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PATREON CHANGES, FUNDING NEEDED, advice also needed...
9 years ago
OKAY.. So... after a revelation that everyone hates "paywalls" and it wasn't working anyway, I've opened my Patreon content up to everyone.
https://www.patreon.com/tehzee
Patrons now get different rewards, mainly more influence over what I do next.
HOWEVER.. If you want to see me do more animation (that isn't a commission anyway), I need funding...
It's quite simple, if my Patreon gets enough funding, I can drastically reduce the number of commissions I need to pull in, and that means less spamming you with YCH posts. :P
If it doesn't show signs of increased effectiveness in... I'd say less than 3 weeks.. I'll be scrapping the animation idea entirely and going back to the drawing board.
So if you wanna see more of that and less YCH, it would be a good idea to step forward sooner rather than later, and I'd seriously appreciate it.
That said, what DO you guys wanna see that would get you chipping in on a Patreon?
Types of content.. Rewards.. What?
I'm no mind reader. :P And this is a serious question.
https://www.patreon.com/tehzee
Patrons now get different rewards, mainly more influence over what I do next.
HOWEVER.. If you want to see me do more animation (that isn't a commission anyway), I need funding...
It's quite simple, if my Patreon gets enough funding, I can drastically reduce the number of commissions I need to pull in, and that means less spamming you with YCH posts. :P
If it doesn't show signs of increased effectiveness in... I'd say less than 3 weeks.. I'll be scrapping the animation idea entirely and going back to the drawing board.
So if you wanna see more of that and less YCH, it would be a good idea to step forward sooner rather than later, and I'd seriously appreciate it.
That said, what DO you guys wanna see that would get you chipping in on a Patreon?
Types of content.. Rewards.. What?
I'm no mind reader. :P And this is a serious question.
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General speaking using pateron as a paywall goes poorly for the vast majority of artists unless you've got a massive following. Specific example of functional paywall, Jeremy Bernal using patreon as a secondary paywall as well as using it to push sexyfur content which is also paywalled. Most artists do not have 100k+ followers with disposable income. Personal thought on that sort of patreon, it's a severely abusive and disingenuous way to use it.
What appears to work is - early access to what's being worked on, seeing project updates on a regular basis, and using it for special projects (Look into votes by patron members) - The more you involve members of your watcher group in the pateron the more successful they tend to be.
Rewards are a difficult bunch. Seen them range from things like a raffle-style commission with X many tickets put in per donor level to voting for specific pieces (See votes per tier/weighted votes/or just having each donor group be entirely separate), to little things like more streaming per week or doing something X many times per week that you'd like to do more often anyway that the extra income would support. That would be a great thing to ask your watchers, that "What do you all want to see more of that you'd be willing to chip in a bit per month for"
Entire thing is a balancing act between your watchers and what you're offering to them. Seriously look into slapping together some stuff on strawpoll and see what your watchers are most interested in, would recommend attaching it to an image instead of a journal though as... journals tend to not get a lot of attention.