Need Strategy to Get "1 dollar a month" donators

[Jason76]

They will also be known as patrons. Here is my site: https://www.patreon.com/thedrumlesson Anyway, I have been targeting the main developed English speaking nations - but just focusing on those liking drums - isn't getting enough clicks.

Anyway, I was targeting Nigeria and getting a lot, but I have to hold off on them until I can get a good number of members in the developed world - because I need people who will donate.

 

[Ghost]

I think you should offer some video tutorials with it. Also $1 per month might not be the best. I personally would go with a $9.99-19.99 model to attract people who are serious about learning drums instead of $1. If I'm only paying $1, I wouldn't expect you to pay much attention to me. You may find it easier to find one person willing to pay $20/mo than it is to find 20 people willing to pay $1/mo.

Besides video tutorials you could offer some basic drum sheets for people to practice with.
They can upload video or MP3 of them playing & you can critique them.

You should create a series of article & video tutorials that they get instant access to. Perhaps each month releases another "chapter" of the drum lesson, and they can choose which chapter they start on. That way an intermediate drummer doesn't need to start with the super basic drum tutorials.

 

[Nomad]

First of all you must give a reason what people should donate to your site. The donation amount does not matter, what ultimately matters is the reason for donation. You should provide valuable contents. Your contents should be unique. If everything is found free on other sites, people will not pay for your content.

 

[Jason76]

I think you should offer some video tutorials with it.

Don't have the tools to do video. Anyway, don't like doing that. But I can work around that - but I cannot charge what other people do - due to that.

First of all you must give a reason what people should donate to your site. The donation amount does not matter, what ultimately matters is the reason for donation. You should provide valuable contents. Your contents should be unique. If everything is found free on other sites, people will not pay for your content.

I rewrote the "begging section" and also I think what I offer as paid is unique - as far as I know.

 

[Jerlene]

Targeting drum lovers is too easy. Think outside of the box. What about the middle-aged men that go through their midlife crisis and want to randomly buy a drum set, just because? Or the nerds who want to try something new and cool? Don't limit yourself to just drum lovers. Every little kid wanted to hit the drums at some point in time. Take advantage of that.

 

[Alexandoy]

Good luck to your venture. You are a good man, @Jason76, and I know that you deserve to succeed. However I don't believe that there will be patrons who will donate unless they are really into drums. What if you will feature drummers on your site like "drummer of the week" with a photo and a short interview? And to be featured they have to donate. Just my thoughts.

 

[/foogle]

Pay per view, have special events in your site. For example, I’m having a watch party on Geek. Got tons of live streams for people to watch and chat about.

 

[Jason76]

Well, even though there isn't any video - the sound files are very useful. Also, drum music isn't hard to follow like guitar music - as in musical notation.

Good luck to your venture. You are a good man, @Jason76, and I know that you deserve to succeed. However I don't believe that there will be patrons who will donate unless they are really into drums. What if you will feature drummers on your site like "drummer of the week" with a photo and a short interview? And to be featured they have to donate. Just my thoughts.

I'm adding my Discord for the 2nd level membership - 5 dollars a month. I don't what I would do on it, though.

Targeting drum lovers is too easy. Think outside of the box. What about the middle-aged men that go through their midlife crisis and want to randomly buy a drum set, just because? Or the nerds who want to try something new and cool? Don't limit yourself to just drum lovers. Every little kid wanted to hit the drums at some point in time. Take advantage of that.

You might be right. I'm just a little fearful of wasting cash. I need more research on that. But certainly, at the present rate, the growth is very slow - as in the rich English speaking nations (with only targeting drumming interests).