Happy to help! Yes – My best advice on Patreon is to follow a lot of other artists and see what approaches you like.

One point I keep wondering about is the Patreon angle. I’m also a course creator, working on my first music course, and my business mentors keep advising against it. Their argument makes for some food for thought: it can only scale so much. It’s a lot of work for a subscription that’s temporary in most cases. Whereas creating my own community on a website and/or eventually pointing the lead to my merch/courses/Sample Libraries/Behind the scenes (just riffin here) could make for much more ROI. Any thoughts?

Sincerely,

We are definitely also fans of offering “exclusive” downloads prior to release day. But it’s important to always keep in your audience in mind – make sure this is something you think they’d be compelled to give their email for!

Great tips here, looking forward to start building an email list. Here’s my thing though; I really want all (or at least most of my music) to be available for everyone. So, until I’m at the lever where I make an excess of songs, would it be valuable to fans to give them music before it reaches the platforms? Or should it be mostly exclusive songs?

YAY! My pleasure!

Thank you Ariel for this awesome tips. I’ve been working on building my E-mail list long before this day, though, I never new much of this before now, not until my producer hit me up on the point, and now you’re saying the same thing.
Thanks for helping me to understand this fact the more.

Yes! Monthly (or even 2X a month if your audience is large and active) are great goals.

Hey Vince!

I’m so happy to hear this news. So glad the strategies are working.