Help Steem Help You - My Answer to 'Do you still have trust in Steem?' and an Idea

I want to thank @fullcoverbetting for a well-to-a-point and thought provoking post. And action provoking, too.

Yes, this is very logical - if people buy, price goes up and vice versa.

And since we come with the idea that making good content should earn on the platform, there must be those willing to buy said content.

Hot mineral springs in the center of Sofia, now capital and largest city in Bulgaria, the only one with population above the million mark. Those mineral springs were the reason for the Roman settlement Serdika appearing here in the first place and certainly another Tracian settlement before that. Where there's natural steam... civilizations occur.

A lot of that content is art

And I am going to talk about it mostly before showing you what I do and what I think of doing. And I do consider games art, too. Condensed art glued together with some magic so it serves as entertainment.

Creators of art (and blogging can be part of that, too, but please don't be hasty deciding I'm talking only about that) join the platform hoping to find appreciation and return of their investment of time, effort and skill in creating something.

Hoping to find appreciators of art, buyers, patrons, whatever you wish to call those. For now it's mostly creators appreciating creators. And you do know the difference when an investor votes on your post instead of another person who started as a creator only. I am of the latter type (I don't have money to invest, only efforts and sometimes ideas).

Let's get back to games first

Since they are selling well. Gamers are their patrons. Simple as that. I also spent a lot of money on cards with art although I mean Magic: The Gathering which has evolved a lot and which has really good art. And that kind of justifies money spent on it for me since I also value it for the collection of images I have in my binders, not only winning power of the cards.

Still, Steemmonsters has a good structure. Everything is set well and only art and new cards concepts need to follow. To continue. With some other development update along the way for sure. But the base feels good.

Other games may be just a matter of time. But as in other art, there are masterpieces and there are exercises in game creating.

What else can sell?

Well, all the classical art, no? Paintings, digital or not. Books. Music tracks or albums. Movies or short clips. Footage. Scripts. Illustrations. Cons (sorry, I just had to make the joke as it occurred to me). Etc.

And some creators of those are here. And they need buyers but those will come...

... when we prove value is here.

And that also takes marketing. Do artists need to be their own marketing managers and sellers as well? I had adopted a saying I may be fine at photography but I am bad at selling, that is marketing. I learned I have do abandon that thought - not good for marketing, you know.

Fortunately, there are platforms, i.e. tools they provide so that creators can cope with other tasks as well. But still, a specialist in that could do so much better.

And on the Steem blockchain

there is fundition.io that is a way to crowdfund a project. And some people do it successfully. But that probably means they have found other people who would buy their project, purchasing Steem first.

The thing is the price of Steem will go up when people buy Steem to buy your services with it.

As in the Steemmonsters case.

When it's only through upvotes and not donations, you will eventually sell Steem to fund your project outside the blockchain where the materials or services you need are obtainable and that is the direction in which Steem price drops.

But that means exactly what I mentioned above. That things will go well when we convince people that they can buy value we offer with Steem. And why with Steem? It's easier to make an instant transfer with no charges to the other end of the world, right?

So those specialists I mentioned above are also needed. Those who can put the apps, games, books, illustrations, movies, music, photos, paintings, etc. on the market outside and say 'the blockchain has what you want and it's faster/better/cheaper there' or something of the sorts.

I think we should promote the platform as also a place where one can find good value and pay for it fast while gaining something back... The way @steemmonsters and @fundition do.

This is where 'What can we do?' becomes 'What can I do?'

Except that I am working on a couple of books here?

Well, my job includes creating a lot of digital assets - that is photographs I can send over the internet as fast as I can send STEEM or SBD. And these days I have spent some time researching stock sites and developing such accounts and I realized...

I do trust Steem enough so that I can also sell my products on it for real.

I've been doing it to some extent, anyway. Why not go all the way and say some of my services are obtainable through Steem or SBD. I can even see a near future when you can hire me to shoot your wedding through crypto entirely. Since I have enough trust in it.

The only thing for now is, prices would seem quite different than what we see around offered as rewards. It's in the hundreds or thousands for most of my full time services.

But I do have products I can offer cheap and those are photos with non-exclusive rights to use them. And I have started doing so for free, even, at least for editorial use - as a fundition.io based project. But that also needs upgrades.

Major changes of storage space coming

When I first published a few series of photos I thought links are alright but compared to accessibility that people are used to, those were highly impractical. I guess no one would go over ten links with about ten images each to see if something would fit their article.

So a gallery space will be, of course, set up and some tags will make looking for various topics easier. They will grow in number even with my own efforts until I find collaborators. The largest portion of them will remain free to use for editorial purposes on the blockchain.

But there will be other images people can buy with crypto currency, both for commercial and editorial use, and those who decide to back the project anyway will receive rewards such as large formats of the free images, too, for commercial or personal use, calendars, etc.

The project may develop eventually into a fully operational stock bank that sells for crypto. With growing numbers of contributors. But I must start somewhere and before I set up the initial gallery, here's the last portion of images directly thrown in a blog article:

Plus the first image in the article and all old ones in the project's current Main or News sections.

Stand by for updates or give me your thoughts about any of it.

Yours,

Manol