FA+
Shop
Need Subscribestar Advice
11 months ago
(TL;DR - I'm an idiot, how do I do this?)
Hi.
I've been thinking about starting one of these subscription based things to post art maybe a few weeks early for quite some time now. I'm man enough to admit that I am an armature still, that I have no idea what I'm doing and, if I'm being honest, I'm not the most confident person these past few years. The idea of stating a Patreon or a Subscribestar is so I can worry less about making enough to sustain myself with just my day job and allowing myself even more time to make content, practice art and even study animation. Maybe even one day being able to work a day job part time instead of full. Maybe even quitting, but lets focus on the present.
I've heard that Patreon isn't the best to work with these days so that's why I'm focused on Subscribestar (or any other good alternative you could think of). In regards to what I think I can offer is seeing my gallery uploads a week or two early, discounts on commissions, more WIPs and so on.
I only have 775 watchers at the time I'm writing this and half of those are probably dead pages, so is going this route a good idea? Probably not, but I need to try something new - my current situation is starting to get bad.
Thanks.
Hi.
I've been thinking about starting one of these subscription based things to post art maybe a few weeks early for quite some time now. I'm man enough to admit that I am an armature still, that I have no idea what I'm doing and, if I'm being honest, I'm not the most confident person these past few years. The idea of stating a Patreon or a Subscribestar is so I can worry less about making enough to sustain myself with just my day job and allowing myself even more time to make content, practice art and even study animation. Maybe even one day being able to work a day job part time instead of full. Maybe even quitting, but lets focus on the present.
I've heard that Patreon isn't the best to work with these days so that's why I'm focused on Subscribestar (or any other good alternative you could think of). In regards to what I think I can offer is seeing my gallery uploads a week or two early, discounts on commissions, more WIPs and so on.
I only have 775 watchers at the time I'm writing this and half of those are probably dead pages, so is going this route a good idea? Probably not, but I need to try something new - my current situation is starting to get bad.
Thanks.
Something you can do is offer limited slots, to better manage the work load. And for other rewards I know some artists set up and manage Discords for their community to be part of. Others instead of outright images, offer special raffles for people to enter in.
As well, another good reward are percentage discounts on your services. People willing to give you money monthly are typically the same people that want to do more business with you. For right now maybe consider working on three tiers of varying costs and rewards and work from there