Annual subscriptions and writing to every patron on Patreon. (Patreon)
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Patreon has this option I haven't switched on here yet but you might have seen offered elsewhere where a patron can pay for a year upfront and there's a discount offered.
Now I'm not really actively seeking out such a thing from any patrons as Exiern runs at quite a loss and has done for a while now. I make up the difference each month (yes, there'll be a post about income, expenditures and the deficit soon - fun!).
So, actually it works out better for me with the payments being split up over 12 months but ultimately I end up with more income in the long run and hence less deficit (yes, I hope to eliminate it one day and dare I say it, even make a profit? - to help make even more Exiern!).
But my point is (and I do have one), does anyone want me to switch the annual subscription option on? I can do so after the month of June (and the end of the Australian financial year) and if possible, I'll offer a 20% discount versus monthly payments if I can. If not that much, it'll be the highest I can offer (I have seen up to a 16% annual discount offered on one Patreon).
Anyway, either let me know in the comments below or via a message about whether you'd like that option. If there's sufficient interest, I'll have it available from July 1st 2021.
On the subject of personal messages, at least some of you may remember I said I was going to individually write to every current patron on Patreon here (no copy and paste messages here!) to ask about their Patreon experience and what, if anything we can do to improve it. That and any other discussions or general feedback anyone would like to have.
Well, I'll be starting that soon (meant to have been now but Australian floods have blocked me from going home on leave just yet). If anyone would like to opt out being contacted, please send me a message, otherwise I'm going to start writing to people as soon as I can, likely starting from the first patron back in 2014 that's still with us (I'm a relative latecomer from the latter half of 2015) and going from there.
Speaking to (at least most of) you soon(er or later)!
Regards,
The Exiern Team