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🗓️ 23 July 2025
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This Ohio man loves board games so much that he made his own—and when he tries to raise $6,000 through a Kickstarter campaign, he ends up with much more than he ever imagined.
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0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
0:10.9 | NERDICSTARTA RERD Kikstarter campaign raises $1 million. |
0:15.2 | One million dollars. |
0:16.5 | This Ohio man loves board games so much that he made his own. |
0:20.3 | He first goes out and tries to raise $6,000 through a |
0:23.4 | Kickstarter campaign and he actually fails because this first campaign raises more than $100,000. |
0:29.5 | And then as I gave it away in the headline, he then goes on to raise more than a million |
0:34.2 | through Kickstarter for his board games. Very cool project, not a fluke, |
0:40.5 | since he did it multiple times. And he generously offered to share some tips. He gave us all the |
0:45.7 | details about how this developed. This is one of our favorite stories from the early years of the |
0:50.2 | podcast. We are bringing it back. Every Wednesday, we're doing a little bit of a remix. |
1:00.3 | So let's look at this one, nerdy Kickstarter campaign, not raising $6,000, actually going far above and beyond. The first one did $100,000. He went on from there. Let's hear the story of Travis |
1:05.4 | Hancock. It's coming up after the break. Life in general can be chaotic. Do you ever experience chaos in your life or your |
1:14.6 | business? I certainly do. I was recently on book tour and trying to manage a whole bunch of other |
1:19.8 | stuff at the same time. And so I'd get ready to go out and speak with a crowd and audience of |
1:24.9 | awesome people, perhaps including some of our listeners out there. |
1:28.4 | And then I'm also thinking about other things I need to do and just trying to manage and keep up |
1:33.0 | as much as possible. One thing I don't have to worry about, though, is order fulfillment, |
1:38.1 | because Shipstation handles that. And Shipstation can help you handle it. If you have orders to |
1:42.6 | send out, well, let me tell you, |
1:44.2 | you can automate shipping tasks. Automations allow you to smoothly print shipping labels. |
1:49.1 | You can scale your business. You never need to upgrade. Shipstation grows with you. They have helped |
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