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Manca, baby and Patreon update
🕑 Added 2024-02-21 00:58:02 +0000 UTCHey guys, Žiga here
I'm glad to report that Manca and the baby are doing great. Nejc is now 4 months old and like every baby he keeps us busy and up at night :)
Manca is now on maternity leave for a whole year and we're all struggling. Despite hiring a new employee we are still short staffed. Seems that this year will be even crazier than the last as we already have many projects planned and traveling every month.
To add to the workload we are now also expanding the gunstore and focusing on dealership and B2B sales.
All in all that's good for our company. We're growing and expanding but there is a lot of collateral damage. On of them is Patreon. I feel like we neglected our Patreon and communication with you guys because of sheer lack of time.
Manca was also managing the patreon lists and shipping rewards. Without her we managed to miss two deadlines to ship.
Now i am trying to fix this and you will all get double the stuff if possible.
But the reality is that i don't have enough time to handle Patreon as a full time thing. Hopefully we are able to find someone that will act as a community manager and remind us about stuff and force us to do more patreon interactions.
My goal is to revive our Patreon with better interaction, early access to videos, exclusive behind the scenes content, giveaways, challenges, play-togethers and regular meet&greets.
But here is where we also need your help - we need feedback and ideas.
The patreon Facebook group is dying because of FB algorithm - anything we post in there gets seen by only a couple of people out of almost 200.
One idea was to move completely to discord but that's not a naitive platform for me, so i have to know if everyone uses it and how often.
Let me know what you think
- Žiga
Comments
Polenar Tactical
thank you!
Timo Gross
To me you dont have to worry. You now have a sweet Baby who is more important than anything. And i would say anyone understand this very well. And we love to support you guys in any way.
Polenar Tactical
Thank you! FB went to shit so i am determined to move away from it. Patreon itself seems too rigid and impersonal for communication. So discord seems like the best alternative. The only issue i have with it is that i dont use it a lot, mostly just for team communication when playing games so it's not a natural platform for me. I will try to be more active there and we have Tom and Orvin that will help with the organisation and admin stuff.
Polenar Tactical
Facebook is shit now
Mick Gillen
Congratulations to the three of you! As regards FB versus Discord, I vote Discord. It's easier to get information out to your followers - take a look at the 9-Hole Reviews Discord server, Henry and Josh are very active in the servers. Caution is required with a high level of control over who has access to the server to avoid trolling (In-Range and GT's servers come to mind). It depends on what you want to communicate and also how much time you wish to devote to social media with all you have going on family- and business-wise. Keep on rocking......
I'd like Discord better than Facebook
