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Hi I’m Angela Anderson. I teach Acrylic Painting Tutorials live on YouTube twice weekly. I started my Patreon page in 2017 and it has been the best thing I have ever done for my career. We offer traceables, bonus videos, reference images and an exclusive Facebook group for our Patreon supporters.

If you would like to check out my channel it is http://www.youtube.com/user/angelafineart
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/angelafineart

Thanks! I look forward to getting to know more of my fellow creators here.

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hi all, I’m Tempest :slight_smile: I’m a writer and I’ve had Patreon for a couple of years. I’ve been stagnant at about the same number of patrons/monthly income for a while, so I’m really hoping this will help get me to my first goal at least.

The biggest issue right now is that I don’t know what to offer. I’m not a visual artist and don’t have the capacity to make Things and I’m currently writing a book so don’t have one releasing. And due to the nature of my book (it’s set in Ancient Egypt) I can’t really offer Tuckerizations. I’m hoping talking with folks here will help inspire me.

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Hi! My name is Cora Harrington, and I’m the Founder and Editor in Chief of The Lingerie Addict, the world’s leading lingerie blog. I’m also a brand-new author; my first book, In Intimate Detail: How to Choose, Wear, and Love Lingerie just came out last week!

I’ve been on Patreon a little less than a year, but I know I’m not using it to its fullest potential. To be fair, that’s because I was distracted writing a book (and also moving cross-country from CA to NYC), but I feel like now is the time to really push for Patreon membership.

I’m hoping to increase my revenue for the platform, and, if possible, make it my primary source of income.

Looking forward to it!

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I’m Jem and my husband and I are software developers running an open source project called Postgraphile, so in a different area to most of the replies here so far. Patreon is quite a new concept in the software development circle, as far as I know. However, joining Patreon has enabled us to dedicate a few days a month solely to our free Open Source project.

We’re hoping we can use the Special Offers campaign to launch a weekly private live stream for Patrons. We’re thinking the Special Offer period will help us promote a new software release and will launch the first live stream, which would also mean we’d be setting up our Discord server too. Then we will introduce the weekly live streams at a later date separate from the promotion.

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Hello everyone!
I’m Jenny and I run an educational YouTube channel called Science Mom. I’m also an author with a couple published science activity books and a handful of unpublished manuscripts in my drawer.

The thing I’m most interested in gaining from this program is forming stronger connections with my patrons, and revitalising my campaign. I ran at an overextended pace for too long and burnt myself out at the beginning of this summer. Then I shifted more of my creative energy to novel writing, which was very helpful to me in recovering from the burnout – but I didn’t communicate that very well to my patrons. I’ve had several drop their support in the last couple months. I’d like to use the Special Offers campaign to help with a slight rebranding (incorporating my writing in with the science education video production I do). I haven’t decided which reward to offer yet.

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I’m Christopher and I run the podcast Decipher SciFi. Currently at 32 patrons, $247 per month. I’m looking to grow these numbers to enable further expansion.

We’re a month or two away from rolling out the new show, an RPG actual play show that will be video-first (youtube) and also publish as a podcast.

So given this timing, my best promotion idea atm is to include all current patrons above a certain level by name as NPCs in the upcoming game if they’re in by the end of the period. The “put their names in the back of the book” thing as @neil mentions. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hello fellow creators, I’m Julian and I write. I moved to Patreon to start turning my writing into something. So far with Vision27 I’ve completed one serialized novella and we’re about to start another. I set a modest goal of starting a weekly podcast after 65 patrons. I had NO idea how much work a weekly podcast would be. We’re about 10 episodes in but I have yet to put it “in the wild”. (waiting for 12)

My biggest struggle is on Patreon is growth. I have a very modest following of about 75 patrons. It fluctuates up and down and I’d be thrilled to break 150 before 2019. I have a really hard time promoting myself -the irony here is that I’ve been a marketing strategist for some of the world’s biggest brands.

