The Colorado Sun: Review, Funding & Stats
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/873054240/the-colorado-sunHyperstarter Score
21%
Need Improvement
Goal Status
Backers
2,622
Pledge Amount
$161,493.89
of $75,000
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Marketing & Backlinks
Popular Sites
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 The Colorado Sun - Wikipedia Sep 10, 2019|en.wikipedia.org|High Traffic "Kickstarter: The Colorado Sun" . Kickstarter |
 Judgment Day for Journalism. As legacy news organizations falter… | by Phillip Smith | Medium medium.com|High Traffic Don Day, above). One I’m currently watching closely is the Colorado Sun ,“a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet focused on investigative, explanatory and |
 The Colorado Sun - Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org "Kickstarter: The Colorado Sun" . Kickstarter |
 Colorado Sun: Former Denver Post Journalists Launch Media Venture | Fortune fortune.com|High Traffic the media outlet is also raising money through crowdfunding site Kickstarter . So far, it has raised $31,317 of its $75,000 |
 Ex-Denver Post Journalists, Editors Launch New Blockchain-Powered Colorado News Outlet cointelegraph.com|High Traffic There is currently a Kickstarter campaign for the fledgling outlet, which hopes to raise $75,000 over |
General Sites
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 News: Crypto hedge funds suffer, bankers on crypto’s problems, what good payment networks look like, another Civil news outlet, EOS doesn’t work, PonzICO retrospective – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain davidgerard.co.uk former staff of the Denver Post. They also have a Kickstarter, which looks like it’s going pretty well. |
 ZigZag - TopPodcast.com toppodcast.com Popula (@mariabustillos) Stephanie Lulay Block Club Chicago (@slulay2) Eric Lubbers The Colorado Sun (@brofax) Harry Siegle FAQNYC (@harrysiegel) |
 colorado sun | Colorado news, investigations, politics and more — Th www.websiteperu.com What kind of newspaper is the Colorado Sun? |
 Amid Regional Newspaper Layoffs, Colorado Journalists Start Something New | YPR www.ypradio.org Civil Media Company , plus an additional $160,000 that it crowdsourced on Kickstarter. |
 Judgement day for journalism: Will digital news startups be ready to face the challenge? | Phillip Smith phillipadsmith.com alum, Don Day, above). One I’m currently watching closely is The Colorado Sun : “a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet focused on investigative, explanatory |
The Colorado Sun: Campaign Review & Analysis
Campaign Page Overview
Detailed breakdown and suggestions for improvement
Hyperstarter Score Breakdown
 1 | The title is too shortTITLE: 16 The first job of your headline is to grab attention. Describe your project with an easily understood, communicable and unique benefit. |
 3 | Consider revising the description lengthDESCRIPTION: 133 Is the description to-the-point and concise? Focus on the main features of the campaign and how a backer can benefit. |
 1 | There are no wordsWORD COUNT: 0 This campaign needs more text on the page. Think about what questions potential backers will have on their minds, answer them through imagery and detailed descriptive text. |
 5 | Not PresentLINK COUNT: 0 Having a small number of outbound links to other sites showing reports, company sites etc., can help build trust. |
 1 | Not presentNUMBER OF IMAGES: 0 Consider adding more such as more product images including people, a features list including text and icons, timeline, photos of the people involved in the project and/or images of where you have been mentioned. |
Suggested Improvements
Congrats on overfunding!
Just keep pushing the campaign whether it is leveraging your own contacts, updating your ads or retargeting an existing audience or trying pitching and outreach to influencers in your specific niche.
The first job of your title and headline is to get attention. The way you capture someone's attention is by describing your project in an easy to understand manner. It also helps if your product has a superlative label. For example: Is it the "World's Best ____?", the "first _____?", the "fastest____?" etc. Can you explain to potential backers how your product is lighter, faster, quicker, bigger, smaller, better than competitors.
What makes your product unique? What makes it different from the others? Explain in your description what makes your product, different, better, cooler...more unique than all its competitors.
People love reading stories. It's why fiction authors outsell non-fiction authors by at least 1,000-to-1. Your product has a creation story, an origin and you may have stories of customers who have used your product and how it changed their lives. Tell these stories on your project page.
Not only do visuals draw a potential backers attention to the sections that they care about, but they also make your campaign appear more professional and well-crafted. Check how your "hero" image looks like as a thumbnail.