If you have already managed to build a following, one way to strengthen this connection is to ask for their opinion and when possible for their help. For instance to fund your next recording.
An artist which did this with great success is JILL SOBULE. Jill has set up a specific site - Jillsnextrecord which you can chek here - and managed to raise more than 80,000 $ for the recording and production of her 7th studio album.
And it looks like she is not the only example if you refer to COOLFER's excellent article here.
You can easily have a go at it yourself by setting up a page on SELLABAND (such as the one I put together for BARON ZERO here) - by the way, thank you so much Cheesehead for the suppport !
