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Zach Smith: Funded Today charges a 35% commission on crowdfunding campaigns
“Our standard percentage is 35% across the board.”
Smith: Funded Today gets 30% opt-in rates on pre-launch product pages
“We were getting about a 30% opt-in rate, so.”
Smith: Instagram is the next big advertising channel for crowdfunding
“Pinterest is actually starting to take up some effort, and Instagram is the next big thing, in my opinion.”
Zach Smith: Funded Today aims to double revenue to $16M in 2016
“We'd like to double that, and we think it's very realistic.”
Smith: Funded Today pays 10 to 65 cents per click for leads
“Oh, we don't talk too much about our margins and things of how we do it, but I would say on the low ball, at 10 cents a click, on the high ball, 60, 65 cents a click, so.”
Funded Today operates on a three-tier model of paid media, press, and networking
“We kind of say we're a three-tiered system where we focus on paid media, landing press, and then we call it cross collaborations or networking, and that's essentially the pre-launch.”
Zach Smith: Funded Today's crowdfunding backer email list exceeds one million
“Oh, it's a million strong or more now.”