First, this isn't advertising or propaganda designed to squeeze money out of anyone, just letting those who are interested know it exists now. Have had several people ask me if I would create a Patreon, which is basically a place where creators can post their work for a monthly subscription. Nothing is changing on YouTube, not going to start restricting stuff, the Patreon thing is just extra if you'd like to contribute for some extra perks. Here's my "pitch" or what the whole thing involves:
What I've set up first is the Master Line Tier, and it's a basic "membership," but hopefully one that is worth it. First, you'll have access to the feed here, while I'll post some occasional generic public updates, most of it will go into the feed that only you as a patron can see. Behind the scenes info/pictures, occasional blog posts with updates or tips or information or specific topics, etc. Next, whenever new balls come out, it takes several days to get videos done. The filming, writing, editing, rendering, and posting all takes a long time. Before I get to serious work on the videos however, I'll put together a short teaser trailer with several shots from me, several shots from Angel, and some initial thoughts that will be released only to you so you will be able to get an early look at the new stuff a couple days before the reviews and opinion videos go up. Next, there's a live chat function where I can choose to go live, and you'll be sent a notification (make sure to turn them on!) when I do so you can get on and chat with me and others live. As I spend a lot of time out on the road and in hotels for my day job, I should be in the chat quite a bit! Finally, once a month I'll have a live Q&A with a guest, just like we did for the Beer Frame Live, except it will be restricted to patrons only, so the crowd should be smaller and we should be able to have more of a discussion than a strict Q&A, not to mention get to the questions faster. Hopefully that all sounds good and we can have some fun here, thank you!!!
Once I get set up, I'll include live streams from leagues, tournaments, and while I'm filming videos so you'll get an even earlier and unedited look at the equipment. That's going to require a laptop and new camera though so it will likely be later this year before I get the funds for that. The idea is also eventually to try and get interviews with higher profile people and professionals in the industry, hopefully travel to some professional tournaments, Bowl Expo, stuff like that, so that's the idea of where this is all heading, if the interest and support is there of course. If this all sounds uninteresting and/or ridiculous and you're fine with what I already do, don't sign up lol, not gonna hurt my feelings, this is just extra if you're interested.
However, not to sell myself short, I'm pretty passionate about what I do, I will always try to go above and beyond, and while I'm not where I want to be yet, hopefully it won't be long before I can have some legitimately top shelf content featuring top shelf guests and better production values and some really interesting stuff. Just a lot of time and money to get there, and I'm grateful for those so far who've shown their support for what I already do and where we're hopefully going. Here's the link to the page, thanks:
https://www.patreon.com/LukeRosdahl
