Getting Followers Excited Earlier than You Launch

Whether or not you’ve utterly completed constructing out your web page or have merely began laying the groundwork, now is a good time to inform your followers about your upcoming launch.

Ideally, you’ll have a pair weeks to unfold the phrase, or do a “tender launch” or teaser promotion earlier than formally kicking off your Patreon membership enterprise.

Listed below are only a few explanation why it’s necessary to share the large information earlier than your official launch:

It helps construct momentum

Take a second and suppose again to the final occasion you have been invited to. Chances are high, you heard about it at the least a pair weeks forward of time. Occasion hosts know that no person will present as much as their occasion in the event that they wait to ask everybody till the day-of. The identical is true of your Patreon web page. You may’t count on that folks will present up if you launch your web page in the event you didn’t give them a heads up about it forward of time.

Use the time in between if you construct your web page and if you launch it to make sure that each aspect of your group — out of your interior circle of mates to your Twitter followers — is aware of that you’re beginning a Patreon membership enterprise. For those who promote your launch upfront, you’ll be pleasantly stunned by the variety of get together visitors who present up come launch day.  

Professional Tip: Use a easy graphic design software like Canva to customise your social media accounts with banner photos selling your launch date.

It can give your followers an opportunity to familiarize themselves with Patreon

Patreon could also be a very new idea to lots of your followers, so it’s necessary that you simply make certain they perceive the way it all works earlier than asking them to turn out to be your patrons.  Within the days main as much as your launch, promote a couple of creators you admire on social media, share our explainer video and construct the hype of becoming a member of your Patreon group.

Additionally, contemplate operating a Particular Supply with the launch of your creator web page. A Particular Supply is a software that means that you can supply a limited-time profit to your earliest patrons, and it may go a good distance in direction of constructing momentum and pleasure inside your fanbase.

You’ll enhance your web page

Had been there any elements of constructing your web page that you simply had bother with? Possibly you bought caught attempting to determine what advantages to supply otherwise you weren’t positive which a part of your multifaceted inventive outpourings your followers can be most excited in.

Even in the event you suppose you may have an award-worthy Patreon web page in your arms, there’s at all times room for enchancment. Asking your followers what they’d be excited to see/pay for earlier than you launch your Patreon web page will web you a ton of nice insights (and it’ll make your followers really feel all heat and fuzzy that you simply care about what they suppose).

For those who want some extra suggestions for launching your creator web page, be sure you take a look at the Launch Day Guidelines.