There are a lot of very active social media personalities joining lately who make content about anything and everything and it's really awesome to see their interest in our platform!
For the longest time I've been advertising our platform to others who already use many social media sites in general. Content creators have realized that limiting themselves to only one is not good for their reach and there are very few of them nowadays who only focus on one platform. I'm probably the exception since the only other platform than Steem that I can browse without feeling the urge to smash my head into a wall is Reddit, but anywhere you look you can see people advertising the other platforms they are on.
So why not add Steem to the bundle? That's what I've been asking many over the years and many of them have taken me up on my offer and checked the site out even though not as many remained active here. I'm sure many of them are biting their hat now looking back at what they have missed out on.
I saw the potential in Steem very early on and I've been focusing on gaining a following here more than anywhere else. I noticed even Reddit has resorted to creating user profiles lately where you can follow people there and they all seem to be competing versus another in active userbase, but most of them don't share something that Steem has, and that's being able to reward active contributors directly and with no middle-men charges.
Of course there many other advantages to Steem and its blockchain, but I wanted to focus on this one thing in this post which is rewarding contributions and why its so important to let your fanbase on other sites know about your presence here.
It's not just cause we want as many active people as possible to join the site, they will of course join over time. If you are someone who has a big fanbase somewhere else though, it will really help to get your account here more visibility, especially once communities start rolling in. Right now we may not have the best filtering methods of there just being "trending/new/hot/promoted" but those are not big additions that will require a massive amount of work to change. The follow option has been a much better way to build your own feed into what you want to read and see daily and which followers you want to support with your voting power.
If you are a user who does have a big fanbase somewhere else and have been posting a lot here on Steemit it doesn't mean that you will necessarily get a lot of attention here. Sure you might use your "I have this many followers here" card and that could get you some voting support for some time, but if our still small active userbase are not interested in your content or you as a person, your posts won't have much engagement going. I've seen a lot of people lately who join and present themselves, but don't make an effort into letting their already existing fanbase know that they are active on Steemit and to join them there. They often get buried under the rest of the content or the authors who have managed to get a big following of Steemians and that shouldn't be a surprise to them.
Being famous on another site doesn't always necessarily mean you will automatically make a killing here. If you are making good rewards but none of your older fanbase is also using Steem to check out your content and engage with you, then over time the big influencers will get tired of supporting your work cause the views/comments to payout ratio will not look all that great - which has been a big reason in the past to why big influencers have been flagging others as they focus on those statistics. What's worse in my opinion is if you only use Steem as a way to post your material and not even engage with the community yourself - remember that Steem is a pretty new platform and the first impressions will matter a lot.
Someone who I admire in the way he has jumped into the Steem platform is @davidpakman. I've watched many of his videos without knowing who he was before he joined and you can tell that he has put a lot of effort into getting his followers into Steem as well and they have continued to support him here with their votes and comments and most of his posts are so engaging compared to many others.
That's one of the big advantages to Steem, of course as someone as big as him you can't expect him to be able to engage with all readers but the fact that he can now reward them for their contributions with votes is something very unique to our platform and a big reason why you should get your other followers onto Steem to support your content here as well. It's pretty much a win-win-win for everyone involved.
I hope many of the newcomers will look at @davidpakman as a great example.
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I initially thought that while STEEM was just in beta, I would just try it out myself and perhaps invite my most tech/crypto-enthusiastic friends to steemit. However, as more good creators come onto the platform, I do see the value of sharing it go up.
Still, though, it is worth reminding people that you invite that STEEM is still young and should not be judged as a final product. The excitement should not be about "here is this fantastic website that is so much better than your existing social media because it pays you money!", but rather "we now have the opportunity to be early users of something that could be huge and, just by being users, obtain a small stake similar to holding early stocks in Facebook".
I think 2018 can be a huge year for STEEM, so buckle up people and be ready for high velocity :)
Fair points man.
I had no followers elsewhere, so the grind it has been and will continue to be for me. I actually prefer it this way, because it makes me feel that I earned them by working hard - not just because I might slap a nice vote on them.
