Can You Really Support Your Business With Just 1,000 True Fans?

In this episode Lauren and Matt discuss Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 True Fans theory, what it means to be a true fan (or super fan), and a few unique ways small business owners and content creators have turned casual buyers into true fans. 


Dive Deeper

💡 Read the Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 True Fans essay

💡 Read The 1,000 True Fan Theory: Sustainable Income for Creators on the Lulu blog

💡 Watch Joe Pulizzi’s webinar on Creating a Multi-Million-Dollar Business From Your Book

💡 Get inspired by Audrey Hughey’s author planners


Sound Bites From This Episode

🎙️ [16:39] “It's actually one of the things I love about social media…you can find that there's always at least somebody else in the world that shares your thoughts or shares your opinion or shares your interests or anything like that…no matter how niche your content is or how niche your book is or whatever, you will find fans for it. You will find people that will be a dedicated audience.”

🎙️ [26:16] “If we were giving those numbers back at the beginning and you were hearing like $100 of profit per year from every individual fan, I'm only publishing one book a year. Like, how am I supposed to make $100 off of a single book? This is how you do that, is by creating these supplemental products that go along with those books.”

🎙️ [33:13] “This idea that you might struggle for content or run out of things to do or ways to monetize. I don't think that's going to happen. I think once you get started doing this and understanding the model and figuring out what your fans want, what they will buy from you. You're not gonna have any shortage of products.”

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