Nice theory, but only really applicable to the ‘performing’ arts or the ‘fine’ arts – in other words, those which are directly purchased by the consumer. about half of THOSE are true fans. Constant care. Journalists, bloggers, and programmers are on the same long-tail that musicians and authors are on. I view with wonder both the adulation and controversy created by your article. This will make more money. Target Profit / average profit per item / average purchases per Fan = Number of True Fans required The current dominance of the major record labels is a legacy of the limitations of the old brick and mortar technology. They have the need to belong in a big team. https://nofilmschool.com/2012/12/universal-sony-record-companies-fake-billions-youtube-views, yes men, the plastics surgeries, cosmetics surgeries, medical, looking men… http://bit.ly/2rhEPAe.  And in this day and age of “uninspired” barraging mass advertising, what better way to keep your message personal. Since selling out to make a blockbuster is beyond my integrity (or skills perhaps? Very possibly every guitar lick Jerry Garcia played live (both the good ones and the horrible ones) are available somewhere for free, but all that did was encourage fans to go out and participate in the live shows, which is where most bands make their money anyway. Great article. You’ll see. 1000 true fans by two years. All the help will be a big present for us. Thanks for the pointer. If you are able to only earn $50 per year per true fan, then you need 2,000. I’m residing near Knoxville, Tennessee, which isn’t a hotbed of artistic growth, although things have been improving the last few years. 1,000 True Fans sounds like a lot…but if we nurture one fan at a time…with a true, heart-centered desire to add something special to their life…we will get there. This book is perfect for musicians, independent artists and music producers who I have six brothers and sisters, parents, nephews and I can’t even get one. Definitely have to get A-B before jumping to A-Z . It teaches you how to reach fans fast, in-person, and how to create quality relationships with them. It has never been easier to gather 1,000 true fans around a creator, and never easier to keep them near. If you’d like a copy of the results, let me know. It’s taking a while to earn enough True Fans, but it’s happening for me. To get a really good, professional-quality recording mass produced on a CD released into Wal-Mart… okay, sure, that’s still a job of work. Steve Purdham, CEO, http://www.we7.com. This formula – one thousand direct True Fans —  is crafted for one person, the solo artist. Share if you please, please. So the profits are now split 3 ways. You can cry all you want. This comment also applies to the other post you linked about Robert Rich. An author would need one true fan to spend $10 per month, which translates into two $5 books. Despite the improvements in tech, and the accompanying “web noise” that has come with more and more social media plaforms, and the like…this concept is as true now, in 2016, as it ever was. I listed down a number of Free Internet Business Opportunity Ideas while researching ways how people earn money online while working-from-home……. I found this article through Damien Mulley’s blog at http://www.mulley.net/2008/03/11/stations-of-the-cross-true-fans-and-micro-training-classes. Great article. a stand-alone gourmet market who has devoted followers & customers. "Serbia Strong", commonly known as "Remove Kebab", is a propaganda music video produced by a group of three Bosnian Serb Army soldiers--a trumpet player, an accordion player and a keyboard player--as a patriotic tribute to Radovan Karadžić, the former Bosnian-Serb politician and convicted war criminal who served as the first President of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War … I needed surgery …but im back up, and started blogging on a different site …about my journey ..i want to start up my videos on youtube again …but i want it to be with more in~ pack so it doesn’t get depressing …i have recently lost 11 inches in 7 weeks if that helps …just quitting sugar (somewhat) i don’t know if you can or not help me get some loyal fans but any advice is appreciated. i’m working in content management In Chennai .Here providing very low price CMS , responsive webdesign and ERP. The figure of 1,000 True Fans represents a grand (hehe) headline. Often their music will be decidedly European and they will sing in their mother tongue. I knew about how much I’d get paid, one time, if I’d placed it in one of those defunct magazines. Reading is almost inherently anti-social – you have to do it alone. based on actual experience from the ground up !راهبند اتوماتیک, Is this really better for investment?لامپ کم مصرف, Very interesting and exciting. My experience so far is this: I have been an independent musician for years. The numbers must surely vary around the world. True fans not only are the direct source of your income, but also your chief marketing force for the ordinary fans. