Seems like everyone wants to get rich on Steem
Lately I have heard from friends that want to start “making money on the internet” and because they think “I know things” they come and ask me about Steemit, these are some of the questions that really annoy me:
1. How much money can I make per month?
2. Why are my posts only making cents?
2. How do I cash this out to Pesos or Dollars?
What usually happens is they give up after maybe 4 or 5 posts. The worst part is that they never take any blame for not being persistent or for having poor marketing skills, they end up blaming the whole platform – “Nah, Steemit doesn’t work”. Of course, I guess that is easier than saying “I gave up and I am horrible at marketing myself”.
If you “want to make money online”, you have to be persistent and know about SEO. But above all, if you want to be successful you have to enjoy what you do. I enjoy writing and expressing my ideas, I do it for free at Medium and Reddit. But if you don’t write or post and all of the sudden you want to open an Steemit account and make 1k per month, then you are delusional.
If you are getting similar questions from your friends and family, you could answer them something like this:
1. Depends on what you write and the amount of followers you get, at first you will not get much.
2. Because you are new, nobody knows you or maybe because what you are writing sucks.
3. You convert them to Bitcoin and then to your local currency (This will open up a bunch of other questions, but only worry about that if they do actually end up making some money).
Conclusion
Like many of you, I have been promoting Steemit to my friends and family. But it is best to make sure we bring the people who are not only interested in making money, those people will come and go, we want passionate content creators, those are the ones that will succeed.
Maybe in the future, we could hide the money each post is making. Youtubers make money but that remains private to the user. I believe that attracting users only on the “make money” slogan could be negative in the long run.
Excellent post. Being brand new here on Steemit I can relate. My posts currently only make a few cents but I understand it is a process. Right now I am posting in blog style to document photos and experiences that have happened. I look at it as a digital photo album so we can go back and look at "Living the Good Life in the Last Best Place Montana"!
I like your way!
Yeah, its not good to market steemit as a place to earn money because people will then be focusing in that, and if failed to gain, they will just leave. The essence of the platform will then gone.
True that. Steemit is a fantastic community
Indeed fantastic
That's a valid point indeed. People are not taking Steemit as a social platform, rather than only as a earning platform. Do they get paid for posting on FB and all. No. But here they can. But seems they are not satisfied with this alone. The questions you posted above are the same ones which my FB friends ask me, each time I tell them about Steemit. So I am focusing less on the and actually trying to bring in people who just want an wider audience and money as an extra thing, not primary.
It's totally understandable when people jump into the world of crypto with both feet and high expectations. It's like a second chance for those of us who missed out on the internet bandwagon 20 years ago. This feels like the same level of magnitude in terms of disruption and potential, only this time...we're not going to let this chance slip by ..seatbelts on everyone, it's gonna be a BUMPY ride!
Completely agree @chitty people come on here expecting to make alot of money per month and when that doesn't happy they bizarrely go back to facebook where they get nothing..hmm maybe its because they have their friends there already.
this is a valuable post, well said my friend. Steemit is for passionate content creators, not people looking for an instant miracle to millions, those are the ones who end up giving up right away. We havent even cracked the surface yet of incredible content creators discovering steemit and crypto in general, its a good time to be in now, the masses will come and quality talents and information will rise up. its a whole new shift, a lot of figuring out to be done, a lot of wiggling, its hold on tight time.
I signed up back in July to see if I can make some money. I am not much of a blogger but I have earned some "coins" along the way. However, I have earned a lot more in terms of the knowledge of have gained plus some people are just so entertaining.
Thanks for this article because tells it all. At the begining steemit seems to be something that makes for people a lot of money quickly and they get so excited but when they discover that it needs efforts and committment they get disapointed and quit. Nothing comes easily. This platform is amazing and it rewards people of their efforts. So instead of feeling disapointed people should ask themselves why dont I use steemit to express my thoughts and get rewared for that instead of using other platforms which not only get advantage of me but also steals my personal information and sell them to other companies. Steemit is the future of blogging, it is freedom.
I would venture a guess you mention profit in your promotion, so these will be natural questions from people.
Don't keep writing the same post all over again.
Create a detailed cut and paste response for every valid Question, and in 2 seconds Boom ! they have the answer :-)
Be annoyed at making the first 1, but after that....click click Done.
Hope this makes life easier for you
Steem on !
You are right, I would have to analyze the way I pitch it too... however when they look at any post they are inclined to focus on the $ sign at the bottom, I would remove it all together.
I'm what you might call poor in coin, but rich with Life.
I decided to stay with topics : Life,stories,philosophy along that line.
Not very pay day oriented at the moment, but they and I will grow with time :-)
Life is Good :-)
Interesting! you raise some valid points.