There are two absolutely delightful additions to what everyone can do at Patreon, and I’m so glad that they went through with these changes!

First of all, they are welcoming the public much more warmly than before with their “free member” program. Now, anyone can interact with my public posts without joining or subscribing to my monthly lessons!! Some folks have said on various forums that this is no big deal, because someone from the public could always interact with posts that creators designated as “public.” So these people are saying that Patreon just changed their terminology a little bit.

I think it is a big deal, because now I’m seeing an increasing number of free members (I get a notice every time a free member joins), and this encourages me to post more public or “free” content! I’ve made a few videos of my relaxing tunes public recently, and I will be making more of my tablature and music pdf files open to the public as well. Likewise for the mp3 audio that comes directly from my home studio.

The second feature I LOVE is that I can now sell digital downloads from my catalog of eBooks right on Patreon, without setting up an e-commerce function on my web site! You can find my Shop tab right below my name and the short tagline that describes what I’m doing at Patreon when you go to this link:

Jerry Rockwell Teaches Dulcimer at Patreon

Hope to see you there!!