The difficulties running a competition on steemit for new users
3 days ago I decided to start a simple art competition on Steemit, offering up 5 STEEM as a prize. I did this to become more involved in the Steemit community. Still being relatively new to Steemit, I only have a user rating of 36, and not a large number of followers, this makes giving away FREE STEEM actually a little difficult.
The main problem being if no one reads my post and the word is not spread organically, then unless you happened to be browsing new content at the time I posted, you are unlikely to know the competition is on. 3 days in, my little competition has had a total of 21 views and 1 actual entry. This means the current entrant has 100% chance of winning if no one else enters.
The prize I have offered of 5 STEEM is because I genuinely want to see others art, and to support the Steemit community. It is very unlikely that my competition will generate this much by itself, rather I have done reasonably well in crypto trading lately and will be paying the prize from my own investments.
So now, I have the opportunity to blog the success or failure of my competition. Rest assured, no matter the outcome, I will continue and have plans to run more competitions once this one is finished. I have tried using one of the many resteem.bots's but in the end it seems the best way to draw more attention to my competition is to write this article.
Feel like entering, you can check out the competition here
https://steemit.com/contest/@raptordashzero/new-postit-note-art-contest-5-steem-prize
https://steemit.com/contest/@raptordashzero/new-postit-note-art-contest-5-steem-prize
@raptordashzero, Thanks for the putting out this post. I am in the process of running a competition on computer programming. Now, I am doing some research on how to do it.