yuurivoice

A Question For My Patrons, HELP!

Added 2018-12-15 14:22:17 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well! Patreon has recently created a feature called "Special Offers" that I am wanting to try out and I wanted to get your input on some things! If you'd please take the time to read this and leave me some feedback in the comment section, that would be great!

Special Offers are essentially limited time events where if someone signs up at a specific tier on Patreon, they don't just get all the goodies that come with that tier, they get a special bonus that they can only get in that sign up period. So let's say for the first week of January I run a special offer, every current and new patron that signs up to tier $X (not sure which tier just yet) during that time frame gets the bonus.

This opens up the door for me to do some really cool stuff. What I'm thinking I would like to do for January is a celebration of my 2 year anniversary on Patreon, the special offer being a special thank you postcard that gets mailed to you, signed by yours truly!

Down the road I would like to do even cooler things like limited run art prints (yes I know this sounds way cooler than a postcard, but I don't have enough time to get something that elaborate cooked up before January thanks to the holidays and people having lives LOL) and maybe even instax polaroids of the boys. I have a lot of ideas that open things up to allow me to give you all special perks that I can't exactly crank out monthly, but could easily do on a limited run basis.

Also to consider, if these promos run in the 5-10 dollar tier range, that's a LOT of people getting these bonuses, so when it comes to physical goodies I have to be sure that I can fulfill the special offer. That's why prints and postcards (postcard sized prints, if you will) are such a perfect fit for the time being.

So, I guess the question is, does that sound cool? Are there other sorts of things that spring to mind? I have a few ideas that I don't wanna spill the beans on just yet, but assuming that this first Special Offer goes smoothly, I think I'd be really excited to try and do even more with it. The cool thing about the postcard idea is that this would essentially be the first time you could physically own a piece of YuuriVoice, outside of a handful of people who have received business cards from me and stuff. It also allows me to get some practice in shipping rewards out to people, and if we're talking 100+ I definitely need to see how that process would work if I'm going to do something like artwork etc.

Thanks for reading, I really appreciate the input! You all are the ones who make everything I do possible and I want to make sure I can do all I can to create the sort of stuff you all would enjoy!

(As a bonus, you all should know that Patreon is working to create a merch system directly integrated here on Patreon. I don't know exactly how that'll work just yet, but I'm VERY excited about what that could mean. I've had ideas for merch for ages now, but no easy way to implement them.)