I love Patreon for the creator’s marketplace that it is I just stumble over handling all the logistics of managing it. I built my page the wrong way (according to Patreon U) and am doing everything backwards. Trying to get the courage up to add video to my page here as video seems to be critical to drawing new patrons.

so…dassit. that’s me.

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Hello! I’m Buster and am working on a book about having more fruitful disagreements, set to be published sometime late 2019.

In fact, I’m so excited about the creator life powered by Patreon that I actually just decided to leave my job at Patreon (I was doing product management) and be a creator full time! So this special offers program could not be better timed for me.

I am on the low end in terms of current earnings (~$250) but want to try to double that by relaunching my page and offering a special offer of some kind, still TBD.

I’m excited to see other writers here… I know I’m gonna learn a lot from y’all. :slight_smile:

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WOW.

ok… WOW. Your story fascinates me the most so far. You worked platform-side and left to become a creator?

I really look forward to co-learning with you.

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Hi y’all,

I’m a life coach and the lineage bearer of Skills for Change, a power and body-based radical approach for changing your life. I’m currently teaching classes on Relationship Anarchy and Skills for Change, Cooperative Communication, and Understanding Jealousy. I just finished a class on Decision Making.

I just reached my one year milestone at Patreon. I made 36 audio/video/written posts, and created 12 classes, four of them new! Phew!

I am a bit overworked, since Patreon is providing about 1/6 of my monthly income and I earn the rest through hourly work with clients. I have 23 highly engaged Patrons (I receive about $900 per month via Patreon). I’m really wanting to reach strangers, since everyone who becomes a Patron is usually already a client or student. I’d like to get 10 new patrons in the $15+ tier through this special offer process. It’s my dream to be making audio/video and writing/teaching as 75% of my activity, with 25% being one on one client work instead of the current 15% creating, 85% one on one.

I want to add a weekly livestream broadcast. I would prefer it to be public and on YouTube, so I’m not sure how to make it “special” for my special offer, other than perhaps to do some preview livestreams that are unannounced to the public while I work out the bugs? Or maybe just name names of the Patrons at the end of the livestream?

Here’s my patron page - I also need to re-do my banner, so I’m hoping to get that done for the special offer launch next week!

Thanks for reading, y’all! I’m looking forward to learning with you, and I will be at PatreCon in November so maybe meeting some of you as well!

Cheers
Nancy

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Ooh, I’m so excited you’re here! Y’all have a great brand and I’m a fan! I’d love to join your private community - I will become a patron and check it out!

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Hi! I’m Robert.

I started off with Patreon a few years ago making webcomics Writhe and Shine and Overcast With A Chance of DOOM! Last year I switched to producing illustrations because that’s where my current passions lie. I’ve had roughly 50 patrons for a long time and only about 3 of them ever comment on any of my posts. I’m very grateful that I have so many supporters that will pledge for -whatever- I’m making, but it’d be wonderful to break through this plateau and gain more patrons that want to interact. I’m hoping that this Special Offers program will help in this respect.

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Hi @neil - you can definitely talk more with other folks here but we find that creators restructure tiers all the time. I don’t want to hijack the entire thread here, so maybe we can set up a different thread in the main channel to talk about tier restructuring with some of our best practices. cc: @laurab @mindy

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Hi all (and thankyou @laurab for the link!!)

I’m Tallulah, an eclectic sort of visual creative, based in Australia.

My bread and butter work tends to be natural history illustration but I also really enjoy working on steampunk, fantasy and random things like, at the moment, Japanese stencil design.

I’ve been on Patreon for three years offering colouring pages, postcard and original art to my patrons, most of whom are people I know in person in some way. My patreon is currently a little unfocused - in that it shares what I am working on in my studio at any time - which is often the illustrative equivalent of a five year old with a butterfly net - you get butterflies, but also moths, frogs, centipedes, dried leaves and the occassional piece of lego.

