Summary: 1. Unsustainable process. You need consistent content. 2. Used Patreon for eCommerce. You should use free platforms to advertise your brand, and produce new stuff. Don't use Patreon to sell merch. 3. Went too big on rewards. Rewards don't matter that much. Rewards should scale and not eat up your time. Stick with thank you, early access, and name in credits at first. Targeted rewards can come later. 4. Not enough patience. Need to be consistent over time. Don't break viewers' trust. May take a year or years to get to where you want. 5. Lack of a clear mission. Need to articulate clearly what you create. Also must pick something you are passionate about, so you will keep going with it. 6. You have to tell people about your Patreon. Great video, Drex! Thanks.
I am starting soon thinking August 1. I had some members with my 1st YT channel but want to grow it further. Thanks for the information and great video!
I’m glad I pulled through, despite the crises. I am retiring next yr at 55 with 3 houses paid off worth 4.5 million . One is my place of residence the other 2 properties will give me $80,000per/yr rent . I will have an income stream of $20,000 per yr through my super which gives me total $100,000 a yr to live comfortably . I have no debts ... Stay Motivated!!
I have an entire page of notes, thoughts, scribbles, and underlined words, just from this one video. It's like getting pre-emptively slapped over the head, *before* I make the dumb mistakes. All of the lesson, none of the shame. Thank you for this! My Patreon won't be launching for months... and now I have time to properly prepare.
Dear sir, when I upload video on patreon page then after 90% upload it gets canceled due to network problem and my data gets over, I have to restart again, while it doesn't happen on youtube Yes, sir, can you tell the solution of this problem?
All work deserves payment. So you're right. If they get mad that you have a way to receive optional payments from people who appreciate your work, they aren't fans. They're fans of taking advantage of you.
Hi Drex. Millard Randolph Curry here from MRC-FX MUSIC. After watching your video entitled, "Patreon Tips: Avoid These 5 Mistakes" I felt compelled to drop you a reply to let you know how much I appreciated the content and to congratulate you on a job well done. Your demeanor came shining through as very honest and sincere. Thank you so much for the advice. I wish you all the best and much success as you continue pursuing your passion. Keep Up The Good Work!
Thanks! I am just starting out and your video was extremely helpful and clear. A lot of the things you spoke about were things I knew in the back of mind, It was good to hear them. The big one for me was "patience." I have been hearing that a lot lately as I attempt to switch gears in life. It is a lesson I am finally learning. Thanks again! Now I need to go back and tweak the tiers and then get started on more content. Thanks again!
Great video. I enjoyed it a great deal. You're right, the creator should be passionate about what we're producing, first and foremost. No passion from the creator=no passion from the fans.
Hello, thanks a lot, I'm about to start patreon and I'm glad I took the time to review some patreon experiences before I start. The advices are awesome, especially the one about keeping it simple with the rewards at the beginning and offer more targeted rewards once we know our audience better. Have a great day ! 🌸
Nice Job.. I'm an old guy who storytells, encourages and helps people think like an artist. been building a community for the past two years.. going to try to launch real soon.. Thank you
Wow, this was a amazing simple breakdown of patreon . I will build my audience first on my social Plattform. Then consider what best suits myself and my membership.
So here's what I'm looking to do. I'm looking to develop some kind of channel or page that would fund running races, and the extra funds raised would go to charites, but I don't know where to start or at least where to have people send the money.
I really appreciate this video. I am a multi-content creator trying to support myself to produce content at a more steady rate. I considered using Patreon as a passive income to focus more on content creation instead of making excuses as to why I couldn't do it. After watching your video, I need to sit down and think very long and hard about exactly what I want to do for my communities. Before starting this, I fall under the category of needing a clear mission.