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one thinking this way. Out of the 100 or so people who actually visit the blog every day maybe one can become a True Fan? Sociologist Ruth Towse surveyed artists in Britian and determined that on average they earned below poverty subsistence levels. However they should feel just as welcome at a local performance and/or M&G, otherwise they may be “put off” if they are made to feel less important just because they’re not rich, may have kids and a job – and a “real life” outside of enjoying a particular artists works. I know a couple of smart publishers who keep individual booksellers in the loop about writers we’ve reviewed or blurbed before, and some go above and beyond by occasionally getting new writers to us whose work they think we might enjoy (based on those earlier reviews) and hence sell to many, many “casual fans.” But most just take the review and run, pursuing the holy grail of high-profile TV show appearances, and discounting the importance of frontline booksellers who can handsell 50 to 100 copies of writer X’s new book (and keep handselling past the first 15 minutes of TV fame). Obviously, not all fans are created equal: I think your fan base also could be graphed as a power law distribution with ‘involvement/dedication’ as the Y-axis scale. especially an author would have a really hard time as writing books take time. Thank you for the illuminating post. it doesn’t mean one can’t still appreciate the music but the relationship is at best compartmentalized. Along with the music, I have the cottage industry that my label told me I should start as they let me go. ==================================== I’d be pissed to know im supporting the artist who is I moved it from my personal site to a blog: http://blogdeconteudo.com/1000_fas_verdadeiros_kevin_kelly/ Please update the link. They have a Google Alert set for your name. and I am earning about 1/3 of my living with my self-publishing (in – etc. I meet so many artists (e.g., writers, musicians) who are shy and expect to “be discovered” and think upon discovery someone else (e.g., agent) will do the selling for them. *Car Loans Club", "THE SIMPSONS Panel at Comic-Con 2017 – Season 28 – THE SIMPSONS", "The Simpsons' Will Finally Release Season 19 on DVD, Helping Out Purist Collectors", "7-Eleven Becomes Kwik-E-Mart for 'Simpsons Movie' Promotion", "Pressure is on 'The Simpsons' to capitalize on merchandise", "Postal Service launching 'Simpsons' stamps", "Stamp Manufacturing and Inventory Management", United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General, The Interviews: An Oral History of Television. In which case, the ‘1,000 true fans’ are more like ‘100 (or 10, or whatever number works) reliable clients’, which has been the ideal for most freelance commercial artists for a long time. Once people go through my online galleries and see my artwork, I receive quite a few emails from visitors, saying they’ve never seen anything like the work I create, and they love it. I’ll let you know how i get on. (Although success of your campaign is dependent on what you ask of your fans). I accidentally cultivated 15,000 True Fans by filling a need in an underserved niche online while following my heart…Ummm, so like I put up a little website about my family living on a raw-vegan diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds – unheated – oh, yeah, everyone knows about this now right? One must not forget that getting 1000 people to like your stuff will take a lot of work (most likely many years) to build up. I find good tutorials on this site. I like the way you’ve quantified this. As a small “information marketer” I adopted 1,000 true fans as my business model about a year ago. So good, I took the liberty to translate it to Spanish and post it on my website. http://www.daftarmenumasakan.web.id/, It was a story I could not finish reading. As a commercial photographer specializing in food I am luckier that a lot of artists. an equivalent of Free Software). I was thinking about how to get out of the trap of having to hit it big and this is a pretty good answer. Some only worked with me during birthdays or holidays. Really makes you think about how easy it is to achieve this goal of 1000 true fans and that if you concentrate your efforts on not trying to please the masses and just work on building a dedicated following keeping those fans that are religious followers happy you can live comfortably. welcome to my bookmarks! True fans look for the thing that lights their tree. This is exactly what Joss Whedon does. I do create and sell product, I do do some amount of marketing. this particular blog is so popular! Millennia? For me 1,000 true fans theory is best understood as: building your tribe. I went to an art show and wrote my name on every mailing list sheet I could get a hold of. I would guesstimate the participants buy based on where the greatest return comes from. Sesli sohbet denince akla gelen ilk ve tek sitede sizlerde yerinizi alın. Game designer Greg Stolze employed a similar True Fan model to launch two pre-financed games. So for writers, having a small base of isolated fans is a tenable strategy. It’s worth noting that I launched my practice pre-Internet, but I still think you’re on the money. In telling his story there’s a number of things I identified with that caused me to go search out his music, and would help turn me into a True Fan: his authenticity about wanting to produce the best expression of himself he could, the underdog story (we all love a good underdog story), him sharing his struggles and vulnerability and him referencing something about evolution as a model for something else. What and where to start with? Kişisel iş kredisi We probably have 20 or 30 true fans and so, still need day jobs. Perhaps simply being a good writer, and a prolific writer, are good enough for most. Amelia sold over $940 in albums. You are surrounded not by fad and fashionable infatuation, but by True Fans. This is such a powerful article. As an emerging writer of science fantasy adventure, I’m just beginning to build a fan base. I just want to hear that people like what I do. ** shameless plug to bump my