when to launch, how many followers should I have, and what to do if patrons are leaving

Awesome and informative! I'm trying to find a way to earn enough from content creation to do it full time and create better content! Thanks for the video, A W E S O M E !

still hesitant to start my own, even with my growing social media following I'm afraid to take the plunge. thank you for this video fran, it's inspired me to start charting a path to start my own patreon soon!

Congrats on all your success 🙂

I just started my Patreon and really appreciate these tips 😊

Very helpful. Thank you.

Fran! ¡Gracias por este video! 
Hace muy poquito lance mi membresía al mundo(no en patreon) pero funciona como suscripción y me sirvió mucho ver y escuchar tus consejos.

Gracias, muy valioso realmente ✨

Un beso enorme desde Argentina y que sigas disfrutando de hacer lo que mas te gusta 🥳

Thank you!

Just discovered your channel and I love your personality and sense of humour. You had me at your intro about how patreon is a platform to milk people for money. Love it.

Thank you so much, love it.💋💋💋❤❤❤

Thank you so much for sharing this, this was very helpful.
Wishing you all the best.

Hey Fran! Thanks for making this video. I’ve been running my Patreon page for almost 5 years and your video has been helpful to me. It’s making me review what I got right by chance, what were good decisions or things I missed completely.

Thank you very much! Lots of good information!

This was so good and so helpful for me in organizing and planning for my future patron! Thank you for all of your wisdom, Fran!

Thank you for always cozy, comforting, and informative videos Fran! I see why people enjoy your personality so much!! :)

Thank you for sharing your experience with Patreon, Fran! I’ve been watching your videos for years now and hope to be able to support you on Patreon in the near future. Sending you love from Brazil 💌

Thanks so much Fran. I'm almost ready to begin my own Patreon and your information really helped. 💜

This was such a useful video, thank you. I'm considering setting up a Patreon and want to make sure I offer value to people, without burning myself out by doing too much too soon. It's important that I take time to think about the different Tiers before I jump in.

Be proud of your success. It's not flaunting

thanks for the info, very informative and insightful

Is it smart to have a year-worth of material in advance and then open a patreon account so you don't have to stress about providing material? that way you can start working on material for the following year?

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Al finnnnn 🥰🥰🥰✨🥳🥳

Thank you for this. Small channel but giving patreon a go. This was helpful!!

I keep listening this videos, because l will love to have one, but l have not idea about it. I read 1.00 l do this, 5.00 l do this 10.00 l do this but how they, how they presented, to many questions l have. And l will love to joy a couple of artist. Yes this is me, l am not to confident to speak the language. But l will love to do this in both language. Would you mind if l do joy you for 3 or 4 months because also economic reasons.

Thank you so much for sharing all your experiences with!!

The hardest truth I found last year was people fell off my Patreon because they died from Covid. That was so heart breaking. I love my fans but it was the realest lesson.

Such a great and insightful video Fran! Appreciate you making this vid, it answered all my questions.

i love your 3 seconds of flaunting! more flaunting! <3

Thank u so much be blessed

Me encantaria patrocinarte! Amo tu trabajo! pero estoy en la misma y buscando alternativas a la venta, tb tengo un empredimiento creativo y vivo en Argentina... así que te imaginarás... TE ADMIRO TANTO!!! cuando sea "grande" quiero ser como vos!

This was great. I'd like to hear your thoughts on discord and twitch in the same way! I am very interested in learning about these new platforms. I am from the generation of BLOGGER ! I used to blog every day and now I'm seeing how Patreon could replace that type of connection. back in my day blogging was where it was at. I enjoyed it. Sometimes there were meanies out there leaving anonymous comments but I think (HOPE) we're all past that now. I could be wrong. I am a maker of many different things... still trying to figure out the best way to share my content. that sounds weird. I have to figure out what the content is first.

You give such helpful advice. Thank you. I'm thinking about starting up as an artist professionally again after closing my biz down for a long time. Thanks x

May I ask, how do you prevent reflections on your lovely glasses?

Muchas gracias por hacer este video, mi amiga me lo recomendó porque tenia muchas dudas de como hacer y mantener un Patreon a largo plazo. Espero que estés muy bien y que tengas un buen comienzo de año Fran✨

it not about when to launch ...it about the person ,in this case it Fran we buy ..

Your numbers speak for themselves. So in short, popularity first. A ton of followers on Social Media platforms = a few chances to monetize with Patreon.

This was a wonderful video! I have been debating creating my patreon for all the reasons you addressed. Really appreciate your insight!

I have been thinking all week about how to improve my baby Patreon page in the new year, so this video came at the perfect time!! Thank you so much for taking the time to make it! My biggest lightbulb moment from this video, was when you mentioned changing it up/sprucing up the content or people will leave! Also, you said to ask for feedback but what do you do when they do not respond to a feedback poll or anonymous survey? I am at that stage where I don't know if they are enjoying because they aren't engaging, but they are not leaving so maybe they are? Gaah! ConfusedArtist! LOL!

You‘re amazing. Thx a lot for your work, your kindness and your explanation. As always you’re a shining star.

What an amazing video Fran! You really talked about everything and really what Patron is all about. Loved it :)

we love you Fran <3

Just too brilliant! Thank You ever so much for sharing this

Dear Fran, A big hug and lots of love! And thank you!

thank u for sharing the numbers! there's a big "stigma" with sharing them but i think that they can be really helpful in learning about other artists' journeys.

Thank you!

Hi everyone, I remember Fran has a video in which she talks about a 30 days challenge proposed by her, the thing is I can't find it. Does anyone remember the video's name? Thank you!

i love the podcast newsletter idea- not sure it's a viable option for me just yet, but i plan on doing a quarterly newsletter next year and i feel like this opened a whole new breadth of ideas for it, thank you! <3

I really appreciate you talking numbers! It add transparency to the whole Patreon support. Congrats!

Hey Fran - I loved being part of your Patreon fam. I stopped supporting you about three months ago to help support another channel. You appeared, to me, to be doing OK on Patreon and didn't really need my support as much anymore (cos you know, my ten bucks/mth really changed your trajectory haha). The other channel was a fledgling and I wanted to contribute to their success as they grew instead. I miss all the contributor perks from you, but that's part of not being with the cool kids on your Patreon. Thanks for all the amazing extra content we got as part of your patrons. I really loved it and think you did (and still do) a fantastic job - hitting just that right spot - not too much/not too little. The Goldilocks Zone of perks :)

Where is the world headed? I think the world is heading towards, money will fade away.