I am hoping to develop a wider and more Patreon-interactive community of followers and patrons through the outcomes of this workshop. At the moment, though I know my patrons love what I do, few of them are the sort to comment or respond to polls or questions, thus it does feel like I am posting images into the void at times.

I love collaborations and cross pollenating with other creatives, translating ideas into images, especially quick turn over sketches. I’d be keen to make connections for possibly future limited run projects beyond this event. There are so many potential ideas! I plan to follow a lot of your patreon pages to see what you do and be inspired by how you connect with your patrons.

One of my major weaknesses, and it is something I am being very conscious of with this workshop, is having too many ideas, expending my energy on dithering over which is best and then, having picked one thing second guessing it’s validity. I want to ensure that what I do does feed into existing projects/goals rather than taking me off on a tangent so that my existing projects potentially stagnate.

I look forward to coming up with a schedule and a solid plan for promoting what ever I do come up with so I have a list I can work through, ticking off things as I go.

~Tallulah

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HI!

Holy cow y’all, I had a WEEK last week. Luckily I already had a concept for my special offer so I don’t feel too behind.

I’m a musician, podcaster, performer — multi-media artist? I make a bunch of stuff and much of it relates to my work as an animal rights activist. last year I did a month long campaign with a zine, and I will recreate that for this project as well. It worked great before and it’s really cool to have these limited edition things floating around in the world.

I want to take the opportunity during this month to really get used to promoting my Patreon page with more fearlessness. I talked about this a bit before, but I seem to always have a sense of apology when I talk about my patreon, and I want to get WAY more confident about this.

Looking forward to being active here and getting this project rolling!

-Michael

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HI MARTHA!!!

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Hello from Yorkshire, Everyone,

I’m half of Rachel Watches Star Trek, a podcast covering the 1960s series one episode at a time through the eyes of a life-long nerd (my American husband) and a life-long Star Trek avoider and arty type (me). I’ve made it to our 45th episodes so far due to the peer pressure (and support) of listeners and patrons!

My special offer idea is a bonus episode covering my first Star Trek convention.

Looking forward to meeting you all. So much inspiration already from reading your intros.

Warm wishes, Rachel

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I’m going to take inspiration from you Michael - confident wording and tone in the promos.

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I do that all the time too, Tallulah (decision making dithering). Tiring!

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Hello! My name is Nesli. I’m a creator based in Istanbul.

My friends from Greece came to visit me yesterday. I asked them, “So now that the Greek economy is getting back on track, after living through a 7 year financial crisis, what advice do you have for me as I/we/Turkey enter one of the biggest financial crises in Turkish history?”

Their advice:

  1. Stay Alive
  2. Make sure your mind stays in your head. (Don’t go crazy)
  3. Be Creative

So with those tips in mind, my goal is to make the world a better place by channeling my endless motivation and my skills as a storyteller/political scientist to develop a creative studio that can produce events and artistic content in Turkey’s depressed economic and political environment.

I hope to expand this operation beyond just me. I want to hire talented, socially responsible people. I want to be able to pay them, adequately. Artists are undervalued in this country big time. I want this business to bring hope in a period of hopelessness. It’s not going to be easy, the country is deteriorating before my eyes (more and more with every passing day). The unifying thread in all the work that I do for HappyNES in Istanbul comes from a deep seeded commitment to ethics, science, separation of church and state, & sustainable living.

Right now I’m animating a 3 minute short film about Women and Islam. Since criticism of Islam is never a safe or easy thing, I can’t offer my Patron’s names on the credits, I wouldn’t want to put anyone in danger. Therefore I was thinking about animating little birds for the credits with my Patron’s favorite philosopher/thinker on them and then having that bird fly through the credits. The paper puppet birds can then be sent to the individuals that have supported me, regardless of how big or small their donation.

Thank you for including me in this group! You have no idea how much light and energy it has given me. I look forward to learning with all of you. Very Best, Nesli

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