Who here has a post that they thought for sure would go viral but does nothing?
I've got a great idea!
People are going to love it!
I'll get noticed for this one!
Daddy's going to bring home the bacon!
Who here has that post they thought for sure would get people's attention and go viral but goes nowhere?
I had a few of those and one that I thought for sure would be a hit was my wonderful tutorial on how to draw a stick figure. lol
Here we had tutorials on how to draw an ear, eyes, mouth and even make up tutorials earning $1,000's each and this was just some comic relief. For sure people would get a kick out of it.
But it didn't get noticed and earned me $.03 :/ But hey that is $.03 more than I made off my posts anywhere else. :)
Then of course it was going to be my comedy / video talents for sure. After take, after take, after take I finally get something I'm happy with and very excited about sharing.
What! Another $.03 and that one took me like 50 takes and it was really funny I thought. Especially my docking skills. Oh well.
I know I will post my best photos
Some people post a photo of a sunset and so you think, hey I've got a sunset that people would enjoy let me share that.
But you find no one interested.
Then you do a personal story and wow!
One of my first stories I told was: Moving to paradise. From creating QuickPay for Quicken to living on a sailboat in the Caribbean - Part 1
This one apparently got the attention of a few whales and earned me over $500 which is fantastic! Thanks :)
My tips so far
- Just hang in there
- Start following and commenting on others
- It isn't just about the money (I actually wished they didn't show the amount a post is earning.)
- Post personal experiences that might help or touch someone
- Add value to the community
- Try promoting your posts on steem.chat under #postpromotion-anything-goes #postpromotion-moderated and #postpromotion-withconversation
- Start building relationships
When I got back from the Caribbean in 1999 I created a program called AuctionTamer and it took me a full year before I made $1,000. But because I stuck with it, it became a hit and has sustained me for these 17 years.
I have an idea to combat that. It might not bring whales and thousands of bucks, but it does help to keep posts that you like visible. It is sort of going around the whole voting mechanism. It is sort of like those curation aggregation posts that usually end upon trending, but decentralized. You write something cool? Add a couple of links to the stuff that you liked, but didn't get traction for sevral hours.
Here is an explanation of this idea. Perhaps it is somewhat less coherent than this comment, but I try.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@xanoxt/another-idea-for-spreadthepower-minnowsunite-payitforward-and-others-be-proactive-link
Oh that is a good idea. I upvoted and followed.
Thanks a bunch! I hope it catches on!
It really comes down to your connections with the whales. I think the whales upvote posts based on the author of the post and not necessarily the content and quality of the post itself. You can see this for yourself, go ahead and check the trending posts, you'll see that most of the the posts there are done by famous people, either in the world of crypto, or they were part of a startup company now worth millions of dollars...etc, It's more like you need to be an entrepreneur to please the whales, this what I believe at least, I might be wrong.
For now I think it does until there are more whales out there. Steemit is still really young and so for the 70,000 accounts there are only a handful of whales. There just isn't enough of their goodness to spread around.
No, I don't think it is all about being an entrepreneur and my post prove that. I go all the back to the 1980 with a long history in this industry. By my foolishness I was never into crypto-currencies until now. Steem is my first if you can believe that. Kind of like that, I should have bought Microsoft back in the 80's. Oh well. So the whales do have their favorite subjects. Mostly crypto like you said though.
Also popular posters have a pile on effect too. Once someone rises to the top and they post again there are people that just upvote anything they post because it could mean money for them. So then it just snowballs.
Oh great photos by the way and you do have one more person that is following you now :)
Ironically my most successful post, and the only one to break $1 was the one I thought most of all would not get any traction lol
I really thought I'd get some likes for these though:
https://steemit.com/life/@hunterisgreat/is-it-evil-to-work-for-anyone
https://steemit.com/business/@hunterisgreat/how-to-become-an-entrepreneur-part-1-doing-something-of-value
https://steemit.com/steemit/@hunterisgreat/ramblings-on-the-psychology-and-economics-behind-steemit-and-some-ideas-for-improvement
and it remains to be seen, but not looking good, for:
https://steemit.com/apocalypse/@hunterisgreat/ev-ev-ev-everyday-i-m-prepper-n-communique-001-the-ride
Yes kind of funny but very perplexing for sure.
Yeah I must be doing something wrong :-/
Not necessarily. It is a big ocean out there. Try posting your next one on chat.
I did discover chat this week and its maybe helped a little... still struggling to break the $0.25 ceiling though lol
nice idea, today we are talking about the same idea with steemit firends
A lot of it is down to pure luck.
Yes that too. I feel like donkey... Oh, pick me... pick me :) But I have a plan up my sleeve and I know this next post tomorrow will go viral for sure ;)
I'm really glad you posted this today, Mike - I've been feeling the same way as the end of my first week of posting on Steemit approaches. My latest offering features what I think are lovely photos of my beautiful Brahmas taken yesterday evening - and...#deadinthewater with 4 hours to go... ;0) So 1) I'm glad it's not just me 2) Thanks for the tips - I've just opened a steem chat account 3) I actually feel way better knowing that some of my posts have outperformed posts made by a legend in the field of all things computer/gaming/techie stuff, lol - thank you for that! ;o)
I am now following you, and have upvoted this article.
And I still think the stick man should have been a stick grrrrl with stick boobies - now THAT would have pulled in an audience, my man! :D
https://steemit.com/photography/@jaytaylor/brahmas-at-bedtime
So glad I saw you too on the chat. I love your post and upvoted, commented and followed you. See this is how it works folks.
Someday those that stuck it out will evolve into whales and then we can spread our nourishment to all the creatures of the sea ;)
Here is a great example of someone connecting and hitting it out of the park: https://steemit.com/@smailer
Good job :)
I think it is like most things, it's not what you know...but who knows you.
The post I got the most shares on was one which was inappropriately flagged...and some nice people came and supported me here: https://steemit.com/marketing/@kreativ/the-dirty-little-secret-some-copywriters-just-don-t-want-you-to-know
I don't think it is all down to great content, as others have pointed out there is lots of quality content on Steemit which just gets buried unfortunately.
I would say that the posts I thought would get the most traction are in fact the least popular.
Wow that was bad that the guy flagged you just because he didn't understand. Oh I approved your listing on steemwho
Now others better hurry because this is a limited time offer and the spaces are filling up fast! LOL, Just kidding, that is what @kreativ wrote about in her article. Read it. :)
Hee hee. Thanks for approving me...especially as this is the last opportunity to be listed so you rank at the highest level ;-)
Thanks for the tips and your passion and endurance - it pays out :-)
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@steempowerwhale/i-am-steempowerwhale-and-i-am-here-to-upvote-your-lifetime-dreams
Oh man, great name but using trending thumbnails is not a good practice and I'm sure will get you flagged. You don't want to ruin such a great name. Think about changing them while you still have time to edit your posts. Just a friendly suggestion.
Man I totally thought my one and so far only post was totally gonna go viral but man was i sadly mistaken:/
Lol, too funny. You did get $.05 which is more than I got for many of my posts. But the one yesterday I took my own advice in this post and hit it out of the park. But you still never know what might hit people that day. So yours could have gone viral. Next time :). Keep it up.