Speaking About Patreon | Patreon Weblog

As a creator on Patreon, you’ll typically be requested to clarify what Patreon is to your neighborhood of followers, potential patrons, and the occasional Lyft driver. It is a nice time to get folks excited in regards to the concept of Patreon. Plus, it offers you a golden alternative to get a brand new patron.

After we meet creators and inform them in regards to the alternatives on Patreon, we inform them that Patreon powers the membership companies of all types of creators. We provide the instruments you might want to purchase and handle patrons, whereas serving to you acquire sustainable, ongoing earnings.

That is how we’d clarify this to you, however not essentially how you’ll clarify it to your followers.

When your viewers, followers and pals ask you about Patreon, they wish to know two issues: what does Patreon do for you (and what does that imply for them)?

Inform them why you’re establishing a membership enterprise, and what you’ll be capable of accomplish with this sustainable earnings. Inform potential patrons how they’d profit by becoming a member of your neighborhood on Patreon, and what their assist would imply to your inventive enterprise (and your life).

Keep in mind: You’re offering one thing of worth to your followers! It’s best to by no means really feel like you might want to come from a spot of neediness.  Your followers wish to enable you to succeed, and your greatest, most excited and passionate followers are completely satisfied to pay you in trade for the superior stuff you’re creating. Skip any passive expressions like “give me” and “donate” and use empowering, thrilling language equivalent to “be part of me” and “in case you cherished this, take a look at extra at…” to essentially welcome your followers into your internal circle.

For musician Peter Hollens, patron assist means a extra balanced way of life:

“I don’t need to exit on the street and play in bars. I could be a father and I could be a husband. This normalizes my profession. It normalizes the profession of being an artist, which has by no means been normalized.” – Peter Hollens, NYT