This is a real bug-bearer of mine. And it's not exclusive to whales/orcas's. Even the smaller accounts are not engaging in the the replies to their blogs. And mainly, it's the ones that have the auto-vote support in place already.
This is disappointing as it's where the new users will head, and then see 40/50/60 comments without a reply. What are they going to think to that?!
Cheers!
Yeah, it should be important to know that even as a big influencer you should put in some "grind" time into Steem.
If you can't reply to all comments, a small vote on good ones that shows you read and acknowledged them goes a long way!
I am trying to promot the STEEM around me, but I think we need some extra attractive contents on youTube vs. I hope the community will grow more soon
@racoo
Yeah a vote is certainly a show of engagement on the worthwhile comments.
If you have a popular blog, e.g. Yours 😁 You can't be expected to reply to everyone, but I think you are likely to gain support if there are replies (and votes) to anything worthwhile.
Cheers!
I've always had a policy of replying to everyone, no matter what they say (unless it's truly hateful trolling) on ALL platforms I use. It's a lot of work, but if you batch it up it's really not that bad and you learn so much about people! You're a great example of the hustle n' grind dude :)
~ Kevin
A sound policy to have, for the reasons mentioned above.
And thanks man, if you ain't got talent, there's always hustle n grind to fall back on! Cheers!
A lot of people don’t seem to understand the power of manual curation or the power of engagement via comments.
Both take time and effort. Neither USA get rich quick scheme. But slow and steady wins the race.
Absolutely.
We are slowing winning the race just by talking about slow and steady winning the race :D
Cheers!
I know!! I have been teaching people to respond to comments in their posts but these new folks complain that it is too much work.
Engagement is work. To build a relationship demands that two of you communicate and respond. Especially if they provide a good counterpoint or add to your post then reward that by acknowledging it.
I don't want followers I want engagers that not necessarily need to upvote me but if they do thanks. I need them to comment, to discuss to argue even but I want a reaction. Even a resteem would be nice rather than nothing.
Sure I have my been celebrating the numbers of followers I got but more than that I celebrate looking at my numbers and see 32 % engagement. I'm a nobody but that number is good for me.
32% engagement, how is that calculated if you don't mind me asking?
Well I am pretty new to Steemit analytics and have not used the more complex ones that you use.
The 32% is only a 7 day info on the posts I generate and from the social insights from steem.supply.
Data may be an anomaly this week since this is the first time i have attempted to analyze my data because of a curated post but it is amazing what kind of information is out there.
Yeah, I'm pretty new here. I spent many many years almost exclusively on reddit and don't really care about followers. Don't get me wrong, if the followers are genuinely interested in one another and are looking to connect for more reasons than just to have a network of people to upvote their content then I'm all in.
I was just really hoping to find a place that had quality content and an engaging community. While I find a lot of the content pretty interesting I just don't feel the sense of community here. I hope I'm wrong, but like the old saying goes, whatever you incentivize is what you're going to get. It just seems like the reward system is so much of the focus here that engaging in a community gets deemphasized. That's a good recipe for a place that gets real boring real fast.
I'm still hopeful and I'm going to try to adapt to the way things are done here. I just hope that something with more depth grows out of this.
For now, the community built around a key posters blogs. E.g. @acidyo's fantasy football league, or on (too) many discord channels.
There is hope this will change with a 'community' style update to the UI here, but until I see it I'm unsure how it will pan out.
Cheers!
And cheers to you as well!
I'll be keeping an eye out for your posts. You'll see me in your comments, I'll be the guy behind the walls of text, lol. A reddit habit that I'm going to have to break so I don't look so out of place here😜
Hi as I come from a gaming community that have a lot of our players do Twitch and YouTube videos one of the most compelling argument they have is the lifespan of rewards and the buggy nature of DTube since it is still in beta.
Noob question for DTube because I have not used it to upload content and get rewards yet but it will still follow the 7 day rewards right? I'll be happy to be corrected on this.
Although a lot of the engagement happens during the live broadcast some of the traffic also comes from the 3-2 weeks period.
