{"id":1061,"date":"2021-02-15T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/making-it-work-making-good-work\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T22:09:00","slug":"making-it-work-making-good-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/making-it-work-making-good-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Making it work, making good work"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I said back in December<\/a>, I am really curious and exited to figure out what I could\u00a0<\/p>\n

make and\/or do differently to earn more patrons AND make \u00a0better art, AND help me grow more as an artist? Would \u00a0cards\/prints\/postcards draw you or others? What about original small but \u00a0frequent art, flat, felted, or otherwise? I’d like to offer a different \u00a0selection of $10-$30 tiers, and find new and better ways to invite people to come along ….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So… can you help? \u00a0Please check things that you think would be good to offer (or remove) or that you might switch to (you can change your pledge at any time) or that would tell a friend about …. Or suggest more options or combos below!\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can see the existing tiers on the front page<\/a>. Tiers are so far cumulative, but the certainly don’t have to be. The ranges I posted below are just what I am thinking that idea might work at but you might have better ideas. Comments would be great!!<\/p>\n

This is probably too many options…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I said back in December, I am really curious and exited to figure out what I could\u00a0 make and\/or do differently to earn more patrons AND make \u00a0better art, AND help me grow more as an artist? Would \u00a0cards\/prints\/postcards draw you or others? What about original small but \u00a0frequent… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-h7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":946,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/wip-what-do-you-think-about-my-tiers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1061,"position":0},"title":"WIP \/\/ What do YOU think about my Tiers?","author":"Kir","date":"27 April 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey everyone, I'm thinking about offering a few new things, but only a few at those new levels. 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