Hey Drex! Thank you for this informations, I am new on the Patreon and all this informations are very important for me because they help me to build my Patreon page 😋
I haven't launched on Patreon yet. I am being cautious. I have my tiers ready but I need to absorb what that is going to mean where my work flow is concerned. I have subscribed here and I have liked as MY homework is to go through your channel tomorrow and see what other words of wisdom you have to share :)
would be easier if they had questions prior to signing up. I was signing up today, and poof, I was booted and noted account as suspended. Very frustrating, but I get it now.
Very good points and a helpful summary - I've just set up a Buy Me A Coffee page and am considering Patreon down the line a bit when I've launched an online course I'm developing, so this is useful experience to share. Thank you and best wishes.
Hi . Thanks much for this video . It's very helpful. I'm new to Patreon . I started writing blogs on songwriting but then was made aware that some of my old blogs about music history from my website were gaining some interest so I decided to write about that. I know that you said that you have to have a clear goal of what content you're passionate about but also what is going to be sustainable for the long run. I now have a page with two different topics ,one on songwriting ,which I'm passionate about and which is sustainable but doesn't get the interest like my music history blog posts which are more sporadic and less regular. The result is I haven't had a single view to the page . I'm not sure where to go with it and have made the cardinal mistake that you mentioned of no clear topic. If you or anyone can help I would be very grateful. Many thanks.
LEGEND!!! FUCK YEAH BRO! I’m subscribing rn! And. I’m already following you on Patreon! I’m gonna make a hort that says the line I needed to hear (AND USE so desperately) since becoming tiktok famous “if people complain about supporting you financially, they’re not fans of you, they’re fans of taking advantage of you” I’m gonna tag you! Also I wanna tag you when I post it on tiktok? I don’t see your tiktok link here?? FUCK YEAH DEX! You da man! God bless you!!!
proactively cracking down piracy should be considered a part of "not enough patience". imagine you the creator telling you that they would send it through DMs and you had to wait for months for it, is how it *can* break the viewers' trust, real quick.
I’m five years deep into being a Patreon creator and have made good money but just a little short of it being enough to be my sole source of income. The amount of time needed though can be huge and in truth it’s pretty much taken over my life so successfully creators need to be passionate about their chosen subject matter and with a consistent track record for creating work even before starting Patreon. In five years there’s been only one month when I paused my Patreon and that was pre-planned and patrons knew of this ahead of time and were supportive of me doing so. This video is great and I wish there had been more advice like this when I started as a few of the mistakes I really avoided by blind luck rather than good planning. I’m definitely going to watch it through again as it’s packed with great advice and I’ll need to take time to digest it further. Thanks for making it!
Hi thanks for the great advice......so people have to have a account to make donations to you on a monthly basis on patreon? You can't make a one time donation ? So for a hiker like me how should I approach this? Any advice please....I was thinking PayPal or gofund me I don't want to monetize my chanel and run ads on my videos so how should I go about it ? What platforms could work better thanks for any advice !
Hi! Just an honest question. Can the Patron copy and paste my text posts? I am very worried if that is possible. And I hope not because it'll be a lot easier to steal my work.
If only I know what I am doing I am sure I could make a good video...unfortunately I have discovered I can barely manage to put pictures on to the title headers... Oh well, I will keep trying and I refuse to ask my kids to help....! Thanks for the info, though.
Ok, so let me see if I got this right.. let's say I have 3 tiers and the first one is a simple Thank You, the second one is early access and the third one is name in credits... Does this mean the first tier will not have access to any of my posts? Or? Cause this is what is not clear to me... if the first tier only receives a Thank You, then they only donate because they want to support me without being able to see my posts on Patreon?
I have an issue, a new Patreon paid for a Tier and now he's angry because the content is not good enough. I gave free previews and said a good description of each Tier so you know exactly what you're buying. Now he's saying I'm a scammer and he's going to "review" me. I really don't want to refund him. I already told him he got the lowest Tier and he can upgrade if he wants but he's not having it. Idk what to do.
You don't want to have the products behind a paywall? I don't get it. That's all what's patreon about. Patreon isn't a place to build an audience. It's bringing your audience to patreon!
