Quantity or quality? Why not both?

I almost always say that quality is more important than quantity. The reason I say that all the time is because it's true. You could publish ten times a day on a website like Steemit and not receive any kind of rewards, because you only share things nobody cares about.

The simplest example for this would be memes - you can share a lot of funny things and people will still ignore you, because they can find those things almost everywhere. Unless you're capable of creating your own funny things, then you're not relevant.

So, publishing low quality content several times a day doesn't work. Then publishing high quality work once in a while should do the trick, right? Yes, and no.

You see, if you're not capable of delivering often enough, then your content needs to be amazing if you want to succeed. Not decent, not good, not great - amazing.

Here's an example - CD Projekt Red. If you don't know them, they're a company that create games. If you don't care about games, don't worry about it, I'll not go into details.

What you need to know is that they created 3 major games in the past 11 years: The Witcher 1, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Now, the first game is pretty decent and in 2007 when it was released, it was good. Not the best, not amazing, but good. The story of that game was awesome, and while it lacked a lot of things, it was still pretty damn enjoyable.

Then 4 years later, in 2011, they released the second game, which I have to tell you, was pretty damn awesome. In only four years they managed to bring the graphics at a completely different level, they managed to keep that amazing story going, and to create an awesome overall experience.

Then once again, 4 years later, in 2015, they released their third major game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It's considered to be one of the best games of all time, it received (I think) over 200 game awards since it launched and it received two DLCs (downloadable content) from the company that adds A LOT more to the game.

For you to understand how good this company is at creating games, while the other companies out there have to come up with dates and tell the community when the game is supposed to be released, CD Projekt Red just says "Coming Out: When it's ready".

They're that good.

If you can get at that level, if you can be so good that the entire world will recognize your merits, then sure, quantity doesn't matter that much. You can come up with something amazing from time to time and everyone will go crazy for your content.

But unless you can do that, then quantity matters just as much as quality. People won't wait for you to publish something. There are so many content creators out there that are way better at what they do, that no one has any reason to wait for you to publish something whenever you feel like it.

Learn how to find balance between high quality content and publishing often enough, how to give your community as much value as you can and to constantly focus on offering rather than receiving.

Money will come in time, but only through hard work. No one's gonna pay you for not doing anything, not unless you're so good that people pay you just to share your opinion. If you're not there yet, then you gotta work your ass off and create as much content as possible.

Remember - quantity alone can't get you much, while quality is king as long as you're amazing at what you do. If you can't focus all your attention on quality and create amazing things, then focusing on both quantity and quality is what you should be doing.