Google listing: The stars don’t have many True Fans, maybe no more than 1,000, but they do have millions of typical fans. I don’t work for Facebook so I wouldn’t know that kind of insider information. The direct connection tools of the Web 2.0 world help facilitate this approach as they make the traditional record-company model obsolete. Doing both simultaneously will drastically increase your chances of success. Displaying openly Nazi symbols is illegal in many countries, so European fascists have taken to using a plethora of symbols, logos and codes to hide their real views. If they work for you, fine, but remember, in most cases they would be even worse at this than you would. Mostly because nobody in their right mind would hire me, and secondly because I was born to do this. http://keliso.blogspot.com. Details here: As long as the provider of your likes is smart about his business, you won’t lose out on any likes because of Facebook. Now, I don’t know his finances and I don’t want to presume, but after thirty years in the business, just the advance he makes from a book that shows up in a store like B&N or Amazon ought to far outstrip what he made selling each chapter for a hundred bucks. The argument is then that each person find their own creative outlet. A great article, very inspiring. You might want to take out the word “geometric” here. I’ve had filmmakers send me their films, or a short version of it. I’ll watch the movie,and make the decision if it’s good or not from the film itself, not how many others may have liked it or not. My challenge is that my current True Fans by one of my products for one event – their wedding. I’m going to do some more research and get back to you. True, people do like to read the same things as other people, so that they can talk about what they read, or also to look smart or cool by reading certain books, but the effect is not nearly as strong as it is for music. People kept mention it, so it was about fine I read this article and I’m glad I did! Ariely might say that “True Fans” derive add’l value from the knowledge that they are unique and “in the know” regarding (insert name of artist here) I am a photographer about 90 miles north of NYC in a lovely area of NY State that receives a fair amount of tourist traffic and I have been able to operate a gallery in the black, including a FT employee, due to: 1) exploiting an unfilled niche 2) providing a quality product at a reasonable price 3) making the gallery presentation museum-quality (see Ariely where he notes that a high priced menu item generates sales for the lower priced offering) 4) branding my name with advertising. A solution that I see for this problem is to create a possibility for our fans to become true supporters, meaning that they kind of subscribe to us. How about Ford, or Cruise- tell me how many 100.00 action figures need to be sold for them to work outside of someone PAYING them to “act”. In TWISTED-DOCTOR's Baby Hotline meme, the part "Someday i will go back outside and see her" is probably a reference to Mystery missing his mom, Lilly. Thanks for this, the wheels are spinning…. The unsecured working environment have prompted me to search the internet for an alternative source of extra income so that I could learn how to Make Money Work for me and be Financially Independent. By listing a work there and then directing “true fans” to bid on it, an artist could get his/her pay day and then sit back to watch true fans distribute the work to new fans world wide (when digital works are released via Propagate Ltd, duplication and redistribution rights are released to the public domain). I had been thinking for a long time that although we still need to expand, we don’t want to get too far away from our core, which is based on being a smaller business. I have been questioning lately whether I want to keep running on the same treadmill or use my photography for good. Sounds nice…but: How do you find/create the 1000 “True Fans”? Sales were unsuccessful, and he abandoned the project. – I put up a newsletter. One could blog for two or three years only to have a CORE of maybe 25 to 50 regular readers. Even if they have a manager to help be the front person for their fan-cultivation needs, there are still more marketing responsibilities required of artists (even indie ones) than in the past. Others call this microcelebrity support micro-patronage, or distributed patronage. I hadn’t really equated it to how *many* fans it might take; I just know I need to bless as many as possible. Now, 1,000 folks didn’t see me all at once and I certainly didn’t work every day but I always made my rent without a problem. I think the majority of working professional artists have always gotten by in this manner. I’ve seen a number of new startups going after the patronage model. — KK, [Translations: Chinese, Danish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish]. about half of those are fans. I have managed to make a living now for ten years by selling my paintings and as the internet and blogosphere grew (I set up my first website in 1998) I gradually increased my ‘fan base’. So, taking this idea on a level, you can isolate your own tailored ‘1,000’ figure based on some kind of financial target. I totally agree with what you’re saying here, and so does Malcolm Gladwell. Great article, Kevin. How much value do these points add for you, I wonder? I think you are right in that 1,000 true fans is something to shoot for and should make an artist sustainable. This concept along with Seth Godin’s Tribes is really turning out to be true, as relationships are more diversified and a true fan has more value, plus everyone has a social circle on social media at the touch of a button, plus on new platforms like periscope.tv you can have your true fans invite other people and it gains traction and compounds as seen in real time. DonkeyBox (Greenday and Metallica doing the funky chicken dance together). For many years I have been struggling to come to a concrete goal regarding my rock band DonkeyBox. 