How to Make $ on Patreon Like Sailing LaVagabonde & SV Delos: Tips, Tricks, Facts, and Advice
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Learn the secrets of top YouTube channels about making money on Patreon such as Sailing LaVagabonde and Sailing SV Delos. Linus Wilson completed a study of 444 sailing channels and gives you the tips, tricks, and secrets of the most successful channels on Patreon. He breaks down his study at the start of the video and reads it at the end of the video. You can download the study for free at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2919840 0:04 Intro 1:04 How Linus Wilson got interested in Patreon 1:40 SV Delos making $6,000/episode 2:34 Patreon channels make a lot more videos than other YouTubers 3:10 Learn how much is Sailing LaVagabonde and SV Delos made in 2016 from Patreon 3:50 How much does the typical channel make? 4:40 One hour per minute rule for good video 5:17 How many patrons can you get per 1,000 subscribers 5:55 Don't quit your day job. 6:58 Patreon pays for video creation not for your lifestyle 8:45 How much does it cost to start a YouTube channel? 9:40 Can you earn minimum wage from your YouTube channel and Patreon? 10:16 Is getting on Patreon hard? 11:06 Drivers of success on Patreon 11:57 Patreon rewards 12:15 Join the Slow Boat on the Marquesas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGS0MieUsHI www.patreon.com/slowboatsailing 12:50 Getting your first 100 subscribers 13:40 Can you be as big as Sailing SV Delos or Sailing La Vagabonde? 13:50 Gear needed for a sailing YouTube channel: How much does it cost? 14:50 Destroying $5,000 equipment 15:07 Computer gear needed 15:39 25 hours of editing for 15 minutes of video for a top YouTube sailing channel making $200-$300 per video 16:35 Tips for having a successful YouTube channel 18:20 Consistency!!! 19:10 Titles, tags, keywords, thumbnails 20:25 Facebook!!! 21:36 A dramatic reading of my academic study entitled: "A Little Bit of Money Goes a Long Way: Crowdfunding on Patreon by YouTube Sailing Channels" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2919840 21:50 Abstract 22:44 Section 1: Introduction 25:06 Section 2: Literature Review 28:41 Section 3: Sailing-Channels.com and YouTube Data 32:20 Section 4: Patreon Data 39:35 Section 5: Results 44:30 Section 6: Conclusion 46:06 Like, Subscribe, Share, and Comment: Does Daly (dog) need a haircut? 46:43 Credits Suggested citation for my paper: Wilson, Linus, "A Little Bit of Money Goes a Long Way: Crowdfunding on Patreon by Youtube Sailing Channels," (February 17, 2017). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2919840 Dr. Linus Wilson is Grow Your YouTube Channel Certified. He has written three books and has talked to many of the most successful YouTube sailing channels on his Slow Boat Sailing Podcast. He gives you the results from the first ever academic study on Patreon that he wrote, conversations with top YouTube creators, and what he learned from his YouTube certificate. Linus Wilson has been the author or coauthor of more than 30 peer-reviewed academic studies. Slow Boat Sailing is making a podcast and vlog about sailing around the world part-time. The podcast interviews the most interesting cruising sailors in the world, including the crew of SV Delos, White Spot Pirates, Chase the Story, Sailing Miss Lone Star, Wicked Salty, SV Prism, and many more. This costs time and money and we love our supporters who subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, and YouTube as well as those who support us on Patreon. We will be running contest where our most loyal Patreon supporters can become part of our crew literally as we explore the paradise islands of the South Pacific. www.Patreon.com/slowboatsailing Our one Star or Executive Producer patron can join the crew without winning the drawing. Patrons of the round the world vlog and podcast get bonus podcast episodes and free audiobooks of How To Sail Around the World Part-Time and Slow Boat to Cuba. They get never before released audiobook chapters of Slow Boat to the Bahamas. You can also get access to many podcasts and videos early as a patron. Slow Boat to the Bahamas https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Boat-Bahamas-Linus-Wilson-ebook/dp/B018OUI1Q2/ and How to Sail Around the World-Part Time https://www.amazon.com/How-Sail-Around-World-Part-Time-ebook/dp/B01B0OFYNW/ have been #1 sailing bestseller on Amazon. Slow boat to Cuba launches on Amazon on November 21, 2016. Support the vlog and podcast at https://www.patreon.com/slowboatsailing The vlog is also a video cruising guide of the places we visit focused on the seamanship necessary to visit the exotic foreign ports that we visit. The vlogs recount the adventures of the Slow Boat Crew. Subscribe to the podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slow-boat-sailing-podcast/id1084423845?mt=2 http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/slow-boat-sailing-podcast music by www.BenSound.com
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create a decent story-line. I believe Delos is the best at this so far. These things are KEY! I have a 3 year plan to became a cruiser and much of that plan is learning about the items I mentioned above. Also, DO NOT count on Patreon or other platforms to push you around the Big Blue. Our plan is to be self funded and use Patroen as a supplemental source. If it works...all the better. If not, we have a backup plan! I'm not interested in becoming a slave to an audience where I feel pressured to create a video every week. Even though I see it as fun and a will be pretty good at it. Stay Tuned!