It's fine for those that post their games on a daily basis by for those that only post 2-3 videos a week the potential lost in revenue is significant.
Also with the bugs in dTube especially in uploading nothing frustrates a person faster than leaving the upload and coming back to errors and not supported format.
Then there is the matter of cross platform posting as we all know Facebook has been aggressive lately with Steemit URLs and redirects often tagging it as blocked or spam.
So I really want some of our gamers to come over.
The change can start from me. It has been on my list to start uploading my gaming footage but I have to choose one that doesn't make me seem too much of a noob haha.
Yes it does, to the 7 day max reward issue the only counter I have for it is that as long as you keep half of your rewards in SP in the long run it will be the same as accumulative rewards for older content. Not only that but over time with activity and being consistent you grow your account and receive readers that will vote on your content more often (since everyone gets 10 votes a day) and also autovoters on your content. + curation rewards you can earn yourself with your stake and knowing that the amount of new SP will only go down over time thus making your stake worth more.
All in all I think I'd much rather have SP that grows in interest over time than re-occurring rewards on older posts.
That being said there is nothing stopping people from creating a front-end with ads for instance that allows content creators to get revenue from views on older posts in the form of Steem.
Hello @acidyo I am trying to UpVote your posts,
Can you make some of my POSTS Upvoted please, @racoo
But wouldn't it cause a problem that it is a place holder for upvotes for older content?
I think I read it somewhere that if you pass off work that did not have major changes or added something new that you could be flagged for it as it appears to be just a money Grab attempt?
Sorry if I have a lot of questions.
I am just about to do this with my website and YouTube channel (https://www.epicgardening.com and https://www.youtube.com/c/epicgardening). The tricky part for me is that my audience is somewhat older. Only the hydroponics folks are younger and might take to this idea.
Have you seen any great examples of introducing an audience to Steemit? You kind of only get one shot at it and I don't want to mess it up when I make the play. I have a LOT of traffic on those two properties and I want to grow Steemit as much as possible, so I don't want to @#$% up.
~ Kevin
I'd suggest explaining to them the basics of Steem and why it's so revolutionary. They will of course have a lot to earn but joining is the first step, and of course also mention that it can take some time to get approved for an account so they don't get disappointed quickly and lose interest. :)
Doing this over the next week or two! Easing them in :)
As an artist, photographer and someone trying to build a spiritual magazine I hve been on the lot of them.. or most.. Twitter, insta, snapchat, deviant art, Flickr, Pinterest, etsy, Facebook building probably hundreds of thousands of followers. I got work and business from them over the years but I actually had probably only broke even for jobs vs time spent not to mention I actually paid to advertise or buy followers etc. Since I found steemit I mostly forget to even post on them anymore and have to remind myself to keep my foot int he door on a few. Have managed to get a fair few friends to migrate here also.
Hey @acidyo
Do you know why you see other programs getting promoted on social media and why @steemit isn't? it's because of referral/affiliate program.
People get commission on purchases and sign ups and that's why people love to promote these programs on their social media accounts and blogs.
I've an article on it please check it here → 6 reasons Steemit need a referral program Today
If #steemit introduces a referral or affiliate program, everyone will start to promote it on other networks.
What do you think about it?
A referral program was discussed at Steemfest 2 and will most likely come to Steem soon, hopefully before we are out of beta but have the signups fixed to work much faster.
A referral program can sky rocket Steemit promotions, people will start to use their referral link as Email Signature, they will share their referral links on social medias, bloggers will start writing blog posts like "10 ways to increase your Steemit earning".
I hope this feature launches soon.
I think there's a major issue with onboarding that is stopping influencers from encouraging people to join. It's technically complicated, and an introduction to steemit post on any media quickly turns into a support thread. Having an infrastructure of a sort to handle the fanbase influx is more than necessary.
The main issue with dragging my ~4,000 followers on Facebook over to Steemit is the fact I will need to help onboard them or feel responsible for them shitposting or being stupid on the platform because they don't quite understand it. Since I really don't have the time to instruct thousands of my Facebook friends, sneaky little me established a little community of Israeli steemians on Facebook, slowly inviting promising authors, and @yairdd invested in creating an account to put together all the guides and tutorials.
