Never Outsource Your Vision
This week, Brad and Dave discuss one of the easiest traps for independent creators to fall into: Outsourcing important business or creative decisions to reader polls. Audience feedback can be useful, but when creators ask readers to steer decisions about Patreon tiers, Kickstarter rewards, publishing strategy, or creative direction, they often get noisy, contradictory advice that can lead them away from their own best judgment.
Topics covered in this episode include:
Why readers are experts in consumption, not creation
The danger of asking your audience to make business decisions for you…
The skinny
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