{"id":6428,"date":"2020-07-06T18:44:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2021-12-11T18:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:36:50","slug":"starting-patreon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=6428","title":{"rendered":"Starting Patreon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been musing about what to do with my site and I thought of John Kirkwood, a retired cook, who went onto Patreon. I like his videos and I think he has a good following, so I wish him well with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then reflected that I’ve created over 100 videos and maybe that is a base on which to start looking at patrons to support me in what I like doing. So I have a patreon page.<\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/maxdrake?fan_landing=true<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think my videos stand out a bit in the area that I post, in that I try and solve a specific problem and get a completed product, whereas a lot of videos either focus on a part of the issue or gloss over the difficult bits, so when a novice tries to do something similar they run into all the issues that are not mentioned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I watched a few YouTube vids by others and decided to start my own Patreon page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It has taken a day to set up images and get some of the features that I want up on the site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Images for heading- Gimp & Canva<\/li>
  • Logo – with Gimp <\/li>
  • Images for tiers<\/li>
  • Developing starter\/earlybird tiers<\/li>
  • Doing a first post , which in fact is a poll, I intend to write a couple more, but for the present that will suffice<\/li>
  • Setting up the plugin for wordpress- This is something I can offer the higher tier, a more in-depth detail of the video with marked up screenshots and other information\/links that are only available to specific people.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    I’ve now got to do some other configuration and add some videos and do some marketing to move people to a point where they can hopefully contribute to the creation of content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Honeycode has just started up and this is a great opportunity to do some video’s on that platform. It may be in demand, so I have the opportunity to create some useful tutorials for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Some concerns<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    I will need to start tailoring my content to what the patrons want to see, so there needs to be a focus on that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Whilst doing that I think I will still do some stuff that interests me and I’ll need to make sure that I can do that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Also, creating quality content is important. I do not want to be driven to producing something just because I feel I need to deliver up something on a schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I need to start being a bit vaguer in the videos and giving a more useful content in the supplementary information for the patrons. Not something I’ve done to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I need to refocus on not only doing the video but also building supplementary information at the same time. In some ways, this is what I’m already doing, but I need to review both sides so that I allow for value for the patrons and encourage non-patrons to join. I have set the entry bar low at the moment so its cheap to join, but I’ll need topush that up and see how it goes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A new adventure. Quite exciting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    End comment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    At the end of the day only a couple of people contributed to the patreon model for my channel so I didn’t bother taking it too far. The app for the website didn’t work well in WordPress and people had problems with it. The help from Patreon was pretty useless too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I tried putting my OpenMaint stuff behind a firewall and one chap couldn’t access it so I ended up just opening it up again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So all in all, I did an explore, a bit like LinkedIn, but found it had nothing to offer me and my style of producing info. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A lot of effort for microscopic payback, with not very good support on the issue I took to Patreon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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