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7 years ago
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I have wanted to get rid of the last journal from the front of my page for a while now and I think I found something.
I have been trying to come up with some ways to expands my Patreon as a means of Passive Income. At least more constructive ways than just "make more content!"
A little background on how it is run. There are 3 tiers:
$2.50 Sketch Access tier
$5.00 Finished Early Access along with full resolutions of original pieces tier
$10.00 Voting for new content tier
Right now the early access benefit is seeing pictures roughly 9 months before they hit FurAffinity/Twitter. Sketches on the other hand rarely ever get posted at all, because I make them with the mindset of wanting to finish them (which in reality is unlikely)(this is also the closest thing I have to "paywalled" content but it isn't intended).
Voting is where people get to vote on two polls I present every month on some topic I feel like working on (such as picking a sketch to make a finished version of or some new sketch to make). Right now that is basically it and I really want to improve this tier. My Patreon is set to increase the poll count to 3 when my Patreon amount exceeds $150 and keep increasing the number every milestone.
So with that in mind, I want to figure out how to improve the $10 tier because the polls create some frustrations. I have two different followings and one tends to not like the content of the other. That is: Paws vs. Hyper. Sometimes this makes one whole poll not of much interest to a person and it is even more disappointing if what they did vote for in their one relevant poll loses.
Now, here are some limits to finding considerations:
1) I am not interested in anything paywalled (with the exception mention below). Early access yes, but I do want everything to be seen in their entirety eventually.
2) No individualized rewards. If I wanted to do this, I'd just take commissions.
3) No "Black Market" content. As some may know, I for a short stint did adult content, the REAL stuff, not the laughable stuff you see on this account, but I did it under a different name. I did for a while consider putting this content as a Patreon reward and it is also the closest I came to truly considering a paywall. The biggest reason this didn't happen is that I didn't want to produce this stuff regularly. Yes, I do still do dabble in it here and there privately but not regularly. Also, lately I've seen rumors of Patreon perhaps wanting to crack down on adult content accounts because of legal obligations, giving me another reason not to pursue this.
With those limits in mind, is there perhaps something you could think of I could do to the $10 tier?
One idea I am playing with is to let people submit ideas or suggestions for little ACEO (trading card sized) sketches of members of my vast cast to be made. They submit to a pool and I would pick 3 each month. Ideas could be carried over, especially if I know I like some unused ideas. The number picked each month I could have scale with the total pledged amount like the polls.
It is also possible I would make an auxiliary poll to have one of those finished each month (not necessarily those from that or previous month). The big drawback for this is that it could create another "Paws vs. Hyper" instance and paws almost always win.
So feel free to leave a comment if you have any suggestions. ^^
~Eclipsis
I have been trying to come up with some ways to expands my Patreon as a means of Passive Income. At least more constructive ways than just "make more content!"
A little background on how it is run. There are 3 tiers:
$2.50 Sketch Access tier
$5.00 Finished Early Access along with full resolutions of original pieces tier
$10.00 Voting for new content tier
Right now the early access benefit is seeing pictures roughly 9 months before they hit FurAffinity/Twitter. Sketches on the other hand rarely ever get posted at all, because I make them with the mindset of wanting to finish them (which in reality is unlikely)(this is also the closest thing I have to "paywalled" content but it isn't intended).
Voting is where people get to vote on two polls I present every month on some topic I feel like working on (such as picking a sketch to make a finished version of or some new sketch to make). Right now that is basically it and I really want to improve this tier. My Patreon is set to increase the poll count to 3 when my Patreon amount exceeds $150 and keep increasing the number every milestone.
So with that in mind, I want to figure out how to improve the $10 tier because the polls create some frustrations. I have two different followings and one tends to not like the content of the other. That is: Paws vs. Hyper. Sometimes this makes one whole poll not of much interest to a person and it is even more disappointing if what they did vote for in their one relevant poll loses.
Now, here are some limits to finding considerations:
1) I am not interested in anything paywalled (with the exception mention below). Early access yes, but I do want everything to be seen in their entirety eventually.
2) No individualized rewards. If I wanted to do this, I'd just take commissions.
3) No "Black Market" content. As some may know, I for a short stint did adult content, the REAL stuff, not the laughable stuff you see on this account, but I did it under a different name. I did for a while consider putting this content as a Patreon reward and it is also the closest I came to truly considering a paywall. The biggest reason this didn't happen is that I didn't want to produce this stuff regularly. Yes, I do still do dabble in it here and there privately but not regularly. Also, lately I've seen rumors of Patreon perhaps wanting to crack down on adult content accounts because of legal obligations, giving me another reason not to pursue this.
With those limits in mind, is there perhaps something you could think of I could do to the $10 tier?
One idea I am playing with is to let people submit ideas or suggestions for little ACEO (trading card sized) sketches of members of my vast cast to be made. They submit to a pool and I would pick 3 each month. Ideas could be carried over, especially if I know I like some unused ideas. The number picked each month I could have scale with the total pledged amount like the polls.
It is also possible I would make an auxiliary poll to have one of those finished each month (not necessarily those from that or previous month). The big drawback for this is that it could create another "Paws vs. Hyper" instance and paws almost always win.
So feel free to leave a comment if you have any suggestions. ^^
~Eclipsis
As for avoiding the Paws vs Hyper issue, maybe do something like monthly themes? One month you accept hyper suggestions and have votes for paws and then the next month you accept paw suggestions and have hyper votes? Maybe even, if you have enough suggestions/ideas, votes and drawings for things entirely different?
But of course, the most important thing is to not do something that would stress you out, not be fun for you, or make you uncomfortable!
I don't think alternating polls each month would be good. As that would mean people would go a whole month without being able to use their voting powers on something they really like.
Thank you for the input though!
Can't really think of any other suggestions for now except keep up the great work!