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Patreon's health is low (Patreon)

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2018-02-01 06:27:24
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Ok, so here's the thing. My Patreon campaign has been steadily going down for like 9 months now, which sucks big time and is getting me more bitter each month. But this new year, after regaining some of the time I had to invest on family events, I think it's time to level up this Patreon, and resurrect the higher pledge tiers.

Now, don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed doing requests way more than expected, so those will be left untouched for the most part. But I need to think about some rewards I can give to justify new high pledges and make it worth it for you guys, and for any new people who might come in.

 (Examples: "Do exclusive streaming!" "even higher resolution images!" "open a Discord server!" etc). 

I'm sure many of the older backers have gone through these kind of posts before, but I hope you can give me some advice once again so I can get it inside my old stubborn head!  

So, please leave your suggestions for new reward tiers here in the comments!  

I'll be back tomorrow to answer to each and everyone of you. Now I'm exhausted so I'll get some rest.
PS: Earth-chan is coming next, and then it's February requests time!

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DendysCorner

For a potential High end tier maybe something like a Printed pic signed by you in the mail?

FoolyMagooly

something I see a bit lot of is monthly raffles for higher tier patrons, though I'm not sure if that'd be something you'd be able to work with.

Greenflash

Maybe a commission with certain limits, boundaries, for a limited select few for that pledge.

Tina Marie Riis

1) A commission tier would very quickly get filled should you open one, as long is price is 150$ or less 2) However, your YCHs go for, in opinion, quite absurd prices, so instead of doing commissions, perhaps allowing those of a high reward tier to either suggest poses/poll which poses are used in future YCHs, or make 3 public ones and one private one for those of a higher tier. 3) Perhaps polls on powerups for your requests/spontaneous arts, or the CYOA tumblr and what sort of enemies or allies are where. As in, the general public would dictate the actions of Anon, and patrons would control the world and NPCs?

tehmsu

Before suggestions, one small observation: another Patreon artist I follow mentioned that several spam/false accounts were purged by Patreon early this week. They still showed up as cancelled pledges, so it spooked him a bit.

Abraham

I vote for more complex images, like maybe two-three character images with a background but thats just me.

supersatanson
>>9842920

Unfortunately, Patreon rules forbid raffles as rewards! It would be quite convenient though.

supersatanson
>>9846596

thank you! but that would be very risky, because I'm already quite slow. More complex images would mean way less images I can do per month, and if it's for requests, it would probably mean only 1 per month :( so it's complicated. I could try it for my personal drawings (as opposed to ych/requests), because on those, since It's all decided on my end, I can work faster and I don't polish them that much, Even for quick requests, I almost always end up doing them as full finished colors, I can't avoid it.

supersatanson
>>9846307

ah! there's always fake accounts going around, but I didn't know there were a purge recently! that's neat. Sadly, the decreasing on the campaign has been almost steady for several months, so I don't think it's because of that only ;)

supersatanson
>>9844680

Thanks! I'm kinda surprised to see a Commission tier in the suggestions. I'm honored to see that some people are willing to invest in such a commitment. The idea of enemies/NPC's for AKOP is very interesting! although I don't know how many supporters actually use tumblr, or even follow that series. Still, good ideas!

supersatanson
>>9843161

Thank you! that's interesting, I still feel impressed that some cool people are willing to get a drawing so much. My only issue with commissions before was that the process end up being way too long, but if I define limits and boundaries, as you said, it could be worked out better! Also, you can have a limit as how much people can get certain reward tiers, so I can regulate the flow of potential work. By the way, how much would you think a "commission tier" should be? do you know any artist that has a patreon pledge tier like that?

Anonymous

Overall depends on if it would be more personal or public as a setup.

supersatanson
>>9862160

I'm not sure what you mean, but In most cases It will probably be something more public, but for higher tiers something more personal should be doable.