I have yet to start an official campaign on my profile, but I now have the infrastructure. Basically - prepare yourself for a crowd of Israeli authors as soon as I get through some much needed work stuff.
@techslut I agree, when I onboarded my friends @pstalks @sushantgodam and @tauseefkhan they were really confused about how Steemit works. What's difference between Steem, Steem Dollar and Steem power.
I think, if we make someone signup Steemit, it's our responsibility to educate about how Steemit works. It's not about posting crappy images and quotes, it's about quality contribution. Isn't it?
Community is everything, as I discovered when I first joined MSP. The feeling you get by helping, supporting and pushing other Steemians to do great things gives such a great deal of satisfaction.
I took what I learned at MSP and used it at The Writers' Block. We concentrate on creating good content, but are also trying to bring in new fiction fans through our social media efforts.
I agree :)
There have been few Filipino celebrities joining Steemit this past week, and i'm glad to know that they see the potential of this platform to connect more to people not only locally but worldwide. Steemit is really getting some "steam" recently despite what is happening to the crypto world, and that says a lot about how wonderful this community is.
Cheers and have a blessed day @acidyo!
And also, more gaming videos to come! :)
Awesome! :)
Aside from Path of Exile, i'm also trying MU Legends and Secret World Legends and maybe Elder Scrolls Online. But work and Steemit keeps me too busy now. :D
So, an Instagram influencer joins Steemit and invite his followers. Sounds intriguing. However once the influencer followers join Steemit they might soon forget about their favorite Instagram influencer which isn't something that should bother us in general..
lol
The only reason I haven't annouced steemit to my other social media platforms is that I was, and still am, learning about the basics of cryptocurrencies and actually I haven't started trading or even making a wallet for them yet. So, I thought I need to get ready and actually trading cryptos before I tell my other followers about it. But now I'm thinking, I don't have to be super ready and why don't me and them go through the same learning curve together?
That's a great point! You could even document your learning curve on other platforms and have your fanbase follow and act upon it as well.
I've been meaning to start a series such as "how to start your crypto-journey and how to invest and earn from scratch", hoping to have some time for that soon.
Yes, such series would be great and very beneficial. I recommend that you gather the whole series in a book, ebook or paperback, so that all the content will be in one place for readers. Or you could possible put them as a video series on YouTube or DTube where people can follow all the episodes easily. Thanks.
It is really important to gain a following,I have never had a following elsewhere,but am gaining friends here.
I have many social media sites with the same name,I do have numbers.
It is a different thing here,I feel the following or friends I have here are real,because we all have a common goal,make Steemit grow in the world.
I also trust the friends here because we engage often on chat,discord and also comments.
Oh yes this point is so important.
I told all my friends and of course my family members of steemit.
few of them already joined and some of then are intending to follow.
I made a post a few days ago
7 TIPS HOW YOU HAVE A SUCCESSFUL START AND TIME ON STEEMIT
In this post I give many tips how to get a good start and even to succeed the platform.
I showed this people on other social media channels and showed it also to my friends.
They thought is was very helpful.
Steemit is growing more and more.
But still we have do our part to fastened it up and also to integrate the new users with our help and advices.
Otherwise it can be that new users will leave the platform directly after a few days or weeks!
Steem on!
Hi @acidyo
I totally agree with you, it's not easy making new friends here on steemit, so it is paramount that we promote Steem to our friends and fans out there. My team and i are actively promoting steem in our country, we even came up with a project called Steem camp 2018. We think it will be a great promotional project. Have a lovely day.
Nice initiative, you also have to think that the new people you invite, some of them could become bigger users in the future and compared to price later many of them could have a lot more influence and it will be thanks to you they joined the site.
I remember many of my usual voters who were just minnows like me a year ago.
Yes ofcourse, our project of bringing not just individuals, but companies if done properly..
Excellent article. I gladly share with all my friends information about Steemit. But, I'm not an active user on any other social networks. And, in my case, this idea is not entirely feasible. But in general, this is a great idea !!! Imagine what will happen if, for example, the owner of the popular YouTube channel with his millionth audience moves to us on dtube.
