For more ideas, read how to design a content strategy, based on your creative superpowers. To connect with your audience, post news and updates from your creative world on your Patreon. For more advice on how to get going, read how to start your creator page in Patreon’s Help Center. If you haven’t already, sign up for Patreon.
No matter where you’re at as a creator, you can start your Patreon journey quickly and easily, in just four steps:
Ready to jump in? Here’s a quickstart guide for getting set up on Patreon Ready to open a Patreon shop? For early access to Commerce, join the waitlist. Patreon’s integrated promotion tools also let you easily share your digital products with fans elsewhere and give them a reason to visit your Patreon and see everything that you offer. Bringing together your community on Patreon means you have seamless ways to share your paid offerings and build pathways for fans to upgrade, explore, buy, and enjoy more of your creative work. With these approaches, what you make and what your audience loves blends beautifully together in growing your business. And it gives your fans more of what they love, including a deeper connection to you, your work, and a community built around shared interest. Paid membership enables you to earn a reliable, regular income, directly from your fans.
The team behind Worlds Beyond Number, for example, shares regular episodes of their podcast The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One with their whole community, and reserves a special “Fireside Feed” with paying members. Whether you share video or podcast episodes, behind-the-scenes clips, illustrations, printable 3D characters, or newsletters, you can share your work directly with your fans in their Patreon feeds and inboxes. To start gathering your community on Patreon, you can use your customizable creator page to: Establish your creative home base on Patreon Here, you’ll find tips for how to start using Patreon to share your work, strengthen your community, and grow your creative business. If and when you want, you can also start earning by selling digital products directly from your creator page, and adding paid membership to build your business on your own terms. They’ll get every post you share, unfettered by an algorithm or ads, and you’ll be able to deepen your fan relationships and build community around your work. No matter what you make, you can build your creative home on Patreon and invite your closest fans to join you.