I've been supporting myself by blogging, writing books, and coaching online and in person for weight loss topics and social media skills for over 7 years now. This is all because of my extreme weight loss at 50 years old and the fallout from that.
I came here while working to create online courses with the help of tutorials by jerrybanfield. As you know, he went nuts for steemit in June last year, and I am one of the people who jumped. I had already been looking since about March when good steemit posts started showing up in my research and I also have a lot of blogging friends here begging me to come.
I did not come when I first heard of this because I did not want to learn about crypto. Oh, the irony.
So now here, like everywhere, I have to keep the weight loss info to a steady trickle and when morbidly obese people are ready to change, they will know how to find me and they do. In the meantime, I post into contests and challenge and actually make some money here. Steemit is now a big part of my monthly support and I hope that will continue since I've dropped the ball in many other places and had multiple financial catastrophes lately.
I stay out of chats, I stay away from whales, I stay away from drama. I focus on:
- the gift of the Alexa ranking. Posting frequently, and linking out to all my other work
- the gift of people who actually read my work and seem to care
- promoting steemit as best I can in all my other social media
My guess is the the whales are abandoning ship for the most part. If you where rich and had people begging to you all day, would you stay in that place? No.
The only hope we have is for minnows to succeed in vast numbers. Can they do that in time? I have no idea and I really should get in exit strategy and pay attention to my other work sites so I will not be begging on the street in Thailand if the place dies.
I have been of at least 5 platforms that died in the last years. One day I was making money and the next day the place was gone. You would think I would learn my lesson but you cannot teach an old dog new tricks :)
btw - I have 6000 content creating twitter followers in multiple genres. They are all real and hand picked since I am like that. I get about 50% of my monthly affiliate sales from twitter when I'm on my game over there.
I have 200+ people on my steeming twitlist.. I check that feed for posts to RT a few times a day. The negativity, advertising, and mainstream news reposting, runs at about 90% so I don't rt steemers very often.
But I'm still in, still trying, and off to do another mung bean post :)