Counting followers is a natural gauge of foundational stability. There is a relationship that develops in time.
Returning to an old analogy of feeding birds... You must be consistent in your approach. Your readers must learn to have confidence in your ability to deliver value (the birdseed). The value keeps them coming back.
Readers however are dynamic. Each day spent on Steemit nourishes them. Improved understanding and experience causes changes to the reader. They may enjoy your humor, but repeating the same joke over and over is not a good plan. You must inject variety into your contributions. Call it your surprise factor. It is a sip of fresh water making room for another bite.
But there is more! You should always try to offer one golden nugget at the end. One bit that is worth the time spent. It is this sweet burst of flavor that pays them. It also earns your reward.
Your ability to deliver birdseed, fresh water, and a pleasant finishing burst of flavor will provide you with a stable foundation.
Here is today's beauty (sweet burst of flavor).
Beautiful sweet burst of flavor. Keep up with the great birdseed
I tend to leave comments for those that I know have read my past comments. A reply isn't needed, but a simple upvote allows the person to know their efforts to reply were at least read by the blogger.
Honestly feel like many bloggers have a post it and forget it mentality. They don't answer direct questions and don't engage with their readers.
Keep up the good work @doctorjohn, I enjoy your posts and appreciate that you interact with your readers with the very least an upvote for real comments.
Few bother to ask questions. I try to interact when I can. The rewards I give to those who comment is my way of saying "thanks". Thanks. Now that I've said thanks do I still need to reward your comment? Hmmmm.
A reply, an upvote, just letting someone know you read the comment is enough to keep me engaged. You do good about this and it's why I have followed you. Actually just made my first post and plan to make sure to post a few times per week. Hopefully I can add value here.
I do not think of how many followers I have I try to be myself reply to others not as I think they would want but as myself. I appreciate the followers I have and thank them for following me, but I will not change my ways just to get more and more followers. Have a good day.
Yeah I feel the same way. I could easily drop flavor of the week posts that cater to the highest possible demographic and interest...but that would get far too boring and run contrary to who I am at the core.
So I post what I want, as I want, and hope for the best. I know I can't be the only one that thinks the way I do, it's just a matter of finding out where they're all hiding so I can share my goodies with them. LOL
I concur with most of what you have written. Getting true followers is a tough assignment. As you say. It must feed the accepting mind.@doctorjohn
Not everyone likes the same thing. That is a good thing for us.
We can find out what each group likes and then add something worthwhile to to add value to their lives.
That is what we should all be trying to do on Steemit. It isn't about the greatest numbers that we can achieve for ourselves.
But, rather what can we do for our Steemit friends to make and
keep them happy. Therein lies success I think.
Thank you for your thoughts and words.
Francis
Great blog, thank you :)