Good morning and welcome to another episode of the Wake Up Date! I have some
important announcements to share with you this month. First of all, I have a
couple of wizardrock shows coming up that I wanted to share with you so if
you live near any of these places and you want to come see me perform, I would
love to see you. For more information on all of these shows, you can read the
video description below or go to laurenfairweather.com/shows - First up,
I'm going to be performing at the wizarding weekend in Ithaca, New York. I
cannot wait for this show! Every time I've played in Ithaca, it's been really
fun and this one's gonna be especially cool cause it's like a festival and they
transform their town and there are going to be a ton of bands and performers and
it's gonna be really cool and it's right before Halloween so I'm excited. I'm
going to be performing there on October 28th. I'm also going to be performing at a
Harry Potter conference called Conjuration in Atlanta, Georgia.
It's from November 3rd to November 5th. I performed at the first Conjuration they
ever hosted and I'm excited to be back! It was also just announced that I'm
gonna be performing for the first time at the New Year's Eve show in Woonsocket,
Rhode Island. It's a house party and I've never done the New Year's Eve one
so I'm excited. So if you like Harry Potter, those shows will be really fun
and I hope to see you there! So. This is an exciting thing! YouTube invited me
to be part of a beta for a new feature they're testing called Sponsorships.
Basically, you could sign up on my channel to pay a small fee every month
that I would get and I could use that to fund my channel! And that money would
help me continue to make videos like this. As you know, I have a baby, I own a
house, and my various creative pursuits are my only job so if you like my
content and you want me to keep making more of it, that's a really great way to
help me keep going with all of this. I've talked about this on my channel a little
bit before, but basically, if all of my various creative pursuits don't make
enough money for me to live, I'm going to have to get a more traditional job
outside of the house and that would leave me with a lot less time, possibly
no time at all to make videos like this for all of you. More funding for my
channel could mean anywhere from me being able to continue doing what I'm
doing to maybe being able to do even more for you. It's possible that if I
make enough money with this YouTube channel, I could afford to put my kid in
daycare and that would give me so much more time to work on videos. I've always
tried to provide a variety of ways that you could support me whether it's buying
my merchandise, buying my music, coming to see me at a show, I have my patreon
campaign, and I'm now going to be trying this sponsorships feature. Just like
Patreon, the sponsorships feature on YouTube allows me to come up with my own
way of rewarding the people who decide to become sponsors. So because I love
patreon and I am going to continue with that campaign, I decided to come up with
some new perks that are just exclusive to sponsorships. That way you have plenty
of options and you could even decide to contribute to both if you wanted to. Or
none at all. Totally fine. I understand. So I wanted to talk real quick about the
current perks that I am offering to anybody who decides to sponsor me on
YouTube. So when I was talking to YouTube about the place that these perks would
be, they said that the best way that they recommended for me to deliver the perks
is through the community tab on my channel page. You may have seen that
already; it's a place where I post all kinds of fun stuff for people who
subscribe to my channel, but now they've offered the ability for me to post
things just to sponsors on the community tab, so if you decide to become a sponsor
and you sign up, that's where you can go to find all of these things. So I decided
that I wanted to make sponsorships kind of a creative community where a smaller
amount of us can get together and have discussions and inspire each other and I
thought that that would be a really fun place to do it. I've been posting behind
the scenes photos and sneak peeks that are just for the people who sponsor my
videos, that way you can kind of see what I'm working on and also learn a little
bit more about how I make all these videos happen. Also, every month I'll be
writing out a little handwritten note, taking a picture of it, and posting it in
the sponsor only feed, that way you're the only ones who can read it, I'm
writing it just for my sponsors. So much of the way that we communicate online is
through typed text and I think that handwriting is kind of a lost art so
I've been practicing it a lot and I like writing notes and letters to people, so I
thought that this would just be kind of a more personal way of talking to all of
you. I'm also going to be posting exclusive prompts and discussion
starters for all of you out there who decide to be sponsors where we can just
have a conversation and talk back and forth and have it just be a smaller
community where we can get to know each other. I'm hoping this is gonna be the
kind of place where you can share what you're working on or get advice or stay
inspired to keep creating. This part's a little more up in the air because I
think that it's gonna really be determined by the people who sign up and
whether or not they're interested in participating in something like this. I
feel like some parts of the internet can be a really scary place and YouTube
comments is one of those places but I feel like I have a really supportive,
wonderful community here and I think that this is just another place where we
can get together and chat. And this last perk is something I've been wanting to
do for a really long time, but I couldn't just kind of open it up to everybody
right away and that is that being a sponsor will give you the ability to
send me video clips that I could use in my videos. One way that I thought I could
use this perk so far is that I could do a video Q&A and people who are sponsors
can send me videos of them asking questions. So that way you can see the
person who's asking the question and hear their voice and I thought that that
would be really fun. I don't know how many of you would be interested in doing
that. I also thought it would be really fun to make a video showing the people
who make the projects that I post. I'm gonna think of some ideas for videos
that we can work on together and the sponsor only tab is gonna be the first
place where I go to ask people to send those to me. If any of this sounds
interesting to you and you want to try sponsoring me for a little bit of money
every month, the way you can sign up is by clicking the sponsor button. It's
usually located next to the subscribe button so underneath the video or on my
channel itself. One thing to note is that this is a beta and it has been having
issues so far, so if you have any problems, let me know in the comments
below or send me a private message and I will send it to the people who I've been
working with on the feature. It's also pretty limited at the moment and one of
those limitations is that you can't actually sign up to be a sponsor on iOS
so if you're on your iPad or your iPhone, you won't see the sponsor button there.
You can sign up on an Android device and you can sign up on a desktop, so if
you're like me and you have an iPhone, just sign up on your desktop and then
you can use your iPhone or your iPad to access all the sponsor only posts once
you've already signed up. Hopefully they'll get that feature going soon. Let
me know if you have any questions about YouTube sponsorships. I know this is a
lot of information. If you are YouTube creator and you're interested in being
part of this beta when they open it up to more people, I'm gonna put a link in
the video description below. There's a little form you can fill out that will
let them know kind of who is interested in trying this out. Also this is totally
not required; it's just something that you can do if you really love my channel
and you want to contribute. All my videos and my channel and everything
are gonna be totally free and available to whoever wants to watch them. Anybody
who decides to do it, it's a really big deal for me and I appreciate it so much.
Even though sponsorships is pretty similar to patreon, I am still doing my
patreon campaign. So you might know that one of my patreon perks is a video shout
out so this month, I would like to thank Nicki B. Thank you, Lucy black. Thank you,
Ashley Sousa. Thank you, Markslide Thank you Antonia G, and a big THANK YOU and
welcome back to Saxony! One more thing that I wanted to mention is that I
bought this shirt from Amy Tangerine who's one of my favorite youtube
creators, she's totally amazing. I just wanted to show it to you because I
thought that it was very "me" and I was so excited when I saw it. It says "make
stuff and make stuff happen"! Isn't her handwriting amazing? I love Amy, she's so
great. Thanks so much for catching up with me, I hope you're all doing really
well and I'll see you soon!
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