Halfway there! Over 1000% Funded! (and new design feature!)
about 7 years ago
– Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 04:21:56 PM
Halfway Home!
We have officially passed the halfway point of our campaign with 14 days remaining! We are ecstatic to be over 1000% funded with more than 570 backers from around the world! We wanted to share a few recent developments regarding Sketchmark.
New Design Feature: Triangles!
After receiving several suggestions to add triangles to our design, we have officially confirmed with our manufacturer that we will add this feature to Sketchmark! Below is the new layout for Sketchmark that includes the triangles. As you can tell on the right, these can be used to create full triangles or arrows, mostly used for bullet journaling!
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New Domain: mysketchmark.com!
We recently purchased a new domain for Sketchmark, mysketchmark.com! While this domain currently points to our website, it will soon be a "tutorial" page for Sketchmark. A few features we plan to include:
- Videos showing how to use Sketchmark
- Sample templates of journal page layouts
- "Inspirational" photos showing users using Sketchmark
We intend to have parts of this page built out by the time we begin fulfillment. However, we hope backers will share their own photos, designs and sketches to be featured as well!
Order Multiple Units!
We mentioned this in our last update but have had a few new backers ask how to order more Sketchmarks. To do so, simply increase your pledge amount by the number of units you want to order. For example, if you pledged for 1 Sketchmark at $12, you can increase your pledge to $24 for 2 Sketchmarks. For international backers, no additional shipping fees are needed.
Manufacturing Update!
While we looked into several stretch goal ideas (clear plastic, more stencil options, carrying sleeves, colors, etc.), we ultimately decided to focus on getting Sketchmark to backers more efficiently. We are working from a few different angles to ensure we create the best possible product and get it to our backers as quickly and successfully as possible.
Accelerated Timeline
We have already begun working on an accelerated timeline with our manufacturer. With the larger number of units being produced, we are developing a financial plan to begin manufacturing before our Kickstarter funds arrive. With the accelerated timeline, we believe we can shave several weeks off our initial fulfillment timeline!
Packaging Update
With our initial $1,000 goal we planned to create a basic packaging design and assemble the products ourselves. With the larger number of backers, we are able to switch to a much better retail packaging design that will be assembled by our manufacturer. This will increase our overall product quality and improve the timeline for fulfillment.
Backerkit Fulfillment
We have also made the decision to integrate our campaign with Backerkit to streamline our fulfillment process. With over 50% of our backers coming from outside the United States, we want to make sure our fulfillment process is as smooth as possible! Limiting our campaign to a single product will help this as well! We are also working with shipping partners to see if we can improve our shipping (i.e. faster service, more trackable, etc.) without increasing our cost due to the large number of backers.
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That's all for now! Feel free to continue to leave comments, send messages, and share our project with friends! Thank you all again for helping us exceed our expectations! We can't wait to see what everyone will create with Sketchmark!
Jordan