I guess arguments can be made both ways... long before I was ever on Steemit, people would "advise" me that I should go after popular topics... but I look at that, and there are already 300,000 articles on "how to use a smartphone." What can I possibly add to that, and how could I possibly stand out in a crowd that large? Here, the topic-du-jour is Steemit... again, what can I add that hasn't been said 47 times already?

I'm pretty happy with my niche publishing.