10. comment for How to Make $ on Patreon Like Sailing LaVagabonde & SV Delos: Tips, Tricks, Facts, and Advice
2. tiny bikinis
3. exotic locations
4. profit
There are great video tutorials out there to learn from. Some are free and not that in depth and some may cost $25 for a month subscription but it's an all-you-can-eat buffet during that month and you can cancel before they charge you for the second month. Learn about improving the quality of the video splicing, balancing audio, voice overs, story line and B-roll.
Quality production draws quality viewership (of the kind that appreciates it and supports it).
Thanks for both doing the research, as well as sharing it with us all.
A "sailing" channel uploaded a video of him washing his boat with some background music, at the end he requested donations because after all "this is an art form".
20. comment for How to Make $ on Patreon Like Sailing LaVagabonde & SV Delos: Tips, Tricks, Facts, and Advice
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=686305
Just hit the orange download the paper button.
Anyway I am a longtime supported of sailing channel KTL but Dylan winter and want to help him find a way to get funding for his project. He has the highest by far film uploads (540) after the big 2-3 from the sailing channels study. But he gets no Adsense money , and is not on FB , probably because he, like his demographic are 50-70 and want nothing to do with a data mining site like FB. But prehaps we have to bite the bullet, but I really don't want to. What you say is Pateron is different from all the other crowd funding as it's geared toward sustaining funding and not one time funding. This has to be the way to go , Are there any other funding models you know of that are working to generate significant money?
Thank you. Warren
The presentation was rather dead pan until your pet and daughter joins the video. The paper presentation. Is hard to follow when you read the actual numbers , like 145,653 instead of saying approx 150 thousand. It's fine in the written word as you can see the number and read it as one word but if you were giving a lecture you would try and talk in a way to keep the listener engaged. Remember the data although accurate has already changed so the finite numbers mean nothing in the long run.
You mentioned playing video to the end is good for you channel , but does it matter if the film is 5 or 55 minutes long? That must make a big difference to whether they are played to the very end.
Thumbs up on utube is a pain as it just add video to a list of liked video. And that becomes huge and as a tool to go back and watch again it's a pain, but prehaps I'm. Missing the point there. And linking and sharing I don't understand or how to do. W.
So his video do not fit the usual click bait model so should he produce short versions for YouTube and proper directors cuts for website or pateron if he ever creates an account?
Thumbs up and comments helps videos rank higher in search. That tells YouTube that the video is something that people value. I often have the problem of comments not posting too.
30. comment for How to Make $ on Patreon Like Sailing LaVagabonde & SV Delos: Tips, Tricks, Facts, and Advice
Very interesting information.
so I watched all the way thru on a shared link in KTL by Dylan Winter, his comments above. Do you get credit for me watching on his embedded ?
I am one of his long time supporter and follower. He has from the sailing channel study one of the top numbers of film uploads behind the top 2-3. But he does not get the funding he needs , he gets no adsense, he is not on Facebook , he started before FB was big, and most of his demographic 50-70 are like me unwilling to join Facebook ( even though we had to join Google+ to see his content on utube ) so prehaps the FB thing is necessary. The different nature of the Pateron being for sustaining funding rather than onetime and started by a musician and not original as a money making concern. I hope you paper will encourage KTL to try the Pateron model us longtime supporters need him to find funding so he can continue, but unchanged we hope.
Thank you.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2919840
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