RE: Fishing for None Fishes - Promoting outside of Steem
I have onboarded quite a few but the problem is that they are coming from other platform on to a new one that is bare bones in comparison, very complex for the average to understand and, a lot of work. About 1/3 of the people I have onboarded are still doing 'ok' and even soe who bought significant amounts of Steem struggle, even with my support. For many, the learning curve and investment is just too large.
When it comes to sharing indiscriminately, I am still not ready to do that with many of my Facebook 'friends' (i hardly use the platform now) so I target those I think might be interested directly.
Too many are pulling people in with the promise of money but have no way to support them directly themselves nor, support them on the complexity side since if they understood the platform, the promise of money is not really the best way since most are unlikely to earn much or at least, not very quickly.
I was pushing very hard for a long to get people on and when they are here, supporting them in chat but, at the end of the day, they have to (currently) be willing to invest themselves and we can see how few truly are.
I had a great conversation with @darn-atstarlite yesterday regarding growth. I happen to share his view on this subject, the first million is the hardest, the second million is a little easier and next thing you know we are at 80 mil.
When will this happen? Will it happen? don't know, I hope so.
It's easy to forget we are early adopters, because it seems we've been grinding at it for so long. For some reason time on Steem goes both slow and super fast.
Does it not feel like it to you?
Absolutely. When onboarding happens for realsies it is going to explode. That is going to take a lot of development to make happen and most importantly, a great deal of simplification. A lot of simplification. This will of course slow future earnings of most users coming on as simple means, easy for anyone to give it a go.
These are the golden years, the cocaine-fueled 80s... people just don't recognise it as such until the comedown and the 1000 dollar a gram becomes 10 dollars for a few rocks of dirty crack.
You just made my morning!
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