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10 years ago
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Hey guys,
So I am feeling a little discouraged with the Patreon thing. I was really excited to see my monthly pledges increase so suddenly but after payments went through this month and it appears I only have a couple of real pledgers and I am feeling a little discouraged.
It seems a lot of the people that have pledged 30$ a month are empty accounts with fake payment information (I had my suspicions after seeing that for some reason people were only going for the most expensive tier).
On paper it seemed I had reached my goal for 2 pages a month but now its looking like I may be no where close.
I am considering dropping these apparent fake accounts but I was interested in your feedback, has anyone out there have much experience with Patreon and have you noticed this as a thing? Are these probably fake accounts (with no information in their accounts and following only me) or was there some sort of glitch with Patreon this month?
I will try to accomplish my goal of two pages a month, but with the small amount I am actually making with Patreon I may have to use my time in other areas to have enough money to pay bills. These comic pages take a lot of hours to put together. :(
I have been doing a lot of reading about Patreon and I think I am going to adopt a similar method a lot of others are using to prevent thefts, that being that I will individually email out rewards and prizes to those Patreons who's payments go through at the end of the month.
This will leave my Patreon feed a little empty but I will still post all of my public content on there, such as the smaller resolution pages, sketches and WIPs.
Anyway I would be very interested to hear your experiences with Patreon both as pledgers and creators and any advice you can give me to avoid these problems I appear to be having.
And also huge huge kudos to those pledgers who are real and are supporting me, you guys are awesome! <3 <3 <3
**UPDATE*****
I attempted to email the pledgers who appeared to have empty accounts and none of the emails went through, so they have been removed from my Patreon. This has brought me down below my goal as such I'm afraid I will only be able to complete one comic page per month, I will still be sharing WIPs, sketches and other fun art on my Patreon.
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Much Love
- Brush
So I am feeling a little discouraged with the Patreon thing. I was really excited to see my monthly pledges increase so suddenly but after payments went through this month and it appears I only have a couple of real pledgers and I am feeling a little discouraged.
It seems a lot of the people that have pledged 30$ a month are empty accounts with fake payment information (I had my suspicions after seeing that for some reason people were only going for the most expensive tier).
On paper it seemed I had reached my goal for 2 pages a month but now its looking like I may be no where close.
I am considering dropping these apparent fake accounts but I was interested in your feedback, has anyone out there have much experience with Patreon and have you noticed this as a thing? Are these probably fake accounts (with no information in their accounts and following only me) or was there some sort of glitch with Patreon this month?
I will try to accomplish my goal of two pages a month, but with the small amount I am actually making with Patreon I may have to use my time in other areas to have enough money to pay bills. These comic pages take a lot of hours to put together. :(
I have been doing a lot of reading about Patreon and I think I am going to adopt a similar method a lot of others are using to prevent thefts, that being that I will individually email out rewards and prizes to those Patreons who's payments go through at the end of the month.
This will leave my Patreon feed a little empty but I will still post all of my public content on there, such as the smaller resolution pages, sketches and WIPs.
Anyway I would be very interested to hear your experiences with Patreon both as pledgers and creators and any advice you can give me to avoid these problems I appear to be having.
And also huge huge kudos to those pledgers who are real and are supporting me, you guys are awesome! <3 <3 <3
**UPDATE*****
I attempted to email the pledgers who appeared to have empty accounts and none of the emails went through, so they have been removed from my Patreon. This has brought me down below my goal as such I'm afraid I will only be able to complete one comic page per month, I will still be sharing WIPs, sketches and other fun art on my Patreon.
***************
Much Love
- Brush
That is a ball ache though... Had no idea that some would do that and it seems that you gathered a few on the highest tier. I'm sorry. People are dicks.
Maybe if you made the comic only for Patreon, you'd gather more for the "pages" band? You've certainly got a damn better base than me for it. Looks like Patreon needs a better system in place though. At least with selling portfolios or commissions, you stand on safer (though not serene) ground.
I will probably eventually switch over to patreon only comics, but I definitely want to keep this first chapter open to everyone, if I can be making enough it would be lovely to keep everything public, but that may not be a realistic goal.
I'm not bothering with my own Patreon until they have it sorted out really. Which will hopefully be soon, considering how many creators they have using their services xD
I don't know how to prevent it, but when I sign up for a patreon I support it as long as I feel like it's appropriate, but I don't understand the people that are using it to do things like that.
Anything to help them know what's going wrong.