'll want to increase your reach by getting your product into retail and other distribution. In this in-depth interview with Sarah Shaw, we go through best practices when approaching retailers for the first time, as well as how to make sure that even when your product is on shelves, that it's selling. As a bonus, we explore how s...

Transcript Hey guys, welcome to Launch and Scale. This is episode seven. In this episode, we are taking a look at what is the best route to market for your product. A while there are several types we could talk about, two that I come across most in the eCommerce space is do you launch your product on Amazon first or do you launch on Kickstarter first? This is the question that was inspired by Stei...

Not having a strong understanding of who your customer is, niching down, and focusing on who you want to serve is by far one of the biggest barriers to success on Kickstarter (and launching products successfully) that I see. Struggling to find your niche or narrowing down your message can seem limiting, but trust me, it’s the opposite. Ever heard the phrase: “If you end up trying to reach everyone...

Transcript:  Hey everyone, welcome to the Launch and Scale podcast. This is episode five, and I'm Khierstyn Ross. This episode is brought to you by the Launch and Scale program, which if you are looking for a done with you program that is a proven step by step system and support that we have put together to get you the support that you need throughout your product launch, be sure to head over to k...

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Launch and Scale podcast. This is episode four, and I'm Khierstyn Ross. In today's episode, we are going to be taking a look at what is my recommended software stack to use when building up an engaged audience for your product online. And this question was inspired by really Fernando Perez. He emailed in asking how we can incorporate click funnels into our overall pla...

Welcome to The Launch and Scale Podcast. This is episode three and I'm Khierstyn Ross. The first thing I wanted to cover in today's episode is that Launch and Scale is now available on all major podcasting platforms. So whether you are Google Play, iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher, then you will be able to find Launch and Scale by just doing a quick search on those platforms. And please do subscribe a...

Hey guys, welcome to the Launch and Scale podcast, I'm Khierstyn, this is episode two and this episode is covering how the heck do you know if someone really wants to buy your product before you sink thousands of dollars into it. Which is going into, how do you validate your ideas quickly and move on to ones that are actually going to sell for you? This is a question that was posed by Brett Buxton...

Hey, guys. Welcome to episode one of the Launch and Scale podcast. If you are confused and wondering why there is an episode before this, that is the overview episode. That is a way to give you a flavor of the show and see if this is something that you want to give a shot and listen to. If this is your first time listening to the show, be sure to head over to khierstyn.com/podcast and subscribe to...

Hey everyone, welcome to the overview episode of the Launch and Scale™ Podcast. I'm Khierstyn Ross, and I am so excited to be officially kicking this off. For those that have been following the Crowdfunding Uncut podcast for a while, you know that I did that for the last three years where that podcast focused really heavily on how to bring physical products to market through the Kickstarter route....