I promote a lot to steemit on my facebook in fact more than 20 friends have joined this platform but some have not been able to continue because they have not generated income in two weeks they were working with steemit.
In this platform you have to have patience or invest to be able to general income.
It is not really a platform for people looking to 'get rich quick'. For those that put in the effort to create quality contributions over time and build a network/following though, there is good potential to earn.
It's not always about 'getting rich quick'. From my observation for 'normal' people it is very hard to earn between 2 to 5 dollar per post if they are new and writing about 'normal' topics (apart from crypto, programming, reward maximization or euphoric self-marketing) like traveling, food or everyday life (which are the topics huge social networks consist of). Most of my friends were completely lost here without my upvotes, and many of them are making solid articles of good quality.
Maybe I should suggest them to use bidbots or make whale friends, but my old-fashioned idea of 'organic growth' of a platform is still about people who communicate with each other and make the effort to seek, read, evaluate and (if they like what they saw) upvote articles (also articles from newbies, not only own 'best friends').
We still need the Communities implementation to be completed to address the content discoverability problem.
Hola @jaki01 También tengo esa visión de crecimiento orgánico, de hecho aún no me decido a usar bots de lleno debido a eso. Sin embargo recordemos que esto es un negocio y como tal debemos manejarlo. Yo seguiré haciendo comunidad, publicando contenido valioso e invirtiendo.
Un abrazo desde Venezuela.
I understand for us small fish is very difficult to emerge from the depths of the sea without investment in this platform sometimes I envied to that new account in Steemit that is already sponsored with a positive vote of a whale.
And once you see its content, it's nothing otherworldly. Where do I get this question:
Is this person very lucky?
Or the whale is your friend?
Yes, success on STEEM is also about luck: do you have a rich/influential friend who is already using the platform? Does any whale discovers one of your posts accidentally and likes it?
Also self-marketing qualities are a big advantage here (which I feel I lack myself, too).
I understand I will wait for my day so that an orca or whale or dolphin will come to like what I publish ..
As I do not have money to invest, it's up to me to wait for my luck .. on this long road ..
thanks for answering..
of that I am sure. for something I have 8 months on the platform and I will never stop using it.
Steemit is 100% better than facebook from my point of view.
What did you tell those guys to make them expect any financial income within two weeks? O.O
Two weeks are nothing on any kind of blog platform.
negative nancy is anything positive come from you? This initiative will do nothing but help STEEM get infront of investors eyes, not everyone wants to blog for income. No matter his initiative if you don't agree why not go have your own? your mother never teach you to say nothing if you have nothing nice to say?
No, my parents valued and value honesty more. And so do I.
Nobody has a profit from false positive feedback.
valued and value honesty more? interesting statement friend I am sure they would be more positive than you. I see a positive initiative enlightening others about steem as a coin as the platform for social media aspect has been played out and kind of sucks cause of so many trolls out there being negative always even in positive situations. If you hate steemit so much why are you here?
Repeating myself (because I like it so much, haha): 90% of the contributions are referring to the platform, not the coin. It's my choice not to care of the coin as it is yours to do.
Cool 90% of what contributions? Peoples posts? The graphics? If the coin is bought up by investors the value goes up and the entire platform benefits.
I agree with you, see my answer to @timcliff below.
Of course he is right that sometimes expectations are just too high.