My problem with contests is that most are in the art, photography, writing stories sections.. I don't like any of those tags tbh, and there are 0 contests in the tags that I use (finance, investing, economy, tech, blockchain, crypto), or at least I never saw one...
Maybe if we had these contests dapp more people would join and we could actually create different contests that aren't only about photos, art and wiring stories... and ofc, we would help minnows along the way which is always good for the long-term success of the blockchain!
I'd love to see you create a contest that caters to your interests and those of your target community. I'll gladly donate prize Steem and promote it as much as I can.
If I do I'll hit you up, it's a little hard now since most tags I use have diminished in writers and curators by a lot...
That's interesting. I am huge in contests here, and 90% of my posts on two blogs go to them. I win, win, win, since few enter most of them. So I get the post payout and also the sbi or whatever. I feel like this is a good bang for the buck.
And now that you mention it, in a year+ of using this strategy, I have almost never seen contests in those tags. The few I have seen are so complicated I would never enter. I throw a wide net and I know I would have seen the contests if they were here.
There might also be a bias in that the people who use those tags are not the type to enter contests even if they were offered. I'm only in crypto because of steem. When I read posts on those topics, my eyes glaze over. I do not think the people who write them think contests have value at all.
Yes and no, I've seen trading contests doing quite well on twitter ( 0.1btc to 1btc through trading, the last that got it gave the other 0.1btc), and I've also seen crypto contest posts on trybe.one where one would write about a certain crypto and the person that got the best post won 10k Trybe tokens or something like that.
But maybe you are right, even if I saw a contest I don't really know if I would join it or not... but the dapp does sound good :) Better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it!
I would love to see the dapp. I already need it. I search a few hours a week in multiple places. Part of that time is looking in the feed for contest posts, which is a big pain.
I see "guess the price" contests sometimes, but I do not enter those. It's too much trouble to search all the other answers to pick some random number.
I sometimes use contestking to find some contests that don't require writing a whole post about it. In the end I think at these low prices it would be better to just decrease expenses, save some money and buy the STEEM myself + the sbi... Especially since I want to be here in the long run, having those sbi shares would compound really well over time...
EDIT: And SBI shares would make my posts have more exposure which in the long-run would be really good, I sure need the exposure, my posts normally are under huge amounts of posts that have bidbots voting on them...
Very interesting. When my sister retired she spent a year entering contests several hours a day and actually won 10's of thousands worth of prizes.
Her top one was a $10,00 travel voucher that she used on a trip for two to Europe!
It seems that you are on to something. A one stop shop for contests her on Steem will eventually come and it will be Big.
I agree. There have been some BIG ones here (that I did not win). But even the smaller ones pay off for me at least a few times a week. I'm posting and commenting anyway, so I might as well make it count.
I could do with a trip to Europe :)
Your experience is inspiring me! Have you written a testimonial about what you have done and a summary of your winnings?
It would be good if many eyes could see it!
No I haven't but I think I should. I write a lot of minnow tips posts with my strategies though and contests is in there. You can find the latest at the bottom of any of my posts.
But maybe you inspire me as well. I should do a new contest strategy posts to help others since I've really ramped it up lately. And especially since I am often one of few in there. I would gladly give up some winnings if more minnows can succeed here.