RE: Every One Of Us Can Help Steemit To Grow
Marketing can be done in many ways. At this stage I would not spend FIAT currency into pens or whatever materials though. Reality is that with more than 130k registered users, the number of active users is very very low. The chance to get noticed by others with posts is very low as well, at least for most members. Quality of content is not that great accross the board. Too many auto voting going on with no power behind it (1% or less); Auto voting is not helping quality content and with the low contributions of much less than a dollarcent it does not help to distribute the money better, as some claim. I actually think many Steemit members are in it for the money only and only a few for other reasons. But hey, when money would not be part of Steemit, would you then still want to use Steemit as your prime blogging service? All in all, I think we first have to do something to make Steemit attractive to users and usage, make the platform stable (I had for days issues with login in from my iPhone and even after addressing Steemit CTO directly, got no response at all from the development team), do something against auto voters, make earning and using power and steem as fair as possible for everyone (include a social element, meaning a more fair distribution of Steem en Power and yes, that'll cost the people with success in effect power and Steem) and give newbees a fair change. When that is arranged, some big marketing campaign maybe in order, but let people behind all technology and also being the big Whales and high value accounts take some of their value and use it to setup such marketing campaign; I can imagine I will volunteer supporting such marketing campaign when that happens :) FYI, I'm still a great fan of Steemit, and would like to see this continued, but I believe things needs to change to make Steemit FAIR. Until then, I do my best to provide good content and hope I keep my interest in Steemit :)
that is the thing.. 'good content' is totally subjective. Some people might think what I write is crap, others might love it. Who is to say? = the market. I think this post/video might help you
Quick Answer: Why certain posts earn so much more than others: https://steemit.com/steemit/@piedpiper/quick-answer-why-certain-posts-earn-so-much-more-than-others
I agree 'good content' is subjective. Hence we cannot and shall not further discuss that point.
And I also understand that bringing in some unique content maybe rewarded by people with a lot of voting power. But is that really happening? Are members with high voting power indeed discovering new content, from newer users and upvoting them?
Personally I cannot complain! I got big support from @mammasitta who introduced my to Steemit and supported me from day one and I'm very very happy I got this support! It was for me quite a bit easier to understand the platform, how to deal with the platform, as well as her support in getting my posts noticed. I also get quite a bit if support from the Curie Guild (@curie), they upvoted quite a number of my post in the last weeks. Also @steemvoter Guild helped me out on one of my post. Big thanks to all of them!
As the guy in the video states: the platform is quite difficult to understand, how it really works. I have a technical background and know how engineers talk and how algorithms look like and understand them when I see them. But many of the people in this world are not that technical, will not understand all the complexities. For them it'll be quite difficult to get them on Steemit and even more important, keep them in Steemit.
The whole issue with Steemit today is the low number of people contributing to the service. The question is: how can we convert the 130.000 registered users to active users? I think we should focus on converting the existing members into active participants. No external marketing campaign is required for that :)
Indeed one of the more important questions!
@kevinwong I noticed you are part of curie guild as well as you are one of the members from the early days and an active contributor and maybe even close to the Steemit developers. Are you on steemit.chat? Maybe we can have a conversation on how we can address the issue.
Not close and not in constant communication lol,but yeah definitely could use a good chat or two. Im on steemit chat with the same handle :)
Please do we need more of that.
I been saying the same thing @kevinwong I mean if things dont change most of all our new users will soon vanish also.
Cheers to @abit, actually gave me a idea, why don't whales vote on comments If the price disparity is so huge. And please let's have a discussion on the Hard Fork PLEASE :) we need at least 5 everything stated above is true and there is a discontent among the user base.
Currently as @son-of-satire pointed out to me the structure is that of a reverse pyramid, the fun thing is that all the weight is carried by the bottom and if the small flow of new users get broken (which it has) there will be "leaks" on all levels. Currently the power is above everybody weighing down on them, the price is low and the activity too. Whales are burned out as far as I can see and the "golden" days look to be over. Lets fix that :) I would say it's broken :) I didn't break it so the "powerful" need to take responsibility and grow past their differences, thus making a decent platform for themselves and the community around it, IT is STEEM IT after all
not steem me