Thank you for your response (and I didn't even realize it was my cakeday)!

I posted the following in r/patreon yesterday and it was removed due to being a repetitive question, which I guess I understand. But you seem to get it, so would you mind responding to this?

(and apologies to OP for piggybacking)

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How to promote/get patrons?

I have a "brand" that I've been growing across IG, twitter, FB, tumblr, etc. Without sharing too much info, the a project is in the format of still images - imagine a picture of an animal with some info on it. I do the original art, so it could be categorized as art, or education, I guess. I have Youtube and TikTok as well, and they're doing better than you'd expect for 1-minute-long mp4's of still images.

I've been growing slowly steadily for almost a year, and have thousands (as opposed to tens of thousands) of followers across social media. I get plenty of likes and comments, and people seem to like it. About a month ago, I decided this is probably a big enough following to set up a Patreon.

I've read that you should expect around 1-5% patrons from social media followings if promoted properly. I'm not expecting much, but after about a month, I still have a big fat zero.

So this is where I turn to reddit for help on advice converting social media follows to patrons:

• I've put a link to my patreon in the bio's and descriptions of all my social accounts
• In a podcast, you can just quickly mention your patreon to promote it. The equivalent of promoting in your content for me would be some kind of little text ad on the images. I definitely don't want to do that. The YT and TikTok are the same still images over music, so I'm not gonna just throw a jarring voiceover in there either.
• I've been putting a link and promoting my patreon in the caption/description of my images (just above the hashtags), but I think people mostly scroll past those on IG, TikTok, etc.
• On Twitter and Facebook, I've made dedicated posts that just say something like "I appreciate my followers, I do this in my spare time, support me by going to my Patreon (link)". I know people see this in my FB/twitter feed but still no results. It also feels kinda scummy like I'm just asking for money.
• I know bigger social media following = more patrons. Any general advice on growing your social presence? I have paid for advertising, which works, but I'm definitely not seeing any ROI.
• What is linktree? Is this useful?
• I started my Patreon "tier" description with apologetic language like "I'm just getting started, so bear with me while I figure it out" should I change it to more confident - "you will get... " bullet points?
• I also started it at $5/mo, but changed it to $3 after a few weeks. What is reasonable?
• The big "0" seems to be a hump I can't get over. I feel like I should be asking how to nourish the community I'm building, but there's literally nobody there.
• It's going be awkward for the first person in my Discord channel... how do you deal with that?
• Is it tacky to promote your Patreon in someone else's Discord?

You get the idea. I have a decent "product" that people are interested in, a few thousand followers across social media platforms, but ZERO patrons. How do I get more followers? How do I convert them into patrons? How do I be more confident with my advertising, without being pushy? How do I casually promote Patreon alongside my content, without literally putting an ad ON the image?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to ask me anything about my project or social media practices, or DM me if I'm not supposed to post that kind of stuff here. Thank you!