"Why my amazing post received just a few cents?!" - Social Media for Dummies ;)
"Why my amazing post received just a few views and some cents? Is it worth spending hours in creating good contents for such a poor feedback?"
I'm going to reveal a secret to you about that ;)
(Well, probably it's just a bunch of the obvious)
What would you think of a writer that spends years writing a great novel, then puts it in a bottle and throw it in the sea? And then he also complains about no one reading it or publishing it.
Yes, right, that writer seems a little dumb. How can he be a writer and not know how things work?
Well - here is the big secret! -
when someone writes a great article and just posts it on a social media, he's doing the same of the dumb writer.
In the past century, and before it, your creative content had its paths to gain visibility and give feedbacks, and you have to use those paths. In the social media world it is different. You need to build a network, to interact with other people, to be... social. ;) (No, it doesn't mean commenting like "Nice!" or "Please read my blog!" or "I upvoted you <wink!>")
Publishing a content and just wait to get feedbacks is senseless. It is like the Invisible Man stands in a corner waiting for someone that talks to him.
So, when you finished writing your amazing content, you are just half the battle (unless you have already a network and a reputation).
And yes, if you are not going to finish the job interacting with other people and creating a network, then writing and posting your amazing content was a waste of time.
You're welcome ;)
(Disclaimer: I'm not saying that it always works this way, on Steemit or other social media; nor that doing all the job will give you positive feedbacks for sure.)
You can expand the reach of your posts to social media by publishing to many.
The best tool I know for this is ONG.Social. You can publish to all your channels at once from this one hub - easy!
Better, you get a share of ad revenue (unlike fb)
Better yet, there is no censorship for being controversial or political.
Still better yet, by being built on 2 blockchains your content is protected, not centralized, and you control it.
Social media is still a good idea- it just needed a few tweaks ;)
Good point. The ICO ongcoin is scheduled on 11 aug. Currently it is number 2 in the coin ranking offered this month. The project is backed by IBM and it looks like a good project to me
Social media is a huge thing right now and really important for millions of people. But it hasn't changed much in the years it has been around. Share of revenue, censorship free publishing, and protected content are some important steps that are long overdue and IMO really impactful!
Well put! I have my good days and bad days due to medication. I often can't remember spelling of words and punctuation. Some days I go in the pantry and have no idea why I am stood in it. The crazy thing is that I worked in education for 15 years but I carry on as I enjoy being here on Steemit.
I'm very sorry.
keep writing and commenting and giving your experience and knowledge to people!
there's more to that ;)
the writer must have not believed in his own work so he hid it in the bottle
or .. he posted it and did not believe it would do well
and other uncontrolled circumstances of course
yes, believing in your own work is necessary too. If you don't believe in it, how do you expect people to look for it? ;)
exactly :)
Yes, there are no gatekeepers (or few) in social media. It is like reading the news wires unedited. You have to be creator, writer, editor and advertiser. Otherwise, delegate some of those duties.
Yeah choose an interesting topic and stick with it, soon or later people will notice you
I had to send out 5-10 bottles a day before anybody found one!
that's the story of almost every writer, as far as I know ;)
Thanks to good people like you and Silvia- looks like I might make it!
I love your illustration of the dumb writer. Well done!
thx Old Dog! I did the illustrations fastly so they are a bit poor. I confess that drawing the illustrations is the most pleasent part of the posting for me ;)
totally and 100% agree with you whatever you said in this post , i was also a victim of the same thing means in the begning i was worked for hours and hours on steemit and make posts with my level best and always think that people will give tons of votes after my publish on steemit but the result was 360degrees in reverse mood always , i never get upvotes and just cents recieved in payout by those posts than i came to realize ,
that whatever im doing so far was wrong this is not the whole thing that im doing here on steemit writing a good content is always good but by just posting a good content on steemit and wish to get good votes is just a fairy tail , as you said in your post that its a half war to create content just and wish to get upvotes,
so i realized that this is not enough and i started to interact with people on steemit and i read posts of my favorite topics and interests on steemit and started to give my level best on those posts and interacting with people on steemit ,
but one thing i mentioned here i never ever begg in comments for upvotes i just give my feed back to people about their posts by reading their posts and extract the pupl of their posts and summerize them in my comments this is what my strategy is ,
and beleive me now people like me and they always like my content also with even a single request because i think its nothing without jumping in to the pool and in the same way we have to jump in the community and make the people aware about us and make them and feel them our existance on steemit so that they will look on to our posts other wise as you said it will be a waste of time , i my self totally agree with your thoughts in this posts because im already doing the same that you are talking about in this posts, by the thanks for your advises in this great post , hope you are fine and healthy , stem-on and aware us more and more about how to run on steemit, thanks
thx to you for your story in this comment. glad to read you insisted and found the way :)
thanks dear all the joys for you my friend
You are right my friend, and without a network you might as well tie a rock to the bottle as well.
"tie a rock to te bottle" is a good completion for my metaphor ;)
Nice...ahahaha! (;
I agree totally, writing well is only half the job. Your networking skills, timing and marketing plan constitutes the other half for success.