I know it may hurt some writers with large established fan bases, but for someone like me just getting known in my small niche, it's been great. (hughhowey.com)
Establish a fan base among those who have read your stories and poetry. (bizfluent.com)
When I tried writing a horror novel a year later, I only sold a few dozen copies out of the gate, and that was with an already established fan base in the low hundreds (they didn't follow me into a different genre, as it turns out); if that had been my first publication, I would have vanished from the sales charts, never to be seen again. (madgeniusclub.com)