The name sounds familiar so I went over and gave him a follow.
I've started a crypto group of about 30 people and have talked about Steemit every chance I get. I've managed to get 2 people I know to join Steemit and once Steemit quits having sign up issues 2 more people are waiting to join.
This is a super exciting time to join a STeem and SBD begin to correct. I hope they can ride the storm of lower steem value now and see the future potential of this site and the value of Steem.
Hi, how have you been?
Steemit has been a hope for many since for example in my country has helped many people, I am Venezuelan. Where the minimum salary is 4 dollars. If with that we must live for a month. But thanks to this wonderful community, many of us have been able to move forward. Only in my country people think badly because they only see in winning and winning do not care just that. Instead of thinking about being investors in duplicating their profits in seeking more communities. In creating friends break barriers and make this more than a social network a community where we all live together and happy.
Awesome! Glad I stormed at something like this. If I had been busy focusing on creating just post on my blog, would never had the idea of what more one stand to gain here on. Reasons why I give kudos to @aderonkemi who helped reawaken the consciousness in newbies like myself. She tutored us on styling and words arrangement couple of days ago. It occurred to me that even the established STEEMIANS who have become big fish over time still need need to look back and show newbies the way. This is the only site one can conveniently explore, create posts, comment, interact with people and still get rewarded for it. Unlike every other social sites I have been, I usually just do it for the fun of it. But since I have been here, I have charged myself to create good content and reply to interesting post as this. I feel it's the only way I can get to expand my fan base and get exposed to Enviable principles of successful STEEMIANS. It really feels good to be here and I am still a work in progress.
Thanks
As a neophyte in steemit it is now clear to me that this is not just a blogging platform but its more of interacting and engaging with the community. Establishing and connecting global links with great people around the globe! The good news nowadays is that everything is possible. We neophytes can go a long way in steemit by really creating that binding relationship. @acidyo I'm overwhelmed with your concern of helping us neophytes, just so thankful for your blog which makes me eager to really engaged more with fellow steemians! Kudos.
Couldn't agree more. I promote my channel on Twitter and get 1000 views per post even though I only have around 400 followers. I try to drive as much traffic as I can to raise awareness about Steem.
Here's my latest blog post on STEEM coin:
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@benkalashnikov/steem-analysis-123-potential-profit
I am not a huge influencer, but I tell a lot of people about STEEMIT and cryptos in general.
Some I told about, didn't believe in the future... but after a while - especially after Bitcoin boom - I got many calls. "Hey can you explain me this and that..." LOL yeah they finally came...
With DTube and the new interface - Steemit is even more a serious competitor for the old ecosystem.
Hope that some big Youtuber will join too.
Amazing @acidyo.
I made a post of presentation of Steemit and asked for all my Brazilians followers, including me of course, to share that in all the social medias.
My goal with this is try to call as much as I can, people to the platform, since here we have all the good things about any platform and almost nothing of bad things... That is amazing and needs to be share to everyone.
Thanks for this post.
Steem has a lot of potentials and I've never stopped spreading the goodnews about steem. My friends have really appreciated it and now they are all here with me.
From facebook to twitter and even instagram. My username on twitter is #Steemhornblende.
One of the main reason why we should even powerup. First to market, strong team and miles ahead from the competition
Steem is the first blockchain to rewards it's user for creating content. There has been a lot of growing pain and lessons taken in the past 2 years. But it's already at the scaling stage with #HF20 coming soon. If a competitor were to come in, there would be a lot of catching up to do to compete successfully with steem.
hi acidyo
i'm new user and like post so resteemd - vote - following.
Welcome!
More recently I find myself screaming about Steemit to everyone I know or communicate with online, from family members, to friends, to YouTubers that somehow are not yet on the platform and more. Most had never heard of it but quickly joined after finding out it existed, and love it for the most part. Steemit may very well be on the very edge of going super-viral in the coming months. Exciting times!
