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1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)

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Re: 1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)

#11
I have heard this kind of stuff for years (going back to early 2000s).

Different ways of dividing your salary by N and then figuring out what you need to offer to get S/N per customer.

Usually if someone is saying stuff like this they have a “solution” to sell you to help you get there. You are now the fan rather than the star.

Re: 1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)

#12
Newcomers started doing this on twitter for a while and turn social media from platform ads to federation ads network .. it's getting worse, like everybody is literally selling to each other. Remember old "long time no see" friends shown up trying to sell you something? Aghh now everyone pretends to be friend and sell you something.

Re: 1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)

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> We’re already seeing this shift, according to creator platforms... Patreon... Podia... Teachable No OnlyFans? > One creator on Teachable who advises artists on how to sell their art made $110,000 last year with only 76 students, at an average of $1,437 per course. Another creator who teaches physiotherapy made $141,000 with only 61 students, at an average price point of $2,314 per course So sell shovels?

> So sell shovels?

For those who don't get the reference, there's a saying along the lines of "During a gold rush, sell shovels", implying that everybody joining the gold rush needs tools to dig, but not everybody who digs will strike gold.

Re: 1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)

#14

This might be misunderstood as followers on social media, but a follower on social media does not equal to a fan. They address this at: > Here’s how it works: A creator can cultivate a large, free audience on horizontal social platforms or through an email list. Fair enough, but let's say the TrueFans™ are in the range of 0.1% - 1% of your followers. That translates to 10k-100k followers which is still incredibly har…

A true fan in TFA is willing to spend $1k a year. That’s gotta be way less than 0.1% in terms of social media followers (usually). A friend of mine has close to 3 million social media followers on one platform alone, and the number of “true fans (tm)” paying more than $1k a year is about ten to twenty. Of course it heavily depends on the category, too.

Re: 1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)

#15

This might be misunderstood as followers on social media, but a follower on social media does not equal to a fan. They address this at: > Here’s how it works: A creator can cultivate a large, free audience on horizontal social platforms or through an email list. Fair enough, but let's say the TrueFans™ are in the range of 0.1% - 1% of your followers. That translates to 10k-100k followers which is still incredibly har…

I really hate this building audience things in the past couple years. It makes me want to quit twitter.

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#17
I'm quite interested in learning more about what kind of things people are willing to pay 80-100 USD a month for on Patreon.

The author also throws around some percentages of the growth of hig end payers on Patreon, but no hard numbers. Did it increase by 5 people? Are high paying patrons growing faster than low paying?

Re: 1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)

#18

Newcomers started doing this on twitter for a while and turn social media from platform ads to federation ads network .. it's getting worse, like everybody is literally selling to each other. Remember old "long time no see" friends shown up trying to sell you something? Aghh now everyone pretends to be friend and sell you something.

Yeah that's a part of twitter I don't interact with. It's so cringy and obvious when people spew marketing advice like this and then turn around and act like your friend. As if their ulterior motive can't be deduced from what they advice others to do. I try spending my time with kinder more normal people instead.

Re: 1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)

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post #18

Newcomers started doing this on twitter for a while and turn social media from platform ads to federation ads network .. it's getting worse, like everybody is literally selling to each other. Remember old "long time no see" friends shown up trying to sell you something? Aghh now everyone pretends to be friend and sell you something.

Yeah that's a part of twitter I don't interact with. It's so cringy and obvious when people spew marketing advice like this and then turn around and act like your friend. As if their ulterior motive can't be deduced from what they advice others to do. I try spending my time with kinder more normal people instead.

There are also twitter extension apps coming up that helps flooding twitter. And tech twitter is not moving on yet on meme and drama.

Re: 1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)

#20
> Another creator who teaches physiotherapy made $141,000 with only 61 students, at an average price point of $2,314 per course.

This seems like a scam. To be a physiotherapist in the United States, you have to have a bachelor’s degree (4 years) followed by a 3 year Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from an accredited college.

https://www.apta.org/your-career/careers-in-physical-therapy...

So the people paying that money definitely aren’t making progress to become an actual physiotherapist.

There is also a physiotherapist assistant training which can be completed in just a couple of years. These programs are offered by community colleges and are likely cheaper and more useful than an online course.

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