How to set up Buy Me A Coffee | Author Patronage with Buy Me A Coffee | Dashboard Tour and Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2021
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Back in July, I did an hour-long authorpreneur business review video on this channel when I hit record on the actual conversation my husband and I had at mid-year to evaluate how my business was doing, how I could improve and grow, what needed to get changed, etc. In that video we talked about surprise wins and I mentioned that Buy Me A Coffee had been a surprise success for me. As you’ll see in this video, it’s not necessarily a big part of my income this year, but it is passive and it's growing.
Last fall when I was SUPER PREGNANT I knew my time that I could dedicate to my business was going to have to drop but I didn’t know to what extent. I knew I needed more passive income. For years I had been putting off signing for some kind of patronage option. For starters, I kept telling myself I didn’t have enough of a following to justify it. This is a total myth. I also told myself I didn’t have time to create custom content for any patrons so I couldn’t offer anything of value and therefore I shouldn’t set one up. Another myth.
So in my pregnant panic I did a quick survey of websites that allow people to support creators as patrons. Patreon is the one most people have heard of. Another is Kofi. And yet another is Buy Me A Coffee. I looked at all three, their fee structure, their set up and I liked Buy Me A Coffee the best because it was the easiest for me to use, easiest to explain to others (the name is the action), and I could easily hook it up to my payment system. Cool! Win!
I’ve already set up my Buy Me A Coffee account so I can’t show you from scratch, but I’ll walk you through the process I’m taking to add new options onto my page and show you some of the important items to keep in mind and look out for.
So you don’t need to have an elaborate system already in place. You don’t need to have thousands of followers on your other channels to get started. Now, surely as my audience is growing on RUclips and Twitter and Instagram I can anticipate that more people will support me. For me, this is a nice extra so people who appreciate the information I provide and the work I do can endorse me. The income from this stream so far is small. For months I got no supporters. Nothing. And then in March I got someone who bought an extra which included a video shoutout. Then I got a few coffees here and there.
It’s exciting to see these come in from people after I take a few minutes to answer their questions they DM me. Or people who liked a particular video. I’m hoping to keep growing this. So if you think you’re following is too small or you don’t have the energy to create custom content, don’t worry on it. Yes, that will help. But just get started.
I have a link below you can use to set up your Buy Me A Coffee account. Do it today, start integrating it into your links. Make it easy for people to find out how they can support you. It’s easy! You’ll be surprised who just dives in and sends some coffee your way!
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Great video explaining how the Buy me a coffee site works 😎
Thank you!
I've thought about the patronage route, but I feel I don't really have a following yet to do anything like this. At what point in your RUclips journey (and/or author life) did you feel this became a viable plan? (Okay, just got to the end of you video where you said to not to wait for a magic number 😅!)
I also feel that I don't have enough time to create any other content for something like Patreon - which is fine for me at this point because I don't have that large following yet.
LOL! Yes, need my caffeine to get going and deal with kiddos, so I totally understand.
I would love to support you and other authors with the memberships but as I'm just setting myself up as an author, there's quite a bit of money going out the door with no return (until my debut is released!). Eventually, I'd love to support you monetarily, and if/when I get to that point, I think another level with group coaching sounds like an awesome idea! (Although I did purchase the Infostack 4.0 using your affliate link!)
Thanks for this video! Marking it for later viewing when I can do something like this!
Yes, I wish I had set this up sooner. My hesitations were the same as yours. I was very nervous about committing to create more content or that I didn't have enough of a following. My following on RUclips was maybe 500/700 subscribers when I set this up last fall and as you can see from my page, I don't promise new content on a regular basis. Maybe one day I'll have the time/stamina to do bonus content on a regular basis. (And yes, take care of your author business and set up your financial foundation there before contributing to my buy me a coffee ;) Affiliate links are a great way to support content creators )
MK, this was very helpful to me. You gave me many great ideas.
Glad I could help!
I like the RUclips idea. I might do something like that for my channel. This was helpful for making my buy me a coffee better. Thank you
So glad I could help!!
Very thorough! Thanks for going through all the steps when it came to setting this up and what other features can be added as well!!
Would you perhaps do a video too where you explain further about what made you choose this platform than the others you had mentioned? Would you go through with setting up multiple of these for followers who utilize patreon more or not?
Glad you enjoyed the video. It's something I'm considering with the other two being Patreon or Kofi. The thing is, then I have to maintain those accounts. I'll keep a to-do item to make this and see if others want the same and then it will move up on my priority list.
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Thank you
I subscribed. I’m probably going to creat my own BMAC page. I’m a writer speaker and coach.
Excellent! Best of luck with your new BMAC page!