# Patreon Project

* Explore pages by categories etc https://www.patreon.com/explore
* Top performers of 2016 https://blog.patreon.com/top-earners-2016/
* 3rd party site with interesting analytics around top performers https://graphtreon.com/s

## Example pages

Successful pages/campaigns and/or intresting pricing reward levels

* https://www.patreon.com/amandapalmer
* https://www.patreon.com/scishow - Create videos for their YouTube channel
* https://www.patreon.com/DeFranco - top # patreons in film/video cateorgy. building a news network/site.
* https://www.patreon.com/redlettermedia - a different approach to support tiers.
* https://www.patreon.com/blindwave
* https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt - nice branding
* https://www.patreon.com/nerdcubed - good use of humor and offers behind the scenes rewards

### Top pages under #Education
* https://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons
* https://www.patreon.com/economicupdate
* https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime
* https://www.patreon.com/teded
* like digital rewards (a set of customized downloadable wallpapers and phone backgrounds featuring beautiful artwork and characters from your favorite TED-Ed Animations. )

## Questions to answer

* How long do we want to keep it up and running?
* Do we want to talk about specific projects/keep it limited?
* Do we display how much we are making per month?

## Reward Ideas

* $1-2 thank yous + access to feed
* emailing people things - "gifts to the inbox"
* photos
* videos
* release a special access video
* access to earlier cut of an article
* short recording of us talking about our recent publication (audio or video)
* sending a postcard from trip (only send to restricted tier)
* sending a photo or video from a trip, event, moment
* dinner when in town (redeemable up to 2 years?)
* video chat
* preview/runthrough of talks?
* stickers
* exclusive travelouge short videos ?
* short specials for one off projects, ex. complete branding for talk to nyc, custom illustrations?
* surprise group (Amanda Palmer does this at $5)
* restricting tiers to keep it special

## Amanda Palmer patreon page likes
* personal
* lack of talking, all music
* love the video overall
* really liked how she went through some of her ideas

> the idea here is that you trust me to use the ongoing budgets as i see fit. not every project will cost the same...but the more budget i have, the more fun crazy shit i can do, the more staff i can pay (and the better i can pay the staff i already have), and more i can spend on my artistic collaborators. i like feeling like a pipeline through which money can flow. it gives me great pleasure to be able to pay other artists to Do Their Things with my budgets

* liked how she has customized to include how long people are paying for

* support writing, editing
* travel and research
* dinners
* sharing our things http://amandapalmer.net/patreon-things
* all tiers feel special
* showcase all the patreon projects

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## Our vidoes

* royalty free future music
* writing not speaking (in the beginning maybe?)
* video more as vision and aesthetic (of us/our work)
* give them a sense of how much we care about this
* 6 months ago we started....

## Storyboarding ideas

* think about how we can tie exploring and the joys of traveling (picking up things) as a surpise
* whether you are giving us $1 or $2, you are helping build models for the future
* make each level of patron feel special
* access to 'raw' interactions
* videos from the future
* http://www.minutiae-app.org/
* conveying were the funds go - http://www.minutiae-app.org/faqs/
* > Combining ethnographic research and speculative design, Lisa Ma creates platforms of engagement from surprising insights and processes that deeply resonate with the global technological community.
* > bridges organisations with communities and through everyday clashes of values between what we do and what we believe in to make us think deeper about the future.
* confronting the artificiality of current organizations (societies), given that it is artificial, what is it that we want to construct
* shared imagined reality

**What is it that we want people to take from this?
* stories about people and places
* ideas
* inspire people to invent a new future
* the future is ours to reimagine. we can. we must. nobody will.
* sympoiesis (autosympoiesis)
* capabilities exist now
* cybersyn
* speculative future (fictions)
* travel (travel to the future with us)
* shared imagined realities
* being within and being without

**What are we creating (Critical Explorers of Society is creating ....)**
* stories of people and places
* speculative futures

windows into new world/future (explorers, taking them on journey)
adventure story with a takeaway...
optimism and possibility
learning
meet and know people

dressing for the future
living in the future — visiting the societies where bits of the future we would like to see are already present

together we are a closed loop system! <3 (us and patrons)
* we give you stuff, you push us more, we return in kind..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_K._Jerome

## Levels

* postcard (exclusive levels)
* BTS #selfieshit
* hangout + convo
* video clips
* audio clips
* pictures

Pledge $100 or more per thing
30 patrons (sold out!)
(inner circle - limited to 30) - hello, angel investor. DAMN. 
you're awesome. you'll get all of the above...patron-feed, random surprises, webcasting, plus i'll thank you personally via email/phone/both (and chances are, i already know you from shows or ye olde kickstarter days). i'll also send you weird postcards from weird places i wind up. (i've been having fun with this). and you'll get guestlist to any show (if i can manage it, which i almost always can. we will email.)
all the things
$1,000 or more per thing ∙ 1 patron
i'll call. we'll talk. we'll have dinner. all the things, pretty much. thank you (holy shit the end.)

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## Todos

* make sure to add a link to the page