Sign Up Challenge for Steem's Birthday!

Happy Birthday Steem!  One year old today! 

How many Steemians does that mean something to?  Remarkably, thousands upon thousands with the numbers and activity is going up every day.  The world does not know about Steem yet, but it will.  Steemit has done marvelously well at launching Steem and encouraging the growth of an extraordinary community full of talented, creative, passionate, hilarious, generous, hard-working and knowledgeable people.  It bodes very well for the future.  Congratulations and thank you.  It's been a privilege to be a part of.  

It's not all been rainbows and bunnies, we've seen controversy, we've had disagreements, we've left and come back, we've had misunderstandings, we've said things we didn't mean, we've burned ourselves out, we've felt punished, we've felt under-appreciated, we've felt rejected.  Well, you can't land on the Moon without blowing up a few rockets.  That analogy is silly and doesn't even work properly.....sorry.  Despite all the issues, for a growing number of us, there is something here worth fighting for and worthy of commitment.

Sign Up Challenge

In honour of Steem's birthday, I would like to suggest a challenge.  I challenge every Steemian to sign up 2 people a week for the next month?  That's 1..2..3.....8, 8 people each in total over the next month signed up to steemit, busy, esteem or any of the Steem front ends.

There are probably Steemians out there who are smashing those number and that is amazing!  However, the rest of us can help!  We can tap up our best friends and family members to give our numbers a bump but also help them to make the jump into Steem and start to comprehend the incredible power of the Steemchain.

I've just completed my first sign up.  I've helped my mum to create her steemit account @bingbw.  She is an aspiring writer and will hopefully begin to publish some of her work on the steemchain.

A couple of things I did to help her along that might be of use;

• gave her a very brief history of Steem/Steemit
• gave her a brief explanation of Steem, Steem Dollars and Steem Power
• explained the importance of the password and helped her secure it
• suggested that she made an introduction post
• encouraged her to spend time engaging with the community 
• warned her to prepare to be drawn into a network of great depth and integrity :)

For new accounts, it will be a lovely experience to be financially rewarded for their efforts.  Many will not believe the money is real until they've got it in their hands, so be prepared to help them accomplish that.  I have also encouraged my mum to seriously consider the value of SP and Steem in the future.  So rewards saved as Steem Power today may be worth a great deal more in the future and how nice it might be to be sitting on an appreciating asset in a world of predominantly depreciating assets. 

None of that constitutes investment advice.....that's just between me and my mum and is based on my glowing opinion of Steem and the Steem Community.

Ihope you take up the challenge!  I will be participating anyway.

Good Luck!

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Happy Steeming