Overlord_Venus
I agree, there are quite a few fanfic authors on here who seem to be doing great with patreon, and they have no webnovel support whatsoever.
Thus a if she does it smart, she will gain much more from a none exclusive contract, if she gains traction like them, she has both patreon and webnovel income, not to mention all the other potential sites particularly those with apps with a higher visitor rates that tend to allow for monitary gains.
I'm sure we've all heard the phrase:
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket."
I think there is wisdom in that, especially since any novel worth a damn is pirated and reposted on other sites, adding a few clever in story referrals to your patreon, wn username or a donation page will help redirect some of the pirated readers back to your control, even if it is with one time donations, tough the smartest thing would be setting up a user name for the most popular pirating sites simular to the one you use on webnovel, then posting your story there yourself.
That way, you can gain control of your own story. Same with translations, Google translate is quite good these days, so posting your own novel in popular languages for translation with a rough translate there will help hijack the flow of otherwise would be pirated income through micro donations and the like.
There are plenty who already do that to popular novels, not even bothering with a proper translation and are essentially gaining a patreon following for their translations.
There is no reason for you to not tap into that same following by doing your own automated translations.
If you use one single dedicated browser to just doing that, then you can simply open up, logged in and all for each account on each website to your uploading page to really ease and speed up the process.
It pays if you want to do this stuff with an income from it, especially since you essentially have a bigger net to catch readers with if you use propper SEO for each site as all of them will likely be found by Google.
We've already seen no support from wn for even exclusive authors who get pirated so there really no point not to get a bigger piece of the pie by spreading a wider net, then with donation pages and patreon linked on each site and your profile for your more generous readers.
Add in some clever self advertising through having a fan art submission page if fanart is applicable that you keep linking on your public Pinterest and stuff and who knows how big it'll get.
An exclusive contract would mean your only potential source of income is webnovel, whilst hundreds of other threads you could have persued yourself are leached from wn as your one source...
Yes it's more effort on your part, but it has potentially higher and longer term gains if you put the elbow grease in.
