Our Creator Success team is offering live-streamed classes for new and advanced creators on Patreon. Each session focuses on a new topic to help you grow your business.
Patreon creators also have access to a growing list of live creator and Patreon-led workshops and classes. These expert-sessions are led by fellow Patreon creators sharing their own professional experiences and expertise. Each livestream will last about 30-45 minutes.
Don’t see a workshop that you’d LOVE? Send your requests to creatorsuccess@patreon.com
In an effort to support the creative community during these times of uncertainty, the Patreon team is offering open workshops to creators who are currently on Patreon or thinking about launching.
Drew Ackerman is the host of award-winning podcast, Sleep With Me. He shares some of the steps he took slowly building a strange experimental podcast into a business. This workshop will give you some actionable tools you can utilize on your own journey towards becoming a working artist. While he will focus on his experience as a podcaster, his advice for building a sustainable membership business is helpful for all types of creators.
There’s a smart way and a not-so-smart way to use social advertising to grow your membership business. Let Facebook and Instagram ads specialist Suzanne Yada walk you through the common mistakes she sees her creative clients make, and learn how to turn your advertising dollars from a huge expense to a huge revenue generator for your Patreon.
Rob Swift is a professional musician, audio engineer, and educator based out of Philadelphia, Pa. For nearly two decades he has dedicated his life to music, teaching hundreds of aspiring players how to reach their goals on the guitar. In 2012 Swift began archiving his lesson plans on YouTube, and has since provided millions of players from around the world with powerful video resources. We'll learn how he transitioned to a full-time creative career, built a thriving education-based membership business, and how he plans for sustainability and patron retention.
Guess what? You don’t have to sell, to gain new patrons. You don’t even have to market to people (isn’t that a relief?). In fact, you hardly have to talk about your art/project/idea at all. All you have to do is...love. How? By asking questions and listening. And by creating a path that helps your future patrons find their way to you, explore what you do, fall in love with your work, pledge, and stay. And then sell for you—bring you new patrons.
Kick off your summer with a Special Offer. In this session, Anna--our 18+ Creator Success specialist--will help you plan your campaign so you’re ready to launch on June 1. We call Special Offers the “Marketing Miracle.” Give your earnings a serious boost by running a limited-time promotion, and learn how to do it well in this workshop.
Watch a recording of one of our past livestreams. The following sessions are recorded from our past workshops, so feel free to watch the recorded version!