{"id":2576,"date":"2009-10-18T22:09:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T02:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2009-10-18T22:09:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T02:09:59","slug":"three-true-fans-thats-where-it-all-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/three-true-fans-thats-where-it-all-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Three True Fans that's where it all starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been quoting 1000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly<\/a> for some time now, so thought well overdue for the bwagy evolution.<\/p>\n

To sum up the post:<\/p>\n

“A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.<\/em><\/p>\n

A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name. They bookmark the eBay page where your out-of-print editions show up. They come to your openings. They have you sign their copies. They buy the t-shirt, and the mug, and the hat. They can’t wait till you issue your next work. They are true fans.” Full post over at kk.org. (Make sure you read it<\/strong>).<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Any creator probably starts with at least three true fans (aka mum, dad, grandma, grandad, husband\/wife, siblings).<\/p>\n

How do you take it from that to 1000? Well through hard work; listening, obsessing and growing with your fans. \u00a0It’s going to take some time but it is an entirely achievable target – once you have it you can then fully do what you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been quoting 1000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly for some time now, so thought well overdue for the bwagy evolution. To sum up the post: “A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,676,1301],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}