Hey everyone Nick here. Today I want to
ask you if you've ever heard of Patreon.
Basically as a content creator I would
sign up for this Patreon thing, and as my
patrons you're able to reward my hard
work directly with dollars. You'd basically
find me on Patreon and then sign up to
make a monthly contributions, and we're
not talking like bank breaking amounts
here either. We're talking like $2 $5 $10
per month which when multiplied through
a reasonably large audience can really
help a content creator like myself
scrape by financially every month, and
continue creating great content for you.
Well Patreon seems like an obvious
no-brainer for me right? Yes and no. KNOW IDEAS MEDIA is a pretty small team and
most of my time is spent writing and
filming and editing new videos. Patreon
is a quid pro quo system though, so if
you sign up to give me $5 a month I'm
supposed to have a clever and meaningful
reward to give you, and that makes sense.
But, I haven't had enough time to dream
up any decent rewards yet, so this is
kind of an open-ended video where I'm
asking you a funny question. What would
you expect from me in return for $2 a
month?
$5 a month? I can set up Patreon as
something of a private feed. I could do
updates and give information about
upcoming things relevant to KNOW IDEAS MEDIA.
Maybe even drop an occasional
video a week or two early on this
private feed. Would that be worth 5
dollars a month to you? Is there any
reward you can imagine that would compel
you to contribute $10 a month or $20 a
month? Is there any reward that doesn't
involve photographic nudes of myself
that would compel you to contribute over
$20 a month? That seems like a big ask.
Well what if I promise not to send you
photographic nudes? 20 bucks? Basically I
am really interested in this patreon
thing but if I don't choose the right
rewards it could end up being more
legwork for me than it's worth. Like I'm
trying to avoid rewards that would
involve me mailing things out on a
frequent basis as an example. As a
content creator, creating content isn't
the hard part. The hard part is figuring
out how to sustain the creation of that
content. We're on our way to being
something big with KNOW IDEAS MEDIA, but
it's going to take time to grow to the
point where our message is
continually reaching those who need to
hear at most. At this point I'm largely
preaching to the choir and don't get me
wrong I love choirs. You are all
fantastic, but the whole point of a choir
is to help fill the seats of the church
right? Well my choir, you're doing a great
job in that regard and if you can help
even more with a monetary contribution
I'd be happy to reward that. Just tell me
how. Thanks for watching! Let me see what you all say in the comment section and
then give me a little time to get my
Patreon page sorted out. Right now there
isn't much there because I haven't had
time to determine this reward structure,
but when that's done I'll be sure to let
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if you please. Bye!
