Most of my friends haven't joined Steemit despite not being skeptical
A bunch of my friends know about Steemit and think it's interesting. They know I've made lots of money both posting and investing here. They know that yesterday I was able to make a quick $6 for merely posting a selfie, which was jokingly called "witchcraft". They're not skeptical that it's real.
Yet aside from those already involved in Bitcoin, only a couple of them have actually signed up and posted. I don't ask them "why haven't you joined Steemit?" because I don't want to push it too hard, but I think there are two factors at play here.
$6 wouldn't even buy a beer in Dublin, and they mostly make decent money already. Yes you can make far more than $6, but it's not clear to them what kind of time investment is needed to achieve results meaningful for someone already on a high salary in an expensive city.
They need social proof. One nerdy friend being really enthusiastic and finding success does not qualify for that, it requires at least 2-3. This is why I think if I can get just one of my friends active and enthusiastic about Steemit, I will see a domino effect among my circle of friends. And if everyone is joining, it becomes weird not to be on it.
Exactly my experience. I started together with one of my friends. If I would started out on my own the other friends would not have joined so fast. It just takes time and that is ok. Good fruits need water.
Resteemed! I find I can totally relate im sure that many a friend will join Steemit eventually. I managed to get a few of myne in as investors and a couple interesting authors. Happy Sunday
€6 would get feck all in Dublin, but in some countries €6 a day would make an incredible difference.
I have been trying to convince my husband to give it a try. Not to sure about sending my following. Its taken 7 years of hard work to grow my online following. If I send them here and they don't like it, i could lose them. And right now, i make more from them on my own platform that what I make here. So this leaves me a with a delema. I have already found a drop in traffic to my site since I stated posting here. This is because I am note as active on social medial for my own site as I have been.
But if people are new to blogging, then steemit is the platform to begin on. No costs to get started where as with a WP site, at least the cost of hosting is needed to get started.
Social proof in any online industry is a must for success....so when I grow here, i will then start to send my online following of over 40K people.....lets hope I grow here....
Have you ever read "The Innovator's Dilemma"? Your case sounds so similar to the central dilemma in that book, although that's talking about the scale of large firms.
If you've already got some success monetizing your following, then Steemit makes a compelling but difficult case. Some people have hundreds of thousands of followers and struggle to make anything from it. If you're not making money from your existing following the decision is easier, because even transitioning a fraction of them to Steemit could put them among the top followed posters here, and the revenue would follow that.
No I have never read this book. I will add it to the list.
Yes I do monetize my following, and I blog often so google are good to me. the concern would be losing this momentum that I have taken years to grow.....
But watch this space, cos with the online world, things can change very fast
Very very nice pic
that is an interesting point with social proof.
it is like the first follower theory, for the first step toward beginning a movement that might seem unusual the first follower is considered to be as important as the initiator of an idea or movement
For readers, this is a great video on the importance of the first follower:
exactly, that is how its starts :)
LOL @gentlebot. 2 out of 6 memes ain't bad.
I was wondering why you posted this pic. Now i understand and think its a great approach to get people interested and involved. $6 for a selfie is pretty good. If some of my friend got that much form the amount of them they post they'd be millionaires. I got my wife to sign up and she's very excited about getting started. Steemit does sound like a scam but that is only because the internet we've grown to know is one that is run by big companies for their profit using our personal data like it is Steem.
i keep thinking what good it will do to steem if steemit sign up numbers increased, i really would love a detailed explanation about this, can someone write about it or send me a link to an already written post on it? i know if a lot of steemians knew for sure the benefit of promoting steemit, it will exponentially increase the number of referals to the platform.
Yeah its hard getting people to join. So far I've got 6 people to join out of the probably 30 people I've talk to about it lol.
That's still damn good results.
Makes sense. Same here. My one friend who's already involved in cryptomining seemed to think it was some kind of cheesy "points" network where you just go around performing some dumb action to earn incentive points. This is despite my explaining it as a place for real quality of company and content and that you can learn a helluva lot more about the world on here. So I'm also not going to push him. Some of my other friends don't quite get it either. My best friend though is going to join and I think the two of us can persuade our other friend as well.