Yes, surely a good fan-base will boost your rep here a little and probably earn you a spotlight from the whales but unable to followup on your fan after introducing them, the reverse would probably be the case.
Like you said
True. And even if you'll make a good promo to get your fanbase to register on Steemit - they all will be minnows and their numerous votes will not give you much post payout. That is why some "celebs" will not be a success here.
It also depends on the content and fanbase, it's not a surprise that with the attention cryptocurrencies are getting in general that the vast majority of Steem users like to reward posts about them still.
Yep. Nowadays mostly blockchain and crypto blogers/vlogers are on the wave here. As soon as crypto will be legal in most of the countries and people will be able to buy a coffee with crypto without any problems (like VISA ban for all crypto cards) we will see the secod and much bigger wave of new celebs and followers here. And the real "party hard" will start)
thank you so much for the shout-out and compliments in this post! Much appreciate it and I plan to continue my efforts to grow the Steemit community
Steem is my favourite crypto out of all, simply because this is the crypto which i am actually using rather than just investing.. although it has not given me some of the best gains that i had from other cryptos but it will still be my most loved crypto
Nice post and i agree with your points that it is very important to tell our fanbase about steem and such activity surely gives more encouragement to our fanbase and hence they work in steem blockchain more effectively, thanks for sharing such nice and valid points with us, Stay blessed
People are the lifeblood of your business. Building relationships with people fosters loyalty. As a result, loyalty has the potential to increase profits.
An excellent way to start building relationships with people who share similar interests is by developing a fan base so i guess steemit really need a fanbase. @acidyo
That's true @vnyrox
Steemit has fanbase but they are diluted on major topics such as blogging and freelancing. Steemians are interested in cryptocurrencies.
This is so true and it's what I've come to know and observed as a fact.
Thanks for sharing this tips and advice with us.
Happy Steeming
As we probably am aware as exceptionally well, Steemit is an informal community that gives us communication with a substantial number of individuals on the planet. It enables us to share our own particular substance, cooperate and meet individuals; It likewise gives us the advantage of the cryptographic money called Steem. For nobody is a mystery that the majority of us who have joined this interpersonal organization is to get additional salary, others take it as a type of business and others just for the sake of entertainment or social intrigue. Steemit contrasted with other steemit blockchain gives us awesome favorable circumstances.
@acidyo Interacting with fans via replying comments and upvoting not only improves the status of the steemit brand but also adds value both to the platform and the users.
Friend i agree with you. I follow you.
great information thanks for sharing great post upvoted and resteemed
Amazing @acidyo.
I made a post of presentation of Steemit and asked for all my Brazilians followers, including me of course, to share that in all the social medias.
My goal with this is try to call as much as I can, people to the platform, since here we have all the good things about any platform and almost nothing of bad things... That is amazing and needs to be share to everyone.
it is a very good tital about social
it is very proud of you because your article is about sociology...
i like your post dear
thanks for sharing
its an informative post.i praise your mail.thanks a lot...for sharing this informative info....
This is a very good job steemit
True that way we can go a very long way and things will be very easy for us. This is a great idea @acidyo
Great @acidyo, always :)
Very good information thanks for sharing ! @acidyo
really very interesting articels @acidyo
thanks for shareing
It also depends on your kind of fanbase. I'm not sure about all the mainstream youtubers and their young fanbase. I think steemit is for adult people considering there is nsfw material to find on this platform ...
Who has the same opinion?
Enjoy the vote and reward!
I think it works both ways for Steemit and Youtube. If you make it big on Steemit, you can basically bring your followers into youtube. But it would be more of an advantage bringing viewers from youtube to steem.
As we know as very well, Steemit is a social network that gives us interaction with a large number of people in the world. It allows us to share our own content, interact and meet people; It also gives us the benefit of the cryptocurrency called Steem. For no one is a secret that most of us who have joined this social network is to get extra income, others take it as a form of employment and others simply for fun or social interest. Steemit compared to other steemit blockchain gives us great advantages.
By sharing the Steemit you will not help just yourself, but all the community. Sharing its informations will convience new users maybe to donate or invest in SBD. Nice post and nice work, @acidyo.