I read lots of "build an online business" blogs.
Anyone who knows the basics of making money online understands that it takes: time, niche, engaging with your audience, keeping in touch with your audience (outside of your blog), advertising or shilling like on Pinterest, Twitter, the dreaded facebook etc, consistency, and time. I wrote time twice on purpose.
Also, it is difficult to make money with just your blog, you need some sort of product, advertisement, and such or other.
The STEEM equivalent of advertising is the upvotes, but, you still need to find your community, engage with your audience, use proper tags and or tribes/communites, join contests for exposure etc.
Buying a stake is cool, but... it only takes you so far, you need community and you need to curate. Unless of course, you have a large enough stake to pay your readers with upvotes, then you can curate your own comments and I guess that is a "good" way of making money.
But SURE, let's keep complaining about the downvotes...
Justin already lost, he wanted to buy a community and found that community couldn't be bought. Whether his is still around to salvage what's left of the investment or to be a little bitch who hurts the platform cause "we hurt him first" is anyone's guess.
Either way, if we keep building, it is only a matter of time before we succeed.
We have some hard core users and lots of really, really cool dapps. It is only a matter of time before one of us figures out a cool tribe that is shilled on a place like pinterest that has billions of users and we get another cool million people signed up.
Hey, it can and WILL happen. It is just a matter of time.
It might even be me. Which means I need to reach dolphin status so I can start creating those accounts. Almost there. Almost. Maybe if I would stop spending my earnings on STEEMCity, Splinterlands (great investment, but the only way to get dolphin using that is selling my cards) and different tribes, I would be a dolphin by now. Oh well, I will keep paying 3 steem to create new accounts. No biggie.
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Don't forget the grapes. That's not just a fantasy, and despite @edicted's claim isn't false. Even molluscs care about fairness. They've done that research with octopi, and got similar results.
Mmmmmmm. Grapes.
Do you like them sweet or sour?
This question truly made me LOL.
For most of my life, I have loved, nice, delicious, plump, sweet grapes.
Now, at seven months pregnant, there is something about sour fruits (including grapes) that grapples me. It is kind of funny.
Of course, I know what you are referring too, but it just made me laugh that this whole pregnancy, grapes that kind of hurt your teeth, make you pucker, and make you squirm a little have been... enjoyable.
I wonder what that says about me... eh.
For folks that have been there, or nearby, it means you're pregnant. My ex was slightly pregnant (~10 months in. Yeah, I know) and sent me to the store for a specific ice cream flavor.
When I got there, that flavor wasn't available, so I got something similar.
When I got home, within minutes I fled back to the safety of the store, where I sought and found the manager of the Fred Meyer's, who upon hearing my sad and desperate tale gave me a tub of ice cream of my choice.
The pity in his eyes was palpable.
Edit: I think I survived with the free ice cream by adding a jug of dill pickles to the order.
Hahaha. Never have craved pickles. But, plums dried in salt. Mmmmmm.