Can Businesses Do the Business They Do, Please?

By the time I signed up with Patreon, I’d had about thirteen years of fundraising experience. Having started a theatre company in 2001, I’d explored all kinds of ways to fund our work. In the beginning, it was just writing letters and asking for help. (Weirdly, still the most successful method.) Then, as the internet became more integrated into our lives, we watched Charity Donor Portals come and go out of business and then crowdfunding kicked in. We ran campaigns on CrowdRise and Indiegogo and probably a few others I’ve already forgotten about. These were all for my non-profit theatre, not for me personally. These were funds which only rarely benefited me in a financial way. But in those days, there was not yet a reliable way to get support for me, as an individual artist. I could raise funds for projects but not for my ongoing support, not for my writing, for example. Patreon came along as a way for folks who were making things on the internet to get paid for the things. To keep reading Can Businesses Do the Business They Do, Please? visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog. This is Episode 373 Song: Mind Your Own Business Image by David Ring via WikiCommons To support this podcast: Give it 5 stars in Apple Podcasts. Write a nice review! Rate it wherever you listen or via: ⁠⁠https://ratethispodcast.com/strugglingartist⁠⁠ Join my mailing list: ⁠⁠www.emilyrainbowdavis.com/⁠⁠ Like the blog/show on Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/SongsfortheStrugglingArtist/⁠⁠ Support me on Patreon: ⁠⁠www.patreon.com/emilyrdavis⁠⁠ Or help me pay off my tickets to and from Crete on Kofi: ⁠⁠http://ko-fi.com/emilyrainbowdavis⁠⁠ or PayPal me: ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/strugglingartist⁠⁠ Join my Substack: ⁠⁠https://emilyrainbowdavis.substack.com/⁠⁠ Follow me on Twitter ⁠⁠@erainbowd⁠⁠ Me on Mastodon - @[email protected] Me on Hive - @erainbowd ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠ Tell a friend! Listen to The Dragoning ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ (it's my audio drama) and support via Ko-fi here: ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/messengertheatrecompany⁠⁠ As ever, I am yours, Emily Rainbow Davis