6. That is true, but that doesn’t mean that a major record label is required. Now you’ve made me see that perhaps I can set my sights on 1000 (and in truth I have about 500 True Fans right now) and be closer to my goal than I imagined. It’s been stated that there is a maximum number of tv shows /channels that a person can keep up with even with TiVo. I hate to nitpick, and sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, but in your opening paragraphs, you say, “Let’s peg that per diem each True Fan spends at $100 per year. A painter who made sort of western landscapes in oil was selling them for You have to build your small community BEFORE you can try and conquer a larger one. As an artist myself, I always wondered exactly how I would fit into the Long Tail. will help you figure out what you’re trying to do and cut the crap. So virtual art galleries like mine are nice because they save folks money. You made a very interesting point. Talk to them, listen to them, and offer them products, directly. This is exactly what I was thinking. But what that ultimately does is lead to the total pie being divided by three as opposed to 1. Do something. There most certainty needs to be more articles like this one! (which means it triangulates your perspective), You make a living instead of a fortune. “If I get $400 in pre-orders, I will be able to afford the rest [of the studio costs],” she told potential contributors. Yet if even only one out of million people were interested, that’s potentially 7,000 people on the planet. A friend of mine shared this post, and I am absolutely encouraged by the ideas presented. Yet there are also people like Enya who has kept her private life almost entirely to herself. Ücretsiz ve online olarakehliyet sınav soruları çöz ,kolay ve basit sistemi ile kendinizi ehliyet sınav soruları ile online ehliyet sınavı testlerini çözerek sınavlara daha iyi hazırlanabilirsiniz.Online olarak ehliyet sorularına ulaşabilir ve çıkan soruları kontrol edebilirsiniz. as a painter and my work changes I am confident that enough ‘fans’ will come with me to enable me to continue for the rest of my life (touch wood). I’d be interested to see how people think this concept (which is great) would transpose to a service-based business, or consultancy. You can see an example (it’s mine, you can use me as an example) here: 1,000 seems like a small number until you add the stipulation that they are willing to buy anything and everything…then it seems large. Great food for thought. Third distinction. Thank you for your helpful information.خرید ملک در ترکیه. I have my own thoughts on this, which I am writing online. Bud Bilanich seslisohbet thank you my admin is four you she. Kevin, “Geometric growth” is like falling, or air resistance, or sound intensity–they all increase as the square or cube of the distance or speed or number of fans. I keep coming back to this concept and believe in it more every day as the long-tail is here to stay. your group size by 33%, you need add only 33% more fans.”. http://www.thebloodshots.com Why release ‘Meatbot Massacre’ over the internet? One thousand is a feasible number. especially since my hardcore fans expect quality. Here’s a dose of realism/pessimism from a small independent board game publisher: Jackson Pope, founder/owner of Reiver Games has recently called it quits. You mentioned Fundable.com, but now with IndieGoGo, the artist can share their creative vision in own place and turn the 1000 True Fans passion in action. Wonderful post, I don’t have 1,000 True Fans yet, but now that I have read this, I want 1,000 True Fans. Track 0, sector 10 is missing on the disk and should be zeroed out in the image (the KryoFlux tools seem to fill this sector with random garbage instead). I couldn’t see a writer at this point wanting that to be his writing income unless he has a nice side job. My goal is to focus our efforts on increasing our average dollar per account. You end by writing about the study in which “Sociologist Ruth Towse surveyed artists in Britian and determined that on average they earned below poverty subsistence levels.”. Better to be small, to grow slowly and to have as few middlemen as possible. Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them, and instead of studying how to make it worth men’s while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.”. Reading this, I can see that we need to grow but not set our sights on being the biggest of companies. A more important caution: Not every artist is cut out, or willing, to be a nurturer of fans. John What a weird, sick and lazy society we live in, thx Martin. All the poor artists out there trying to go it alone, it’s just too much. I learned the same thing about 1,000 true fans from producing my webcomic: You want to cleverly poise and promote your stupid shit to key fans who understand your message and aesthetics. It’s online here: This time built on the concept for organization’s in a piece titled, 1,000 Loyal Customers. The lower levels are more popular, where donors can earn things like an advanced copy of the CD, a mention in the liner notes and a T-shirt identifying them as a “junior executive producer” of the CD.