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RE: 7 Days to a Better Steemit Blog
Fantastic! Haha, well I'll only spend one day on sharing/promoting content. However, I understand what you mean! I'm sure there are a lot of different reasons why people don't like sharing their work. For me personally, I used to have an issue with not recognizing the value of my content or how it could help others, and for that reason it was weird to self-promote. Maybe a different reason for you?
At the end of the day, I think there's a big different between someone who believes in their work/message and promotes it, and someone who shares their work for the clicks, views, and $$$.
Well, actually, I'm fairly confident with my fiction writing (that's really about all I'm doing/plan to do at this point on steemit, well, maybe some essays too) so it's not as though I feel I produce shit work. I think there is an audience for it assuming those who would be interested in it are actually finding it. I guess my discomfort lies in a feeling that I'm forcing myself on others (who didn't ask and may be completely uninterested in my work). Oh, also, when I start doing the work of promoting I immediately feel like "Oh, wow, I really like to be writing and doing something creative right now". I'm sure this is a common sentiment for most people, as I imagine most prefer to actually do the work they love to do rather than convince other people to love their work.
@danielshortell this is a common feeling among artists. When I start going down the path of feeling like I am "forcing myself", I focus on the feedback I have received over the years. I remember all the gratitude given for pushing my content to a wider audience, since most people don't exactly know what they want or how to find it. If you identify your audience correctly, these people will thank you for making it easier to find you. Think of promotion as doing someone a favor: in a world saturated by information overload, you are helping them find that rare piece of good content that will give them exactly what they want, even if didn't know they wanted it yet. Or at least I keep telling myself that. :)
Yep, this is certainly a more positive way of viewing the process. I need to embrace this type of thinking :)
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